Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Linguistics

message: Kajkavian is currently being attacked by a nationalist edit warrior who keeps changing the classification of Shtokavian and Chakavian as Serbo-Croatian to an unscientific classification of them as "Croatian", which makes no sense and is clearly against the consensus. Sol505000 (talk) 23:23, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not a question for consensus, but what is written in the source, and in the source it is written in Croatian, not Serbo-Croatian, as you would change what is written in the source, and that is against editing Wikipedia because it is based on sources. And stop attacking me on a personal level. Here is a source []that the user Sol505000 does not respect. I just fixed what the vandal ip changed what is written in the source here added and invented [], but unfortunately it is supported by  user Sol505000.93.143.79.158 (talk) 23:49, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It does not matter what is written in the source. There's plenty of books written by authors confused by nationalist propaganda ex-Yugoslavians are bombarded with from cradle to grave that says that Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian are separate, distinct languages which they are not. They have extremely similar grammar, pronunciation, spelling and vocabulary (when you're dealing with their standard varieties) and hard scientific research cited in Serbo-Croatian has proven again and again that these are merely varieties of the same language. If you're looking for truly separate languages check Slovene or Macedonian. Those are genuinely distinct languages. Wikipedia is not a place for nationalist propaganda. Sol505000 (talk) 00:01, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not a place for your propaganda, which is based on adding and inventing something that is not written in the books. I won't comment on the rest of what you insult me, it all says about you.93.143.79.158 (talk) 00:26, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

text:  As I explained to you before, the name Serbo-Croatian language was a form because we lived in the same country from 1918-1990 in Yugoslavia, that's why it had that name when that country fell apart, the Serbo-Croatian language no longer exists, something like Britain today has English-Scottish, for example. Today it has the Croatian language, which is also recognized in the EU, as will be the Serbian language and the Bosnian language when they enter the EU. The name Serbo-Croatian language no longer exists, it went with Yugoslavia. And the languages are very different, there are a lot of different words, and in addition, the Serbian language has "Ekavica" and Croatia has "Ijekavica" in the Štokavian dialect. Don't let me explain the difference between Croatian and Serbian, Croats write in Latin and Serbs in Cyrillic, etc. 93.143.79.158 (talk) 00:42, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the standard varieties of Serbo-Croatian are not "very different" and the research cited in Serbo-Croatian proves that. What you're describing are mere regional differences in vocabulary and pronunciation (and orthography, every standard apart from Croatian uses Cyrillic to a bigger or lesser extent) that do not match national borders and there's variation within the countries themselves (I'm talking about the standard language alone), exactly as in the case of English, German and Spanish. If you asked a native Spanish speaker from outside Argentina and Uruguay if they consider Rioplatense Spanish a separate language in the same sense that Portuguese and French are foreign to them they would think you're crazy. The same applies here. You will not convince me otherwise. Sol505000 (talk) 00:53, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  You think what you want, I wanted to explain to you about that Serbian-Croatian name, that's how people in Serbia and Croatia think about that name, as I wrote here. They are very different languages, there are many different words, if they weren't, one wouldn't be called Croatian and the other Serbian, but they have nothing to do with each other.93.143.79.158 (talk) 01:05, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: "But they have nothing to do with each other" - Right, I forgot that they are language isolates. I'm sorry for my confusion. Sol505000 (talk) 01:09, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I only returned what was written correctly in the source, I did not say that Štokavian is only a Croatian dialect, it is Serbian as well as Bosnian. And now it is written correctly as it says in the source that it is a Croatian dialect, someone can use that source and write on the Serbian page that Shtokavian is a Serbian dialect or on the Bosnian page that Shtokavian is a Bosnian dialect, I have nothing against that. That's what it says in the source, and don't add something that isn't written.I hope you understand what I'm talking about. Goodbye93.143.79.158 (talk) 01:18, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: So one dialect belongs to three unrelated languages? I learn something every day. —Tamfang (talk) 22:22, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

text: Academically this is not a debate. The Declaration on the Common Language was published recently, long after the fall of Yugoslavia. --Antondimak (talk) 23:10, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

text: “what is written in the source” — do all sources agree, or is there only one? —Tamfang (talk) 22:21, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I once met a Croatian linguist, who related a discussion he had with a visiting scholar to his university. It took him two hours to realize that the guy was speaking Serbian rather than Croatian. — kwami (talk) 13:34, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit warrior in the area of Serbo-Croatian 

message: @Austronesier and I can't achieve consensus on our last discussion on the talk page. I'd like a third opinion. Rolando 1208 (talk) 12:52, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Third opinion for [[Talk:Hindi]] request 

message: Please see Talk:Proverb#Adage needs to stop redirecting here. Summary: Proverb has a very narrow scope, and that of the term adage is much wider (proverb is a traditional folkloric subset). We probably need a set-index article for such terms, either a new one at Adage itself, or develop the even more generalized bare list at Saying into a proper set-index article with encyclopedic content not just links to articles. At any rate, Adage needs a more appropriate link target than just going to Proverb.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  17:06, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The misleading [[Adage]] redirect 

message: Thanks go to  for this removal of an entirely unsourced OR paragraph at English phrasal verbs. Unfortunately, that paragraph survived ten years in the article, added in 2012 by , now inactive. Glancing at their contrib history, they were a heavy contributor to linguistics-related articles, and I notice an unusual proportion of  edits being reverted by other editors, some fat cuts and restores, and where content is added, it's either unsourced (diff1, diff2) or appears to have a citation or two, but they often don't back the preceding article content, instead, they are more of a forward-looking, "see-also"-style explanatory note within <ref> tags, of the "See Foo & Bar (2000) for a debate" type thing. There are a lot of big cuts of 5, 10, or 20kb of content, indicating a bold style, but that bothers me less, as at least they don't introduce OR content (well, one can't be sure without examining the diff, but probably not) and mostly they are not reverted.
The 2012 OR paragraph at English phrasal verbs is the first time I've encountered Tjo3ya, so I don't really know how much damage they may have done. I wonder if anyone who enjoys gnoming articles for old OR content would like to try and tackle this, or at least, provide a better idea of the scope of the problem? I notice that  appears to have tangled with them in April 2021 at Predicate (grammar), and had edits at half a dozen other linguistics articles around the same time, so perhaps  will recollect those edits and be able to give their impressions about this editor, in order to to better scope the extent of the problem, if indeed there is a problem. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 22:45, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem is generally WP:NPOV more than WP:OR. Their contributions often argued in Wikivoice for their idiosyncratic version of dependency grammar, and even their less argumentative contributions still give undue weight. I removed some blatant instances, as did , but there's still a lot out there. This isn't trivial to fix, since this editor was the main person working on syntax articles for quite a while, and their problematic contributions are often intertwined with good ones. I'll do what I can when I have time, but unfortunately their battleground behavior contributed to an unwelcoming environment for many of the people best positioned to fix it. Botterweg14 (talk) 03:51, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: To add to this: their idiosyncratic version of dependency grammar is based on the notion of a catena, so I used Special:WhatLinksHere/Catena_(linguistics) a couple of times. The trouble was that, when edited to give a neutral point of view on catenas, the passages generally looked OK to me, but gave undue weight to this theory in the context of the article. So the best solution (I thought, not being very familiar with wiki guidelines) would be not so much to cut down on the catena content but to add content about other approaches to make articles more representative. Unfortunately this would take much more work than simply cutting down on catena content, and should also be done with someone with much more knowledge of syntax than myself. Kaĉjo (talk) 16:01, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps some of this text can be moved to catena, since it wouldn't be undue weight in that context. Botterweg14 (talk) 04:48, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

text: Pinging  and , since their syntax expertise goes far beyond mine. Botterweg14 (talk) 03:59, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Your diagnosis of the effects of Tjo3ya's edits is exactly right: a very large weighting of a very marginal (in the literature) theory using the catena, and a driving away of editors who didn't want to engage in endless small skirmishes over how to make the catena theory appropriately cited, and not give it undue weight. It was exhausting, and more than one of us simply decided to cut back on editing wikipedia. Really, as you say, all the syntax articles need a pretty thorough eye to rebalancing. Perhaps once I retire! Mundart (talk) 16:37, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Long-term OR abuser, now inactive 

message: Not part of the project but I noticed that both articles were lacking the Template, I am being bold and adding said template to them, if someone who is from the project desagree that it should be added, feel free to remove it. Also, since I don't understand the class and importance level of those terms, I didn't added them so please, if you find it is relevant, add them. Nanami73⚓ (talk) (contributions) 23:20, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Putting [[Template:WikiProject Linguistics]] into [[Coverb]] and [[Converb]] 

message: Hi, I've been noticing that our articles on the history of the verb systems of the Germanic and Romance languages seem to focus almost entirely on the conjugation of synthetic tenses and give very little information about the development of periphrastic/analytic tenses. For example, Romance verbs has only the very briefest mention of periphrasis, Germanic verbs never mentions the Germanic perfect, and Gothic verbs gives no hint about whether Gothic had a perfect at all (though it does mention a Gothic past participle and leaves us guessing about what that might have been used for). 
Right now I'm interested in the fact that the modern Romance and Germanic languages share a perfect tense that has a very distinctive feature: the auxiliary "have" (j'ai mangé, ich habe gegessen) changes to "be" in a verb of motion (je suis venu, ich bin gekommen). That is so idiocyncratic that it has to be an areal feature, and the fact that it is even found in Icelandic and Romanian, both conservative outliers in their respective groups, suggests it is very old. But it is not Indo-European, so it is an innovation in both Germanic and Romance. Although the "have" construction has a tentative predecessor in Vulgar Latin, I can't find any discussion of the origin of the whole system, or how it came to be shared by two geographically adjacent language families.  
Does anyone here have the expertise to write this up? Or at least to point me in the direction of literature so I can try it myself? Doric Loon (talk) 08:19, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I have found this book. This looks maximally interesting, especially since intra-family morphsyntactic calques (and how to distinguish them from genetically shared innovations) are one of the things that I work on in a language family in a  different part of the world. –Austronesier (talk) 21:08, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

text: Doric_Loon -- There wasn't a compound Germanic perfect in any historic origins sense, but there was a medieval Western European sprachbund (including both Romance and Germanic languages) where there was a contrast between a simple past tense versus a compound perfect tense which was formed with HAVE + past participle for transitive verbs and BE + past participle for intransitive verbs.  English has retained this system, except for now using "have" with all verbs, but the contrast between the two tenses doesn't really exist in modern French (where the simple past now is a literary form), or in many forms of spoken German.  In Old English, the compound perfect was mainly used with a past tense auxiliary to express a pluperfect meaning... AnonMoos (talk) 23:14, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Periphrastic tenses 

message: Hello. Another editor and I are in disagreement about what constitutes original research in the article on the phrase Tory scum. I believe the article is being held to standards different to other articles as it seems the other editor insists examples of the phrase come from sources that say something like, "This incident is an example of when the phrase "Tory scum" was used". The fullest the article has been, with the most examples given, was this edit. After discussion with the other editor, I suggested this more limited edit. After both, the other editor deleted the section containing examples of use of the phrase. Other opinions are sought as at the moment it's only the two of us so perhaps we're caught in ruts. The active discussion on the talk page is here. Thank you for your involvement. Woofboy (talk) 15:10, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opinion sought on potential original research in article 

message: There's a discussion regarding a merge between Difrasismo and Dvandva at Talk:Difrasismo#Merge? that could do with some input (there). The key current query is whether there is a suitable over-arching article into which both could be merged, but please also consider the reasonableness of the primary proposal. Klbrain (talk) 18:45, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Difrasismo and Dvandva 

message: According to Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages (2022), there is a single Komi language, for which two literary languages, Komi-Permyak and Komi-Zyryan were created. Neither of these languages seems to be primary one in any sense and deserve the designation as 'the Komi language', but for some reason Komi-Zyryan now holds that title. Also, Komi-Permyak is under a name Permyak, contrary to the reliable sources. I am not familiar with linguistics articles in Wikipedia, so I am asking for opinions on what should be done. 
Should we move Permyak > Komi-Permyak, Komi>Komi-Zyryan and make Komi language into a disambiguation or a short article explaining the variants and the historical reason for their existence? This would probably affect many links. Jähmefyysikko (talk) 23:17, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I expect the move to Komi-Permyak to be the least controversial step so I opened a discussion about it at Talk:Permyak language#Requested move 30 December 2023. Jähmefyysikko (talk) 14:01, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Komi languages 

message: You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Voiced palatal approximant § Do not undo the alveolo-palatal approximant.  Nardog (talk) 15:54, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion at [[:Talk:Voiced palatal approximant#Do not undo the alveolo-palatal approximant|Talk:Voiced palatal approximant §&nbsp;Do not undo the alveolo-palatal approximant]]

message: Wikipedia talk:Verifiability#Merge WP:SELFSOURCE and WP:BLPSELFPUB to WP:ABOUTSELF has stalled out, with stonewalling by a single party, who claims that the syntactic problems in the policy material's opening sentence, which I've outlined in considerable detail, are just "[my] opinion" and that doing anything about them is "not needed" and is "WP:CREEP".  I think these grammatical-meaning and parseability issues are objectively factual and not a matter of subjective opinion, but that editor will not engage on the matter further, there or in user talk , where I demonstrated that the revision actually complies with is not against the goals of the CREEP essay. 
The discussion has too few active participants (despite "advertising" the thread to WP:VPPOL) to move past this issue. Either I'm correct that the sentence is syntactically faulty or I am not, and additional voices should get us past this blockage one way or the other. If I'm simply wrong about the problems I see in the original wording, then feel free to say so.
It's basically come down to a choice between the versions in the last two subthreads there (unless someone wants to propose a new revision); no real need to pore over the entire revision process.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  23:26, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linguistic input could be useful in a WP:V wording matter 

message: I was reading the article Rubus tricolor and thought the IPA transcription was interesting: /ˈruːbəs ˈtraɪkʌlər/
I am no expert, but it was my understanding that the difference between the vowel sounds ʌ and ə was simply that the former is under stress, and the latter is not under stress. But in this word, the main stress falls on the first syllable, meaning that the second syllable must be unstressed (unless there is secondary stress?). Therefore, we should have both unstressed syllables (i.e., second and third syllables) rendered as schwa, correct? Anyway, I am not sure if it is correct, or if my previous understanding was not accurate. Many thanks, Moribundum (talk) 17:51, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The second syllable has a subordinated stress like the second syllable of "homemaker" etc.  I don't think the second and third syllables have the same degree of stress in the most usual pronunciation of the word... AnonMoos (talk) 18:09, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Query about IPA transcription of the latin word "tricolor" 

message: Someone might want to review the edits from 90.241.160.140 and 84.68.219.93. The editor has changed many articles without any sourcing, mostly related to letters and alphabets (especially Armenian, Cyrillic, Glagolitic, and IPA ones), and the edit summaries range from vague to patent nonsense. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 21:24, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I would block if they don't heed the warning to start sourcing. Just spot checking a few, they seem more in the realm of theories or original research. For example, here the editor adds some dubious origins of the grapheme ⟨X⟩ to the article on its descendant ⟨X̂⟩ but that same claim was removed from ⟨X⟩ a few weeks before for failing verification. Here they add some sister graphemes to ⟨U⟩, including ⟨उ⟩ which has a completely separate history from the Latin ⟨U⟩ and only shares a name. The 84... IP is slightly better in the sense that this edit at least is partially supported by the article text but we also get edits like this where the summary is just a skibidi toilet reference and the edit is unsourced. I'll probably just go through and revert them in bulk when I have some spare time since I don't have faith these are going to stand up to scrutiny if we took the time to research them (and the editor[s] should really be providing that if it's not in the text). — Wug·a·po·des 04:00, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Based on those examples and the other reverts, it's likely that the best course of action is to undo every one of these edits, but we could wait another day to see if anyone here can make sense of some of them. I wouldn't object to undoing them now, though. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 06:36, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I have undone most using this edit note:  and left a note at their talk page inviting them to explain why they consider their edits to have been valid. The facetious tone of many of their edit notes do not inspire confidence. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 14:05, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: All my edits are constructive, I simply just ran out of ideas for edit summaries and went for silly things I’m sorry. 90.241.160.140 (talk) 16:13, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Which, apart from showing your immaturity, doesn't respond to 's demand that you produce evidence to support your changes. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 23:23, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

text: I blocked them from article space for a week which prevents further problems but allows them to still discuss the changes. They were warned twice (three times if you count me saying above that I'd block them) and clearly knew there was an ongoing discussion, but they kept going. I don't see the need for ANI when it's that clear cut. If they want to discuss, they can do so here or make edit requests. — Wug·a·po·des 02:39, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The IP address has resumed adding unsourced changes, coupled with inappropriate edit summaries, upon the release of their block. I've filed a report and am working on reverting their edits. Panian513 16:04, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced edits 

message: Prostitution#Etymology_and_terminology I noticed the section here and thought that going from the proto-german *hōrōn to PIE *keh₂- and thought it strange, and decided to take a look over on our sister site for a source, and while not finding one, suggests a missing link between the two was another PIE word, *kéh₂ros, which i can see the connection better if it can be sourced. Anyone more familiar with sourcing etymology taking a look into this would be lovely. Akaibu (talk) 15:20, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  sourcing for the etymology of "whore" as well as potential etymological missing link 

message: It appears that the Commons images used in Yugtun script among other articles are mislabeled, but I can't figure out at all from the christusrex source which script image corresponds to which language/dialect, which script, and which script inventor -- each of which may have their own article and each of which may be scrambled. (It also used in :ru:Эскимосская_письменность among others -- that page seems to have a better organization of how some of the scripts coordinate to dialects.) Someone who has the willingness to take the time to take a couple hours' dive into (or has background already of) the differences of several Eskimo dialects + phonetics, scripts, and transcriptions -- their efforts on this would be appreciated.
[Addendum:] I'd also appreciate ideas on how to verify the photo of Uyaquq /(Uyaqoq?) on Rovenchak 2011 (p. 8), which unfortunately seems like a very cruddy article. (That said, it passes WP:V and a very-most superficial reading of WP:RS, so it'd only be a matter of licensure to get the photo, else one could just link to it. However, I think it'd be irresponsible if we didn't try to independently verify ourselves.) SamuelRiv (talk) 04:21, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: As for the second part, Rovenchak 2011 takes the image from http://uyaquk.com/, which has been archived via the Way Back Machine in 2005: . That has an invitation to , that Yahoo email address was also used as the contact for , I found her LinkedIn page which lists that BASOR article and provides her personal website with a different, but available email address. I'm not sure how much I can spell out directly, but it might be worth emailing her to ask if they recall where she got the image of Uyaquk from? Umimmak (talk) 05:07, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help on untangling some Alaska-Eskimo scripts 

message: There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Vyaz (Cyrillic calligraphy)#Requested move 26 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 11:43, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move at [[Talk:Vyaz (Cyrillic calligraphy)#Requested move 26 February 2024]] 

message: There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Dobrujan Tatar dialect#Requested move 14 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. asilvering (talk) 19:47, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move at [[Talk:Dobrujan Tatar dialect#Requested move 14 February 2024]] 

message: at Talk:Optimality Theory that may be of interest to this project. Primergrey (talk) 01:31, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  There is a conversation... 

message: There is a discussion about this template, which may be of interest to the project, and we would be interested in guaging your views about whether this template is still needed, and if so, how we can preserve the functionality while making it work better with the assessment process. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:45, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template:Etymology section]] 

message: This could use some input from experts.  S0091 (talk) 17:06, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:Articles for deletion/Gyat]] 

message: There is a requested move discussion at Talk:TACL#Requested move 12 March 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Brusquedandelion (talk) 01:05, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move at [[Talk:TACL#Requested move 12 March 2024]] 

message: I have started a discussion at  that might be of interest to members of this WikiProject. The discussion concerns whether these two articles should be merged (although it is not—yet—a formal merger discussion as such), or if not, how to clean up the articles, which are problematic in a number of ways. Brusquedandelion (talk) 12:10, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Linguistic anthropology]] vs [[Anthropological linguistics]]

message: I have seen various talk pages that are part of this WikiProject have a parameter in their declaration of  that looks like [name of task force]-importance, e.g. applied-importance, etymology-importance, etc. However I don't actually see documentation for such parameters on the template page, and it seems to throw a warning in the preview (e.g. Preview warning: Page using Template:WikiProject Linguistics with unexpected parameter "etymology-importance").
Why are these parameters seemingly used on so many pages? Are they really supported or not? Thanks in advance. Brusquedandelion (talk) 11:03, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Task force importance parameter for the WikiProject template 

message: Your feedback at WT:WikiProject Languages#Digital extinction of language would be appreciated. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 20:12, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Digital extinction of language 

message: Please see the Nonfinite verb RfD discussion and comment accordingly re prospective next steps. Cheers. Kent Dominic·(talk) 23:46, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renaming Nonfinite verb  

message: Hello, I have noticed that phrases on Wikipedia often need work and are caught in limbo between WikiProjects. I am considering starting a Phases Wikiproject, but I want to make sure that it isn't within the scope of this WikiProject but often missed. Phrases aren't covered by this or other WikiProjects, right? I can do stuff!  (talk) 03:25, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: For English phrases there's WikiProject English Language. It doesn't look very active, but I doubt a whole new WikiProject just for phrases can fare better. Nardog (talk) 03:36, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

text: Can you give examples of the sorts of phrases you are referring to? Brusquedandelion (talk) 04:39, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phrases 

message: It's at Talk:Pied-Noir#Lowercase. Thanks Elinruby (talk) 20:04, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  RM needs definitions for "proper noun" and "loanword' 

message: I seem to have waded into a minefield by restoring six example sentences at Franglais.  They were deleted last year and again after I restored them as "unsourced" and "original research".  I don't think they're research at all, and don't require sources as simple examples of something that's just been defined and cited to reliable sources.  But another editor is equally certain that they are, and do.  What we need now is other editors to weigh in and give opinions as to whether usage examples need to be cited to anything, or constitute "original research".  This seemed like a reasonable place to ask.  P Aculeius (talk) 23:32, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content dispute over usage examples at [[talk:Franglais]] 

message: Hello. I think that  Linguistic monogenesis and Linguistic polygenesis could be merged into the article I translated, like in  Spanish,  Catalan,  Galician and  Dutch. They're about similar topics and having an article about linguistic polygenesis would  give it undue weight, because the mainstream scholars advocate for monogenesis (see , a paper defending linguistic polygenesis but starts with the line "Monogenesis of language is widely accepted..."). Is this a good idea? Pcg111 (talk) 08:23, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging (linguistic) Monogenesis and Polygenesis 

message: Could someone interested in linguistics please look into Talk:One Standard German Axiom and give their opinion. --Rießler (talk) 05:45, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  One Standard German Axiom 

message: There's a discussion regarding the IPA transcription of 'Vaush' here which may be of intrest to some of yous. A Socialist Trans Girl 07:50, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion of Pronunciation of 'vaush' 

message: There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Sino-Xenic pronunciations#Requested move 14 May 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject.  ASUKITE 16:11, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move at [[Talk:Sino-Xenic pronunciations#Requested move 14 May 2024]] 

message: The audio for IPA [e] is a diphthong and in my opinion should be replaced as there is a superior recording freely available on Wikimedia Commons. Discussion here. Stockhausenfan (talk) 00:16, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect audio for IPA [e] 

message: Please, could someone help to expand Draft:Linguistic monogenesis and polygenesis (for more context, see this)? Pcg111 (talk) 10:55, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help with draft 

message: Hi all. I recently nominated a page I created for GA status and forgot to mention it here in case anyone wanted to review. I invite anyone interested in historical linguistics in general and PIE in particular, as it deals with phonological change in PIE. Let me know what you think! ThaesOfereode (talk) 23:06, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA Nomination: [[Weise's law]]