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Usage
[edit source]Use this template to quote other editors comments on talk pages. It can be safely used after colon-indenting as well (see the #Indenting example below).
Parameters
[edit source]- Unnamed (positional) parameters
{{talkquote|text|by}}
- text must come before by (if by is specified).
- Using named parameters
{{talkquote|text=text|by=by|source=source|ts=ts|diff=diff}}
- Explanation of named parameters
-
- text: The text being quoted (required).
- by: The author of the text being quoted (not required).
- source: The source of the text being quoted (not required). Use instead of by when source is not individual user.
- diff: The full URL of the diff showing the change that was made (not required).
- ts: The timestamp of the text being quoted (not required unless
diff
is specified).
Examples
[edit source]{{talkquote|some random text|Example}}
gives:
some random text
— User:Example
{{talkquote|more random text|Example|ts=~~~~~}}
gives:
more random text
— User:Example 08:52, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
{{talkquote|different random text|Example|ts=~~~~~|diff=http://en.Wikiversity.org/wiki/Main_Page?diff=139992}}
gives:
different random text
— User:Example 08:52, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
Indenting
[edit source]- The following wiki-markup:
Random paragraph of text. [[User:Example|Example]] ([[User talk:Example|talk]]) 09:20, 21 May 2011 (UTC) :Opening statement by [[User:User|Some other user]]. :{{talkquote|Quoting an item from random paragraph.}} :Response to quoted text. [[User:User|Some other user]] ([[User talk:User|talk]]) ~~~~~
- Gives the following:
Random paragraph of text. Example (talk) 09:20, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
- Opening statement by Some other user.
Quoting an item from random paragraph.
- Response to quoted text. Some other user (talk) 09:26, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
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