Talk:MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers

message: This is being split off from the article MLA Style Manual.  It deserves a separate article in Wikipedia. --NYScholar 08:01, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
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message: Please see the top talkpage template; this talk page is not for discussion of MLA Style format; it is for discussion about how to improve this article on this subject.  Editing the article is the subject of this talk page, not MLA format per se.
I answered the signed question posed about italics vs. underlining to be helpful.  Since then, I've deleted the question and my reply because they are not germane to this talk page, which is to be only about editing this article. [The deleted content can be found in the editing history.]  I also deleted other inappropriate content which was unsigned. (See above re: need to use four tildes to sign, and date, comments in talk pages.) Other such questions that do not relate to the editing of the article are most likely going to be deleted too.
This talk page is not a message board or forum about MLA Style.  Please scroll up and read the talk page headers and information linked in them about Wikipedia editing policies and guidelines.  Thank you.  --NYScholar (talk) 23:18, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Inappropriate comments and questions deleted

message: The starting of an essay should look like this,
Name LastName
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       Start of paragraph. 7 spaces indention. 
      Next paragraph.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.48.245.245 (talk) 20:03, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The above unsigned posting by the anon IP has not been checked and verified and no source is given for the above information.  Please check the actual 3rd ed. of the published MLA Handbook for current guidelines.  Thank  you. --NYScholar (talk) 00:56, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Essay format

message: For contexts of some recent editing, please see User talk:NYScholar/Archive 25#MLA. Thanks. --NYScholar (talk) 05:30, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Re: Recent editing history

message: I question having the "Specific examples" section. It seems to skirt WP:NOTHOWTO, and whatever gets chosen to be exemplified seems a bit arbitrary at best. --Cybercobra (talk) 06:52, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Given this additional explanation, I now agree. I do take some offense to your unnecessarily condescending tone however. --Cybercobra (talk) 21:19, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: [No such tone intended.  Please just focus on the content.  (Tone of voice in online communications is notoriously mistaken.  Quotation marks are meant as quotation marks.  The word example and the phrase for example are used throughout such articles.  Please "focus on the content and not on the contributor" ([see top template w/ talk page guidelines; it's in WP:NPA]).  Thanks very much.  I refer you to administrators, because they may be able to address your questions better than ordinary editors (like me) who are not administrators, though one does keep in mind that all administrators are also editors and users of Wikipedia too, just as we are.  Meant no "condescension" at all; just tryin to point you in direction of where you might find further information. --NYScholar (talk) 21:32, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Heh, ironic. I go to edit the talkpage to say I may have been overinterpreting and you've already responded :) --Cybercobra (talk) 21:36, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

text: [Later I found a ref. to "Specific examples" in a heading in The MLA Style Manual and removed that.  It is not necessary to use the phrase. --NYScholar (talk) 23:25, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

text: (cont.) (Word of caution to all reading any of these articles on any published "style guides" in Wikipedia, as pertains to articles in Wikipedia on any subject.  An encyclopedia, esp. an online peer-edited Wiki, does not take the place of primary and secondary peer-reviewed third party publications by trade and academic presses.)  --NYScholar (talk) 21:07, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

text: (cont.) See WP:NOT. --NYScholar (talk) 21:08, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Specific examples 

message: Please do not change already-correct punctuation of titles. The format is correct. It is intended to illustrate the MLA Style format for such titles.  --NYScholar (talk) 21:32, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: EL section

message: "The first 5 editions, published between 1977 and 1999 were titled the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (WorldCat).
The title changed to the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers in 2003 (6th ed.)."
Not sure how to research this, but I don't think that this is accurate. I have my 3rd edition (1988) of the MLA Handbook right here in front of me, and the full title on the cover, title page, and publication page is "MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers." --98.201.58.252 (talk) 02:20, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: One can research it further using the ISBN numbers of various editions of both titles in WorldCat; just click on the ISBN numbers in the "Works cited" and choose WorldCat as a search engine; then choose "all editions" and also substitute the various titles in the search box to find earlier editions.  Also use the ISBN number on your own copy and search it via WorldCat, the Library of Congress, and other sites.  If the dates and edition numbers in the quoted passage need changing/correction, based on WorldCat as a source, or the Library of Congress, e.g., then you might want to update the passage. --66.66.27.196 (talk) 06:47, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: History section