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Do not correct usage examples

This article includes linguistic data quoted from published sources. Such data may include nonstandard usage that is normally considered incorrect. Please do not correct grammar, punctuation, or word choice in examples accurately quoted from source material. Such "errors" are included deliberately to illustrate specific linguistic practices.

The page Code-switching includes several quotations from articles in linguistics that illustrate various code-switching phenomena. Copy editors frequently "correct" the non-standard forms, which makes them less useful as illustrations and inaccurate as quotations. Therefore I request something like this be added as a page notice. Improvements to the language, icon choice, etc. are welcome. Cnilep (talk) 23:46, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note to admin: I asked for comment on this requested notice at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Linguistics#Edit notice for Code-switching on 31 July 2018. As of 3 August no one has commented there. Cnilep (talk) 00:32, 3 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done Cabayi (talk) 07:23, 3 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Prescriptivist propaganda

Hello. Can the phrase that is normally considered incorrect be replaced with something like that is popularly perceived as "incorrect"? The current phrasing is linguistically unsound and reeks of prescriptivist propaganda. Linguists do not normally consider non-standard usages "incorrect", instead accounting for linguistic variation and notions of relative appropriateness, but many non-linguists obviously do the former. Wording things accurately can help to avoid misunderstandings and misperceptions about what scientific beliefs are. 83.23.192.222 (talk) 08:36, 29 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Also, the "nonstandard" word should preferably link to "nonstandard dialect". 83.23.192.222 (talk) 08:37, 29 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have made an edit to address this concern. SilverLocust 🃏 💬 00:54, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]