Editing Template:Blockquote/doc (section)

=== Displayed attribution ===
These parameters are for {{em|displaying}} attribution information below the quote; this should not be confused with citing a source {{crossreference|(see {{section link||Reference citations}}, below)}}. These parameters are entirely optional, and are usually used with famous quotations, not routine block quotations, which are usually sourced at the end of the introductory line immediately before the quotation, with a normal <syntaxhighlight lang="html" inline><ref>...</ref></syntaxhighlight> tag.

{{para|author}} a.k.a. {{para|2}} – optional author/speaker attribution information that will appear below the quotation, and preceded with an attribution dash.

{{para|title}} a.k.a. {{para|3}} – optional title of the work the quote appears in, to display below the quotation. This parameter immediately follows the output of {{para|author}} (and an auto-generated comma), if one is provided. It does not auto-italicize. Major works (books, plays, albums, feature films, etc.) should be italicized; minor works (articles, chapters, poems, songs, TV episodes, etc.) go in quotation marks {{crossreference|(see [[MOS:TITLES]])}}. Additional citation information can be provided in a fourth parameter, {{para|source}}, below, which will appear after the title.

{{para|source}} a.k.a. {{para|4}} – optionally used for additional source information to display, after {{para|title}}, like so: {{code|lang="wikitext"|code={{!}}title="The Aerodynamics of Shaved Weasels" {{!}}source=''Perspectives on Mammal Barbering'', 2016}}; a comma will be auto-generated between the two parameters. If {{para|source}} is used without {{para|title}}, it simply acts as {{para|title}}. <small>(This parameter was added primarily to ease conversion from misuse of the [[pull quote]] template {{tlx|Quote frame}} for block quotation, but it may aid in cleaner meta-data implementation later.)</small>

{{para|character}} a.k.a. {{para|char}} or {{para|5}} – to attribute fictional speech to a fictional character, {{em|with}} other citation information. Can also be used to attribute real speech to a specific speaker among many, e.g. in a roundtable/panel transcript, a band interview, etc. This parameter outputs "[{{Var|Character's name}}], in" after the attribution dash and before the output of the parameters above, thus one or more of those parameters must also be supplied. If you need to cite a fictional speaker in an article about a single work of fiction, where repeating the author and title information would be redundant, you can just use the {{para|author}} parameter instead of {{para|character}}.

Technically, all citation information can be given in a single parameter, as in: {{code|lang="wikitext"|code={{!}}source=Anonymous interview subject, in Jane G. Arthur, "The Aerodynamics of Shaved Weasels", ''Perspectives on Mammal Barbering'' (2016), Bram Xander Yojimbo (ed.)}} But this is a bit messy, and will impede later efforts to generate metadata from quotation attribution the way we are already doing with source citations. This is much more usable:
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">
|character=Anonymous interview subject
|author=Jane G. Arthur
|title="The Aerodynamics of Shaved Weasels"
|source=''Perspectives on Mammal Barbering'' (2016), Bram Xander Yojimbo (ed.)
</syntaxhighlight>


Later development can assign a CSS <code>class</code> and so forth to these separate parameters, upon which scripts would be able to operate (e.g. to look up things in WikiQuote).