Template:Quote2/doc

Usage

{{Quote2}} adds a block quotation to an article page.

Note: Block quotes do not normally contain quotation marks. See Manual of style.

Synopsis

Unnamed (positional) parameters

{{quote2|text|author|source}} This markup will fail if any parameter contains an equals sign (=).

Numbered (positional) parameters

{{quote2|1=text|2=author|3=source}}

Examples

Wikitext

{{Quote2|1=Cry "Havoc" and let slip the dogs of war.|2=William Shakespeare|3=Julius Caesar (play), act III, scene I}}

Result

“	Cry "Havoc" and let slip the dogs of war.	”
—William Shakespeare,  Julius Caesar (play), act III, scene I

Wikitext

{{Quote2|text=We are told not to worry about breakthrough cases because they are ‘mild’ – but long Covid is anything but mild|author=Hannah Davis|source=The Guardian}}

Result

“	We are told not to worry about breakthrough cases because they are ‘mild’ – but long Covid is anything but mild	”
—Hannah Davis,  The Guardian

Restrictions

If you do not provide quoted text, the template generates a parser error message, which will appear in red text in the rendered page.

If any parameter's actual value contains an equals sign (=), you must use named parameters. (The equals sign gets interpreted as a named parameter otherwise.)

If any parameter's actual value contains characters used for wiki markup syntax (such as pipe, brackets, single quotation marks, etc.), you may need to escape it. See Template:! and friends.

Be wary of URLs which contain restricted characters. The equals sign is especially common.

Multiple paragraphs

The <blockquote> element and any templates that use it do not honor newlines:

Markup	Renders as
<blockquote> Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 </blockquote>	Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4

The simplest workaround for this is to use the <poem> tag inside <blockquote>, which will convert line breaks to <br /> tags:

Markup	Renders as
<blockquote><poem> Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 </poem></blockquote>	<poem> Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 </poem>

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly error report for this template.

TemplateData for Quote2

Adds a quote with graphical speech marks.

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
text	1 1 quote	The text to quote	String	required
author(s)	2 2 person author	The person who is being quoted, can be linked Example [[Charles Shepherd]]	String	suggested
source	3 3 book article	A source for the quote - book, article, etc Example The flu vaccine and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome	String	suggested