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Template talk:Quote
More wiki-fied quote[edit]
I've copied the example given by Wikipedia to a template page in my username. The results and usage are similar to what is expected from a quote on Wikipedia but as not to change current page formatting I've decided not to replace this template.
An example:
{{User:Doktoro Reichard/Quote|quote=...|sign=...|source=...}}
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—Someone, Source
- I don't know that Wikipedia-style quotes are appropriate on this wiki. Wikipedia quotes are expected to be factual (hence the attribution and reference), while Dwarf Fortress has no official literature to quote. Most of the uses of the DF quote template are merely humorous statements and dialogs, which do not require attribution or references. My intent was to set those humorous sections apart from the article proper with a box and background color. While I am not opposed to an optional attribution and reference line, I would request that the current usage of the template also be preserved.--Loci (talk) 21:10, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
- I found it handy to quote someone who had the trouble of digging up assembly instructions and finding what the real values of something were. I do agree with you, however: this isn't a wiki based on the collection of factual knowledge, rather, most of what's in this wiki is based on collective understanding of the game's mechanics. There isn't a set-on-stone need to actually paraphrase someone, as the only ones who can provide hard facts are ToadyOne and ThreeToe. Also, as someone somewhere might have been using this template, I decided not to blatantly paste the Wikipedia example and therefore, create a user template instead (hence avoiding breaking a lot of accumulated work). I just found it useful for a given scenario and shared that information whale I was at it.--Doktoro Reichard (talk) 03:21, 7 January 2014 (UTC)