WP NOTCENSORED doesn t say that we are not allowed to paraphrase the quote What it does say is that Discussion of potentially objectionable content should not focus on its offensiveness but on whether it is an appropriate image text or link Here the exact language Bashir used is not necessary to communicate the content of what was said and it may in fact distract attention from the actual meaning of what he said Thus I find the appropriateness of an exact quote to be questionable Better to stick with encyclopedic language and dispassionate story telling than to pile on merely to gain the shock value of profanity which wasn t actually used as explicitly as it might have been Furthermore some readers who see s h i t may have difficulty understanding that Bashir was actually spelling out the word and for the sake of brevity I don t think we want to devote any space to giving an explanation Therefore the paraphrase is the better option all the way around