Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 184

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While I understand there were several questions in the various headed discussions, there was much overlap, so I'm closing this all together.

A few things to note:

First, as this is a style question of format of quoting (which template to use, whether templates should be used, etc.), much of the discussion concerns ILIKETIT/IDONTLIKEIT comments.

Second, albeit with some clear exceptions, guidelines are generally to reflect consensus and common practice, not the other way round.

So while keeping the above in mind, use of quotes in articles using some form of template has consensus. Though there was discussion concerning what the appropriate styling should be (and whether more than one style - such as with or without a border-box, oversized quotation marks, shading, adjusted font size, etc.), and whether the templates should be merged or to remain separate - none had overall consensus. This close does not prevent a follow-up RFC on such styling. Once that is determined, then a followup to that would be implementation of how to address the current styistic usage in articles.

There is consensus that "pull quotes" should be avoided in most cases, but should be left to editorial discretion. So the templates' "intended usage" should be edited to remove that usage as a suggested general example, as necessary. - jc37 00:40, 19 November 2016 (UTC)