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Many articles use block quotation when quoting longer passages of primary texts. Just paste in the quotation like you would a paragraph, then surround it with the <code><nowiki><blockqoute> . . . </blockquote></nowiki></code> tags, for example: | Many articles use block quotation when quoting longer passages of primary texts. Just paste in the quotation like you would a paragraph, then surround it with the <code><nowiki><blockqoute> . . . </blockquote></nowiki></code> tags, for example: | ||
<code><nowiki><blockquote>To the savage, dread was the natural result of any invasion of the supernatural: if man wished to steal the secrets of the gods, it was only to be supposed that the gods would defend themselves and destroy whichever man came too close. By this logic, civilization is the successful if imperfect theft of some cluster of these secrets, and the price we have paid is to accelerate our private sense of some enormous if not quite definable disaster which awaits us.{{sfn|Mailer|1965|p=159}}</blockquote></nowiki></code> | |||
<code><nowiki><blockquote>To the savage, dread was the natural result of any invasion of the supernatural: if man wished to steal the secrets of the gods, it was only to be supposed that the gods would defend themselves and destroy whichever man came too close. By this logic, civilization is the successful if imperfect theft of some cluster of these secrets, and the price we have paid is to accelerate our private sense of some enormous if not quite definable disaster which awaits us.{{sfn|Mailer|1965|p=159}}</blockquote></nowiki></code | |||
Note this quotation contains a citation—as all quotations should; see [[#Sourcing|Sourcing]] below for an explanation. | Note this quotation contains a citation—as all quotations should; see [[#Sourcing|Sourcing]] below for an explanation. | ||