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“

Insert the text of the quote here, without quotation marks.

”

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Template: Cquote
Use on	Articles, talk pages
Use for	Make quotations stand out
Category template applies to page	(none)

Template Parameters (See Template style manual).
Name	Purpose	Required?	SMW property	Comment
1	Quoted text	yes
2 (or) quotewidth	Width of the quotation marks(?)	no
3	Nothing	no		Should be "quoteheight", but isn't defined anywhere.
4	Who said it	no
5	Where the quote comes from	no		This parameter is ignored unless parameter 4 is supplied.

This is a standard quotation template used on wikis such as Wikipedia. Unfortunately, it is also one of the less intuitive ones when it comes to practical use.

In most cases, it will be used with only the first parameter (and the quote's source being indicated in the article text before it):

{{cquote|Without a doubt, the most spectacular way to die in space is to fall into a black hole.}}

This produces:

“

Without a doubt, the most spectacular way to die in space is to fall into a black hole.

”

To only add citation info (who/where), the second and third parameters have to be left blank (note the three pipe characters there):

{{cquote|Without a doubt, the most spectacular way to die in space is to fall into a black hole.|||Neil deGrasse Tyson|Death By Black Hole}}

Which produces:

“	Without a doubt, the most spectacular way to die in space is to fall into a black hole.	”
—Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death By Black Hole

Alternatively the 4th & 5th parameters can by included by number:

{{cquote|Without a doubt, the most spectacular way to die in space is to fall into a black hole.|4=Neil deGrasse Tyson|5=Death By Black Hole}}

Which has exactly the same result.

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See also

• {{quote}}—standard formatting for a quote.