Thread:Forum:Wiki Talk/Quotes are badly formatted/reply (4)

The problem with the quote spacing is that the quote spacing makes no sense whatsoever for multi-line quotes. The quote has been converted over in a way which doesn't produce a reasonable format. Whether you say "the quote template is buggy" or "the quote template is fine but we should have converted to something else" doesn't really change this-- something went wrong, and not fixing it looks amateurish. Moreover, I don't even know how to fix it manually, and if it was possible to fix it manually it would probably be possible to fix it in a bot as well; there are too many instances of this for it to make sense to fix each one manually.

The Screw Yourself quote is not a problem with spacing. It's that the original material contains an extra line (which attributes the quote), but the conversion happened in a way which causes that line not to appear. Again, having a line missing is clearly wrong, regardless of whether this is caused by the template, the conversion, or something else. I don't know exactly how many tropes have this problem, but considering I just stumbled onto this at random, there are probably quite a few.

Even if you can't fix the quote template yourself, could you report it as a Wikia bug with a reasonable chance that someone would fix it?

In the Shining Force case, that page is an example of a site-wide problem. You fixed the example, but that doesn't fix the site-wide problem. Is it possible to search your saved 2012 TV Tropes database to see which ones have images that use a tag containing an image size? Alternately, is it possible to just run a script on all the images on the server to see which ones are bigger than some specific size? (I don't know how feasible these might be. For instance, if it turned out that everyone on TV Tropes uses an image size whether they needed it or not, searching for tags containing a size might not do much good.)