Talk:Black Spades
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[edit] DO NOT remove text from a direct quote
On 17-MAY-2006, User:65.42.90.112 edited a sentence within a direct quote, removing the words "Latin Kings" from this sentence:
- "Within shortest time gangs appeared on every street corner and names like "Black Spades" "Savage Skulls", "Seven Immortals", "Seven Crowns", "Savage Nomads", "Ching Aling", "Black Skulls", "Latin Kings", "Young Lords" and many others could be seen everywhere."
This is not the proper way to change a direct quote. By doing so, you are changing the quoted material itself, and the source material that is being directly quoted specifically says "Latin Kings."
I am not making any kind of judgement here as to whether or not the information being quoted is correct - only that it is improper to remove material from a direct quote without at least indicating in some way that material has been removed. Commonly, this is done with an ellipses "..." , or the quote in its entirety could be removed, or truncated before reaching that point. But the point of a quote is that it indicates that "this is what someone else has said," and changing the contents of a quote is considered to be dishonest, or at least, very bad style.
If you feel that the material being quoted is incorrect in some way, then please discuss it here. Respectfully, Kevyn 01:56, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
