User talk:Napy6565



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 * If you have a question that is not one of the frequently asked questions below, check out the Teahouse, [ ask me on my talk page], or click the button below. Happy editing and again, welcome! Rasnaboy (talk) 18:22, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

{{Hidden|style=width: 50%;|contentstyle=text-align: left;|1=How do I create citations?|2=#Do a search on Google or your preferred search engine for the subject of the Wikipedia article that you want to create a citation for. 
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Corrections within quotations
Hey! I hope you're well. I just reversed an edit of your to Cushitic languages and wanted to explain: You were correct that the word 'millenia' was a misspelling; however, this misspelling was taken from the print title of the article. (How did this escape journal editors?) For a citation, we should use the version that's actually in print, rather than the version that should have been in print.

I checked your edit history, & I see that you seem to have a project of tracking down common spelling mistakes & fixing them across multiple pages. Thank you! This is important work that, in the aggregate, improves the quality of the encyclopædia. However, I noticed that one early change was a stylistic fix to directly quoted material. I also reverted this edit: We should leave quotations as they appear in the original source. One can always use indirect quotations ('so-&-so said that X' rather than 'so-&-so said X') to avoid repeating source spelling or punctuation errors. But if the quotation is direct, we can't silently fix it.

Thank you again for work that improves this place! Pathawi (talk) 00:29, 20 June 2021 (UTC)