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::::Give me a break. The malcontents had their say many years ago and lost—thank goodness. Now we can return to writing a professional-standard encyclopedia. If you're too lazy to click on the dash button at the bottom of the edit-box, <u>don't edit</u>. [[User:Tony1|<b style="color:darkgreen">Tony</b>]] [[User talk:Tony1|<span style="color:darkgreen">(talk)</span>]] 09:09, 5 October 2018 (UTC) |
::::Give me a break. The malcontents had their say many years ago and lost—thank goodness. Now we can return to writing a professional-standard encyclopedia. If you're too lazy to click on the dash button at the bottom of the edit-box, <u>don't edit</u>. [[User:Tony1|<b style="color:darkgreen">Tony</b>]] [[User talk:Tony1|<span style="color:darkgreen">(talk)</span>]] 09:09, 5 October 2018 (UTC) |
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:::::I'm trying very hard to give you a break. But you're refusing to answer a simple question. In so doing you're risking all the malcontents and lazy people changing the consensus so that we no longer have a professional-standard encyclopedia because we accept football scores written "3-0". --[[User:Dweller|Dweller]] ([[User talk:Dweller|talk]]) <small>Become [[Wikipedia:Old Fashioned Wikipedian Values|old fashioned!]]</small> 09:14, 5 October 2018 (UTC) |
:::::I'm trying very hard to give you a break. But you're refusing to answer a simple question. In so doing you're risking all the malcontents and lazy people changing the consensus so that we no longer have a professional-standard encyclopedia because we accept football scores written "3-0". --[[User:Dweller|Dweller]] ([[User talk:Dweller|talk]]) <small>Become [[Wikipedia:Old Fashioned Wikipedian Values|old fashioned!]]</small> 09:14, 5 October 2018 (UTC) |
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The reason Wikipedia distinguishes between hyphens, en-dashes, em-dashes and minus signs is because that's what all professional publishers do, and have done for centuries. It's a very well established convention. So we do it to make our encyclopedia look professional rather than amateur. And has been said several times before, it's not the end of the world if a few editors don't follow the style guide because someone else will come along and fix it later. Professional publishing companies employ proof readers and copy editors to make these sort of adjustments to authors' texts. --<span style="box-shadow:2px 2px 6px #999">[[User:Dr Greg|<b style="color:#FFF8C0;background:#494"> Dr Greg </b>]][[User talk:Dr Greg|<span style="color:#494;background:#FFF8C0"> <small>talk</small> </span>]]</span> 21:04, 5 October 2018 (UTC) |
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== The ''real'' comma wars == |
== The ''real'' comma wars == |
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