Ending a sentence with two punctuation mark

Finn <[email protected]> Sun, 15 Nov 2020 03:13:56 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.internationalization.english
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I recently came across this sentence ("It intends to help answering the 
question I have a few hours for Debian, what should I do now?.") on 
UDD's maintainers dashboard[1] page. I tried to propose a change[2] by 
removing period punctuation mark. I've never seen people, in English 
writing ending a sentence with two punctuation mark (a period and 
question mark); to support my statement, I would refer to this[3] 
article of APA[4] style guide, hopefully other English writing style 
guides have similar rule. For more information, please see this[2] 
discussion.

[1]: https://udd.debian.org/dmd/
[2]: https://salsa.debian.org/qa/udd/-/merge_requests/30
[3]: 
https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2013/04/punctuation-junction-periods-exclamation-points-and-question-marks.html
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APA_style


Cheers,
Finn