User talk:Tobias Schmidbauer

Apostrophes

I generally think that unicode characters should not be used in the titles of articles, basically. Most people don't type in unicode, particularly myself when I type in the URL for an article directly instead of using the search bar. I know there's always the redirect, but I dislike seeing that (redirected from) line under the article name, like it's chastising me for typing in the title wrong or something. :) Anyway, yeah, basically I don't think unicode should be used in article titles, and I don't even think unicode quotes should be used in article text. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 11:13, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tobias, according to WP:PUNC, "the exclusive use of straight quotes and apostrophes is recommended" in Wikipedia, which means giving it as a typewriter apostrophe ( ' ) rather than a typographic apostrophe ( ’ ). This goes for both text and titles of Wikipedia articles (for some examples, see D'Artagnan, D'Hondt method and Tess of the d'Urbervilles). This guideline is probably due to functional considerations taking precedence over aesthetic ones: Everybody can type a "straight" apostrophe directly on their keyboard whereas the "curly" one is not immediately accessible to most people. (And by adopting the simple, typewriter kind of apostrophe as a common standard, Wikipedia avoids a lot of errors where editors striving to make typographic apostrophes accidentally put a ‘ or a grave or acute accent instead). For the sake of general consistency in Wikipedia, I kindly ask you to follow the guideline and refrain from moving articles from titles with typewriter apostrophes to titles with typographic ones. --Cheers, Bwiki (talk) 22:10, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bwiki, thanks for pointing this out to me. I agree with you that it makes no sense to move articles as long as it is discouraged by the guidlines and I will therefore stop moving articles only to change apostrophes. But I think that the arguments for having straight apostrophes in article titles are very weak. For example, you said that the curly apostrophe is not immediately accessible to many people. This is right and I therefore am against using curly apostrophes in article text. But I don't think this applies to article titles, since titles don't change very often. --Tobias Schmidbauer 15:27, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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