User talk:Goodtiming8871/Cheatsheet

Recommendation from the experienced user

Please refer to another version: I rephrased the previous text below.

Japanese Newspaper quoted the remark of Cheong Seong-chang, vice president of research planning at the Sejong Institute in South Korea.

After the first Trump-Kim summit, for 260 days, they did not waste their timeliness. Instead, they continuously finalized their negotiation strategies for the two leader’s agreement and terms for the next step to be discussed on the second Trump-Kim summit. Goodtiming8871 (talk) 23:55, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Yes, you got the drift of my obscure comment, thank you. However, when you are WP:QUOTEing something, use actual quotemarks to clearly separate what is quote from what is not.

Also, (here's the source) "Japanese Newspaper quoted the remark of Cheong Seong-chang" is not that good, "A Japanese newspaper quoted the remarks of Cheong Seong-chang" is better, but still not good. "The Japan Times quoted the remarks of Cheong Seong-chang" is better still, on WP one newspaper is often not as good (as a source) as another.

BUT. There is AFAICT no reason to doubt The Japan Times when they say that Cheong Seong-chang said this, so there is no reason to mention the paper in-text, the inline citation is enough, like so:

Cheong Seong-chang, vice president of research planning at the Sejong Institute in South Korea, said that "After the first Trump-Kim summit, for 260 days, they did not waste their timeliness. Instead, they continuously finalized their negotiation strategies for the two leader’s agreement and terms for the next step to be discussed on the second Trump-Kim summit."

There is one more improvement that can be made here. The Japan Times tells us (discreetly) that this article is actually the work of BLOOMBERG, so it is better to use that [1] article as source instead (some WP-thoughts on BLOOMBERG can be found at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources). Which makes "Japanese Newspaper quoted" a little misleading, if true. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:36, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

And one can of course think about if it is better to use some sort of paraphrase instead of a direct quote, that is more grey-area. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:36, 25 February 2019 (UTC)