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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 17 August 2020 and 23 November 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): David.white834.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 02:29, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note on article creation

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Hello! Just got started on this article and could use advice or assistance. I will add more information in the days to come. Thank you. David.white834 (talk) 00:20, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Singular or plural

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The article says "political linguistics is ..." and "political linguistics are ... ". Ouch . One or the other, please. PamD 05:09, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

US-centric?

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Is the reader assumed to have heard of Patrick Henry? PamD 05:11, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the feedback, I have edited each of these mistakes. In terms of the article being US-centric, I would ask for a recommendation to reduce this. I have explained who Patrick Henry is, but perhaps there is a more global example I could use? David.white834 (talk) 21:55, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not clear

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I'm not an expert in the area, but this article leaves me a bit bewildered as to what "political linguistics" is, and whether it really exists as a discipline. The opening line talks about persuasion... isn't that rhetoric? Later it talks about use in negotiation, but then talks about question framing as in surveys etc, which seems to be something different - the reference by Singer et al doesn't seem to be anything to do with politics or negotiations but with care in asking questions about attitudes to race and genetic difference. I don't feel convinced that this topic actually has a well-defined existence. I just came across this article initially because I stub-sort and focus on articles with titles starting with "P"! As it's an educational project I thought it might be useful to air these comments. PamD 22:25, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Page improvements

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Hello, we are a group of students from Nanyang Technological University that came across this page while looking at the linguistic-stubs and would like to try to improve this page as part of our course assignment for HG2052 Language, Technology and the Internet. We will be doing research within the following week and will be making changes from now to 1 April 2021. Thank you. Latonraveur (talk) 14:12, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, thank you for working on this page. I think the page may be very confusing for someone trying to understand what political linguistics is. The content of the subsection "use in international negotiation" is not relevant to the subsection title. And I would like to point out certain citation issues:

  • For the sentence on "Languages differ essentially in what they convey and not in what they may convey", the point cannot be found in the citation (page 68 of Language and Politics).
  • Citation 4 and 20 are the same.
  • It would better to have a citation for the quote "international relations are not... ".
  • citation 20 does not back up the sentence on the autonomy of HongKongers or anything in the paragraph
  • no citation for Beijing's insistence that Cantonese is not a real language

Siewyeng (talk) 10:21, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your feedback, we have edited the subheading for "use in international negotiation" to "strategies in communication" to better reflect the content in the subsection. We have also rectified all citation errors pointed out. Please let us know if there are any other areas that we can improve on. Thank you. Latonraveur (talk) 10:10, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I am a University of New Mexico Linguistics student in training for Wikipedia editing. I was searching for pages to assist and practice my editing, and came upon this page. I would like to make some edits to the flow and readability of the first paragraph of the article. I plan to research this topic and make edits by 1 October 2024. Thank you --PadparadTenof32 (talk) 07:01, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]