साचा:Quote/doc

Usage

साचा:tlx adds a block quotation to an article page.

This is easier to type and is more wiki-like than the equivalent HTML साचा:tag tags, and has additional pre-formatted attribution parameters for author and source (though these are not usually used in articles; साचा:crossref).

Note: Block quotes do साचा:em normally contain quotation marks साचा:crossref.

Examples

Basic useसाचा:colon

{{Quote
|text=Quoted material.
}}

With attribution displayedसाचा:colon

{{Quote
|text=Quoted material.
|author=First M. Last
}}

With more attributionसाचा:colon

{{Quote
|text=Quoted material.
|author=First M. Last |title="Article Title"  |source=''Book Title'' (date)
}}

Parameters

|text= a.k.a. |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 a non-escaped "=" character (e.g., in a URL in a source citation) will break the template.

Displayed attribution

These parameters for for साचा:em attribution information below the quote; this should not be confused with a citing a source साचा:crossref. These parameters are entirely optional, and are usually used with famous quotations, not routine block quotations, which are usually sourced at the end of the introductory line immediately before the quotation, with a normal साचा:tag tag.

|author= a.k.a. |2=—Optional Author/speaker attribution information that will appear below the quotation, and preceded with an attribution dash.

|title= a.k.a. |3=—Optional title of the work the quote appears in, to display below the quotation. This parameter immediately follows the output of |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 साचा:crossref. Additional citation information can be provided in a fourth parameter, |source=, below, which will appear after the title.

|source= a.k.a. |4=—Optionally used for additional source information to display, after |title=, like so: |title="The Aerodynamics of Shaved Weasels"|source=साचा:code; a comma will be auto-generated between the two parameters. If |source= is used without |title=, it simply acts as |title=. (This parameter was added primarily to ease conversion from misuse of the pull quote template साचा:tlx for block quotation, but it may aid in cleaner meta-data implementation later.)

|character= a.k.a. |char=—to attribute fictional speech to a fictional character, साचा:em 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 "[[[:साचा:Var]]], 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 |author= parameter instead of |character=.

Technically, all citation information can be given in a single parameter, as in:

|source=Anonymous interview subject, in Jane G. Arthur, "The Aerodynamics of Shaved Weasels", Perspectives on Mammal Barbering(2016), Bram Xander Yojimbo (ed.)

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:

|character=Anonymous interview subject

|author=Jane G. Arthur

|title="The Aerodynamics of Shaved Weasels"

|source=साचा:code

Later development can assign a CSS class and so forth to these separate parameters, upon which scripts would be able to operate (e.g. to look up things in WikiQuote).

Rarely used technical parameters

|multiline=—some of the issues with the formatting of quotes with line breaks can be fixed by using |multiline=y (see the line breaks section for other options).

|style=—allows specifying additional CSS styles (not classes) to apply to the साचा:tag element. साचा:Crossref

Parameter list

{{Quote
| quote     =
| author    =
| title     =
| source    =
| character =
| multiline =
| style     =
}}

Reference citations

साचा:anchor A reference citation can be placed before the quote, after the quote, or in the source parameter:

• Typical use: In the regular-prose introduction to the quotation, when a quotation is given without the displayed author, title, or source parameters:According to Pat Doe, in "Underwater Basketweaving Tips" (2015):<ref>...</ref> {{quote |text=Quoted material.}}
• At the end of the quotation, when a quotation is given without the displayed author, title, or source parameters, and placement before the quote isn't appropriate (e.g. because the material immediately before the quote isn't cited to the same source or introduces multiple quotes from different sources:Pat Doe and Chris Foo took opposing positions: {{quote |text=Doe's Quoted material.<ref>...</ref>}} {{quote |text=Foo's Quoted material.<ref>...</ref>}}
• After the source value (if a value is given for the source parameter other than the साचा:tag itself):One expert noted in 2015: {{quote |text=Quoted material. |author=Pat Doe |source="Underwater Basketweaving Tips" (2015)<ref>...</ref>}}
• साचा:strongbad: After the quoted person's name in author, or after the work's title in title, when a source parameter is not being added:As noted in "Underwater Basketweaving Tips" (2015): {{quote |text=Quoted material. |author=Pat Doe<ref>...</ref>}}
  Please avoid that format, as it will pollute the author or title metadata with non-author or non-title information.

Please do not place the citation in a |author= or |source= parameter by itself, as it will produce a nonsensical attribution line that looks like:
साचा:in5— साचा:fake ref
Please also do not put it just outside the साचा:tnull template, as this will cause a:
साचा:in5साचा:fake ref
on a line by itself.

Style

Styling is applied through CSS rules in MediaWiki:Common.css.

/* Styling for Template:Quote */
blockquote.templatequote {
     margin-top: 0;
}
blockquote.templatequote div.templatequotecite {
    line-height: 1.5em;
    /* @noflip */
    text-align: left;
    /* @noflip */
    padding-left: 1.6em;
    margin-top: 0;
}

HTML:

<blockquote class="templatequote">
<p>Quote text.</p>
<div class="templatequotecite"><cite>—Author, Source</cite></div>
</blockquote>

Limitations

साचा:anchor If you do not provide 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 a named parameter (e.g. |text=, not a blank-name positional parameter. The text before the equals sign gets misinterpreted as a named parameter otherwise. Be wary of URLs, which frequently contain this character. Named parameters are always safer, in this an other templates.

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.

Next to right-floated boxes

साचा:As of, the text of a block quotation may rarely overflow (in Firefox or other Gecko browsers) a right-floated item (e.g. a साचा:tlx box, when that item is below another right-floated item of a fixed size that is narrower. In Safari and other Webkit browsers (and even more rarely in Chrome/Chromium) the same condition can cause the block quotation to be pushed downward. Both of these problems can be fixed by either:

1. removing the sizing on the upper item and letting it use its default size (e.g. removing साचा:varxसाचा:varpx sizing or |upright= from a right-floated image above a wider right-floated object that is being overflowed by quotation text; or
2. using |style=overflow:inherit; in the quotation template.

There may be other solutions, and future browser upgrades may eliminate the issue. It arises at all because of the blockquote { overflow: hidden; } CSS declaration in Mediawiki:Common.css, which itself works around other, more common display problems. A solution that fixes साचा:em of the issues is unknown at this time.

Vanishing quotes

In rare layout cases, e.g. when quotes are sandwiched between userboxes, a quotation may appear blanked out, in some browsers. The workaround for this problem is to add |style=overflow:inherit; to such an instance of the template.

Line breaks

This template sets a text style which might ignore one blank line, and so the template must be ended with a break (newline) or the next blank line might be ignored. Otherwise, beware inline, as:

• text here {{quote|this is quoted}} More text here

spans a blank line, unless a {{quote|...}} is ended with a line break, then the next blank line might be ignored and two paragraphs joined.

Nested quotations

The साचा:tag element has styles that change the font size: on desktop, text is smaller; on mobile, it is larger. This change is relative to the enclosing context, meaning that if you quote from a source that itself uses a block quotation, you'll find that the inner quotation is either really tiny and hard to read, or really large and barely fits on the screen. Additionally, you'll get an extra pair of decorative, oversize quotation marks. To fix both these issues, add the parameter |style=font-size:inherit;quotes:none; on any inner {{quote}} templates.

Errors

Pages where this template is not used correctly populate Category:Pages incorrectly using the quote template. The category tracks tranclusions of Template:Quote that have no text given for quotation or use an equals sign in the argument of an unnamed parameter. It also tracks usage of |class=, |id=, |diff=, |4=, or |5=.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

TemplateData for Quote

Adds a block quotation.

साच्याचे प्राचल (पॅरामिटर्स)

प्राचल		वर्णन	प्रकार	स्थिती
text	text 1 quote	The text to quote उदाहरण Cry "Havoc" and let slip the dogs of war.	आशय	हवे
sign	sign 2 cite author	The person being quoted उदाहरण [[William Shakespeare]]	आशय	सुचविलेले
source	source 3	A source for the quote उदाहरण ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'', act III, scene I	आशय	सुचविलेले