This temporary template is meant to be used as an interim between a wiki-markup quotation usage to a normal quote-x template. Occurrences of this template were generated automatically by converting manually formatted quotes. They are automatically added to Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned, and should be manually converted to one of the other quote templates.
TemplateData for quote-text
This template is meant to be used as an interim between a wiki-markup quotation usage to a normal quote-x template.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language | 1 | A comma-separated list of language codes indicating the language(s) of the quoted text. | String | required |
| Author | author | The name of the author of the text quoted. Additional authors can be added using the parameters "author2" to "author5". | String | suggested |
| Wikipedia author page | authorlink | English Wikipedia article about the author. | String | optional |
| Title | title | The title. | String | required |
| Quoted text | passage text | The text being quoted. Use boldface to highlight the term being defined. | Content | required |
| Translation | translation t | If the quoted text is not in English, this parameter can be used to provide an English translation of it. | Content | optional |
| Year | year | The year that the text was published. Prefix with "a.", "c." or "p." to indicate a publication year that is ante (before), circa (about), or post (after) the year specified. | Number | suggested |
| Date | date | Use either "year" or "date", not both. | String | optional |
| URL | url | The URL or web address of an external website containing the full text. | URL | optional |
| Translator | translator translators trans | The name(s) of the translator(s) of the text. Separate multiple names with semicolons. | String | optional |
| Brackets | brackets | Use "on" to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation contains a mere mention of a term or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms. | Boolean | optional |
| author2 | author2 | additional author | String | optional |
| authorlink2 | authorlink2 | additional author Wikipedia article | String | optional |
| author3 | author3 | additional author | String | optional |
| authorlink3 | authorlink3 | additional author Wikipedia article | String | optional |
| author4 | author4 | additional author | String | optional |
| authorlink4 | authorlink4 | additional author Wikipedia article | String | optional |
| author5 | author5 | additional author | String | optional |
| authorlink5 | authorlink5 | additional author Wikipedia article | String | optional |
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