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== Italic text in quotations ==

For some reason, whenever I put italic text in quotations, the text before and outside the quotations becomes italic & bold (the bold part comes from the first word in the page, which loses its bold properties.)

is this happening to you guys? [[User:SomnambulantFish|SomnambulantFish]] <sub>[[User talk:SomnambulantFish|talk]]</sub> ∫ <sup>[[Special:Contributions/SomnambulantFish|contribs]]</sup> 05:24, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

:No. What you observe indicates that you have some stray single quote marks somewhere. Are you using apostrophes for quotation marks? Those get used for italics (double apostrophe) and boldface (triple apostrophe) in wiki markup. ~[[User:Anachronist|Anachronist]] (who / me) <small>([[User talk:Anachronist|talk]])</small> 06:17, 14 March 2026 (UTC)
::ohhh....  [[User:SomnambulantFish|SomnambulantFish]] <sub>[[User talk:SomnambulantFish|talk]]</sub> ∫ <sup>[[Special:Contributions/SomnambulantFish|contribs]]</sup> 06:25, 14 March 2026 (UTC)
:::{{ping|SomnambulantFish}} You use VisualEditor where it may be hard to keep track of stray markup for bold and italics. You can switch to the source editor on a pencil icon at the top right. Two consecutive apostrophes both mark the start and end of italics. Three apostrophes instead both mark the start and end of bold text. This often has unintended consequences. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 08:11, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

:Per [[MOS:ITALQUOTE]], "Do not put quotations in italics." Problem solved! [[User:Clarityfiend|Clarityfiend]] ([[User talk:Clarityfiend|talk]]) 08:41, 14 March 2026 (UTC)