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Due to the utterly intractable [[MediaWiki]] bug reported at {{bugzilla|6200}}, and still unfixed {{as of|February 2012|lc=y}}, block quoting on Wikipedia, with or without a template, cannot handle freeform linebreaking for paragraphs and poems and the like, unless formatted one very specific (and annoying) way. It's not a problem of blockquote templates, but all uses of {{tag|blockquote|open}}.
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The {{code|lang=html|code=<blockquote>}} element and any templates that use it do not honor newlines:
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{{markup
The intuitive choice:
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
<blockquote>
<blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1<br />
Line 2<br />1
Line 3<br />
Line 4}}</code></blockquote>
results in the mangled:
{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4}}
</blockquote>
</syntaxhighlight>
Blank lines seem to work at first:
|<blockquote>
Line 1
<blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1<br />
<br />
Line 2<br />
<br />
Line 3<br />
<br />
Line 4}}</code></blockquote>
though with quite tall spacing between the content blocks (lines, in our test cases):
{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
</blockquote>
}}
An easy solution is to use the {{tl|poemquote}} template instead of {{xtag|blockquote}}. This is effectively the same as using the {{xtag|poem}} tag inside {{code|lang=html|code=<blockquote>}}, which converts line breaks to {{code|lang=html|code=<br />}} tags:
Line 4}}
{{markup
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
Yet this markup fails with wiki ":" indentation:
<blockquote><poem>
Line 1
:{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
</poem></blockquote>
</syntaxhighlight>
|<blockquote><poem>
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
</poem></blockquote>
}}
To markup actual paragraphs within block quotations, entire blank lines can be used between them, which will convert to {{code|lang=html|code=<p>...</p>}} tags:
Line 4}}
Just trying to use {{tag|p}} or {{tag|br|single}} markup won't solve all the problems:
<blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1<br/><br />
Line 2<br/><br />
Line 3<br/><br />
Line 4}}</code></blockquote>
results in odd spacing, with the middle blocks too close together:
{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1<br/>
Line 2<br/>
Line 3<br/>
Line 4}}
Meanwhile this version seems okay at first:
<blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|<p>Line 1</p><br />
<p>Line 2</p><br />
<p>Line 3</p><br />
<p>Line 4</p>}}</code></blockquote>
{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|<p>Line 1</p>
<p>Line 2</p>
<p>Line 3</p>
<p>Line 4</p>}}
but again can't be indented:
:{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|<p>Line 1</p>
<p>Line 2</p>
<p>Line 3</p>
<p>Line 4</p>}}
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{{As of|February 2012}}, the {{em|only}} solution for the problem is to use {{em|unbroken markup}} with {{tag|p}} or {{tag|br|single}} elements (or others, like nested blockquotes and lists):
:{{tnull|<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1<br/>Line 2<br/>Line 3<br/>Line 4.}}
which, while hard to read, especially for long content, results in the expected:
{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1<br/>Line 2<br/>Line 3<br/>Line 4.}}
And it {{em|does}} work with wikimarkup ":" indentation, unlike the failed test cases above:
:{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1<br/>Line 2<br/>Line 3<br/>Line 4.}}
Happily, there is an HTML-comment workaround for readability that lets you do whatever you want:
<blockquote><code><nowiki>
{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|1=<!--<br />
-->Line 1<br/><!--<br />
-->Line 2<br/><!--<br />
-->Line 3<br/><!--<br />
-->Line 4.}}
</code></blockquote>
or even:
<blockquote><code><nowiki>
{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|1=<!--<br />
<br />
-->Line 1<br/><!--<br />
<br />
-->Line 2<br/><!--<br />
<br />
-->Line 3<br/><!--<br />
<br />
-->Line 4.}}
</code></blockquote>
which results in the expected:
{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|1=<!--
-->Line 1<br/><!--
{{markup
-->Line 2<br/><!--
|<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
<blockquote>
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
-->Line 3<br/><!--
Paragraph 3
-->Line 4.}}
</blockquote>
</syntaxhighlight>
|<blockquote>
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
They {{em|are}} indentable:
Paragraph 3
:{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|1=<!--
</blockquote>
-->Line 1<br/><!--
}}
-->Line 2<br/><!--
-->Line 3<br/><!--
-->Line 4.}}
<noinclude>
This paragraph style also works with {{tl|quote}}, which is a replacement for {{xtag|blockquote}} that also has parameters to make formatting of the attribution more conveniently and consistently.
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