diff --git a/pmd/etc/changelog.txt b/pmd/etc/changelog.txt
index 04f9db7a2f..45b2938aae 100644
--- a/pmd/etc/changelog.txt
+++ b/pmd/etc/changelog.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Add C# support for CPD - thanks to Florian Bauer
 Fix small bug in Rule Designer UI
 Improve TooManyMethods rule - thanks to a patch from Riku Nykanen
 Improve DoNotCallSystemExit - thanks to a patch from Steven Christou
+Fix false negative for UseArraysAsList when the array was passed as method parameter - thanks to Andy Throgmorton
 
 New Rule:
 	Basic ruleset: DontCallThreadRun - thanks to Andy Throgmorton
diff --git a/pmd/regress/test/net/sourceforge/pmd/rules/optimizations/xml/UseArraysAsList.xml b/pmd/regress/test/net/sourceforge/pmd/rules/optimizations/xml/UseArraysAsList.xml
index 0a2fa264ad..f088aa9274 100644
--- a/pmd/regress/test/net/sourceforge/pmd/rules/optimizations/xml/UseArraysAsList.xml
+++ b/pmd/regress/test/net/sourceforge/pmd/rules/optimizations/xml/UseArraysAsList.xml
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ failure case
         <code><![CDATA[
 public class Bar {
  void foo() {
-  Integer[] ints = new Integer(10); 
-  List l= new ArrayList(10); 
-  for (int i=0; i< 100; i++) { 
-   l.add(ints[i]); 
-  } 
+  Integer[] ints = new Integer(10);
+  List l= new ArrayList(10);
+  for (int i=0; i< 100; i++) {
+   l.add(ints[i]);
+  }
  }
 }
      ]]></code>
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ adding first element repeatedly
         <code><![CDATA[
 public class Bar {
  void foo() {
-  Integer[] ints = new Integer(10); 
-  List l= new ArrayList(10); 
-  for (int i=0; i< 100; i++) { 
-   l.add(ints[1]); 
-  } 
+  Integer[] ints = new Integer(10);
+  List l= new ArrayList(10);
+  for (int i=0; i< 100; i++) {
+   l.add(ints[1]);
+  }
  }
 }
      ]]></code>
@@ -42,11 +42,11 @@ inside conditional
         <code><![CDATA[
 public class Bar {
  void foo() {
-  Integer[] ints = new Integer(10); 
-  List l= new ArrayList(10); 
-  for (int i=0; i< 100; i++) { 
-   if (y > 10) { l.add(ints[1]);} 
-  } 
+  Integer[] ints = new Integer(10);
+  List l= new ArrayList(10);
+  for (int i=0; i< 100; i++) {
+   if (y > 10) { l.add(ints[1]);}
+  }
  }
 }
      ]]></code>
@@ -59,11 +59,11 @@ adding new object
         <code><![CDATA[
 public class Bar {
  void foo() {
-  Integer[] ints = new Integer(10); 
-  List l= new ArrayList(10); 
-  for (int i=0; i< 100; i++) { 
-   l.add(new Integer(i+1)); 
-  } 
+  Integer[] ints = new Integer(10);
+  List l= new ArrayList(10);
+  for (int i=0; i< 100; i++) {
+   l.add(new Integer(i+1));
+  }
  }
 }
      ]]></code>
@@ -76,13 +76,31 @@ calling method
         <code><![CDATA[
 public class Bar {
  void foo() {
-  Integer[] ints = new Integer(10); 
-  List l= new ArrayList(10); 
-  for (int i=0; i< 100; i++) { 
-   l.add(String.valueOf(i)); 
-  } 
+  Integer[] ints = new Integer(10);
+  List l= new ArrayList(10);
+  for (int i=0; i< 100; i++) {
+   l.add(String.valueOf(i));
+  }
  }
 }
      ]]></code>
     </test-code>
-</test-data>
\ No newline at end of file
+    <test-code>
+        <description>Integer array passed as argument</description>
+        <expected-problems>1</expected-problems>
+        <code><![CDATA[
+public class Test {
+  public void foo(Integer[] ints) {
+     // could just use Arrays.asList(ints)
+     List l = new ArrayList(10);
+     for (int i=0; i< 100; i++) {
+       l.add(ints[i]);
+     }
+     for (int i=0; i< 100; i++) {
+       l.add(a[i].toString()); // won't trigger the rule
+     }
+  }
+}
+        ]]></code>
+    </test-code>
+</test-data>
diff --git a/pmd/rulesets/optimizations.xml b/pmd/rulesets/optimizations.xml
index f64d29caec..dad9cc5486 100644
--- a/pmd/rulesets/optimizations.xml
+++ b/pmd/rulesets/optimizations.xml
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ public class Foo {
    ]
    //StatementExpression[
     PrimaryExpression/PrimaryPrefix/Name[
-	 substring-before(@Image,'.add') = ancestor::MethodDeclaration//LocalVariableDeclaration[
+     substring-before(@Image,'.add') = ancestor::MethodDeclaration//LocalVariableDeclaration[
       ./Type//ClassOrInterfaceType[
        @Image = 'Collection' or 
        @Image = 'List' or @Image='ArrayList'
@@ -202,8 +202,11 @@ public class Foo {
     ]
    and
    PrimaryExpression/PrimarySuffix/Arguments/ArgumentList/Expression/PrimaryExpression/PrimaryPrefix/Name
-   [@Image = ancestor::MethodDeclaration//LocalVariableDeclaration
-   [@Array="true"]/VariableDeclarator/VariableDeclaratorId/@Image]
+   [
+     @Image = ancestor::MethodDeclaration//LocalVariableDeclaration[@Array="true"]/VariableDeclarator/VariableDeclaratorId/@Image
+     or
+     @Image = ancestor::MethodDeclaration//FormalParameter/VariableDeclaratorId/@Image
+   ]
    /../..[count(.//PrimarySuffix)
    =1]/PrimarySuffix/Expression/PrimaryExpression/PrimaryPrefix
    /Name
diff --git a/pmd/xdocs/credits.xml b/pmd/xdocs/credits.xml
index 9c40ce1117..b7fcfed358 100644
--- a/pmd/xdocs/credits.xml
+++ b/pmd/xdocs/credits.xml
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
         </subsection>
         <subsection name="Contributors">
           <ul>
-            <li>Andy Throgmorton - New XPath getCommentOn function, new rule DontCallThreadRun</li>
+            <li>Andy Throgmorton - New XPath getCommentOn function, new rule DontCallThreadRun, fix for rule UseArraysAsList</li>
             <li>Nicolas Dordet - Fixed an issue on CloseResource</li>
 	        <li>Juan Jesús García de Soria - Rework CPD algorithm</li>
             <li>Sergey Pariev - Fixed an ugly ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in CPD for Ruby</li>