Template talk:Quote hadith

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I'm putting this template up for deletion. Giving special treatment (box, color) to a certain class of quoted text that some people regard as sacred is inherently POV. It makes the quote look more official, more important. If this template is allowed to stand, then we're going to have multiple templates for every kind of quote. That's madness. Plus it makes the page look ugly. Just plain quote is good enough for everyone. Zora 02:32, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

2020 update: It has since been cleaned up. It provides useful formatting functions, without any longer being a "LOOK AT ME! I AM MORE IMPORTANT THAN OTHER TEXT!" attention device. We've had this problem with a variety of other quotation templates. After years of back 'n' forth about it, and RfC this year finally settled the matter: quotation templates should not use colors, centering, boxes, giant quotation marks, a left-side line, or other gimmicks to try to lure the reader's attention. (Not in mainspace anyway; I think the offending templates have been fixed to emit the same code as {{Quote}} when used in mainspace, but do their fancy-pants decoration stuff when used in user or project space).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  01:41, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

development

Use Template:Quote hadith/sandbox for developing the template in order to minimize strain on the Wikipedia server. --Striver 06:55, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Edit request (extra carriage return and a lack of periods)

SMcCandlish: Greetings and felicitations. You're the only other (living) editor of this template in the last three and half years, so I'm applying to you. The template adds an extra carriage return, whose source I can't find (see the article "Ahl al-Kisa#Hadith of the Cloak"). Also, the Sunni and Shi'a "...tend to view..." sentences end without a period, though I've slipped one in in "Ahl al-Kisa". —DocWatson42 (talk) 04:47, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

@DocWatson42:  Fixed both issues. :-) I removed the now-unnecessary extra "." from Ahl al-Kisa#Hadith of the Cloak.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  22:03, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Added some features, too, like specific citation parameters for the Sunni & Shia claims.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  01:37, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. ^_^ —DocWatson42 (talk) 03:33, 4 July 2020 (UTC)