User talk:Mark R Johnson

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Again, welcome! -- billinghurst sDrewth 22:22, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Annotating speeches

We don't annotate our works. Rather, we present them as the source has them. If you find that our copy differs from its source document, you should correct it to resemble the original. But we do not "correct" copies of works or insert text that was not present in the original. Always compare against the original, not what you think it ought to say. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:34, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the notice; I understand the policy now. I was trying to read it and was distracted by the incorrect transcription of dashes as hyphens, which makes the text difficult to understand. I have re-attempted my edit to address only the punctuation distinction. (Also I had accidentally submitted my first edit when I wasn’t finished! So I’m glad that was rolled back.) Mark R Johnson (talk) 21:03, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

But the original uses hyphens, not dashes. We always compare against the original. There are only a few exceptions we make, such as using single spaces after full stops, and eliminating spaces before colons. Always compare against the original, which is linked from the work's Talk page. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:12, 9 May 2018 (UTC)