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In a message to several recent editors of Schiavo-related pages, I write that: Input is sought here: Talk:Government_involvement_in_the_Terri_Schiavo_case#Edit_War_between_me_and_User:Calton.

In addition, I want to comment on your recent edit here:

While I don't intend to overturn or revert your edit, I would like to note that (while you maybe did not intend to do so), what you did was unbalanced: To call the ACLU liberal might be a Loaded, judgmental term, but the ACLJ is called conservative just a few paragraphs down: "and the Schindlers, represented by the conservative American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), appealed..."

So, in your case, I would support either calling both of them by "loaded" terms -or neither one -but to call one or the other by such a descriptor is unbalanced, and possibly biased.

OK, enough of that: I seek input on the link in the top paragraph. Thanks in advance.--GordonWatts 15:33, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi,

(Sorry but I don't know how else to respond than to post to this page.) I totally see where you're coming from and I kinda figured I would be asked about this.

I guess the best way to apply a proper adjective would be if the mission statement of that organization, the founders, the board of directors or some other spokesperson from the group said they represented "liberal" or "conservative" interests only. I removed "liberal" before checking with the ACLJ's mission statement on their website to see if they identified themselves as "conservative," which was an oversight on my part. I think removing "conservative" as a description would be appropriate; people can click the links to the ACLU and ACLJ for more info. The thing that makes the "liberal" label not relevant to the ACLU is because they have taken the cases of all sorts of individuals and groups that themselves claim to be "conservative." "Liberal" implies that the ACLU's agenda is to promote generally-accepted "liberal" viewpoints and avoid taking on the cases of those who have a "conservative" message; that's clearly not the case.

Thanks for considering!

Brian

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"Poetic" phrasing

Based on your comments here a decade ago, you might find Section 14.1 of this link interesting: http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/appalachianenglish/node/796#14Prepositions — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.221.219.111 (talk) 01:05, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Punctuation inside quotes

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Regarding your edit to the page Pious fraud (diff), Wikipedia uses logical quotation – this means that punctuation always goes outside of quoted text unless it existed in the original. In this case, there is no comma in "the ends justify the means", and therefore the comma being outside of the quotation marks rather than inside was correct. Regards, DesertPipeline (talk) 12:04, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

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