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How to read a mathematical formula, or other non-sentences

I started a recording for the Sun article months ago which I'm going back to. In the Orbit in Milky Way section, there are some complex mathematical formulae that I've tried to read smoothly, but I'd be kidding myself if I expected anyone to follow it. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to tackle such sections? Read them as they are, omit them, read them but warn listeners in advance, or some other method I've not thought of? Thrownfootfalls (talk) 21:51, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Undocumented use of {{WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia}}

/Template guidelines suggests providing the filename and oldid in {{WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia}}, but the documentation for this template has never mentioned it taking these parameters. Is this intentional? - ExcarnateSojourner (talk) 04:27, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Reading square brackets in quotations

How should square brackets (and their contents) that appear in a quotation be read in a recording?

I want to read Jamiroquai, which has many short quotations, like this one:

This resulted in what was thought to be both a "tighter, more angry collection of songs" for Synkronized, and a change of musical direction from "creating propulsive collections of [long] tunes, [and] speaking out against injustice".

It feels to me like it breaks the flow of the sentence to say "bracket" for every square bracket in this case, but I think it is necessary to give some kind of indication that the words I speak are not the actual words used by the source of the quote. And just to further complicate matters, square brackets are sometimes used within a word:

However, the record was said to have "capture[ed] this first phase of Jamiroquai at their very best", according to Daryl Easlea of BBC Music.

I'm guessing few people will see this, so please reply if you have any opinions / thoughts on this.

- excarnateSojourner (talk|contrib) 00:37, 10 November 2021 (UTC)