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N.B. ''The following is all translated from the Italian wikipedia, so many directives may not correspond to the English wikipedia.'' [[User:Lwangaman|Lwangaman]] ([[User talk:Lwangaman|talk]]) 10:44, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
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The template {{tl|Multilingual_quote}} is useful for inserting a [[quotation]] in multiple languages inside articles.

'''Note''': in order to limit the strain on Wikimedia Foundation's servers, please do not use the template outside of the articles. Use instead the low quotation marks (« ») to indicate that it is a quote.

For Quranic quotes there is the template {{tl|QuoteQuran}}.

See also the template {{tl|Rquote}} for short literary quotes within the text.

For something in a single language use [[Template:Quote]].

=== Where to insert it ===
Whenever a quote is not specifically related to a paragraph of an article, its insertion requires a supplement of reflection (see [[Wikipedia:Quotes]]); if it seems useful to insert the multilingual quote template at the beginning of the page, before the first section [[Wikipedia:Initial section|initial section]], just keep in mind that if there is a [[template:disambiguation|disambiguation]] or any kind of ''vertical'' template in the article, the quote must be inserted before the text of the article or of other templates, underneath these templates.

=== Usage ===
In order to use the template multilingual quote write:

<div style="padding:0.1em 1em; border:1px dotted gray; background:#EFE">
<tt>'''<nowiki>{{</nowiki>multilingual quote|<span style="color:green">quote</span>|<nowiki>[[</nowiki><span style="color:orange">Author</span><nowiki>]], ''[[</nowiki><span style="color:grey">Title</span><nowiki>]]''}}</nowiki>'''</tt></div>

*if you don't want <span style="color:grey">Title</span> and <span style="color:orange">Author</span> to be [[Help:Link|wikilinked]], take out the '''<nowiki>[[</nowiki>'''square brackets'''<nowiki>]]</nowiki>''';
*use only '''<nowiki><br /></nowiki>''' for new lines (don't use ''ENTER'');
*any other quotes within the one you use the template for must be between quotation marks (" "): see also the [[MOS:QUOTE|Manual of Style]].

If instead you must insert a quote in English and one in another language write:

<div style="padding:0.1em 1em; border:1px dotted gray; background:#EFE">
<tt>'''<nowiki>{{multilingual quote</nowiki><br />
'''|'''<span style="color:green">quote in English</span><br />
'''|'''<nowiki>[[</nowiki><span style="color:orange">Author</span><nowiki>]], ''[[</nowiki><span style="color:grey">Title</span><nowiki>]]''</nowiki><br />
'''|'''<span style="color:green">quote in another language</span><br />
'''|language='''<span style="color:green">code of the language</span>'''<nowiki>}}</nowiki>'''</tt>
</div>

If instead you must insert a quote in two languages other than English write:

<div style="padding:0.1em 1em; border:1px dotted gray; background:#EFE">
<tt>'''<nowiki>{{multilingual quote</nowiki><br />
'''|'''<span style="color:green">translated quote</span><br />
'''|'''<nowiki>[[</nowiki><span style="color:orange">Author</span><nowiki>]], ''[[</nowiki><span style="color:grey">Title</span><nowiki>]]''</nowiki><br />
'''|'''<span style="color:green">original quote</span><br />
'''|language='''<span style="color:green">code of the original language</span>'''<br />
'''|language2='''<span style="color:green">code of the translated language</span>'''<nowiki>}}</nowiki>'''</tt>
</div>

=== Examples of usage ===
<div style="padding:0.1em 1em; border:1px dotted gray; background:#EFE">
<tt>'''<nowiki>{{</nowiki>multilingual quote|<span style="color:green"><nowiki>Sotto la guida di Gracco gli Equi invasero prima il territorio di Labico e poi quello di Tuscolo devastandolo [...] Carichi di preda posero gli accampamenti alle falde dell'Algido.</nowiki></span>|<nowiki>''[[</nowiki><span style="color:grey">Tito Livio</span><nowiki>]]'', </nowiki><span style="color:orange">''Ab Urbe condita libri'', III, 25. trad.: G.D. Mazzocato</span><nowiki>|</nowiki><span style="color:blue">Graccho duce in Labicanum agrum, inde in Tusculanum hostili populatione venunt, plenique predae in Algido castra locant.</span><nowiki>|</nowiki>language=<span style="color:violet">la</span>}}'''</tt></div>

Result:

{{multilingual quote|Sotto la guida di Gracco gli Equi invasero prima il territorio di Labico e poi quello di Tuscolo devastandolo [...] Carichi di preda posero gli accampamenti alle falde dell'Algido.|''[[Tito Livio]]'', Ab Urbe condita libri, III, 25. trad.: G.D. Mazzocato|Graccho duce in Labicanum agrum, inde in Tusculanum hostili populatione venunt, plenique predae in Algido castra locant.|language=la}}

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