Template talk:Quote

For some bizarre reason, &lt;/span&gt; tags started appearing on quotes that lacked a secondary reference. That is, if it was just "Some quote, some spud" it would have the &lt;/span&gt; tag, but didn't affect "Some quote, some spud, that book he wrote". When checking the 'quote' template page everything seemed fine. There were no changes to it, and no superfluous &lt;/span&gt; tags could be found. Removing the actual functioning &lt;/span&gt; tag just made things worse, as &lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/p&gt; started popping up instead. So, this has to be the result of some wonky change upstream. I just removed all of these tags (note to self: these are two brackets from the end of 3 at the very end) and hope that the backend (&/or the readers' browsers) can handle the lack of closing tags well enough. So far that seems to be the case. I checked quotes with both primary and secondary attribution, as well as the unattributed quotes found with the species write-ups.
 * <span style="background-image: -o-linear-gradient(left, silver, black); background:-webkit-gradient(linear, left top, right top, from(silver), to(black)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(left, darkred, silver, black, black); color:blue; border:4px ridge; border-color:black black red red; border-radius:2em 2em 2em 10em; text-shadow: -22px -9px 15px yellow, 0px -1px 2px rgb(255, 255, 0), 0px -3px 3px rgb(255, 204, 0), 0px -5px 4px rgb(255, 153, 0), -2px -7px 5px rgb(255, 102, 0), -2px -9px 6px rgb(255, 51, 0), -3px -11px 7px rgb(255, 0, 0); " >    ————Golgotha—Kinslayer— &#9760; || || || ||

I believe I have solved the problem, if not the mystery. Tags weren't nested properly, apparently. I don't know if the error was mine, but let's say that it was. I'm still a bit puzzled as to what happened, and why it seemed to suddenly appear a couple of days ago, when everything was fine as of at least a week prior (when the last edits on some of the affected pages occurred).

Oh, well. I just hope that the problem is truly fixed, and goes the fuck away forever. "Everything sucks. It's broke and I'm stumped."

- Golgotha


 * <span style="background-image: -o-linear-gradient(left, silver, black); background:-webkit-gradient(linear, left top, right top, from(silver), to(black)); background:-moz-linear-gradient(left, darkred, silver, black, black); color:blue; border:4px ridge; border-color:black black red red; border-radius:2em 2em 2em 10em; text-shadow: -22px -9px 15px yellow, 0px -1px 2px rgb(255, 255, 0), 0px -3px 3px rgb(255, 204, 0), 0px -5px 4px rgb(255, 153, 0), -2px -7px 5px rgb(255, 102, 0), -2px -9px 6px rgb(255, 51, 0), -3px -11px 7px rgb(255, 0, 0); " >    ————Golgotha—Kinslayer— &#9760; || || || ||