Talk:Fijian general election, 2009

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To clarify: [TEXT] in quotes does *not* mean that "TEXT" wasn't pronounced. It just means that the quote was alterred from the literal original -- in this case, a capital H was changed to a small h and the sentence's position was grammatically changed, even though you wouldn't notice it without knowing the original sentence. It's not something I'm willing to revert over, though, if for some reason you don't like it. —Nightstallion (?) 10:52, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Let's see what some others say. If others want to have the brackets, fine. But it doesn't look correct to me, and I cannot imagine any authoritative publication doing that. But we'll see what others working on this whole coup thing have to say. David Cannon 13:49, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

shrugs As I said, it's not really terribly important. Where I live and work, it's mandatory to cite *only* verbatim, and if you even so much as change the capitalisation due to picking a sentence fragment out of some text, you have to clearly indicate that it's not *exactly* the original text, much as you would write "[...]" to indicate you left out some part of the text. But since you seem to be strongly against it, I'll let it be as it currently is, i.e. without brackets. —Nightstallion (?) 14:23, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Where I live, it's also mandatory to include brackets for any modification to a quote, including changing a capital letter to a small letter, or the reverse. I'm currently writing my doctoral thesis, and it's rather annoying to have to put those brackets all over the place, so I should know. ;) Aridd (talk) 10:03, 24 May 2008 (UTC)