On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Nothing necessarily wrong with them, but we should be consistent one way or the other. If we're not using them generally, we should stick with plain ol' quotes.
As I observed on IRC, this can also be inconsistent with user-added content, which will most commonly use straight quotes. For instance, the English Wikipedia's Manual of Style says http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MOS#Quotation_marks:
"The exclusive use of straight quotes and apostrophes is recommended. They are easier to type in reliably, and to edit. Mixed use interferes with searching (a search for 'Korsakoff's' syndrome could fail to find 'Korsakoff's syndrome' and vice versa)."
MinuteElectron's comment was "eww, curly quotes".