Template:Quote2

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Template documentation

The Manual of Style guidelines for block quotations recommend formatting block quotations using the {{Blockquote}} template or the HTML <blockquote> element, for which that template provides a wrapper.

• Quotes work best when used with short sentences, and at the start or end of a section, as a hint of or to help emphasize the section's content.
• For typical quotes, especially those longer than the rest of the paragraph in which they are quoted, {{Cquote}} (for use outside of article space only) provides a borderless quote with decorative quotation marks, and {{Quote frame}} provides a bordered quote. Both span the page width.
• For very short quotes, {{Rquote}} (with decorative quotation marks, for use outside of article space only) or {{Quote box}} (framed) can be used to set the quote off to either the right or left as in a magazine sidebar. This can be effective on essay pages and WikiProject homepages.

Usage

This is a simple wrapper for {{Cquote}} that takes three parameters:

• first unnamed parameter – the text to be quoted (required)
• second unnamed parameter – the individual or organizational author of the quoted material (optional)
• third unnamed parameter – the subject of the quotation (optional)

Example:

{{Quote2|I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever. |[[Albert Einstein]] |labeling}}

produces:

“ I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever. ” — Albert Einstein,  on labeling

This sort of presentation is intended for wikiproject pages, userspace, and other non-article contexts. Use of it in articles will be a WP:UNDUE problem in most cases, and its centered presentation is inconsistent with the rest of our article layout.

Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.
Subpages of this template.