Template:Quotation
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Usage
[edit source]- You should not put quotation marks around the quote.
{{Quotation|quoted material|Author|Title|Publication}}
quoted material
— Author, Title, Publication
{{Quotation|quoted material|Author||skip italics to use '' '' for italics}}
quoted material
— Author, skip italics to use '' '' for italics
{{Quotation|quoted material|Author|Title|}}
quoted material
— Author, Title
{{Quotation|quoted material}}
quoted material
The equal sign (=)
[edit source]If any of the parameters include an equal sign, this will make the template not recognize the parameter properly. To fix this the parameter needs to be prefixed with "1=", "2=", etc., depending on which parameter this applies to.
See also
[edit source]- Template:Bq – quote without border, page-wide; like (and compatible with parameters of) the older {{Quote}} but with more features; conversion from all others listed here is trivially easy (retaining key data, losing decoration, etc.)
- Template:Quote – quote without border, page-wide, smaller-sized attribution
- Template:Quotation – quote with border, page-wide
- Template:Quote box – quote with border, in a reduced floating box
- Template:Cquote – pull-quote between large quotation marks, page-wide; should rarely be used in articles and is not for block quotations, only pull quotes
- Template:Rquote – pull-quote between large quotation marks, in a reduced floating area; also rarely appropriate in articles
- Template:Talkquote – for quoting other editors (or guidelines, etc.) on talk pages (in a block)
- Template:Tq - for quoting on talk pages, inline
- Category:Quotation templates