User talk:Wuopisht

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Again, welcome! — billinghurst sDrewth 13:55, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

m-dashes

I notice that you're adding spaces before and after m-dsahes. The WS:MOS covers that issue specifically: we remove those spaces. Many 19th-century works were printed with half-spaces around their m-dashes. Rather than expand those to full spaces, or introduce a complicated system to reduce the size of spaces, the community has decided to eliminate them. It's one of the few changes built into our Manual of Style policy.

Note that we also prefer entering the actual character rather than using HTML character code for the dash. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:23, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

EncycloPetey, Thank you so much for your feedback. Do you mean remove all spaces directly before and after all the m-dashes? For example, the two m-dasehs at the very bottom of the following page "Rio--Maio--78" are already like that.

<https://pt.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=P%C3%A1gina:O_matuto_-_chronica_pernambucana_(1878).djvu/11&action=edit>

On the other hand, two lines above that, you can see "imprevisto -- eis o tudo" where the original text contains spaces around the m-dash. Do you mean to remove them too? Wuopisht (talk) 00:07, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Any place that an em-dash is flanked by spaces — like this; it should be collapsed—like this. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:11, 20 August 2024 (UTC)