Talk:Festschrift

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[edit] Notability?

Yes, yes, festschrifts (or however we care to pluralize them) are notable; I'm not about to suggest that this article should be zapped. However, there's a list of notable festschrifts within it, and I wonder how notability is determined. McCawley's first one should surely be in any such list because it's so premature and funny. I happen to have a copy of Kuno's later one on my desk; it seems worthy but there's no obvious reason why it's outstanding. (This may very well be an underestimation: I know little about a lot of the areas of linguistics represented there.) A number of the MIT linguistics festschrifts (e.g. Ken Hale: A Life in Language) are where important papers were first published, and are of considerable academic value even to scholars unconcerned about their dedicatees. -- Hoary 05:45, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Could we agree that the germanic plural 'festschriften' is usable?.bruce 86.200.165.146 (talk) 14:06, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm removing all festschrifts about which nothing substantive is said (below). -- Hoary 01:15, 8 September 2007 (UTC)