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:I will compromise on serial commas, even though they are ''not'' accepted news style. | :I will compromise on serial commas, even though they are ''not'' accepted news style. | ||
:As a side note, copy is measured in [[wp:Pica (unit of measure)|picas]] and [wp:Point (typography)|points]], not ems. | :As a side note, copy is measured in [[wp:Pica (unit of measure)|picas]] and [[wp:Point (typography)|points]], not ems. | ||
: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) | :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) | ||