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The Manual of Style guidelines for block quotations recommend formatting block quotations using the {{Quote}} template or the HTML <blockquote> element, for which that template provides a wrapper.

Quotes work best when used with short sentences, and at the start or end of a section, as a hint of or to help emphasize the section's content.
For typical quotes, especially those longer than the rest of the paragraph in which they are quoted, {{Cquote}} provides a borderless quote with decorative quotation marks, and {{Quote frame}} provided a bordered quote. Both span the article width.
For very short quotes, {{Rquote}} (with decorative quotation marks) or {{Quote box}} (framed) can be used to set the quote off to either the right or left as in a magazine sidebar. This can be effective on essay pages and WikiProject homepages.

Revision as of 13:35, 4 May 2019 view source meta>Herostratus Reverted to revision 894421375 by Herostratus: Reverted again, per WP:BRD. There's a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#"Decorative quotations" again, get consensus there first, or run a new RfC, or something. Futher back-and-forth reverting would probably not be helpful. (TW) ← Older edit		Revision as of 20:44, 4 May 2019 view source meta>SMcCandlish This doc template is now transcluded at Template:Quote, for which this warning is incorrect; needs to only appear on the templates that are decorative pull-quote templates. Newer edit →
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	The [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Block quotations\|Manual of Style guidelines for block quotations]] recommend formatting block quotations using the {{tlx\|Quote}} template or the HTML <[[blockquote]]> element, for which that template provides a wrapper.		The [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Block quotations\|Manual of Style guidelines for block quotations]] recommend formatting block quotations using the {{tlx\|Quote}} template or the HTML <[[blockquote]]> element, for which that template provides a wrapper.