User talk:Wprewett/sandbox

This is a good start, but your bibliography is dominated by other references to Wikipedia articles (which should be expressed as in-line citations in brackets rather than References at the bottom). Once you eliminate those, you only have two solid references. I forget which language you are translating this article from (Spanish? French?) but one of the ways that you'll be improving upon them is by furnishing them with some solid references; most of the ones on Wikipedia now, in any language, lack them.

You should check out Glottolog for more potential references; the following page is a mess (because it somehow lumps a bunch of French in with the rest) but you should look under the sub-pages, including Friulian, Ladin, and Romansh, which have some excellent resources, especially on classification (the grammar stuff will probably be less useful for your purposes).

http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/gall1280

Sub-pages: http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/friu1240 http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/ladi1250 http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/roma1326

JSTOR is also your friend here. Chuck Haberl (talk) 16:55, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

Peer Review Wprewett
Hi, I began reviewing your article by attempting to edit your sources and adding a retrieved from: url section on each reference to make it more APA appropriate. However, I was unable to do this because you utilized a source template, so I'd just suggest you do that before you submit this article.

On the subject of formatting. I felt compelled to change and add more subjects to your article because based on the information given and the sources you have cited this far, I believe you could easily separate the History and Classification sections into two, and scaffold sections such as Language traits and notable language derivatives.

Your writing on this topic appears to be very encyclopedic so far. My only suggestion would be to find more sources on the subject. Perhaps particularly on the perspectives of other notable linguists on this subject. Good luck! — Preceding unsigned comment added by SotiriosLewis (talk • contribs) 01:58, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Peer Review from stephanierobo
So far you have a lot of great information! While you may know what you're talking about, others that are reading your article do not, which is why it's important to hyperlink newly-introduced concepts (for example, Romance Languages should have a hyperlink to the page on Wikipedia) or briefly elaborate on the concept (which you do a good job of doing after mentioning phonemic vowels!). This allows your reader to further understand your topic and also shows that the reader was not "expected" to know this information ahead of time. I've added a few of these for you!

The only other minor edit I could find was the first sentence of your lead. It's a bit "obvious," in a sense, that the Rhaeto-Romance languages make up a group of romance languages, making the sentence come off as repetitive. Try instead saying "The Rhaeto-Romance languages are a subdivision of romance languages..." or something along these lines. Everything else seems okay! Good luck on your final project. --Stephanierobo (talk) 16:47, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Hey!

So I think you have a lot of great information so far and this article has a lot of potential. However, I think you should include a bit more detail about the direction you want to take your article. What I mean is that your article seems to end pretty abruptly and by the time I was finished reading it, I was a little unsure about the topic. Maybe if you could talk more in depth about: 1. How Rhaeto-Romance languages came about 2. What parts of the world it is used in 3. How it is used 4. it's prevalence in today's society

I also found some sources that you might be able to use in your article that can help you include more pertinent information that will make it more encyclopedic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaeto-Romance_languages http://official-swiss-national-languages.all-about-switzerland.info/rumantsch-language.html

Again, I think you have a great topic that can really be great! I just think you should consider including a few topics to talk about within your article to help the reader better understand the nature of this topic. Good luck on the final project! Ndidiosian (talk) 17:31, 6 April 2018 (UTC)