Editing Royal Spanish Academy (section)

==  Fundamentals ==
[[File:Limpia, Fija y Da Esplendor Detalle Grabado Lema Real Academia Española de la Lengua - AHG.jpg|thumb|left|RAE motto from the title page of one of its publications.]]
[[File:Madrid, inauguración del nuevo edificio de la Real Academia Española. Alrededores del edificio a la llegada de SS. MM..jpg|left|thumb|Inauguration of the RAE building in Madrid by [[Alfonso XIII of Spain|Alfonso XIII]], 1894]]
[[Image:Estatutos rae 1715big.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Title page]] of {{lang|es|Fundación y estatútos de la Real Académia Españóla}} (Foundation and statutes of the Royal Spanish Academy) (1715)]]
According to Salvador Gutiérrez, an academic numerary of the institution, the Academy does not dictate the rules but studies the language, collects information and presents it. The rules of the language are simply the continued use of expressions, some of which are collected by the Academy. Although he also says that it is important to read and write correctly.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.elmundo.es/cultura/2013/12/12/52a9d8fd63fd3d0c788b4576.html?a=e1017c79219ff622f70c967f089b38f1&t=1386869710&goback=.gde_660437_member_5817333889084985345#|title=Dequeístas, leístas y compañía... hay una salida|last=Plaza|first=J. M.|date=12 December 2013|website=El Mundo|trans-title=''Dequeístas'', ''leístas'', and company... there is a way out|publication-place=Spain|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180615201655/http://www.elmundo.es/cultura/2013/12/12/52a9d8fd63fd3d0c788b4576.html?a=e1017c79219ff622f70c967f089b38f1&t=1386869710&goback=.gde_660437_member_5817333889084985345%23|archive-date=15 June 2018|url-status=live|access-date=15 June 2018}}</ref> 
Article 1 of the statutes of the Royal Spanish Academy, translated from Spanish, says the following:<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.rae.es/sites/default/files/Estatutos_y_reglamento_nuevo.pdf|title=ESTATUTOS Y REGLAMENTO DE LA REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA|date=2014|website=Real Academia Española|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828230250/http://www.rae.es/sites/default/files/Estatutos_y_reglamento_nuevo.pdf|archive-date=28 August 2017|access-date=28 October 2017}}</ref>

{{blockquote|The Academy is an institution with legal personality whose main mission is to ensure that the changes experienced by the Spanish language in its constant adaptation to the needs of its speakers do not break the essential unity it maintains throughout the Hispanic world. It must equally ensure that this evolution preserves the characteristic nature of the language, as gradually consolidated over the centuries, as well as establishing and disseminating the criteria for its proper and correct use, and contributing to its splendor.

To achieve these ends, it shall study and promote the study of the history and present of Spanish, it shall disseminate the writings, literary—especially classics—and non-literary, that it deems important for the knowledge of such matters, and will seek to keep alive the memory of those who, in Spain or in the Americas, have cultivated our language with glory.

As a member of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, it shall maintain a special relation with the corresponding and associated academies.|sign=|source=}}