Talk:American Sign Language

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Linquist William Stokoe

I don't believe William (bill) Stokoe was a Linquist. He certainly was not hired as Linquist when he started his work at Gallaudet. He was hired as an English teacher. So when he first saw Sign Language it wasn't through the lens of a linguist it was as an English teacher. He studied with two Linquist while Gallaudet which was part of his interest in the language. I don't believe he had a degree in linguistics therefor I don't think he could be identified as Linquist William Stokoe.

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Article review

It has been a while since this article has been reviewed, so I took a look and noticed that there were a lot of uncited statements in the "Morphology" section. Should this article go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 23:07, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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American Sign Language

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Lots of uncited statements in the "Morphology" section. Z1720 (talk) 02:57, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It seems most of the uncited material was added in this one edit in April 2023. Maybe someone more knowledgeable about ASL or more familiar with the sourcing could try rescuing some of that, but if not it could just be deleted. Erinius (talk) 12:58, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted it. Erinius (talk) 14:56, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• @Erinius: Thanks for doing that. There are a couple of other uncited statements in the article. Would you be willing to look at those? If you'd like I can add citation needed templates to the article. Z1720 (talk) 15:14, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]