Talk:Mental lexicon

Mental lexicon was nominated as a Social sciences and society good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (July 27, 2012). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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I am working on a revision/expansion of this page for a psycholinguistics course. Lkientzle (talk) 14:46, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: Bilby (talk · contribs) 15:41, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
Prose is ok, but could be tightened. For example, in the lead:

The mental lexicon is defined as a mental dictionary that contains information regarding a word's meaning, pronunciation, syntactic characteristics, and so on.

The "... and so on" and general wording just needs a bit of a copyedit to tighten it a bit. Similarly, in "Methods of inquiry" we jump to a definition of Lexical Decision Tasks, which fits, but doesn't flow from the first part. It isn't a major issue, but again a bit of work on flow wouldn't go amiss, especially as part of that section is then revisited in the next.

There are also some minor WP:MOS issues - mainly that headings need to be in sentence case rather than title case.

It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
References are good and verifiable.
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It comes across well in terms of coverage. I'd like to dig into sources a bit more, but at this stage it seems like GA level.
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Captions are actually fine, but I'd like to see alt tags as well. Good choice of diagrams.
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

I need to chase down the last couple of refs to check, but the main concern is probably in prose style, which needs a good copyedit. Otherwise it is looking good. Accordingly I'm putting it on hold for a bit. - Bilby (talk) 15:41, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As it has been almost a month without any edits, I'll give it another week, but that's all I can really do. - Bilby (talk) 01:02, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, as this stage I guess we have to fail the article. No edits have been made. - Bilby (talk) 15:18, 27 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Added Citation to the Lead Section

I reformatted and added a citation to the statement in the lead section "The mental lexicon differs from the lexicon in that it is not just a general collection of words; instead, it deals with how those words are activated, stored, processed, and retrieved by each speaker," to reflect the fact that it is a direct quote from the book Cognitive Neuroscience from Cram 101 Textbooks. (If I am mistaken, and they actually took it from Wikipedia, feel free to let me know :) ) -- RBauder (talk) 19:52, 10 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@RBauder: Cram101 Textbook Reviews is probably not a reliable source, since most of its content appears to be directly copied from Wikipedia. Jarble (talk) 20:48, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Jarble: Thanks for pointing that out. I'll be more careful when researching in the future. --RBauder (talk) 16:00, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Upcoming revisions

I will be working on an update/edit/revision of this page for a Linguistics course final project along with two of my classmates. It will be completed by the end of April 2022. We're hoping to improve the graded quality of the article, possibly even enable it to achieve "good article" status, as it did not pass the GA Review in 2012. Please note, the 3 separate users that will be editing this page during that time are us three working together, and not indicative of an "edit war".SM Cauty (talk) 23:07, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Adding my name here as one of the aforementioned 3 users taking part in this final project. SyntaxW02TheThird (talk) 01:05, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]