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 :As I and most others who access this website are American, and most of us never come across the British way of handling quotations and punctuation, we will stay with the American usage unless it becomes a problem (I expect that it won't). Frankly, the British way irks me and entices me to make rampant corrections. I think our readers are smart enough to realize that that period at the end of a URL isn't part of the URL itself. --[[User:Argy|Argy]] 15:27, 16 September 2005 (CDT)
+::Pah. Frankly, American quotation usage strongly irks me, especially in cases of single words. I, too, am enticed to make rampant corrections. I suggest a compromise: use italics for single words and phrases.
+::I prefer the interpretation that 0 - 9 are spelt out because they are single, atomic words, not because they are a single digit in length. By that interpretation, 0 - 12, and possibly 100th, 1000th, 1,000,000th, 1,000,000,000th etc., should be spelt out as well. (Of course, this would be different for different languages.) But my personal preference is to never spell out numbers except for small ordinals and emphatic use.
+::While my personal preference is to be concise and say things in as few ''words'' as possible, I do not have a particular preference for expressing things in as few ''characters'' as possible: I would rather use a longer, more precise word than a shorter word.
+:::Well, do what you want in terms of quotation usage. I can see the merits of the British version. All usages (italics included) will work for me, I suppose.
+== Inaccuracies ==
+I have just noticed that a few conventions listed here are not actually correct. Under Nouns, capitalization and specific terminology, it lists Poké'''G'''ear as a camel case example, which is incorrect; it should be Poké'''g'''ear. On the Bulbapedia MOS, it was changed to PokéNav after being revealed to be all lowercase.
+Also, in the same section, it tells readers that "Specific element types are called "Water-type" and "Rock-type" when used as nouns" which is completely incorrect—as nouns they are "the Water type" and "the Rock type", or "Water-type Pokémon" and "Rock-type Pokémon". It also tells readers that "Squirtle is a '''Water type''' is not correct", which is true, but it then goes on to tell readers that "Squirtle is a '''Water-type''' is", which is false. The correct statement is "Squirtle is a '''Water-type Pokémon'''". Hyphenated types are only adjectives, not nouns. Saying the suggested statement is just as ridiculous as saying "Squirtle is a courageous". [http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c257/johans_nene/Nintendo/pokemon/screenshots/BIRD-WATERtype.png Here] is a good example of both uses in the same text, out of a Pokémon game.
+Finally, under Spelling and capitalization, it uses "trainer Ash Ketchum" as an example, when the correct capitalization would be "Trainer Ash Ketchum", because Trainer is always capitalized when referring to a Pokémon Trainer. As a side note, it would be good if a note was added that Trainer is always capitalized when referring to a Pokémon Trainer, and that Shiny is always capitalized when referring to Shiny Pokémon. --[[User:SnorlaxMonster|<span style="color:#A70000">'''Snorlax'''</span>]][[User talk:SnorlaxMonster|<span style="color:#0000A7">'''Monster'''</span>]] 14:22, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
+:Fixed and updated. &mdash;'''<span style="font-family:Verdana">[[bp:User talk:The dark lord trombonator|<span style="color:#000">darklord</span>]][[User talk:The dark lord trombonator|<span style="color:#0047AB">trom</span>]]</span>''' 06:02, 1 November 2010 (UTC)