Wikipedia:Featured article review/American English

American English

 * Article is no longer a featured article.

This is so not a featured-article-quality article. It's basically a list of AE words, without enough consideration of the use of the language, the reasons why the language grows so explosively, how it compares to other English dialects...It's just not all that brilliant. jengod 03:38, Mar 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * While I find the article to be more than a simple list, I do agree that it should be removed. The article needs significant copyediting for proper English usage and grammer, ect, which is ironic for an article about an English language. Gentgeen 10:49, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)
 * Remove. Agree with god and gent; the bizarre circumlocutions (and many red links, with one in the opening para!) knock it right out of 'almost-featurable' status in my book; it will take more than a few good edits to clean this art up.  +sj+ 04:59, 2004 Mar 27 (UTC)


 * Oppose (i.e., oppose removal, support retention). I tend to wonder whether we're looking at the same article. (Indeed, we may not be, since Wikipedia articles change, often in response to complaints.) I'm completely unable to see in what sense it's basically a list. It's true that the table of loan words is about half the length of the article; but then, tables tend to use up a lot of lines. As it now stands, the article has a good deal to say about comparison to other dialects, and the historical reasons therefor. As to copy editing, I've copy edited several things that were proposed for Featured status (with mixed success; some just can't be repaired adequately, e.g., History of China, which I'd like to see fixed and Featured); but I see little editing needed here. One almost wonders if the problem is with English usage, such as "The first wave of English-speaking immigrants was settled..." which in Britain might have a plural verb, but not (usually) in US usage. It's likely that specific complaints will be heeded if they appear on the Talk page. Dandrake 01:56, Mar 17, 2004 (UTC)


 * This isn't a feature article; it's just not good enough. The article is rather poorly written for Wikipedia standards. It would appear to be targetted more toward a high school term paper than a serious discussion of how American English evolved, unless it's an example piece of how American English Teaching is failing. So, I suppose I'd say remove it from Feature consideration, but don't be adding it to the Delete consideration yet. Xinit 17:01, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * Remove. These ideas of American English, Canadian English, etc... and other varieties of Languages are, sometimes, merely ideas and sometimes local ignorants-pride. I want to know if there's a serious and impartial linguist that support these "varieties" ideas. Most of these "varieties" are various dialects, some of them are more similar to a dialect in other country's "variety" rather to the "variety" and they are not uniform and the variety is mostly just a dialect that became standard. In Portuguese, I verifyed that. I've created Angolan Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese (edited most of it), I just made it because there is about English, and I see it as a more cultural subject than linguistic and some credible linguists support the "variety" idea, while others dont even think about this.-Pedro 01:48, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)