[Wikipedia-l] [Fwd: [ wikipedia-Bugs-584804 ] URL followed by

Thu Jul 25 08:41:13 UTC 2002

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil Harris" <usenet at tonal.clara.co.uk>
To: <wikipedia-l at nupedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] [Fwd: [ wikipedia-Bugs-584804 ] URL followed by

| lcrocker at nupedia.com wrote:
| 
| >>I vote for punctuation cropping, too.
| >>    
| >>
| >
| >That seems to be a growing consensus.  The remaining questions,
| >then, are the exact details.  Exactly which characters do we want
| >to consider "punctuation", and under what circumstances?  My
| >suggestion is this: After parsing URLs the way it does now, if the
| >URL ends with one, and exactly one, of the characters period, comma,
| >question mark, or exclamation; then remove that character and
| >assume it punctuates the sentence. Otherwise, leave the URL alone.
| >
| >  
| >
| I agree, but I'd also add semicolon and colon characters to that list.
| 
| Neil

...and single, double quotation marks, parentheses, and dashes.

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