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*** "The purpose of <nowiki><cite></nowiki> was to create a semantic-looking alias for <nowiki><i></nowiki> in order to cater for Chicago Manual of Style-compliant italicized titles of work."

**** There is no evidence that was the precise design intent of the cite element (i.e. citation needed).

**** This also sounds like an argument from "theoretical purity" or at best "specifiers", whereas the current usage evidence shows that "authors" have seen fit to purpose cite for speakers, and thus per the [http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/#priority-of-constituencies priority of constituencies HTML design principle] which prefers authors over specifiers over theoretical purity, we should restore cite for speakers.

*** "Since speakers aren't italicized typically, using <nowiki><cite></nowiki> for them doesn't really make sense. "