BKitteh

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Punctuation

Please take a few minutes to read MOS:INOROUT. Wikipedia style is to place punctuation (such as a comma, or period) outside of quotation marks except in a few instances. Your recent edits to William Desmond Taylor were incorrect. Hope this helps you with future edits! Schazjmd (talk) 22:35, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

@Schazjmd Thanks for letting me know. Punctuation outside quotation marks is not correct according to most American English style books/conventions/grammar checkers currently in use. Combine this with teaching post-secondary English and side-gigging as an editor/copy-editor for over 40 years and you can see how this ➡️ "xxxxx". would drive me crazy.

Thanks for directing me to the place where this aspect of Wikipedia atyle is discussed. I'm eager to see what is said.

Thanks again for contacting me,

CR Lenz-Hackett

BTW, the Wikipedia editor also corrects to punctuation inside quotation marks. Perhaps my correcting this so often has impacted the algorithm(s) in the version I get when editing? BKitteh (talk) 22:42, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

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@Paris1127 Thank you so much! This really made my day. I've never received a WikiCake before (didn't know it existed), so I feel both quite pleased with myself and more informed than I was 30 mins. ago. Thanks again 😁 BKitteh (talk) 18:49, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Revert

Hi @BKitteh,

I reverted your edit. Please read Wikipedia:Naming conventions (definite or indefinite article at beginning of name) to better understand why your edit was reverted. WP:NC-UNI also has a useful guide which was created by members of the WikiProject Higher education community. There are a lot of things which makes Wikipedia unique and our style guides don't defer to a university's style guide. Good luck! Wozal (talk) 23:42, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

@Wozal @Wozal

While I appreciate the importance of style guides, having been an English teacher and print editor for four decades, the school's official and legal name is, in fact, The Ohio State University, as specified by the Ohio state legislature. This has always quietly annoyed me because it doesn't abide by the article usage conventions of American English. Add that to the fact that I abhor JD Vance, my being a childless cat lady and all, and I find myself in the unenviable position of explaining yet again something (and by association, someone) not worth a rat's...... behind.

Thanks for notifying me of the reversion and have a good weekend,

bKitteh

(And yes, I'm aware that my user name flouts American English capitalization conventions, but there it is.)

https://Osu.edu

https://library.osu.edu/archives/faq#:~:text=The%20change%20from%20simply%20%22OSU,University%20and%20Oklahoma%20State%20University

Ohio State University BKitteh (talk) 15:01, 4 October 2024 (UTC)