User talk:KRoosaHou

September 2024

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in Writing, disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. TheWikiToby (talk) 19:41, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! I didn't see the manual of Style. My apologies! I'll look at it and be sure my students know to look at it as well, since they will be editing some articles as part ofmy class. Thanks again for pointing this out! KRoosaHou (talk) 19:44, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Could you help me be sure I understand the MOS regarding the edit I made?

This was the sentence: The outcome of this activity, also called "writing," and sometimes a "text" is a series of physically inscribed, mechanically transferred, or digitally represented symbols. The interpreter or activator of a text is called a "reader."

I put the comma here: ..."writing," and this seems to me to be correct since "writing" is not a wikilink (blue underlined) here. However, it is the title of the page. Therefore do we use the guidance saying that "Internal links (wikilinks) accompanied by quotation marks should usually have the quotes outside the link."?

I see that the comma belongs outside the word "texts" based on that guidance.

The period that I put at the end of this sentence after reader would seem to be in the same situation, even though it is not a wikilink, correct?

Or is there some other reason?

Thanks! KRoosaHou (talk) 20:10, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Sorry for the late response! Saw this a while ago while I was busy and completely forgot to come back to this.

I'm specifically referring to MOS:LQ. When quoting something that someone has said, you keep the punctuation inside of the quotation marks. E.g., "My favorite color is blue!"

However, if you were to use quotation marks on something that isn't supposed to be an actual quote, you keep the punctuation outside the quotation marks. This makes it clear to the reader that the stated phrase isn't actually a quote and that the quotation marks are used for some other purpose.

I hope this clears it up. TheWikiToby (talk) 23:49, 28 September 2024 (UTC)