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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:17, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Studies as sources

Hi! I saw that you used a study as a source for the article on mock Spanish. Studies pose an issue as far as sourcing goes on Wikipedia because they're seen as primary sources for any claims and research done by its creators. There are a few reasons as to why this poses a problem:

• Studies are limited in scope, so they only have a limited number of participants and of those, they're typically from one area. Even if the area is fairly wide (ie, the United States as opposed to one city or state), the results are still only representative of the participants. For example, this study only looked at mock Spanish a single restaurant owned by Anglo Texans, where the mock Spanish is aimed at monolingual Spanish speakers. This means that their experience should not be seen as representative of all cases where mock Spanish is used. The results may differ if they were to look at this in other restaurants or other scenarios.
• Studies are only written by the people who are involved with the study itself and the publishing journal will only review the study to ensure that there are no glaring errors that would immediately mark a study as invalid. They don't actually do any true verification of the claims or provide any commentary. The people who conduct the study are unlikely to say that their findings are false or faulty in a way that would invalidate the data.

Now you can use studies as long as it's accompanied by an independent, secondary source like a literature review that covers the study. They can help put the study in context and also help validate it. This training module goes over studies as sources - it's aimed at medical topics, but the information on studies applies to all articles. I did take a quick look in Google Scholar and found that the study is cited in these publications, so one of them should be a literature review or otherwise be something helpful that you can use for the section. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:19, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Mock Spanish for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mock Spanish, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted.

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To customise your preferences for automated AfD notifications for articles to which you've significantly contributed (or to opt-out entirely), please visit the configuration page. Delivered by SDZeroBot (talk) 01:03, 13 March 2023 (UTC)