Talk:Corpus of Contemporary American English

There is a clear issue with some of the references and selections from the bibliography, and that is that it leads to websites that offer the option to pay to gain access to different parts of the Corpus. Although it is a fact that one has to pay a fee to access all the data from the Corpus, it would be more appropriate to not link Wiki readers directly to said paid options, instead just link the free services they can access on the platform, and then allow them to explore the paid options by themselves. The article does have a link to the Corpus's official home page, under the "External Links" section. Most of the web sources that are cited under the bibliography are for articles that one has to pay a fee to access in their totality, so the only information that is available for free access is the abstract. This proves to be an issue for ensuring that the information on the Wiki article is backed up by reliable sources since there is no public access to the information. Tatangrunge (talk) 01:48, 3 February 2018 (UTC)Jonathan