22 November 2018

Wikipedia: Brunei English

I wrote the Wikipedia page on Brunei English. But subsequently, anyone anywhere can edit the material. And sometimes complete rubbish gets added. For example, I just found the following claim in there: 'English in neighboring Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia remains rhotic".

WHAT??? Australian English remains rhotic? Australian English has never been rhotic, and it probably will never be. Presumably, the author meant 'non-rhotic'. But why do people add rubbish to publicly available pages?

That's the problem with Wikipedia: there's lots of good stuff in there; but there's also lots of rubbish.

Anyway, I fixed that. I guess I need to look at the page more often, to see what rubbish has been added, and then remove it.