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world's best known scientists, academics, politicians and authors. It has a virtual currency tied to the US dollar which is traded on international currency exchanges. For many who use it, including myself, it is no more a game than Youtube, Skype, Facebook, MySpace, Usenet, Netflix, Amazon, Deviant Art, Google+, eBay, The Teaching Company, Yahoo Groups, Reddit or indeed Knowledge (XXG) itself. --

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sections above. Second Life is a meta-game or "game container".', and 'While one can indeed play games in Second Life, you can also play games on the Internet or Facebook.', and also my own comment, 'It is a virtual reality within which many real life activities take place, including education courses, ecommerce, social networking, musical concerts and art exhibitions.'

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maybe someday I'll have the time for it, but realistically I already have too long a list of bookmarked articles I wanted to do more reading and tweaking of that I'm not getting back to, and it just keeps growing, so I don't think my approach to Knowledge (XXG) would fit the new page reviewing role. But thanks anyway :)

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at all knowledgeable on the subject when I first stumbled upon this Knowledge (XXG) article, saw the terrible state that it was in (with quite a bit of plagiarised and/or repeated material, and unsourced, dubious claims), and decided to set about fixing it. So I don't really have a deep knowledge of

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I agree that there should be consistency in the use of italics. However the status of SL has already been much discussed and the concensus is that it is not a game. From Section 10 of the Second Life Talk page, 'Why is this even listed as a game?': 'This has been discussed pretty thoroughly. See the

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in the Manual of Style. It recommends straight quotes be used rather than curly quotes in all cases, for several reasons. In addition, the fact that it's recommended in all cases means that use of it is then even more advisable since it increases consistency within and between articles. For example,

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You removed the "life after politics" section, so that the main text of the article stops at her parliamentary defeat, which is unhelpful. I did notice it was also in the lede - but if it's to be removed from either of those places, the lede would make more sense (as her lobbying activities are not

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Hello, BreakfastJr. I realize that WP:Blockquote states that a blockquote should be applied when a quote is a certain length. But, if you do not already, will you consider whether putting some quotes into blockquote format is best for whatever article in question? Blockquotes are usually not needed

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Hi Alex, thanks for that! I nowadays mainly just edit Knowledge (XXG) in the process of hopping about articles to learn or double check things, rather than spending time purely on editing for Knowledge (XXG)'s sake, so I don't expect I'd really do any reviewing of new pages. I'd like to think that

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The Second Life wp page lists eight countries which have official embassies in SL. It has been used by thousands of NGOs, campaigning groups and voluntary organisations to dispense information about their activities and provide a meeting place for their members. It hosts lectures by some of the

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revision of 01:56, 3 October 2014: "Mainly italicised the game's title (which was previously italicised in some places but not others), in accordance with the MoS (I know SL's status as a game is disputed, but it seems to me that "game" is the best-fitting label that the MoS has))".

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documents three usages: parentheses (x), square brackets , and single quotes 'x': "In linguistic and phonetic studies a definition is often enclosed in single quotation marks with no intervening punctuation; any following punctuation is placed after the closing quotation mark."

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for small quotes; I think that it is better to break the quotes up with "He said" and "He added" type of wordings. And having too many blockquotes can affect the look/readability of an article, making the article seem sloppy or sloppier. They can also be a matter of

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to computer-style quotes (' ', " ")(under the description “cosmetic changes”). Are you following some guidelines here, or is this your personal preference? I certainly prefer genuine quotes, which look a lot better to me, especially in the serif fonts I prefer.

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Well, I'm doubly impressed! It was in an even worse state when I found it, so the prospect of cleaning it up seemed overwhelming. I suppose it's a matter of taking a breath and addressing one piece of bad writing/misinformation at a time. -

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Nice work! Do you plan on expanding the early history/"Bulletin School" section? I added some stuff, not knowing a whole lot about the subject, so it's pleasing to see someone much more knowledgeable take a jab at it. -

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beyond its Knowledge (XXG) article, I don't have any plans to expand it. I expect I'll pop back in every few months or so to see if anything needs fixing up again, but I'll leave the expansions for other people.

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Hmm, I'd think that was an exception, but I don't see it codified in MoS. Maybe I'll ask around and see if others think it would be a good idea, in which case I'd propose to change the MoS. --

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In addition to not being minor, removing a cited quote would require some kind of explanation. Calling it a "copy edit" clearly does not accomplish this. I have restored the material -

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the first version of the Ethisphere Institute article itself (thank you for making that, by the way) had one instance of a straight rather than curly apostrophe, for "McDonald's".

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I saw your edits in that regard a couple years ago, and I didn't think much of it until recently. Three articles promoting FC were deleted, and I did a write-up of the deletion

313:, which you have contributed to, is being considered for deletion in accordance with Knowledge (XXG)'s deletion policy. Some reasons that make the article unsuitable are on 234:, you say that the MoS requires double quotes for glosses. Could you point me to the relevant section of the MoS? I believe that single quotes are the usual convention. The 580:: This is an article habitually and aggressively targeted by misguided IP nuts, and its protectors often miss subversive insertions in the fog of defensive operations. 786: 1105: 209:

you will have to use RfD. If a prod is removed, it cannot be restored. But if it's justthat you want to move the title in there over the redirect, I can do that.

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1093: 420:, as all my research was targeted towards either confirming and sourcing or disconfirming and amending/removing the info which was already in the article. 469:. Also, it is easier if you make edits in different sections of articles separately so they can be more easily discussed and digested by other editors. - 411:. I'm pleased that I did my work well enough to fool you, but the truth is that I'm not actually knowledgeable on the subject at all. Or, rather, I 603: 465:

Thanks for your work on the microaggression page. Please do not flag edits as "minor" unless they fit the wikipedia definition of minor. See

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Yeah, that sounds like a fair idea. I wouldn't be opposed to a change if there's consensus on it; I'm just a stickler for consistency :)

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Thanks for the fixes to the article. It has been two years since I last checked the sources. I will go over them in the next few days.

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So I generally change all curly quotes to straight quotes whenever I come across them, to increase consistency across Knowledge (XXG).

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Thanks for the gratitude and also for the advice. I've joined the Guild, and hope to help gradually polish this information behemoth.

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Really nice copyedit work on so many articles! Thank you for the tireless contributions. Would you be interested in becoming a

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was marked as a minor edit. It clearly was not. If there is ANY change to meaning in the article, the edit is NOT minor.

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So, in answer to your actual question, since I don't have a deep knowledge of or particular interest in

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Thanks for making that article and for asking rather than reverting my nit-picky change :D

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As for consistency, there are already many articles using single-quotes for glosses. --

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Hey BreakfastJr, I stumbled across one of your recent copy edits, and took a look

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Dear BreakfastJr, I am puzzled that you altered the genuine quotes (‘ ’, “ ”) in

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Take a look at my Talk page for FP's comments. FP is a very experienced editor.

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