MediaWiki talk:Punctuation

Serious question: putting aside for a moment the commonly debated issue of the suitability of certain characters for this page, is the concept of this message really useful at all?

If it is useful, I think we need to seriously review its contents, because some of these really can't be considered punctuation (strongest case: the underscore; next strongest: all the mathematical operators) and several actual punctuation marks are missing (notably, various dashes). —Muke Tever 07:57, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * I quite agree - I have raised these points on the talk pages for one of the punctuation marks (colon or semicolon, I think). It needs to be updated at least; my suggestion would be to scrap it completely or to replace it with an editable table (how do you edit msg:xxx's anyway?). -- Paul G 08:38, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * To edit a msg:xxx you go to MediaWiki:xxx. For example to edit msg:punctuation, you edit MediaWiki:Punctuation, and this will affect all pages that list msg:punctuation.  (However if a page uses subst:punctuation, it will not.)  Please feel free to do so (I don't feel qualified enough for this page). —Muke Tever 08:42, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)