Talk:Bay Islands English

Latest comment: 2 months ago by Lewisguile in topic Reverting WP:TE by WP:SPA

Genetically? Languages do not have genes, so we really need another word2A01:CB08:8BE:AA00:6411:3FA4:9056:1DA4 (talk) 09:41, 17 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

It's a common term in linguistics but I'll change it for clarity. Erinius (talk) 21:33, 17 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

Citation for first sentence

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The first sentence in the article states, Bay Islands English, or Caracol Patwah, also called Bay Islands Creole English, or Caracol, is a semi-creolised dialect of Caymanian Creole English spoken in the Bay Islands Department (Guanaja, Roatán, Utila). The cited source, here, does not mention "Caracol", "Patwah", or "Bay Islands Creole English", and says that, A blanket categorization of BIE as a 'semi-creole' is unsatisfactory.... Reliable sources are needed for all of these claims. Donald Albury 01:28, 25 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

It's an SPA spamming all the Caribbean pages. Have reverted. See new thread. Lewisguile (talk) 18:20, 18 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Reverting WP:TE by WP:SPA

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I have reverted the insertion of WP:UNDUE, WP:BIAS and WP:TE by blocked IP user as likely WP:SPA. Similar changes were made by this user to several related pages: Afro-Caribbeans, Afro-Jamaicans, Bermuda, Black Bermudians, Cayman Islands, Coromantee, Jamaican Creole, Jamaican Maroon Creole, Mixed-race Caymanians, Tacky's Rebellion, Turks and Caicos Creole, Turks & Caicos, and many others.

Having compared the diffs to see if there was anything worth keeping, I have manually restored anything with RSes or which improved prose (if there was anything). Most changes were poorly sourced and added significant bias into the article, or simply removed existing information for no policy-based reason.

For transparency, I will post this on all affected pages. Lewisguile (talk) 18:20, 18 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for taking care of this. Donald Albury 20:28, 18 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
No problem. Some pages have had dozens of edits by the same user, so it needed doing. Lewisguile (talk) 07:55, 19 September 2024 (UTC)Reply