Template:Multilingual quote/doc

N.B. The following is all translated from the Italian wikipedia, so many directives may not correspond to the English wikipedia. Lwangaman (talk) 10:44, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

The template Multilingual_quote is useful for inserting a quotation inside articles. It should always be accompanied by the template interwiki, put at the bottom of the page (information on Wikiquote).

Note: in order to limit the strain on Wikimedia Foundation's servers, please do not use the template outside of the articles. Use instead the low quotation marks (« ») to indicate that it is a quote.

The quote should always be put on Wikiquote.

For biblical quotes use the template biblical quote, which easily allows for inserting the reference to the corresponding passage; the use of the template biblical passage within the caption of this template (for example ) does not work.

For coranic quotes there is the template quote coran.

See also the template RQuote for short literary quotes within the text.

Where to insert it
Whenever a quote is not specifically related to a paragraph of an article, its insertion requires a supplement of reflection (see Quotes); if it seems useful to insert the multilingual quote template at the beginning of the page, before the first section initial section, just keep in mind that if there is a disambiguation disambiguation or any kind of vertical template in the article, the quote must be inserted before the text of the article or of other templates, underneath these templates.

Usage
In order to use the template multilingual quote write:

 

' for new lines (don't use ENTER'');
 * if you don't want Title and Author to be wikilinked, take out the  square brackets  ;
 * use only '''
 * any other quotes within the one you use the template for must be between quotation marks (" "): see also the Manual of Style.

If instead you must insert a quote in English and one in another language write:

 

If instead you must insert a quote in two languages other than English write:

 

Examples of usage
 

 

 

Other examples: it:Roma, it:Milano, it:Inconscio, it:John Lennon, it:The Beatles, it:Torino ...