Help:Quotes

Quotations can be included in articles by using a quote template.

A warning: If you're using a quote from one of the many quote farms on the internet, there's a good chance that site is wrong about the exact wording and/or misattributing the quote to the wrong person. These sites are not authoritative. You should use a citation from a reputable source instead. Don't be lazy, add a citation for each quote that you add — it's less likely to be deleted by someone else.

Examples of reputable sources for quotations:
 * A book or article written by the quoted person themself
 * A contemporaneous quote in a news media source that adheres to journalistic standards
 * A book of quotations published by a major publisher — preferably one that uses citations for the original sources
 * Quote Investigator
 * Wikiquote — if a source of the quote is given

Quotebox
Quotebox is the simplest to use, it simply encloses the words in a coloured box:

produces:

Using html 'center' (note US spelling) tags,  produces:

And with wikiformatting: produces:

If this is part of a conversation then  produces

There are currently 7 colors to choose from!

Quotebox2
Similar to quotebox but with more customization allowed. You can change the width, alignment etc.

q
q (or Q) puts the quote in italics & normal quotation marks. The source can be added. produces:

Note that the source is formatted as a wikilink so if it doesn't exist it will be red.

Quote
Also basically q.

Cquote
Cquote separates the quotation from the bulk of the article by using graphic quotation marks. cquote is for short quotes, not to be used for long blocks of quotation. Use quotebox or longquote for long quotes.

produces: Whatever you want to quote goes here

Cquote has other parameters: width & height of the actual quotation mark images (default = 20px).

produces:

Whatever you want to quote goes here

Name of the person that wrote or spoke the text being quoted. Can include links.

produces: Whatever you want to quote goes here

produces: Whatever you want to quote goes here

Source of the quote (publication title, speech, etc.). Can include links.

produces: Whatever you want to quote goes here

Note: The first parameter (the actual quote) is required - others may be omitted but, if a later one is included then the pipe symbols (|) for previous ones must be present. So in order to make a quote with a byline only, use this syntax: some brilliant non sequitur ''' -- you can see the two extra " pipes " that would be where the "quote mark size" parameters would be. Or you can use the ordinals of the parameters:

produces: Whatever you want to quote goes here

NB There is a special requirement for quotes including the equals sign (=): the quote wording must be preceded by: " 1= " (no quotes).

Ctransquote
Exactly like cquote but for displaying translations of quotes.

Rquote
Rquote is intended for short quotations that are to one side of the article, with the main text flowing around it. It has four parameters, the first two of which are compulsory. Note that it acts very much like a "thumb"ed image.


 * Alignment is the first compulsory parameter, it can have 2 values: right and left. The second compulsory parameter is the actual text of the quotation.

right
produces:

left
produces:

As with Cquote the author & source can be included.

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Longquote
A quote template for long quotations that you wish to highlight. It should be restricted to two uses per page as over emphasis is ostentatious. Use quotebox for when Longquote is too fancy.

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Do you have a really long quote?
Just use  instead of any of the templates. If the quote is really long, the templates will refuse to load the quote.

Example using a quote from Christopher Hitchens: Some people I know who are atheists will say they wish they could believe it. Some people I know who are former believers say they wish they could have their old faith back; they miss it. I don't understand this at all. I think it's an excellent thing that there's no reason to believe in the absurd propositions I admittedly, rather briefly, rehearsed to you.

The main reason for this, I think, is that it is a totalitarian belief. It is. It is the desire that there be an, who can convict you of thought crime while you are asleep. Who can subject you — who MUST indeed subject you — to a total surveillance, around the clock, every waking and sleeping minute of your life — I say of your life; before you're born, and even worse (and where the real fun begins), after you're dead. A celestial North Korea. Who wants this to be true? Who but a slave desires such a ghastly fate?

I've been to North Korea. It has a dead man as its president. Kim Jong-il is only the head of the party and head of the army; he's not head of the government or the state. That office belongs to his deceased father, Kim Il-sung. It's a necrocracy, a thanatocracy — it's one short of the Trinity, I might add. The son is the reincarnation of the father. It is the most revolting, and utter, and absolute, and heartless tyranny the human species has ever evolved.

But at LEAST you can fucking DIE and leave North Korea. Does the Qur'an or the Bible offer you that liberty? No! No, the tyranny, the misery, the utter ownership of your entire personality, the smashing of your individuality, only begins at the point of death. This is evil; this is a wicked preachment.