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{{para|title}} a.k.a. {{para|3}}—Optional title of the work the quote appears in, to display below the quotation. 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]])}}. Additional citation information can be provided in a fourth parameter, {{para|source}}, below, which will appear after the title. |
{{para|title}} a.k.a. {{para|3}}—Optional title of the work the quote appears in, to display below the quotation. 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]])}}. Additional 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}}—Optionally used for additional source information to display, after {{para|title}}, like so: {{para|title|"The Aerodynamics of Shaved Weasels"}}{{para|source| |
{{para|source}} a.k.a. {{para|4}}—Optionally used for additional source information to display, after {{para|title}}, like so: {{para|title|"The Aerodynamics of Shaved Weasels"}}{{para|source|{{code|2=moin|''Perspectives on Mammal Barbering'', 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}}—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}}. |
{{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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:{{para|source|Anonymous interview subject, in Jane G. Arthur, "The Aerodynamics of Shaved Weasels", ''Perspectives on Mammal Barbering''(2016), Bram Xander Yojimbo (ed.)}} |
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But this is a bit messy, and will impede later efforts to generate metadata from quotation attribution the way we are already doing with source citations. This is much more usable: |
But this is a bit messy, and will impede later efforts to generate metadata from quotation attribution the way we are already doing with source citations. This is much more usable: |
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:{{para|character|Anonymous interview subject}} |
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<code><nowiki>|character=Anonymous interview subject |author=Jane G. Arthur |title="The Aerodynamics of Shaved Weasels" |source=''Perspectives on Mammal Barbering'' (2016), Bram Xander Yojimbo (ed.)</nowiki></code> |
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:{{para|author|Jane G. Arthur}} |
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:{{para|title|"The Aerodynamics of Shaved Weasels"}} |
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:{{para|source|{{code|2=moin|''Perspectives on Mammal Barbering'' (2016), Bram Xander Yojimbo (ed.)}}}} |
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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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Revision as of 07:43, 13 November 2017
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