User talk:Cnilep/Archive/01 January 2014

Thank you for noting my error
Thanks for your note with this edit. I missed that the text I corrected was in a quote and appreciate you fixing it. I was surprised though that you did not change back to the original text which I had changed. It originally read "developed by the 4th c. A.D., as an inviolate". I changed it in error to "developed by the 4th century CE, as an inviolate". Then you changed it to "developed by the 4th [century CE], as an inviolate". Shouldn't it have gone back to the first usage as it is at http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/linguistics.html ? SchreiberBike talk 05:17, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I guess it depends on how inviolate we want to hold Harris's text . Per MOS:QUOTE, typography can be changed, and wording in square brackets can be added if the quoted portion is not understandable on its own. I went back and fourth on whether this is stylistic change, added explanation, or unacceptable change, and ultimately chose what I think is a middle ground. Cnilep (talk) 05:32, 30 December 2013 (UTC)


 * I guess that makes sense then. Keep up the good work. SchreiberBike talk 05:57, 30 December 2013 (UTC)