Forum:CT Archive/Quote policy addendum

Having just learned about this CT, I'd like to make an addendum. As it is, the rules only explicitly allow "Text that is presented within actual quotation marks, indicating spoken dialogue" or "clearly presented within the confines of someone's memoirs, journal, or diary". Unfortunately, as with many specifically-worded policies, this doesn't cover everything. Namely, text that is clearly spoken, but not in quote marks; oftentimes, novels will use italics for cases of a line that a character remembers, and technically even comic quotes would be forbidden by this. So I propose a slight wording change:


 * a. Text that is presented within actual quotation marks, indicating spoken dialogue

Will be changed to:


 * a. Text that is presented within actual quotation marks, or otherwise clearly marked as spoken dialogue

This, I think, should cover all instances of in-universe spoken dialogue—which I think all are in agreement should be allowed—that doesn't happen to have quote marks around it.

Support

 * 1) Lord Hydronium 06:24, 5 April 2008 (UTC)