“ | Insert the text of the quote here, without quotation marks. Sample Text. | ” |
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Template for marking up quotations.
Usage
{{quote|the quote|origin}}
Parameters

The quoted text; use
<br />
between paragraphs.
Origin, i.e. the name of the person that wrote or spoke the text being quoted.

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bgcolorThe color of the background. Accepts HTML color names or RGB hex triplets.

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sizeDesired size of the quotation marks. Anything larger than 48px is not recommended. This can be used to scale the graphical quotation marks up and down to suit larger or smaller quotes.

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wideIf set to "yes", the quote expands to the entire width of the page. Useful for small quotes, but may clash with other floating objects such as infoboxes.
Example
{{quote|Example text|Example author}}
results in:
“ | Example text | ” |
—Example author |
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