User talk:FMichael-reader

Oradour-sur-Glane
It was I who removed the bolding from the statement, please do not restore it. Unless the bold is in the direct quote, you are not allowed to add it, because doing so is an editorial comment, and we do not allow that. (See WP:NPOV) Report quotes exactly as they were originally presented, except you may leave out material using ellipses, as usual. But no bolding, even with "emphasis added". Thanks. BMK (talk) 04:14, 6 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I got it: even if I didn't figure out that I was looking at real-time editing until it became painfully obvious. It's funny, a few years ago I retired as an attorney in the U.S., because of a debilitating pain condition, and as much time as I now spend on online - including still reading quite a few court opinions the day they're issued - I hadn't signed up for a Wikipedia name until yesterday, and then it was because I was so struck by all matters Oradour-sur-Glane, of which I had heretofore known relatively little.


 * In my experience, one of the most narrowly prescribed form of written communication is that used in judicial submissions. And while I am unfamiliar with practice before courts in the United Kingdom or elsewhere in the Commonwealth, in and before the U.S. Supreme Court, the use of "{Emphasis added]" has always been acceptable (even in the Court's opinions) so I was surprised by Wikipedia's policy: to the point that it hadn't occurred to me that it could be an issue. However, I will respect it going forward.


 * Thus leaving the problem of how to set off quotations so that the exact text is not lost on the someone skimming the article. Typically, I would use indentation and never worry about highlighting or italicizing the text, except that I couldn't find that as an available option. But having gotten your post, I went to Wikipedia's articles on a handful of prominent poets, hoping to open the "Edit" function without changing anything in an article as such, but getting a good look at the coding necessary to indent in the first place. And once more in this life, I may have found my footing in the spare lines of T.S. Eliot, or more specifically "Wikipedia: T.S. Eliot" :


 * The Hollow Men contains some of Eliot's most famous lines, notably its conclusion: "This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper."


 * But that (finally) leads me to my question:


 * • If the use of the blockquote and related commands are as easy as they appear, why aren't they (more prominently) displayed on the toolbar menu?


 * Thank you for your assistance.


 * FMichael-reader (talk) 07:20, 6 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I don't really know why. I've been around so long I don't rely on the editing menu much, I do pretty much everything by hand. I undid your blockquote, incidentally (before I read this) - the quote just isn't long enough tp justify iot.  Blocvkquote should at least have two lines, three would be better.  Also, if you do use blockquote in the future, there's no need to use quotation marks as well. Best, BMK (talk) 10:13, 6 June 2014 (UTC)