Template:Quotation/doc
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Usage edit
- 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
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
- 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