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American Sign Language was one of the Language and literature good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
January 13, 2013	Peer review	Reviewed
September 8, 2013	Good article nominee	Listed
January 1, 2026	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

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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]

GA Reassessment

American Sign Language

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Result: Delisted. TompaDompa (talk) 20:39, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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]
I probably won't find the time to do so anytime soon, sorry. Erinius (talk) 21:47, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.