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January 1, 2009 Peer review Reviewed

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Merge?

Do we really need both this and Portal:Language (which is much further along in development)? Angr/talk 15:58, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree: I would prefer our efforts to be focused in one place. --Gareth Hughes 12:33, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. Linguistics and language are two very different things. The language portal seems to focus on individual languages, while the linguistics portal should focus on different phenomena of language. Languages make up the data that linguistics concerns itself with, and the two should be kept separate. TheCharlie 22:07, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Language and linguistics are conceptually related but distinct entities. As TheCharlie said, language is simply data on which linguistics, a scientific field of investigation, operates. Yes, we do, undeniably, need both. Msanford (talk) 20:03, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Requested merge

I have requested that the new British language (Celtic) article be merged into the Welsh language article. Contribute at Talk:Welsh language. --Mais oui! 11:03, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Relevant to the Language portal perhaps, but not Linguistics. Also very old (the merge obviously didn't happen). Msanford (talk) 08:16, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Is this portal current?

Is anyone still working on this portal? I would like to help. Joshua Crowgey 11:08, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

I don't know, but I'm willing to take it up as a maintainer when my thesis is finished (a few months from now) if nobody minds. Msanford (talk) 20:03, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I'll take over as maintainer for the time being. Msanford (talk) 08:16, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Portal Peer review (what's this?)

I am planning to formally submit this portal for Wikipedia:Portal peer review, but not before the end of March 2008 (after this academic term), after some more extensive work.

I mention this because I do not think the portal is currently good enough to submit for peer review. I will post progress updates here. --Msanford (talk) 21:15, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Submitting for portal peer review now. --Msanford (talk) 00:24, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

A note on "Featured phone"

As the number of total phones is finite (and rather small) it makes the most sense to place the featured phone in a random article rotation, rather than a timed monthly or weekly rotation. Use of the latter function requires extra maintenance to the portal for no real reason. I'll change this feature, but all are welcome to add phones as they see fit, so long as they conform to the same style as the rest. Msanford  T  16:21, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Featured articles

Since User:Msanford seems to have left Wikipedia (at least, he hasn't edited since last June), I've been BOLD and given us a supply of featured articles for the portal to last through February 2011. These may be viewed at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Linguistics/Featured article. They are all currently Featured Articles, but may not still be so by the time they appear on the front page of the Portal, though. +Angr 15:03, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

By the way, does anyone know why the headers on this page don't have "Edit" links on them? +Angr 15:10, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

It was because Portal:Linguistics/box-header was used on this page, and that turns off section edits (so they don't show up on the actual Portal). That template now has an optional parameter to disable disabling section edits. So edit links should be restored, without breaking anything else. -Mairi (talk) 14:20, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

speech act theory

here I ask a question about speech act theory and Perlocutionary act. thanks. --92.225.74.63 (talk) 12:19, 15 January 2010 (UTC)