User:Hannahc2018/sandbox

Article Evaluation
"Automaton" - needs expansion (and clearly expansion is planned: there are headings with little or no text that show it is in process)

introduction is concise and straightforward; could potentially be expanded a little, but provides a decent definition; basically all examples in the "ancient" section are also literary; are there more recent literary uses of automaton (i.e. Hugo Cabret for example)

Generally neutral voices here (it's not a highly contested topic in any case); mainly lacks in information in general rather than stylistic issues

There are several places where citations are needed and noted as missing; there may be more. The article does contain a wealth of sources already though for most paragraphs. Citation for "golden age" paragraph (under Modern heading)?

Focus is primarily on broad eras rather than specific areas (most specific areas need to be expanded). This can come across as disorganized in some portions.

It's part of two WikiProjects: Computer Science and Robotics; a lot of discussion is around sources and credibility of claims; also discussion of whether the definition is too broad; known cases of misrepresentation of sources also discussed

Conclusion: this article contains some very interesting facts and a basic overview of the topic, but it is still very much in progress and needs to be both expanded and checked for correct information

Article Selection
"Verb" would be possible I guess; lots of other lexical categories too

"Active Voice" (what about passive voice? I'm guessing there's an article for that...) "Generative Grammar," "Fluid Construction Grammar," "Interjection," "Semantic Change" (if not for this project maybe for another?); lots of the actual word classes/parts of speech need help

I'm guessing "Variation (linguistics)" wouldn't work but it looks like it'd be interesting to work on; so would "Vulgarity" but again, not really grammar related

"Emergent Grammar" (this one's a bit fuzzy, it's currently still in the "Interactional Linguistics" article, doesn't seem to have its own)

"Tense Confusion"; "Adnoun"

Ideas for Editing Article: Synthetic language
Synthetic language

User:Alyssandra Bako/sandbox

That introduction is basically unreadable, we must help it. I definitely don't understand it. Honestly most of the article needs to be checked for heavy jargon and made intelligible for normal human beans.

It needs sources of some kind, because there are literally none (since 2008!).

Are "rather analytic" and "rather synthetic" actual technical linguistic terms or are they made up?

Headings should be checked: are they logical or can we make them better and more helpful?

Someone specifically noted that the difference between derivational and relational synthesis hasn't been clarified, so we might want to address that while we're working on it anyway.

This is a test, since I have been having trouble editing sandboxes.