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Article Evaluation: Lexical decision task
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Almost everything in the article does seem to be relevant to the topic. The third paragraph under "the task" which describes priming was slightly distracting-- I thought it led the reader on a bunny trail away from learning about lexical decision tasks into learning about the phenomenon of priming.

The article is neutral, and there seem to be no apparent biases present. (It is a fairly uncontroversial topic). However, since only one research team is cited, there is most likely other information on this topic that is missing.

The main issues in the article surround proper citation. Only two sentences are properly cited, and these two cited sentences have the same 3 sources as each other. Presumably other information in the article also came from these sources, but it is not documented. Further, all 3 sources used are from the same researchers. If LDT is used in "thousands of studies," as the article states, the citations should reflect that more than one researcher has used this tactic. The references are placed under a "notes" section rather than the actual References section, and the one reference in the References section does not correspond to any in-text citation. The citation in note 1 links to the correct source, but the citations in notes 2 and 3 do not have links attached.

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Article Evaluation: Passive speaker (language)
This article is a stub, and it has been rated Stub-class on Wikipedia's quality scale. It is part of the WikiProject Linguistics.

First, the "passive language" section does not seem relevant. It refers to a language, rather than a speaker, and it does not clearly fit as a subcategory of "passive speaker" since it does not obviously relate to language shift or lack of command of a language. It is a completely different term, potentially deserving its own wiki page. This is distracting because the reader is left wondering what the connection is between the two terms. If there is a strong connection, this should be stated more clearly.

Second, there are no in-text citations in this article. There is a link to a glossary in the references section, but the link leads to a 404 Error page. Readers do not know where this information is coming from!

Some of these mistakes make sense given the origin of the article: according to the talk page, the article was originally written by the authors of the article on the Ainu people. They may have just been trying to fix a "red link" by creating an article, and thus may have just guessed at the meaning. According to the page history, the article was expanded several times from a single sentence by these authors.

There are many problems with this article, but it is not eligible for speedy deletion because parts of it have been moved into another page.

Article Evaluation: Fante dialect
This start-class article is part of WikiProject Languages, WikiProject Africa, and WikiProject Ghana.

Everything in the article is relevant to the Fante dialect. However, the two paragraphs about the influences of the English language on Fante were distracting as part of the intro section; these two paragraphs should be in a separate section called "Influence of English" or something similar. The inclusion of the list of numbers was relevant, but potentially unnecessary.

The article seems to be neutral. There was no information that seemed to be biased or controversial.

One thing that could be added: a list of very common words and phrases ("Ɛte sɛn?," etc,) especially as they differ from the phrases in other Akan dialects.

A main issue with this article is that it does not include any in-text citations. The two links to sources at the bottom of the page do link to relevant, neutral web pages, but some of the information in the Wiki article does not seem to com directly from either of these pages (e.g. the influence of English). Additional sources should be added to account for this unsourced information, and in-text citations should be included throughout. It seems that some of the information in the "External links" is the source of some article material, so these should be included under references.

There has been only one comment left on the talk page, in which a user suggests that the article should indicate whether or not the language is tonal.


 * 1) REDIRECT Phillips Foster Greene