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Please do not remove this invisible timestamp. See WT:ERRORS and WP:SUBSCRIBE. - Dank (push to talk) 01:24, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

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• ... that Michael Sugrue became an "internet phenomenon" during the COVID-19 pandemic for his lectures on YouTube, recorded in 1992, that covered "the last 3,000 years of Western intellectual history"?

The first quote is from the New York Times, the second is from himself. Scare quotes like this look strange. Secretlondon (talk) 17:58, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Pinging @Thriley, GuardianH, Etyuxdy, Sammi Brie, Hawkeye7, Crisco 1492, and DimensionalFusion:.--Launchballer 18:18, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

I don’t think the quotes are needed here. Thriley (talk) 18:49, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

But then it is being said in wikivoice? Secretlondon (talk) 18:52, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

I’d try to sneak in “according to The New York Times”, but it would go over the character limit. Thriley (talk) 18:58, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Maybe keep the quotes for internet phenomenon, but remove the other quotes. I don’t think there is any debate what his videos are about. Thriley (talk) 18:59, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

I agree. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 21:17, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

I think the phrasing is generic enough to be fine to just drop the quotes without changes, but if there's concerns about using the exact same phrasing it could also instead be rendered as that covered 3,000 years of Western intellectual history?. (And on an extremely technical level, I suppose a lecture series from 1992 can have covered 3,000 years of history but technically not our "last 3,000 years" of history, leading up to 2024 rather than 1992, since it would have to leave out the last 32 years of history, not that such a rounding error is really a problem.) Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 04:44, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

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