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  • marks, when not marking an actual quotation, may be interpreted as "scare quotes", indicating that the writer is distancing themself from the otherwise...
    34 KB (4,014 words) - 20:41, 22 September 2024
  • that we used to have a policy or guideline cautioning us about using scare quotes but I can't seem to find it. Does anyone know where it is or what happened...
    16 KB (1,756 words) - 16:17, 21 February 2023
  • the term in scare quotes and quote the Pentagon as saying they're developing a "range of hypersonic missiles" The Hill Also uses scare quotes, and is mostly...
    26 KB (3,131 words) - 08:21, 8 July 2020
  • 11:35, 5 March 2008 (UTC) Support, but I think we can do without the scare quotes in the caption; whatever your feelings are about the situation, the men...
    7 KB (770 words) - 01:40, 1 May 2022
  • the extensive discussion and coverage of this topic by name without scare quotes in reliable sources dating back forty years and more: [1], [2], [3],...
    7 KB (750 words) - 05:35, 9 February 2023
  • any doubt or confusion. Shortcut WP:INDCRIT Avoid use of unexplained scare quotes and other means of implying criticism or making indirect criticism when...
    15 KB (2,169 words) - 02:04, 25 October 2024
  • some of the more strident believers in Utopedia, I'll put "enemies" in scare quotes in this essay.) But if you are human, you will eventually run across...
    2 KB (325 words) - 04:22, 23 December 2016
  • Delete I have to say that there is no reason to put philanthropist in scare quotes. That said, being on a university board is not a defact sign of notability...
    5 KB (570 words) - 19:15, 4 August 2019
  • there are a few too many red flags here for me. In the lead we have scare quotes and (if any) in brackets. I can not work out what is meant by he term...
    4 KB (437 words) - 10:27, 29 April 2019
  • and when we use the word "know" in the sense, we often use so-called scare quotes. In the Middle Ages, we "knew" that the Earth was the center of the universe...
    8 KB (1,234 words) - 11:15, 8 January 2024
  • wonder is it would be better to not spell it this way and juts drop the scare quotes. I've addressed all the above in this section. -- West Virginian (talk)...
    8 KB (811 words) - 18:43, 23 April 2022
  • "walking" in the A New Hope section. Elaborated on the short, non-scare quotes. Tweaked scare quotes. Dmoon1 04:53, 29 June 2006 (UTC) The article's pushing 36...
    8 KB (1,256 words) - 16:00, 17 February 2008
  • there is no need for "scare quotes". Erase them. All of them. Same for the Bicycle and Ara Marina subsections: lose the "scare quotes". Research Ara Marina...
    5 KB (571 words) - 04:09, 3 April 2016
  • blindness in developed countries." Prevention Reconsider if use of "scare quotes" is appropriate. Single or no quotes might be better. Thanks for your...
    7 KB (1,009 words) - 10:41, 23 March 2022
  • popular media buzz word (or slang), using the term with wikilinks & "scare quotes" portends even more NPOV abuse. – S. Rich (talk) 20:28, 9 December 2013...
    8 KB (815 words) - 09:01, 6 February 2023
  • Vanity. On the bright side, at least he put scare quotes around his name. --fvw* 18:04, 2004 Nov 27 (UTC) Delete. Seems to be a nice 18-year-old musician...
    877 bytes (121 words) - 19:30, 12 April 2010
  • article and get rid of the scare quotes. Thanks again. Matt Deres (talk) 15:52, 24 October 2010 (UTC) Those weren't scare quotes, they were definition quotes...
    10 KB (988 words) - 16:46, 18 February 2023
  • established term as evidenced by the vast majority of reliable sources using scare quotes. Therefore it's not even suitable for a dictionary let alone an encyclopedia...
    10 KB (959 words) - 06:13, 7 March 2022
  • cleaning out before going to FAC, I think. You may too want to dump the "scare quotes". Not really the right tone of voice for an encyclopedia. --ROGER DAVIES talk...
    3 KB (286 words) - 07:17, 9 February 2023
  • pointless given that no-one is ever going to type this title - including the scare quotes - into a search box. Black Kite (talk) 02:02, 29 February 2012 (UTC)...
    24 KB (3,415 words) - 17:05, 30 January 2022
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