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is this possible? if not, please consider adding this functionality. EnTerbury (talk) 03:48, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please provide an example of how and where this would be useful. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:16, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Using :<blockquote>...</blockquote> does not honor the indentation but renders the quote at the left margin. Is there a quote template that respects indentation inside lists? If there is, this article should link to it. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 13:55, 26 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Something like this? This is an indented line.

This is a blockquote inside an indented section.

This is another line inside the blockquote template.

This is the end of the indented section. Some block-level templates do not like to be inside indented sections, especially if their closing tags are on new lines. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:19, 26 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

You can also do this.

First line of a blockquote.
This is another line inside the blockquote template.

But you can't insert manual line breaks inside the blockquote. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:19, 26 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I pulled a new test case from The Monorail Song. It shows an extra, unwanted comma after the |title= parameter value. I am working on other stuff and haven't looked into the cause. My first guess is the empty |sign= parameter. See Template:Blockquote/testcases#Value_for_title=_and_empty_sign= – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:28, 9 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The cause is the combination of parameter |title= with the |source= parameter, which contains only a <ref>...</ref>. In the list produced by {{Comma separated entries}}, {{{sign|}}} is first, then {{{title|}}}, and {{{source|}}} is the third one (ignoring their aliases).

To fix template's usage in The Monorail Song, I'd just merge the two parameters together, so that the comma-separated list is just one item with no commas. —⁠andrybak (talk) 02:46, 9 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. I added a note to the documentation. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:48, 9 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]