User talk:Shenyileirob

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Yann (talk) 15:03, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

spaces around the em-dash
Please do not add spaces around the em-dashes. They should not be there. See Style guide 7. "Dashes (em dash or en dash) should not be flanked by spaces." --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:58, 2 April 2023 (UTC)


 * @EncycloPetey I was just trying to keep the representations consistent as I found some pages having these spaces while others not. I know well that no space around an em-dash is an established convention in modern English but adding spaces seemed more reasonable to me—because there are significant spaces in the original typesetting. Nevertheless I'm okay if you've decided to remove them altogether. Shenyileirob (talk) 18:10, 2 April 2023 (UTC)


 * The editors here are aware of historical spacing differences, but the spacing around em-dashes is typically a half-space, which is more trouble to reproduce than is worthwhile. Just as we don't indent paragraphs, double-space after periods, etc.  Some things are site-wide conventions decided simply to keep things standard.  It is quite possible someone will go through with a bot at some point and remove all those spaces, so inserting them would be wasted effort. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:15, 2 April 2023 (UTC)