# Improving quoting quote accuracy

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-quoting-quote-accuracy/355053
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 28, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-quoting-quote-accuracy/355053 "2025-02-28T16:34:30Z")
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### Author: ![Nihal\_Noorunnabi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nihal_noorunnabi/32/490241_2.png) [@Nihal\_Noorunnabi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nihal_Noorunnabi)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-quoting-quote-accuracy/355053/7 "2025-03-01T15:40:42Z")

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> [@Jagster](#):
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> What I select is what I want to quote, and software shound never change that.

I think there’s a bit of confusion. Maybe its how I’m presenting it? Taking my above examples:

Base text:  
From [A History of Pizza | History Today](https://www.historytoday.com/archive/historians-cookbook/history-pizza) :

> Pizza is the world’s favourite fast food. We eat it everywhere – at home, in restaurants, on street corners. Some three billion pizzas are sold each year in the United States alone, an average of 46 slices per person. But the story of how the humble pizza came to enjoy such global dominance reveals much about the history of migration, economics and technological change.

Now let’s say you or someone else wants to quote the thing I shared for a discussion. If you quote directly from me and quote just part of it, like I mentioned, something like the billion pizzas part it would come out like this when pressing quote:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/f/8/7/f870611a8233485a529968e6877e0f4db4132e0f.png)

> [@Nihal\_Noorunnabi](#):
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> Some three billion pizzas are sold each year in the United States alone, an average of 46 slices per person.

If someone isn’t paying attention when using discourse it shows _me_ as the one saying that. Thats technically a misquote. I don’t know the technical feasibility of this _but_ it should quote it with a \> to show that I am not the one saying it.

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