GuildWiki talk:Style and formatting/Quotes

Listing as official?
Any objections to leaving this as a style and formatting guideline on GuildWiki? The use of the "sic" tag is already standard practice on GuildWiki. The only new element within this guideline is the use of the template. The use of a template was discussed briefly at GuildWiki_talk:Community_Portal (which has been moved and inserted below). --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:26, 13 March 2007 (CDT)

In-game typos
So for as long as I've been around here it's been common practice to completely duplicate any in-game typos in dialogue, descriptions, etc. and in most cases identify them with a [sic] label so others know this is intended. Over and over I see editors "correcting" the typos, and then others correcting the correction. My question to the community is: do we want to continue the practice of documenting the exact phrasing used in these cases? And if so: does it make sense for us to have a page that explains this better (e.g. a guideline or policy), or should this info simply be clarified in the S&F pages? --Zampani 12:06, 13 March 2007 (CDT)


 * We should try to document as is, so including tyupos. Maybe just make a "sic" page explaining what it means and why it's there? --NieA7 12:46, 13 March 2007 (CDT)


 * We have documented everything in game including typos, just marking those with a 'sic' marker. --[[Image:Gem-icon-sm.png]] (talk) 12:56, 13 March 2007 (CDT)
 * I think we can create a template:sic which would automatically insert a "sic" marker that's also a link to a page such as Style and formatting/Quotes where the practice used here can be explained in more detail. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 13:05, 13 March 2007 (CDT)
 * We don't have one allready? I thought we had. --[[Image:Gem-icon-sm.png]] (talk) 13:06, 13 March 2007 (CDT)
 * We might; but if we do, I couldn't find it. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 13:08, 13 March 2007 (CDT)
 * I like that. Is it going too far to have it automatically add the article to a "In-game Typo" category? At least that would be useful if somebody was looking for a specific typo, for some reason! — Biscuits (talk [[Image:Biscuit.png]] contribs) 16:09, 13 March 2007 (CDT)
 * Technically, it can be done ... but, I would prefer only to do it if there's real value. Can you think of an example of why someone would use a category to search for a specific typo rather than just using the "Search" box?  If just for maintenance purposes, then it would be better to going to template:sic and looking at "what links here"? --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:40, 13 March 2007 (CDT)
 * I just got pwned on an edit conflict of creating Template:Sic. &mdash;[[Image:BlastThatT.jpg]]Blastedt 16:44, 13 March 2007 (CDT)
 * ;-) Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:57, 13 March 2007 (CDT)


 * I've created the following in support of this. :
 * template:sic &rarr;  template for displaying  [sic] within an article.
 * Style and formatting/Quotes &rarr;  guideline for use of the "sic" tag.
 * Please review and provide feedback. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:09, 13 March 2007 (CDT)