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=== Parameters === |
=== Parameters === |
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{{para|text}} a.k.a. {{para|1}} |
{{para|text}} a.k.a. {{para|1}}—The material being quoted, without quotation marks around it. It is always safest to name this parameter (rather than use an unnamed positional parameter), because, otherwise, any inclusion of the = character (e.g., in a URL in a source citation) will break the template. |
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{{para|author}} a.k.a. {{para|2}} |
{{para|author}} a.k.a. {{para|2}}—Author/speaker attribution information that will appear below the quotation, and preceded with an attribution dash. |
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{{para|title}} a.k.a. {{para|3}} |
{{para|title}} a.k.a. {{para|3}}—Title of the work the quote appears in. This parameter immediately follows the output of {{para|author}} (and an auto-generated comma), if one is provided. It does not auto-italicize. Major works (books, plays, albums, feature films, etc.) should be italicized; minor works (articles, chapters, poems, songs, TV episodes, etc.) go in quotation marks {{crossref|(see [[MOS:TITLES]])}}. Secondary citation information can be provided in a fourth parameter, {{para|source}}, below, which will appear after the title. |
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{{para|source}} a.k.a. {{para|4}} |
{{para|source}} a.k.a. {{para|4}}—Can optionally be used for additional source information, after {{para|title}}, like so: {{para|title|"The Aerodynamics of Shaved Weasels"}}{{para|source|<nowiki>''Perspectives on Mammal Barbering''</nowiki>, 2016}}; a comma will be auto-generated between the two parameters. If {{para|source}} is used without {{para|title}}, it simply acts as {{para|title}}. <small>(This parameter was added primarily to ease conversion from misuse of the [[pull quote]] template {{tlx|Quote frame}} for block quotation, but it may aid in cleaner meta-data implementation later.)</small> |
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{{para|character}} a.k.a. {{para|char}} |
{{para|character}} a.k.a. {{para|char}}—to attribute fictional speech to a fictional character, {{em|with}} other citation information. Can also be used to attribute real speech to a specific speaker among many, e.g. in a roundtable/panel transcript, a band interview, etc. This parameter outputs "[{{Var|Character's name}}], in" after the attribution dash and before the output of the parameters above, thus one or more of those parameters must also be supplied. If you need to cite a fictional speaker in an article about a single work of fiction, where repeating the author and title information would be redundant, you can just use the {{para|author}} parameter instead of {{para|character}}. |
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Technically, all citation information can be given in a single parameter, as in: |
Technically, all citation information can be given in a single parameter, as in: |
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Later development can assign a CSS <code>class</code> and so forth to these separate parameters, upon which scripts would be able to operate (e.g. to look up things in WikiQuote). |
Later development can assign a CSS <code>class</code> and so forth to these separate parameters, upon which scripts would be able to operate (e.g. to look up things in WikiQuote). |
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{{para|multiline}} |
{{para|multiline}}—some of the issues with the formatting of quotes with line breaks can be fixed by using {{para|multiline|y}} (see [[#Line_breaks|the line breaks section]] for other options). |
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==Reference citations== |
==Reference citations== |
Revision as of 02:25, 12 July 2016
This is a documentation subpage for Template:Terminate sentence It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. |
Usage
{{Quote}}
adds a block quotation to an article page.
This is easier to type and is more wiki-like than the equivalent HTML <blockquote>...</blockquote>
tags, and has additional pre-formatted attribution parameters for author and source.
Note: Block quotes do not normally contain quotation marks