diff --git a/default-recommendations/hash-shortcuts.rkt b/default-recommendations/hash-shortcuts.rkt
index 6b5a7017..0f3a97c5 100644
--- a/default-recommendations/hash-shortcuts.rkt
+++ b/default-recommendations/hash-shortcuts.rkt
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
          resyntax/default-recommendations/private/lambda-by-any-name
          resyntax/default-recommendations/private/literal-constant
          resyntax/default-recommendations/private/pure-expression
+         resyntax/default-recommendations/private/self-quoting-literal
          resyntax/default-recommendations/private/syntax-equivalence
          resyntax/default-recommendations/private/syntax-identifier-sets
          resyntax/private/syntax-neighbors
@@ -143,10 +144,6 @@
                   #:original-splice (orig-definition orig-hash-set!)))))
 
 
-(define-syntax-class self-quoting-literal
-  (pattern (~or _:boolean _:character _:number _:regexp _:byte-regexp _:string _:bytes)))
-
-
 ;; A datum within a quasiquoted expression that can be lifted directly into expression position,
 ;; either because it's self-quoting or because it's a symbol that can be wrapped in a quote. Quoted
 ;; datums like (quote x) are excluded because quasiquote treats them as plain data: the quasiquoted
diff --git a/default-recommendations/list-shortcuts-test.rkt b/default-recommendations/list-shortcuts-test.rkt
index 1582d7bf..54685f17 100644
--- a/default-recommendations/list-shortcuts-test.rkt
+++ b/default-recommendations/list-shortcuts-test.rkt
@@ -135,6 +135,27 @@ no-change-test: "quasiquotation with only constants not refactorable to list"
 - `(1 2 3)
 
 
+no-change-test: "quasiquotation with quoted datums not refactorable to list"
+------------------------------
+(define (f y)
+  `(1 ,y 'x))
+------------------------------
+
+
+no-change-test: "quasiquotation with symbols not refactorable to list"
+------------------------------
+(define (f y)
+  `(1 ,y x))
+------------------------------
+
+
+no-change-test: "quasiquotation with nested lists not refactorable to list"
+------------------------------
+(define (f y)
+  `(1 ,y (2 3)))
+------------------------------
+
+
 test: "unnecessary splicing quasiquotation refactorable to append"
 ------------------------------
 (define (f xs ys zs)
diff --git a/default-recommendations/list-shortcuts.rkt b/default-recommendations/list-shortcuts.rkt
index b1c0aeee..374a6511 100644
--- a/default-recommendations/list-shortcuts.rkt
+++ b/default-recommendations/list-shortcuts.rkt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
          resyntax/base
          resyntax/default-recommendations/analyzers/ignored-result-values
          resyntax/default-recommendations/private/lambda-by-any-name
-         resyntax/default-recommendations/private/literal-constant
+         resyntax/default-recommendations/private/self-quoting-literal
          resyntax/default-recommendations/private/syntax-identifier-sets
          syntax/parse)
 
@@ -106,15 +106,18 @@
   (sort lst less-than #:key f1))
 
 
+;; Elements that aren't unquoted must be self-quoting to lift them out of the quasiquote unchanged.
+;; Quoted datums like (quote x) are quasiquoted as plain data, so `(1 'x) is the list (1 (quote x)),
+;; not the list (1 x) that a lifted 'x expression would produce.
 (define-syntax-class unquoted
   #:attributes (expr literal?)
   #:literals (unquote)
-  (pattern expr:literal-constant #:attr literal? #true)
+  (pattern expr:self-quoting-literal #:attr literal? #true)
   (pattern (unquote expr) #:attr literal? #false))
 
 
 (define-refactoring-rule quasiquote-to-list
-  #:description "This quasiquotation is equialent to a simple `list` call."
+  #:description "This quasiquotation is equivalent to a simple `list` call."
   #:literals (quasiquote)
   (quasiquote (arg:unquoted ...))
   #:when (for/or ([literal? (in-list (attribute arg.literal?))])
@@ -123,7 +126,7 @@
 
 
 (define-refactoring-rule quasiquote-to-append
-  #:description "This quasiquotation is equialent to calling `append`."
+  #:description "This quasiquotation is equivalent to calling `append`."
   #:literals (quasiquote unquote-splicing)
   (quasiquote ((unquote-splicing arg) ...))
   (append arg ...))
diff --git a/default-recommendations/private/self-quoting-literal.rkt b/default-recommendations/private/self-quoting-literal.rkt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..485f6be8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/default-recommendations/private/self-quoting-literal.rkt
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#lang racket/base
+
+
+(provide self-quoting-literal)
+
+
+(require syntax/parse)
+
+
+;@----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+;; A datum that evaluates to itself, so it means the same thing in expression position as it does
+;; within quoted or quasiquoted data. Symbols and quoted datums like (quote x) are notably not
+;; self-quoting: a symbol in expression position is a variable reference, and within quasiquoted
+;; data (quote x) is a two-element list rather than the value x.
+(define-syntax-class self-quoting-literal
+  (pattern (~or _:boolean _:character _:number _:regexp _:byte-regexp _:string _:bytes)))