Hamaryns

Apostrophes

Hello there. Is your editing of various articles to use curved apostrophes and quotemarks the result of a policy discussion somewhere? WP:MOS discourages it, saying that "the exclusive use of straight quotes and apostrophes is recommended", for ease of editing and searching. --McGeddon (talk) 12:04, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

No. I have to admit that I didn’t read WP:MOS before, since I am mainly active on Wiktionary and only occasionally fix typos on WP. If the quote sign changes are really unwanted, I will stop doing it, but note my remark on the talk page of MoS. H. (talk) 12:12, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Hamaryns. Please don't change typewriter quotes to curly quotes, as you did here:

• "The exclusive use of straight quotes and apostrophes is recommended." [1]
• "When either of two styles are acceptable it is inappropriate for a Wikipedia editor to change from one style to another unless there is some substantial reason for the change." [2]

chocolateboy (talk) 12:39, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Chocolateboy. As you might have seen, I think that is a very unfortunate decision, but I will follow it. Ah, the many disadvantages of democracy! H. (talk) 14:42, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

quote position

I know it's common in many european countries to put commas outside of quotes, but this isn't standard english convention (there isn't one, in this case). Changing whole articles to your preference is only going to cause trouble. ALSO, on Veganism you elected to change the positions inside of citations which is obviously incorrect. Basically, don't do this. Kellen^T 12:58, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

See the discussion above and Wikipedia:MOS#Quotation_marks. H. (talk) 13:02, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough, it's still wrong to change the format of the quote-comma-combinations inside of the quote parameter to citation templates. Kellen^T 13:45, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Is it? H. (talk) 12:42, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

You're gonna argue about that? It's a citation, the quote from the citation should represent what was in the original source, and shouldn't be modified just to fit your (or anybody else's) stylistic preferences. Kellen^T 14:04, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

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