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+ | |I believe we had a similar problem with the years preceding 0 DR, where several of the years were using — (long dash) instead of - (dash). Fw190a8 resolved it by changing them all to the standard dash. I believe the same should be true of the apostrophe/right quotes problem; the apostrophe is more common (and is found more often on keyboards) than the right quote. |
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+ | |'''[[User:Cronje|Cronje]]''' <sup>([[User talk:Cronje|talk]] ⋅ [[Special:Contributions/Cronje|contribs]])</sup> 19:00, January 10, 2012 (UTC)}} |
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+ | |The main reason I'm asking this is because I discovered [[User:Niirfa-sa|Niirfa-sa]] had renamed a few pages the other way back in 2009. See the history of [[Player’s Guide to Faerûn]] for example. Is it possible to undo a page rename even if other edits have happened since then? |
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+ | |[[User:Moviesign|Moviesign]] 19:39, January 10, 2012 (UTC)}} |
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+ | |Cronje's quite right. Although it would be more grammatically correct to use en dash, em dash and inverted comma characters, nobody has these on the keyboard. We should therefore use the most appropriate keyboard keys such as straight apostrophe and the hyphen character. |
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+ | As an aside, we ought to have a policy to make the use of standard keyboard characters official. |
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+ | As another aside, you should be using the û character in Faerûn which is easy to type or to copy/paste from somewhere. We have redirects in place for when people search for Faerun without the special character! ;) |
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+ | |[[User:Fw190a8]] 23:33, January 10, 2012 (UTC) |
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+ | |I have been fixing apostrophes to the straight version... just thought I would bump this... glad FW approves, because I've gone medieval of these buggers :) |
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+ | |[[User:Darkwynters|Darkwynters]] ([[User talk:Darkwynters|talk]]) 19:23, March 20, 2013 (UTC)}} |
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+ | |Bumping this for ESM :) |
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+ | |—[[User:Moviesign|Moviesign]] ([[User talk:Moviesign|talk]]) 20:42, January 2, 2014 (UTC)}} |
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Try this: Type "Player" (without the quotes) into the main search box at the top of any wiki page and wait to see how many titles it suggests. Then type the apostrophy on your keyboard, making the search term "Player'" and see how many titles disappear from the suggestion list. I think this will happen regardless of which brand of computer you use, but I don't have my MacBook handy to try it.
I propose using the 7-bit ASCII apostrophy (Unicode U+0027 -'-) for all plurals and possessives in article titles so that searching will always return the correct results. The right quote is really intended to be paired with the left quote around a passage of text.
What do you think, sirs?
Pages can be moved back over the top of previously moved pages, even if there have been subsequent edits.
As an aside, we ought to have a policy to make the use of standard keyboard characters official.
As another aside, you should be using the û character in Faerûn which is easy to type or to copy/paste from somewhere. We have redirects in place for when people search for Faerun without the special character! ;)