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*Where the title field provides quotation marks automatically, as in {{tl|Cite news}}, {{tl|Cite Journal}} and {{tl|Cite web}}, and the title you are citing contains quotations marks or apostrophes at the beginning, end or both, you can use <code>&thinsp;</code> to place a separation between the punctuation, to avoid a non-ideal display such as <nowiki>'''</nowiki>. |
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:*For example instead of {{xt|<nowiki>title='name'</nowiki>}} which will display on many browsers with the quotation marks surrounding it that the templates places as {{!xt|<nowiki>'''name'''</nowiki>}}, use {{xt|<nowiki>|title=</nowiki>}}{{!xt|&thinsp;}}'name'{{!xt|&thinsp;}}, which will display as " 'name' ". |
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Revision as of 00:20, 22 May 2013
- title: Title of source. Can be wikilinked to an existing Wikipedia article or url may be used to add an external link, but not both. Displays in italics.
- trans_title: English translation of the title if the source cited is in a foreign language. Displays in square brackets after title; if url is defined, then trans_title is included in the link. Use of the language parameter is recommended.
- Titles containing certain characters will display and link incorrectly unless those characters are encoded.
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- Where the title field provides quotation marks automatically, as in {{Cite news}}, {{Cite Journal}} and {{Cite web}}, and the title you are citing contains quotations marks or apostrophes at the beginning, end or both, you can use
 to place a separation between the punctuation, to avoid a non-ideal display such as '''.
- For example instead of title='name' which will display on many browsers with the quotation marks surrounding it that the templates places as '''name''', use |title= 'name' , which will display as " 'name' ".
