Template:Selected quote
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| “ | text of quote | ” |
| — [[]] |
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This template is used to configure the articles found in the Selected quote section found on most Wikipedia Portal main pages. Used it on the article pages that are linked to the Selected quote sub-page, e.g. Portal:Foo/Selected quote/1. For the quickest and easiest way to create the Portal:Foo/Selected bar sub-page and related article links, use one of the {{Numbered subpages}} templates.
Template layout
{{Selected quote
| quote = <!--- Required --->
| quoted = <!--- Required --->
| omit_quoted =
| comment =
| dates =
| source =
| section =
| archive =
}}
Usage
It is unnecessary to include braces, quotation marks or other wiki-markup in the template. The |comment= field does allow the use of wiki-markup at the contributor's discretion.
- quote - is the quote verbiage, no quotation marks needed.
- quoted - is name of the person who is being quoted, it will automatically Wikilink.
- omit quoted - Remove the linked quoted person. Use this in the rare case there is not an article on the individual on WP, set it to yes. If this is the case, use the |comment= field for the quoted person's name.
- comment - A brief, non-linked comment after the quoted individual's name.
- dates - The author's date of birth and death, no parenthesis needed.
- source - The work the quote is coming from, it will automatically Wikilink.
- section - is the section in the work the quote appears.
- archive - Using this field with a value of no will remove the More selected quotes link in the lower left corner. Use this field if you are using the |footer= parameter in the {{random box-header subpage}} template on the main portal page.
Example
The following example:
{{Selected quote
| quote = Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
| quoted = William Shakespeare
| dates = 1564-1616
| comment = Dead English guy
| source = Othello
| section = II. iii. (315)
}}
will produce:
| “ | Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. | ” |
| — William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Othello II. iii. (315) Dead English guy |
See also
- Main portal creation templates
- {{Box portal skeleton}}—Used to create portal main pages.
- {{Random portal component}}—Used on the portal main page to randomly display articles from the portal sub-pages.
- {{Random portal component with nominate}}—Used on the portal main page to randomly display articles from the portal sub-pages, adding the option to nominate other Featured foo articles.
- {{Random subpage}}—Used on the portal main page to randomly display articles from the portal sub-pages. This template is best used for creating randomly populated Did you know... sections on the portal main page that are intended to include multiple Did you know... facts.
- {{Subpage}}—Used to output a box containing a link to subpage.
- {{Numbered subpages}}—Used to create article links on portal sub-pages with 50 links.
- {{25 numbered subpages}}—As hereinbefore, but with 25 links.
- {{75 numbered subpages}}—As hereinbefore, but with 75 links.
- {{100 numbered subpages}}—As hereinbefore, but with 100 links.
- {{Random box-header subpage}}—Used to transclude a numbered subpage.
- Main portal page formatting templates
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- Templates that configure links
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- These templates are used to format the articles on the sub-pages
{{Selected X}}—Generic template for situations not listed hereafter.
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- Related templates