User talk:Lofthouse
Hi Lofthouse
Sorry for not responding to your email, but I can't read what's on there. Please continue with the edits, and hopefully, you'll be a pioneer for more to come.--Teh Ping 08:17, 16 December 2011 (CST)
Punctuation
The standard on web (ie: soft copy) is to use typewriter quotes. The standard on paper (ie: hard copy) is to use curly quotes. Just thought I'd let you know. Besides curly quotes takes up more storage than typewriter quotes which leads to delays in loading. Check for yourself. Zero2001 - Talk - 06:36, 15 May 2012 (CDT)
Actually both types are considered correct in English but the main reason websites use typewriter quotes is because of the reduction in size. Which leads to faster loading. So I hope you would stop changing all the quotes I changed to typewriter. It took a long while back then. Now though thanks to Foxreplace I can correct it in a flash. Zero2001 - Talk - 06:44, 15 May 2012 (CDT)
So I apologize but I'll be changing them back. Rest assured though that your other edits will be untouched. Zero2001 - Talk - 06:46, 15 May 2012 (CDT)
In case you think I am wrong. Please read these two articles [1] and [2]. And Note that Baka-Tsuki uses Media-wiki thus Wikipedia Manual of Style applies for optimal style of editing. I quote from these two articles:
- First Link, second paragraph: Quotation marks are written as a pair of opening and closing marks in either of two styles: single (‘…’) or double (“…”). Opening and closing quotation marks may be identical in form (called neutral, vertical, straight, typewriter or "dumb" quotation marks), or may be distinctly left-handed and right-handed (typographic or, colloquially, curly quotation marks); see quotation mark glyphs for details.
- Second Link: Under Quotation Marks heading there is a subheading Quotation characters: Do not use grave and acute accents or backticks (`text´) as quotation marks (or as apostrophes). There are two possible methods for rendering quotation marks at Wikipedia (that is, the glyphs, displayed with emphasis here, for clarity): Typewriter or straight style: "text", 'text'. Recommended at Wikipedia. Typographic or curly style: “text”, ‘text’. Not recommended at Wikipedia.
Since both are correct english-wise and yet the typewriter quotes are recommended on sites using mediawiki plus they take lesser space on the web, thus they are the optimal choice. Once again I humbly apologize and hope for your understanding. Zero2001 - Talk - 07:05, 15 May 2012 (CDT)
Fair enough, the 66 99 quotation mark edits only took max 5 minutes with my cheap programs, i'm sure you could undo them even quicker, but can Foxreplace take intersecting quotation marks into account? Lofthouse 10:10, 15 May 2012 (CDT)
Intersecting? Please explain, I've never heard of Intersecting Quotation marks before and can't find any reference on the net. BTW I've already changed the curly quotation marks to typewriter ones. All I had to do was set FoxReplace to auto-replace on load (I have already set it to replace all curly quotes, single and double as well as other punctuation, see my talk page for more details). Then hit the edit tab and submit. Easy-peasy. As for which pages I had to do them to I could find out from your contributions page. Some of the translators use MS Word to write the translations and you know that changes the quote marks to curly. At first it was a real headache to use the search and replace function manually but thanks to Firefox's FoxReplace it's easy now. If there is anything you want to know feel free to ask. And once again thank you for understanding. Not many do that. Zero2001 - Talk - 11:07, 15 May 2012 (CDT)
And what were all the ZERO lines about? Unfortunately I'm not from Australia. And I'm pretty sure we use US and UK standard here, either or both are fine, no problem. Zero2001 - Talk - 11:13, 15 May 2012 (CDT)
