Talk:The Yiddish Policemen's Union

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[edit] Requested move

The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel → The Yiddish Policemen's Union – "A Novel" is not part of the title; it is an explanatory tag appended to many novel titles. Placing "A Novel" on the title page of novels is a publishing convention, so the phrase often appears as part of the title in library and bookseller catalogues. But in ordinary usage "A Novel" is not considered part of the title. --ShelfSkewed talk 22:09, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Examples of the title appearing in reputable sources without "A Novel" included as part of the title:

--ShelfSkewed talk 04:26, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Moved --Stemonitis 07:25, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

That's a lot of effort put into something that seems really inconsequential to me! Suppose a blockbuster movie comes out with the same title, do we revisit this issue and get mired in a sea of internet links? Cuvtixo 16:23, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

No, the correct title is The Yiddish Policeman's Union, not The Yiddish Policeman's Union: A Novel, and when I requested what I thought should have been a noncontroversial move Stemonitis more or less challenged me to prove that the former was in fact the title. So I did. If there is an identically titled film version, the WP article title will be The Yiddish Policeman's Union (film). No sea of links. --ShelfSkewed Talk 18:37, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Historical basis

If anyone wants to write an article on the King-Havenner Bill that inspired the novel, there's an excellent series of four articles from the Anchorage Daily News published in 1999.--Pharos 00:16, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Not Reservation: Temporary nature of "Sitka settlement"

I have not finished the book yet, but it seems highly important to the plot that the "reservation" is a temporary, 60-year "lease," that is about to expire. This is referenced often in the book as the "Reversion." I am going to take out the word "reservation" which is linked to dictionary-like entry in the Wikipedia. I think "refugee settlement" is better, but if someone has a better term... Cuvtixo 16:01, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plot

Shouldn't this article have something about the plot of the story, not just the background? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.87.64.140 (talk) 00:30, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

The plot summary is full of mistakes (I've just read the book). Perhaps somebody who is good at such things could do a better one?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by GRoe (talk • contribs) 09:12, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Description of POD speculation and original research?

I would say the description of how the world is supposed to have changed is (a) speculative and (b) 'original research' Hpengwyn (talk) 10:46, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, it is indeed "speculative", but it is a description of the author's speculation: the alternate history that establishes the novel's fictional world.--ShelfSkewed Talk 11:32, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Where does he say this? If it were a better book I would go through and find all the evidence for the alternate world being at all coherent, but I will settle for page numbers from someone else :-) Hpengwyn (talk) 20:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC)