Talk:Joseph Wolf

Period may belong may possibly belong in quotation marks

In the London section, the second picture, of a cartoon by Wolf, has the caption containing the quote "[h]ighly learned makes a fool," with the period on the outside of the quotation marks, and the first letter of "[h]ighly" capitalized. Going by the Manual of Style section on typographic conformity in quotations, it seems to me that that the period should go on the inside, since "[h]ighly" is capitalized, implying that the full sentence is being quoted. Unfortunately, the inscription in the cartoon depicted is illegible to me (and possibly in German, Latin, or another language I don't know). Could anybody please tell me if I'm right or wrong about this?

(Edit: The third sentence should have been written more to the effect of the following: "Unfortunately, the inscription that the caption box quotes in the cartoon depicted is illegible to me (and possibly in German, Latin, or another language I don't know), so I don't know which way it should be quoted." Sorry about that, and the fact that the edited sentence has "I don't know" twice. I'm also uncertain if the quoted sentence should have used brackets instead of parentheses, given that this whole edit is a parenthetical. Sorry if I made the wrong decision.)

(Edit: Normally I wouldn't apologize over a strikethrough, but since it was in the title of this section, I had to apologize this time. I was reverting it back to my originally intended title.)

(Edit: Split edits into separate paragraphs, on advice gained at the help desk. Sorry not to do that earlier.)--Thylacine24 (talk) 03:27, 3 August 2020 (UTC)