Template talk:Quote inline
What precisely is this template for?
[edit]I understand that {{tq}} is to be used on talk pages for when you're quoting another person on the talk page, or article text, etc., but what is exactly the expected or desired usage of this template? As far as I can tell, it encloses a string in quotes, with an optional hover tooltip. Nothing about the formatting seems to stand out, it simply just adds two " symbols around the text as far as I can tell. The examples under usage don't seem give any clarity to this really (not to me, anyway!). Is it to be used in articlespace? If so, for what purpose?
with warmth and curiosity,
--Tomatoswoop (talk) 18:06, 4 April 2025 (UTC)
- @Tomatoswoop: Yes, it is to be used in the article space. The purpose is to standardize inline quotations all over the project and track them for maintenance. Est. 2021 (talk · contribs) 10:48, 19 April 2025 (UTC)
- Is this happening? Do people do this? I feel like using quotation marks is such a natural thing to do, how would most editors know that the use of this template is desirable, or even that it exists at all? Or, conversely, is there some project to scour wikipedia for all uses of "" in articles and replace them with
{{Quote inline}}? If that's the goal. - Also, when you say "track them for maintenance", what exactly does that mean, to track every instance of quoted text on wikipedia "for maintenance"? All the best --Tomatoswoop (talk) 14:06, 19 June 2025 (UTC)
- Is this happening? Do people do this? I feel like using quotation marks is such a natural thing to do, how would most editors know that the use of this template is desirable, or even that it exists at all? Or, conversely, is there some project to scour wikipedia for all uses of "" in articles and replace them with
Redundant Parameter
[edit]Since, unlike with {{tq}}, enclosing quotation marks are enabled by default here, the template param |quotes=/|q= is currently redundant. Any value there means is a boolean yes, but its default value is also "yes". If the param is to be included, then should therefore be that "no" (and/or any non-blank value) removes the quote marks.
(The reason I know this is sometimes I use this template when I want to input wikitext or HTML in visualeditor without having to switch between the editors repeatedly. Unintended use of course, but useful in the edit process... I went to disable the "" just for it to look better visually earlier while editing, but realized that there was no such option in practice despite the parameter existing)