Accuracy of Front Page Stories

[EricNau]

Would now be a good time to mention that commas and periods go inside quotation marks, regardless of the original quote? ...Just like "this."

It's been bothering me for a long time.

 

[PlaceofDis]

Would now be a good time to mention that commas and periods go inside quotation marks, regardless of the original quote? ...Just like "this."

It's been bothering me for a long time.

no they don't have to. depends on what standards you're using and regional differences. periods and commas outside of the quotes is quite acceptable

 

[JML42691]

I understand you concern with the capitalization of Nano, and Touch, but very rarely have I seen them capitalized, it is supposed to be iPod nano and iPod touch, but if the second name is accidentally capitalized, then I don't think that it is anything to be concerned over. As to the issue of the App Store, it is also the iTunes App Store, because it will also be available on iTunes from my understanding of it, and it makes a difference between the place in iTunes to buy Apps, and that of Apple's website to purchase software. I don't think that it is really anything to be concerned about. How do these mistakes affect the accuracy of the stories? From what I have seen when I read this site, is that about 75% of the stories posted are accurate, which is pretty good for rumors; and the admins here do a great job sorting out the rumors that are plausible, and those that are outrageous.

 

[IJ Reilly]

no they don't have to. depends on what standards you're using and regional differences. periods and commas outside of the quotes is quite acceptable

This is one of my pet peeves. In American English, punctuation nearly always belongs inside of the quotation marks; in British English, nearly always outside. Neither is wrong, they are just different conventions. Stick with one or the other consistently is the answer. The approaches are frequently mixed in any given front page story.

 

[EricNau]

no they don't have to. depends on what standards you're using and regional differences. periods and commas outside of the quotes is quite acceptable

In America, that really isn't the case; commas and periods always go inside quotation marks.

Just checkout this search: Link. (For reliability, I limited the search to .edu sites only.) Site after site dictate that the comma and period are always to be placed inside quotation marks.

Even wikipedia says it is so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Punctuation (there are rare exceptions, of course).

 

[MacDawg]

And your point is...?

My point is, based on the spelling/grammar of most users, I doubt this is a real issue to most here. However, the issue has been raised, and as far as I am concerned, addressed by Wild Cowboy.

Beyond that, in my opinion, it is much ado about nothing.

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[IJ Reilly]

In America, that really isn't the case; commas and periods always go inside quotation marks.

With a few, rare exceptions.

My point is, based on the spelling/grammar of most users, I doubt this is a real issue to most here. However, the issue has been raised, and as far as I am concerned, addressed by Wild Cowboy.

Beyond that, in my opinion, it is much ado about nothing.

It's much ado about nothing for people who don't care. Trust me, I do know that the standard is very low.

 

[WildCowboy]

I understand the need for a certain amount of post-hoc editing, but the point I am making is that in my experience, half or more of the error reports are not acted upon. This does leave the impression that the comments are not needed or are perhaps unwelcome.

This is a disturbing claim to me, as all of us do take the moderating and editing process seriously. What method are you using to make these error reports? Most people use the "report post" button for this sort of thing, and I see that you have done so three times during your time here at MacRumors. In two of the cases, both the article and the corresponding post were fixed. In the third case, which occurred in April 2007, only the post was fixed, while the article itself was not. I'm not sure what the mix-up was there, and I can't fix it now since I don't have the power to edit articles that old. I assume that only arn can do it at this point.

 

[IJ Reilly]

This is a disturbing claim to me, as all of us do take the moderating and editing process seriously. What method are you using to make these error reports? Most people use the "report post" button for this sort of thing, and I see that you have done so three times during your time here at MacRumors. In two of the cases, both the article and the corresponding post were fixed. In the third case, which occurred in April 2007, only the post was fixed, while the article itself was not. I'm not sure what the mix-up was there, and I can't fix it now since I don't have the power to edit articles that old. I assume that only arn can do it at this point.

Mainly the "report post" button. I feel certain that I've reported more than three articles, but perhaps I've used another method on others.

If you want to see more of these reports, I'll be happy to oblige.

 

[WildCowboy]

If you want to see more of these reports, I'll be happy to oblige.

Absolutely...we're happy to fix any errors, and the "report post" mechanism is the most effective way for us to handle it.

The news articles are generally handled by a subset of the mods/admins, so it may take a bit longer than a typical post report to be taken care of, and corrections to an article and its associated post may not happen at the same time, but they'll get done...I promise!

 

[Bern]

Gosh I hope the front page stories here on MacRumors are accurate, AppleTalk depends on them as a major source of information for their forum