Template:Quoted text

This Template is used for directly quoting the text of official sources. When quoting the words of a real-life person, use Template:Quote instead.

While short quotations may be given with simple quotation marks and inline citation, longer quotes (more than a phrase or sentence or two) should use this template.

Extended quotes should be reformatted to be summarized and given a citation without directly quoting long passages of copyrighted material.

Usage

There is no need to place extra line-breaks before or after the quote.

The basic implementation of this template:

{{quoted text|Quoted passage goes here.|citation}}

If paragraphs need to be separated with formatting, add </p> to the end of a line where a paragraph break should occur.

Footnote citations must be given in a "citation" parameter, separated by a pipe ( | ) in normal format, using either the {{csb}} template or HTML <ref> tags.

Note that though all these display the same information, they stack separately in the References section. All citations should be internally consistent (using the same format) within a single article), so that they stack and group properly. Don't use different citation styles on the same page.

Such as:

{{quoted text|Quoted passage goes here.| {{csb|LGG|123}} }}
{{quoted text|Quoted passage goes here.| {{csb|Living Greyhawk Gazetteer|123}} }}
{{quoted text|Quoted passage goes here.| {{cite sourcebook|Living Greyhawk Gazetteer|123}}  }}
{{quoted text|Quoted passage goes here.| <ref>''[[Living Greyhawk Gazetteer]] (2000)'', p.123.</ref> }}

Which display as:

"Quoted passage goes here."

"Quoted passage goes here."

"Quoted passage goes here."

"Quoted passage goes here."

Inline citations may be added within the quoted text:

{{quoted text|The Flanaess is particularly blessed in regard to its weather.—WoG folio (1980), p.5}}

"The Flanaess is particularly blessed in regard to its weather.—WoG folio (1980), p.5"

Examples

This:

Inline text. {{quoted text|As is obvious, the Oerik continent is the major center of the world, and the easter portion, the Flanaess, is the center of enlightened humanity.  Oerth has four great continents and countless islands, and four great oceans and countless seas which surround these bodies of land. Little is known about the lands of the western portion of Oerik, less still about the savage inhabitants of the other continents.|{{csb|WoG|4}}}}  More inline text.

Displays as:

Inline text.

"As is obvious, the Oerik continent is the major center of the world, and the easter portion, the Flanaess, is the center of enlightened humanity. Oerth has four great continents and countless islands, and four great oceans and countless seas which surround these bodies of land. Little is known about the lands of the western portion of Oerik, less still about the savage inhabitants of the other continents."

More inline text.