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::: All sources do it this way Fut.Perf. Come back when you find a source with mixed usage as you suggest Wikipedia should do. Grab any printed source at random and see if the quoted "t"s match the surrounding text, they will. I researched more than 250 books for this mediation and '''not one'' had "t"s in quotes that did not match the "t"s in the surrounding text. ~ [[User:GabeMc|<font color="green">GabeMc</font>]] ^{([[User talk:GabeMc|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/GabeMc|contribs]])} 00:41, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

::: Take the ''Beatles Anthology'' for example. Every single quote from Lennon is from a different source than the book, mostly ''Rolling Stone'', which uses "the". However, every "the" in quotes from Lennon from ''RS'' use an uppercase in the ''Anthology'' book, despite the fact that they were '''all''' lowercase from ''RS''. ~ [[User:GabeMc|<font color="green">GabeMc</font>]] ^{([[User talk:GabeMc|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/GabeMc|contribs]])} 00:45, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

::::: Again: if these are meant to be renderings of originally ''spoken'' utterances from Lennon, there is no problem at all – anybody is free to spell them in whichever way they like. If, however, their original source was Lennon's published ''writings'', then either of the two publications is wrong. Common knowledge about academic writing is that you don't do it. The style guides that you yourself quoted explicitly tell us not to do it (your distorted quotations from them notwithstanding), so we won't do it either. [[User:Future Perfect at Sunrise|Fut.Perf.]] [[User talk:Future Perfect at Sunrise|☼]] 00:57, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

::::How about the [http://www.thebeatles.com/ Official Beatles web site], which, as you well know, mixes usages? The "house style" of Apple Corps., if you want to call it that, is overwhelmingly on the side of uppercase "The", but exceptions are made for quotes. [[User:Jburlinson|Jburlinson]] ([[User talk:Jburlinson|talk]]) 00:55, 12 November 2012 (UTC)