Thread:Forum:Wiki Talk/Quotes are badly formatted/reply (5)

TV Tropes captioned everything to a hard limit of 350px at max regardless of the actual uploaded size. Vorticity's converter tried to convert this to MediaWiki default as best as possible, but the parser converter misfired on occasion (the image placement scripting is more complex than in MediaWiki), so mistakes were probably inevitable.

He'll be back in soon, so I'll run this by him.

"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."

- Ken Arromdee''

I agree. In fact, the above quote had to be spaced properly with some HTML tags to render exactly how you posted it, and it does look amateurish whenever it cuts off the author information, which should not be happening. Again, since Vorticity handles most of the massive bot jobs that involve parser issues and template bugs, I'll run this by him ASAP.