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WP:LQ in quote

@David Eppstein: re: this edit: the period is present at that exact position in the source, so per WP:LQ, shouldn't it stay inside the quotation marks here? Armadillopteryx^talk 01:15, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

We are quoting only a fragment of the sentence from the source, not the whole sentence. It doesn't make sense to include the period as part of the fragment that we quote, because we are not quoting a whole sentence. Consider a thought experiment: suppose that the sentence containing the quote continued after the quote, with another phrase separated by a comma, instead of stopping. Would we include the period as part of the quote in that case? No? Then we shouldn't think of the period as being part of the quote in this case either. Therefore, the period at the end of the actual sentence (the sentence in which the quote is embedded) is not part of the quote and per LQ should be outside the quotation marks. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:33, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that's perfectly logical. Apparently I misremembered the wording of WP:LQ, but after rereading I agree with you. Thanks. Armadillopteryx^talk 15:31, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]