This thread is for general discussion of page quotes, whether to change, move or remove them.
Unused quotes should be put on a Quotes Wiki page (just replace the namespace in the URL of the wiki page you are making a quotes page for with Quotes/) or, if they don't have an article, on Quotes Looking for an Article.
Image captions are discussed elsewhere and have their own thread
in the Image Pickin' forum.
Edited by Tabs on Jul 15th 2023 at 2:40:54 AM
The Searchers: Seems like I agree with keeping only the first quote.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Heroes Prefer Swords: my main issue with the current one is that it does nothing to illustrate the trope. It's a description of the trope, not a demonstration of it.
It basically just says the same things as the first line in the description.
"In distress", my ass.
Searchers quote moved.
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Both quotes for American Football were moved to the quotes page.
Exposition has two quotes. I prefer the second one, thought either works.
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Agreed. The Robot Chicken one is far better for Exposition.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Exposition: Yeah, go with Robot Chicken. Also, the image should be moved to the right as well.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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In Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas, I'm not quite satisfied with the quote, because it was more or less just describing the trope's name; it doesn't do any demonstration or explanation.
I found this one from the quotes page, slightly modified for concision and applicability:
Michael Westen, Burn Notice
I think this quotes explains all of "bad men", "love for mama", and "loving mama despite being a bad man" part very well, at least in comparison to the current one.
edited 22nd Nov '13 11:34:26 PM by dRoy
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: I am preoccupied that the suggestion doesn't talk about the trope being mostly a villain trope.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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And I Must Scream: has a quote from the Trope Namer. And it's really long. There's a couple of nice shorter ones on the quotes page. Thoughts?
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
And I Must Scream: Yeah, Too Long Didn't Read on the current. Plus, it is a simple concept.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
The Voiceless has two quotes. Personally, I dislike both of them. Of course, given the topic, I'm not sure it should have a quote. Maybe:
"...." - Silent Bob.
My alignment is Chaotic Cute.
The Voiceless: I approve of the suggestion.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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I agree with Terrie. It's perfect. ![[tup]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Thumbs_up_emoticon_3268.png "[thumb up]"){kind=small}
"In distress", my ass.
Ditto on Voiceless.
And while I'm here, Andrew Jackson has two quotes, one from a Disney special (or something) and one from Cracked. While I'm personally inclined to move the Cracked quote to the (currently nonexistent) quotes tab, that may be because I'm a bit annoyed at how they so often get cited for stuff like they're some kind of authority of fact. 
Andrew Jackson: I am inclined to leave the first quote - much shorter.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
And I Must Scream: Agree on a swap. I the quote from Ariel from Legacy of Kain might be the best for a replacement.
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Andrew Jackson - While I like both of them, my vote goes to Disney one, simply by the virtue of being conciser.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
"In distress", my ass.
Cracked quote for Jackson moved, de-potholed the Disney quote.
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I like the Legacy of Kain quote for And I Must Scream.
Andrew Jackson quote works.
Cracked works hard to be reliable about its facts. Their articles have to be carefully researched and backed up with sources, and they have some very good and quotable writers.
On the other hand, when 'every page with a header quote from Cracked' is part of the TV Tropes Drinking game, reducing the number certainly won't hurt.
edited 25th Nov '13 7:10:19 PM by Candi
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
As much as I love the quote on Voodoo Shark, it's really an example of It Runs on Nonsensoleum since it's played for comedy, not meant to be taken seriously.
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Voodoo Shark: Yeah, dump that. Can't find anything that jumps out on the Quotes tab.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Is there a hard-and-fast rule for how far quotes should be indented? I tend to think long thin ones look better with less indentation, and tall fat ones with more (e.g., that the Voodoo Shark one could do with being a notch further towards the middle), but if -> is standard practice I'll leave it.
-> is standard for page quotes. For quotes in examples, it should be indented one stroke more than the number of bullets.
Edit: Huh, that's interesting. Putting the escape markup around the greater than sign yields the html code for it.
edited 30th Nov '13 8:22:56 PM by Nocturna
If we're going to rule out quotes that are meant to be ridiculous for Voodoo Shark, then I'm not sure what quote can be used, because that pretty much just leaves complainy critic quotes of the sort that we also prefer to avoid.
The Searchers has two quotes. The first one kinda-sorta applies to the film, but the second doesn't really say anything about it.
Just move the 2nd one to the quotes tab (not yet made), zap both, or something else?
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