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Template:Lorem Ipsum 2

Interesting, the two {{Lorem Ipsum 2}} paragraphs are "joined" by <blockquote>. Actually as expected, only I was confused by this effect - the Wiki markup "empty line = new paragraph" can't work within a blockquote. -- Omniplex 19:46, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Before I had changed from blockquote here to a div because of that problem, but apparently it have changed back, I'll go and make my edit again. _→AzaToth 20:05, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Revert war

You do realize that every single time you revert a template, all the pages that use it have to be recached, right? — BRIAN0918 • 2006-08-16 21:17

The template is still messed up. I don't know how to fix it, but it's throwing the "credit" line away when it has to share the page with an infobox or an image. See The Spy Who Loved Me. Notice the credit line has been thrown to the bottom of the infobox. See also James Bond (character) which uses it a couple times. One with an image where the credit line is screwed again. The credit line should probably also be justified to the left (and indented) not the right. It looks awkward on the right especially with short quotes. K1Bond007 05:19, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

It looks fine on my computer at 1280x1024, my resolution. — BRIAN0918 • 2006-08-17 05:54

Then it's Firefox. I took a screenshot. Notice the location of the credit line. K1Bond007 18:41, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

I took a crack at fixing it. Pretty sure I got it. K1Bond007 05:27, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm using Firefox. — BRIAN0918 • 2006-08-31 18:32Z

Revert

I just reverted a change which was causing the layout in Black Mesa (game mod) to completely stuff up. — JeremyTalk 07:41, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Don't use this?

I saw a page that had what looked like a blockquote containing " marks. Proper style is to not have quotation marks around the text formatted as a block quote, so I went to edit the section. I found, not a <blockquote> tag, but this template. The quotes were included as part of the template I saw. They were supposed to be "Big", but I didn't notice that they were large and curvy until this was pointed out. I think simply appending the big quote at the end will affect the line spacing, so that's not nice. Anyway, for accessibility and customization, blockquotes should use <blockquote>. Block quotations (as opposed to "pull quotes") should not have quotation marks or decorative embellishments.

So, I removed the use of the template. Just saying <blockquote> isn't all that hard, so what's the point of having the template? Well, I have to decide how to handle the attribution line. There ought to be support for that in the Wiki style sheets, but if there is indeed I don't know how it should be tagged. So, what we really need is one official block quote template that, when used, will please users of assistive technologies or alternative browsers, and work with (possibly customized) style sheets across the board.

Needing a category for quotation templates is a bad sign. —Długosz

The major problem with blockquote is that it doesn't handöe wiki-linebreaks. _→AzaToth 22:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

The main problem with this template is about a half-dozen problems.

<div style="margin:1em 5% 0.5em;position:relative;">
 <p><big style="position:absolute;left:-1ex;">“</big>
  ...
  <big>”</big></p>
  <dl>
  <dd>[cite]</dd>
  </dl>
  </div>

It is against the MOS. It is non-semantic, using visual formatting. It uses a div and p instead of blockquote. It adds quotation marks to a block quotation. It accomplishes indentation two different ways: once with CSS and once using a dl. Wikipedia doesn't need this amateurish markup.

Burn it. Replace it with proper blockquote tags, as required by the MOS, or if you enamoured with templates, use Template:Quote. —Michael Z. 2007-06-26 22:09 Z

Agreed. — Omegatron 20:28, 23 July 2007 (UTC)