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"God Save the Queen" should be "God Save the King" under History

Apologies if I'm not doing this properly (don't edit Wikipedia much).

Under the section "History" there is a paragraph discussing King George VI and King Edward remained standing during O Canada. After that, there is a line about "God Save the Queen" normally being played in Toronto, I believe this should be changed to "God Save the King", as that would have been the version used at this time under King George VI.

I am unable to edit this myself since it is a protected article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.138.220.65 (talk) 21:14, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The two sentences are completely separate thoughts, but I attempted to make it more coherent. Walter Görlitz (talk) 03:51, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Any French quotation marks should be changed to <<and>>

I apologize in advance if this is not properly formatted, I'm in the bushes about Wikipedia.

In French, quotation marks are replaced with "les guillemets", and any French writing should follow the rule, or it would be grammatically incorrect. For example, under History, "Pour le Christ et le roi!" (English quotation marks are fine here because the paragraph is not written in French but quoting French words) is quoted like it is here. However, since the entire lyrics of the song is written in French, meaning it is a truly written in thee French language and should follow the grammatical rules of the French language.

This would mean changing "Pour le Christ et le roi!" to <<Pour le Christ et le roi!>>

PoliceClarity (talk) 14:40, 6 June 23 2021 (UTC)

@PoliceClarity: MOS:QUOTEMARKS makes it clear that they should only be used when internal to an English text. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:10, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@PoliceClarity: Your assessment is exactly right. A French quotation within a French text should use guillemets. I have made the change. Indefatigable (talk) 00:39, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]