Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-35301431-20130617151144/@comment-917693-20140121091516

1. I'm not sure about the other wall of texts quotes, but in the above mentioned case, I think most of that quote isn't worth being quoted directly because of their content. Like when the author started talking about the "third girl in the drawing". For me the quote in the background section was just like a markup giving a little sneak-peek into the song and the song's content.

And in that case, I think everything till -__- would be fine to quote, so as long as it's reasonable to quote I personally wouldn't set a limit, especially, if a quote is 4 lines and like 3 more words in the 5th I won't be *OMGthat'smorethan4linesgottamakeshorter*

And again, too much rambling... In short: as long as the content of the quote is reasonable, the length will regulate itself in my opinion.

2. Seems fine

3. I agree

4. If you used an extra parameter:
 * and have to give the link in that one, you cannot use ref name to link multiple chunks of informations to one link (like |source = Sitelink will appear as a ref on the page)
 * and if you would type everywhere, then the parameter wouldn't be needed anyways (like |source = )
 * and if you would only give a normal link with wiki markup (like |source = Sitelink and it'll appear as a lormal hyperlink) It would be fine but kind of a waste of space probably

So, unless you want it mandatory for every quote to have a source, I'd say stick with normal refs.

However if you do want to make it mandatory for every quote, and even want to make a Category with I don't know "Pages with quote without source" or something like that, it'd be reasonable to put a source parameter.

Is everything I just wrote understandable I wonder? XD