diff --git a/src/calibre/customize/__init__.py b/src/calibre/customize/__init__.py
index d75ef63063..c7ac55799f 100644
--- a/src/calibre/customize/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/customize/__init__.py
@@ -421,6 +421,7 @@ class MetadataReaderPlugin(Plugin):  # {{{
         Return metadata for the file represented by stream (a file like object
         that supports reading). Raise an exception when there is an error
         with the input data.
+
         :param type: The type of file. Guaranteed to be one of the entries
         in :attr:`file_types`.
         :return: A :class:`calibre.ebooks.metadata.book.Metadata` object
@@ -452,6 +453,7 @@ class MetadataWriterPlugin(Plugin):  # {{{
         Set metadata for the file represented by stream (a file like object
         that supports reading). Raise an exception when there is an error
         with the input data.
+
         :param type: The type of file. Guaranteed to be one of the entries
         in :attr:`file_types`.
         :param mi: A :class:`calibre.ebooks.metadata.book.Metadata` object
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
index 1e9ad4718e..5976bc051f 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
@@ -829,6 +829,7 @@ class BasicNewsRecipe(Recipe):
         Called when each HTML page belonging to article is downloaded.
         Intended to be used to get article metadata like author/summary/etc.
         from the parsed HTML (soup).
+
         :param article: A object of class :class:`calibre.web.feeds.Article`.
         If you change the summary, remember to also change the
         text_summary