User talk:94.21.111.192

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Please stop making these edits Stríðsdrengur (talk) 15:51, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Please stop making these reverts. You don't know what you're doing. 94.21.111.192 15:53, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

@Stríðsdrengur Just so you know: changing apostrophes to curly single quotes is revertable when it's in headwords, entry names or references to entry names such as links, inflection table items, etc. That's because we don't use curly quotes in entry names in order to avoid duplication and because of the difficulty for those who don't have an easy way to type them. Changing them in text such as quotes or usage examples is unnecessary fussiness, but reverting those changes is probably unnecessary fussiness, as well. Chuck Entz (talk) 16:29, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

@Chuck Entz Thank you, I needed backing up! (By the way, I didn't start changing them, another user have. I don't care either way, but they ought to be consistent, so I'm just following suit with established custom.) 94.21.111.192 16:38, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

"Established custom" at Wiktionary is to use apostrophes everywhere. Not that it's a big deal either way (except in the places I mentioned). Chuck Entz (talk) 16:42, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

@Chuck Entz Well, I'm really at my wit's end then. I added these quotes waaay back, years ago. Adam78 started changing them to typographic apostrophes and quotes, at least the ones he randomly came across. So should I now revert all to apostrophes and dumb quotes? I mean, I know this is probably not the most pressing matter, sorry. 94.21.111.192 16:50, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

The answer to your question is already given above: "reverting those changes is probably unnecessary fussiness, as well". Adam78 (talk) 17:19, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

@Adam78 Ahh, you mean just like hypercorrecting a fellow editor was in the first place? Sorry for trying to clean up the mess you left. 94.21.111.192 18:06, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Did you even read what Chuck Entz wrote above? "changing apostrophes to curly single quotes is revertable when it's in headwords, entry names or references to entry names such as links, inflection table items, etc. That's because we don't use curly quotes in entry names in order to avoid duplication and because of the difficulty for those who don't have an easy way to type them." In other words, these are the only instances where they matter. Outside of them, people can do either way, so there's no "mess". Outside of the above-mentioned cases, I will still use curly quotes if I've already opened an article for editing, but I won't start a crusade against typewriter quotes. That's what I suggest to you too. Adam78 (talk) 20:15, 4 February 2024 (UTC)