Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-09-08/Dispatches 2

Latest comment: 16 years ago by Pmanderson

The advice to use templates for multiple quotation marks was toned down within a day: it now reads.

When a quotation includes another quotation (and so on), start with double-quotes outermost and working inward, alternate single-quotes with double-quotes. For example, the following three-level quotation: "She disputed his statement that 'Voltaire never said "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."'" Adjacent quote marks, as at the end of this example, can be difficult to read (e.g.: "'") unless kerned apart slightly with CSS; the {{" '}}, {{' "}} and {{" ' "}} templates will accomplish this; the example above is output by ...your right to say it.{{" ' "}} in edit space. Extraneous normal or non-breaking space ( ) characters between the quotation marks should not be used; Wikipedia presents quotations, character for character, exactly as in the original.

Please emend. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 19:26, 17 September 2008 (UTC)Reply