Stan Shebs wrote:
I don't have any good real-life examples to put up here, but likely cases would include judgement whether a particular phrasing is neutral or slanted, or what is the most common term for something.
One of the best writers of English on the projects is Erik Müller, a German. His English is much better than the average English speaker and indeed much better than even a lot of Wikipedians.
Even so, I will rarely notice him writing something that doesn't sound quite right. Usually this is not quite an _error_ but just some kind of _oddness_. His English is German-flavored.
I have no opinion about the usefulness of babel boxes identifying native speakers. I do agree that proficiency in a language is not always exactly the same thing as being native or not. But I still think that there is a difference in the kinds of errors that native speakers of a language make versus the kinds of errors that others make.