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So, not about curly vs straight quotes, but about whether to use en-dash, em-dash, minus, or hyphens on Wikipedia. For example, what mark do you put in "Mexican
by DanBC 7y ago
So, not about curly vs straight quotes, but about whether to use en-dash, em-dash, minus, or hyphens on Wikipedia. For example, what mark do you put in "Mexican-American War"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mexican%E2%80%93American_War/Archive_3#Requested_move_(February_2011) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mexican%E2%80%93American_...
Here's a lengthy village pump discussion, with no outcome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_101#Hyphens_and_endashs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy...
Look at the word counts for some of the discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=dash&prefix=Wikipedia+talk%3AManual+of+Style%2F&fulltext=Search+archives&fulltext=Search&ns0=1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=dash&pre...
Some of these discussions end up on Arbcom which is pretty severe: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case&oldid=429209333#Hyphens_and_dashes https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitra...
It seems a lot of people do care, passionately, about the difference between "" and “”.