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The Citation/quick is a fast-cite alternative to {{cite web}} or {{cite news}} or {{cite book}}, for use in large articles using Citation style 1. To allow extreme speed, only the basic parameter names are supported, such as "last3=" or "first3=" rather than "surname3=" or "given3=" (etc.), and "author=" but not "author1=" (see below: Limited parameters supported). For rare parameters, the original cite templates can still be used, and mixed within an article. To view all parameter names, see: Template:Cite_web/doc.
- Usage: {{citation/quick |web |title=Xxx | url=http://example.com/ | date=1 May 2009 |accessdate=1 June 2012}}
- {{citation/quick |book |title=Xxx | chapter=Chapter 3: Issues |url=http://example.com/ | date=March 1998}}
Parameter 1 can be: web, news, book, or journal. Because only 2 author-link parameters are supported, wikilinks for author3 (etc.) must be hand-coded, such as
- author3 = [[Arthur C. Clarke|A. Clarke]]
To use rare parameters, then the original full templates should be used, instead, such as using the full {{cite book}} to list editor names or show an authormask.
The parameter "pages=n" will auto-adjust to show "p." for a singular lone page number, or "pp." for a plural page-range. Parameter "page=" always shows the "p." prefix.
In articles which contain more than 300 formatted references, the speed of formatting a large article, during 2009, reached 30–60 seconds for logged-in users, so the {citation/quick} template can be used to run 10x faster (3–6 seconds) when reformatting an article. Many large articles experienced similar long delays during 2009–2012, due to using numerous large templates. Also, there have been some cases where other large templates, in the same articles, have exceeded template resources, and so {citation/quick} could be used in those articles to allow hundreds more citations without exceeding the template limits.