Thread:Mikex20/@comment-24652145-20150812204929/@comment-24652145-20150926002210

I've been working on some more quotes here and there. But the style and appearance might need some tinkering and I'd like some opinions other than my own.

Below is a sample of one I did for Ezri Dax's character page.

"''It's a strange sensation, dying. No matter how many times it happens to you, you never get used to it." ―Ezri Dax, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Afterimage"''

I figure we can eventually put in the link for "Afterimage" (once we create the episode page) as well. But I was wondering, do you think it needs more like: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7, Episode 3 "Afterimage"?

Or maybe something simpler like: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 7.03 Afterimage? Looks better?

I'm sorta torn. The way I got right now seems fairly clean and once we get the HTML link to the episode page, fine. On the other hand, I'm wondering if it needs the season and episode numbers as well for just completeness.

The next question that I have on the quote style and appearance format has to do with conversations. I got a fairly long conversation posted on:  2.8 I, Mudd; that I think you might wanna take a gander at.

First, should we even bother to hyperlink all of the names of the people in the conversation? I'm leaning towards no since they'll be listed in the Cast LIst of the Episode already.

Second, should we continue to use bullets? It just doesn't seem to fit too well. They work great for emphasizing a section or for a single quote line, but for conversation like this? As a matter of style, they look a bit unwieldly considering it's not separate quotes but one entire scene. On the other hand, it's part of the format style that we use for the single line quotes. Removing them entirely makes it look mismatched. We use bullets for single-line quotes but for conversation quotes we dont?

Thirdly, italic the conversation but leave the names as plain text? Or do something else like bold the names and leave the conversation plain text? I think it needs something to differentiate between the speakers and their speech. I have no problem with italicizing a single line quote but a conversation like this seems excessive. I tried it for the conversation but after I saw how it looks, I just switched it back to all plain text.

Fourth, this is a HUGE block of text. And if we decide to add more quotes from this episode; it needs some sort of way for the readers to keep it separate. Any ideas? Like maybe some sort of divider line or maybe like a large quote box to encompass the whole text block?

Let me know what you think. Do you think we should get some additional opinions from some of the other Admins?