Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/block quote

Signpost quote template
[moved from User talk:Jonesey95.] Hi Jonesey, note ; the previous edits changed the appearance of many old Signpost articles that were designed to have background shading. It also led to multi-para quotes being broken up. It just didn't look right, and given the potentially large number of articles involved, going back many years, this seems like the easiest solution. Best, --Andreas JN 466 15:24, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I made the edit so that the function of this template would match its name (inline, not block content), and to fix Linter errors where the template is used with indenting colons. If this is what you want, please fix all of the instances where this template is indented with colons so that they do not cause Linter errors. You can find a list of those pages at this link. Also please move the page to a name that matches its function, such as "Block long quote", since it is a block template, not an inline template (see the documentation at Talk quote block for details). Pinging as an FYI, since that editor appears to be interested in Signpost formatting and cleanup these days. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:38, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I'll leave it to JPxG, as he's the editor-in-chief. But I don't think it's likely that there are many pages at all where this template is combined with colons. It's generally present in Signpost draft articles, because it is part of the quote section of Template:Signpost draft helper, which generates this:

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 * I think the name mismatch happened because User:Resident Mario, who created this template years ago, changed his mind on how exactly he wanted the quotes to look a few days after he created it. But it's been used with this design now for the best part of a decade, and because it's in the draft helper (as well as the editnotice and God knows where else ...) everybody is used to it. --Andreas JN 466 17:05, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I went through and inspected all of the Signpost pages with transclusions of this template and fixed the Linter errors related to this template. I have also moved this page to a more sensible name. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:23, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for all your efforts, that's very kind. Regards, Andreas JN 466 21:50, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Thank you both for messing around with this: it is perhaps a happy coincidence, as I was trying to make sense of it a couple days ago myself. As far as I can tell, there are two nearly-identical Signpost pull-quote templates (the normal one and v2). Neither are used in a large number of pages, so I think that an AWB run could clear up whatever errors exist. It is pretty late, so I will not deal with it now, but it will be on my list! jp×g 12:46, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
 * It looks like there are five or six quote templates in . Fun! – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:32, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
 * It is more than that: the whole thing is a mess. If you look at the full report from Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index, there are 300-some templates across the prefixes of,  ,  ,  , and  . As far as I can tell (from Wikipedia Signpost/Omni-index/Linkshere), the majority of these were either never used for anything, or used only a couple of times and forgotten about entirely. Some of them are redirects created from typo fixes in page titles with no incoming links... I have been trying to clean this mess up, but it is rough going (a batch nomination at RfD, for example, is likely to take weeks to complete). If you want to help spelunk, I am trying to keep some record of what's been done at Wikipedia Signpost/Technical (and the talk page). jp×g 21:10, 27 January 2023 (UTC)