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Folks,
If you are an advanced contributor, and think that a sentence needs to be checked or changed, please leave one of the following tags on it:
@change
@check
@needs native check
in addition to leaving a comment describing your proposed change. If you only leave a comment, it may be ignored. However, if you leave one of those three tags, corpus maintainers who check the "Contribute/Improve sentences" page periodically will eventually see it.
When should I use "@check" and when "@needs native check"? I understand how the meanings are different, but it is not clear why should I ever use @NNC, when presumably natives also check the sentences marked with @check.
Personally, I never use @check because it's not precise.
@change means that clearly somebody (or myself) has already proposed a change in the comments and I just have to review.
@needs native check means that I need to focus on the language used.
@check translation means that somebody needs to check some translations, probably given in a comment.
@unlink means that somebody already checked a translation and inform me that it needs to be unlinked. Again, I have to check the comments.
Then there are combinations, like @change or unlink. Or @change is just here to make the list appears in my proofreading list while the real problem is "unlink". So the two tags appear @change @unlink. But that's more like a personal way decided between two people or more, than a common thing (I think).
Aiji's answer referred to the meanings of the tags, but it's also possible to focus on which tags get checked most frequently (because they are easiest to check). From that point of view, "@check" and "@needs native check" are equivalent because they are both listed on the "Contribute -> Improve sentences") page, along with "@change", while other tags are not. For instance, there is a tag "@NNC" that was associated with a number of English sentences that hadn't been checked in a while.