User talk:J. Clef
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bodnotbod (talk) 09:19, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Apostrophes
[edit]Hello, J. Clef.
Noticing this edit, I checked the English Wikipedia's manual of style and found WP:Manual of Style#Apostrophes, where it explicitly says the opposite of what you were doing: Use straight apostrophes ('), not curly apostrophes (’).[a] Do not use accent marks or backticks (`) as apostrophes.
Kind regards from PJvanMill)talk( 17:25, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
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- ^ Curly quotation marks and apostrophes are deprecated on the English Wikipedia because:
- Consistency keeps searches predictable. Though most browsers do not distinguish between curly and straight marks, Internet Explorer still does (as of 2016[update]), so that a search for Alzheimer's disease will fail to find Alzheimer’s disease and vice versa.
- Straight quotation marks and apostrophes are easier to type reliably on most platforms.
- @PJvanMill: Oh my… I'm really sorry. I must admit, I purely and simply imported the rule from the French-speaking Wikipedia, assuming it was also a thing here. It made sense to me because I thought using curved apostrophes helped bots distinguish between the groups of apostrophes for italics and bold and the actual apostrophes in the text. But that was an assumption and it was unwise.
- Thanks a lot for checking the guidelines and sorry for the trouble. I'll bear this in mind from now on. J. Clef (talk) 16:15, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
- I see. It can be quite confusing, how there are a lot of differences between the various Wikipedias. Always better to check. Thanks for responding & bearing it in mind. Kind regards from PJvanMill)talk( 17:22, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
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