Wiktionary:Votes/2013-02/Typographic vs ASCII punctuation in policies

Typographic vs ASCII punctuation in policies

 * Voting on: Whether to use typographic or ASCII punctuation in policy pages such as WT:CFI and WT:ELE. This includes using typographic apostrophes ( ’ ) vs ASCII apostrophes ( ' ), typographic quotation marks ( ‘ ’ ) vs ASCII apostrophes ( ' ' ), and typographic quotation marks ( “ ” ) vs ASCII quotation marks ( " " ). This vote does not concern en dashes ( – ), em dashes ( — ), hyphens ( - ), and doubled hyphens ( -- ).
 * Vote starts: 00:01, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Vote ends: 23:59, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Vote created: Dan Polansky (talk) 20:18, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussion:
 * [[Image:Wikt rei-artur3.svg|20px]] Beer parlour/2013/February
 * [[Image:Wikt rei-artur3.svg|20px]] Votes/pl-2013-02/Disallow typographic punctuation in policies
 * [[Image:Wikt rei-artur3.svg|20px]] Wiktionary talk:Votes/2013-02/Typographic vs ASCII punctuation in policies
 * See also:
 * [[Image:Wikt rei-artur3.svg|20px]] Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2008-12/curly quotes in WT:ELE
 * [[Image:Wikt rei-artur3.svg|20px]] Beer_parlour/2008/October

I prefer ASCII over typographic

 * 1) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support  - I don't even know how to type in "Typographic" SemperBlotto (talk) 17:49, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Quotation_marks. —Michael Z. 2013-03-07 23:06 z 
 * 1) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] I'm not sure what "Voting on: Whether to use typographic or ASCII punctuation in policy pages" means, but I prefer old-fashioned 7-bit quotation marks and apostrophes over the other style, which is what this section indicates I'm choosing. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 03:45, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * 2) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support Additionally although it's far less frequent these days some computers still don't support the typographic ones. Not to mention, I prefer the old-fashioned ones too. --Neskaya … gawonisgv? 22:18, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * You rocking an abacus? Incidentally, it’s the dumb quotes that are new-fangled. They were invented in the nineteenth century to save typewriter keys. —Michael Z. 2013-03-07 23:06 z 
 * 1) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support &mdash;Internoob 23:18, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * 2) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support -- Liliana • 21:49, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
 * 3) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support  [//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary%3AVotes%2F2013-02%2FTypographic_vs_ASCII_punctuation_in_policies&diff=19968103&oldid=19968088]

I prefer typographic over ASCII

 * 1) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support  I guess. There’s a substantial difference between “whether to use” and “I prefer,” and it’s unclear what the result of this vote means. I certainly wouldn’t support this if it means anyone is prevented from making edits with only the characters available on their keyboard. —Michael Z. 2013-02-24 17:47 z 
 * 2) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support. — Ungoliant (Falai) 18:30, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * 3) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support. It's not that hard to enter these punctuation, and even less hard to leave them alone when someone else makes the change.--Prosfilaes (talk) 07:24, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
 * 4) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support Ƿidsiþ 08:07, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * 5) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support --Vahag (talk) 08:41, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
 * 6) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support —Stephen (Talk) 06:34, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Decision
By a vote of 6–6–0, I both prefer ASCII over typographic and prefer typographic over ASCII. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 07:30, 4 April 2013 (UTC)