User talk:37.168.64.70

hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes
Maybe I'm just old and blind, but it looks like your "em dash to en dash" corrections are inappropriate changes of en dashes to hyphens.

Em dash: When Harry Truman—who had defeated Merrill Dewey—was in his second term...

En dash: Harry Truman (April 1945–January 1953) was president...

Hyphen: Harry Truman was a two-term president.

I readily acknowledge I need new glasses and am a punctuation nutjob. But this is such a fine point of typography and you clearly mean well, but your changes look so odd to me, that I wanted to bring it up. Bear with me! In "notable alumni" lists there should be unspaced em dashes: "J.D. Lima—Wikipedia editor"; preferably not "J.D. Lima – Wikipedia editor", IMHO, but never "J.D. Lima - Wikipedia editor".

In MS Word you can make an en dash with Ctrl-the minus sign on the calculator keypad. On your iPhone you just hold the hyphen down to make all the choices come up; in desktop Wikipedia you have to click the omega button to get symbol options. Blaarrgh! But we are fighting the good fight every time we do it right!

Thank you for helping out with the encyclopedia! -  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  21:11, 30 July 2023 (UTC)