Template:Quoted text

This Template is used for directly quoting official sourcebooks.

While short inline quotations may be given with simple quotation marks and a 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

The basic implementation of this template:

Do not place extra line-breaks before or after the quote.

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

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

Such as:

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

Which display as:

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.

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.