User talk:Ctrl-Alt-Dimension

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Peacock text

I saw that you reverted my most recent edit due to it being a "strange insertion of peacock text"...I've been on Wikipedia for quite while and I've never heard that phrase used in an edit summary. What is "peacock text", exactly? – Swid ^{(talk | edits)} 21:42, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Swid,

Peacock terms “merely show off the subject of the article without imparting real information.” More information can be found at WP:PEACOCK. Additionally, I felt the facts you mentioned didn't really seem relevant to the article in question, and the formatting was strange. It looked like a blockquote or something. Ragdoll 16:03, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, my curiosity is *really* getting the better of me here...compare the Lincoln article before and after I edited it yesterday afternoon: http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Lincoln%2C_Nebraska&diff=53922230&oldid=53884203 What, exactly, did I do to "show off the subject of the article without imparting real information"? I didn't add any wording to the text in those edits that I would consider to be a vague insistence on the topic's importance. This is important to me, but many of the contributions I make in Wikipedia are to give articles a more professional tone through correct grammar and phrasing.

On a completely unrelated note, I see that you work for the National Arbor Day Foundation...do you live in or near Lincoln? – Swid ^{(talk | edits)} 17:17, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now this is really strange. I remember an addition about a park being pretty, but I don't remember any of the changes Wikipedia is showing you had made. Maybe there was a bug in the system? My apologies. All of your changes seem to be relevant and look quite good. Feel free to revert your changes back. Sorry for the inconvenience.

And yes, I do live in Lincoln, rather close to the downtown area.

EDIT: I've made the reversion myself. Ragdoll 17:30, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Curly quotes

In the article All your base are belong to us, I noticed that you replaced all the standard "straight quotes" with "curly quotes" in the References in popular culture section. Can I ask why? I can't think of any reason to replace characters that one can easily enter on a standard keyboard with the more challenging "curly quotes". They also do not conform with the quotes in the rest of the article, which you did not alter. --JerryOrr 18:26, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I only altered the one section, because that happened to be the section I was working on at the time. Typographically speaking, curly quotes look nicer, and are easier to read. I figure if the option is there, I'll take the time to use them.Ragdoll 18:39, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, I dug around to see if there were any applicable policies our guidelines for the use of "curly quotes". You may be interested to read WP:STYLE#Look_of_quotation_marks_and_apostrophes. It does say that straight and curly quotes are both acceptable, though it seems to imply a preference for straight quotes. Just thought you might be interested to see it... it really doesn't much matter to me either way. --JerryOrr 01:07, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]