User talk:New Ruble account

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Happy editing! --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 13:54, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

I reverted your edit because I misread it as being an update to the live page. Contributions to the talk page don't have to be cited but they do have to be serious.

If you have any evidence from a reliable source for your additional rule, please feel free to propose it again. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 13:54, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

New Ruble account (talk) 01:42, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Alice's response is a good one and I agree.

The rules were rarely written down: typesetters learned their trade by apprenticeship, not by swotting up on a manual of style. To be fair, most academic sources have had to do the same thing as Alice has done: read dozens of publications from dozens of printers and infer the content of the de facto rule-book. The key difference is that Wikipedia doesn't do that research: we report the findings of subject experts. (Well, that's the principle anyway!) If Alice secures publication in a respected journal, we could certainly cite that. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 10:08, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

I have posted another conjecture ("Ye Olde") at talk: long s that may interest Alice though I expect she already knows about it. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 15:18, 27 June 2025 (UTC)