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Typographic vs ASCII punctuation in policies
[edit]- Voting on: Whether to use typographic or ASCII punctuation in policy pages such as WT:CFI and WT:ELE. This includes using typographic apostrophes ( ’ ) vs ASCII apostrophes ( ' ), typographic quotation marks ( ‘ ’ ) vs ASCII apostrophes ( ' ' ), and typographic quotation marks ( “ ” ) vs ASCII quotation marks ( " " ). This vote does not concern en dashes ( – ), em dashes ( — ), hyphens ( - ), and doubled hyphens ( -- ).
- Vote starts: 00:01, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
- Vote ends: 23:59, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
- Vote created: Dan Polansky (talk) 20:18, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
- Discussion:
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I prefer ASCII over typographic
[edit]- Support - I don't even know how to type in "Typographic" SemperBlotto (talk) 17:49, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
- w:Quotation_marks#Typing_quotation_marks_on_a_computer_keyboard. —Michael Z. 2013-03-07 23:06 z
- I'm not sure what "Voting on: Whether to use typographic or ASCII punctuation in policy pages" means, but I prefer old-fashioned 7-bit quotation marks and apostrophes over the other style, which is what this section indicates I'm choosing.—msh210℠ (talk) 03:45, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
- Support Additionally although it's far less frequent these days some computers still don't support the typographic ones. Not to mention, I prefer the old-fashioned ones too. --Neskaya … gawonisgv? 22:18, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
- Support —Internoob 23:18, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
- Support -- Liliana • 21:49, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
- Support — This unsigned comment was added by Mglovesfun (talk • contribs). [1]
I prefer typographic over ASCII
[edit]- Support I guess. There’s a substantial difference between “whether to use” and “I prefer,” and it’s unclear what the result of this vote means. I certainly wouldn’t support this if it means anyone is prevented from making edits with only the characters available on their keyboard. —Michael Z. 2013-02-24 17:47 z
- Support. — Ungoliant (Falai) 18:30, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
- Support. It's not that hard to enter these punctuation, and even less hard to leave them alone when someone else makes the change.--Prosfilaes (talk) 07:24, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
- Support Ƿidsiþ 08:07, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
- Support --Vahag (talk) 08:41, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
- Support —Stephen (Talk) 06:34, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
Oppose this vote
[edit]Abstain
[edit]Decision
[edit]By a vote of 6–6–0, I both prefer ASCII over typographic and prefer typographic over ASCII.—msh210℠ (talk) 07:30, 4 April 2013 (UTC)