"In distress", my ass.
Why the hell are entire paragraphs being quoted in the first place, let alone multiple paragraphs?
Yeah, a quote to illustrate the trope use is good, but entire paragraphs of the source material? This wiki isn't TV Quotes.
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Yeah, I am rather dubious that there is ever a good reason to quote that much from a work.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
In cases where both dialogue and narration are necessary, every new line of dialogue is in its own paragraph. In other cases, some paragraphs are quite short; a few words or less.
Edit: Look, for example, at Honor Before Reason on Revenge of the Sith, or Ironic Echo on Shatterpoint.
edited 14th Jan '16 8:11:12 AM by HeraldAlberich
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Having examples gives us a better understanding for what you meant. I used Shatterpoint to fix two examples that were using quotes poorly.
- Flipping the Bird: There were two lines that weren't important to the example; we only needed a single paragraph.
- Ironic Echo: Yes, technically three paragraphs, but realistically, it is described as three lines of dialogue. What would be better, for a quote there, is the padawan's initial line, a [...], and then Mace's line.
Quotes are not supposed to operate as examples, they should only be there as features to the example, like a weblink.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
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I think most of the time it would be better (and easier) to truncate the quote to a small part of what's relevant, or just not use one at all.
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If there's a really good quote, it should go on the quotes page. The main page should really be more for brief one or two liners.
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I thought "three ideas" was important context, but I see your point.
This is really a formatting question. My interest is in making sure the wiki has a consistent look; there are a lot of wrong ways to format quotes, and I'm looking for the right one.
So, given that a multi-paragraph quote is occasionally appropriate, should it have spaces, or not? crazysamaritan, I have your answer; you removed the spaces from the Shatterpoint Ironic Echo quote. Anyone disagree?
When quoting a passage of a book containing multiple paragraphs, should one use two backslashes (\\) for a line break, or three (\\\) for a paragraph break? Text-Formatting Rules says to have blank lines separating paragraphs in general, but is nonspecific when it comes to quotes.
I'm thinking specifically of the quotes on Literature.Revenge Of The Sith. For Shatterpoint and Dark Rendezvous, I used the paragraph breaks, but they tend to add a lot of blank space to the examples list. The quotes on Sith don't have them, and I can't decide what looks better.