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Template:Apostrophe) – for use with adjacent italic markup – for use with adjacent bold markup – for inserting an apostrophe and "s" immediately following italic markup
Templates relating to quotations. For quotations in articles, either <blockquote>...</blockquote> or the {{ Quote }} template should suffice. Templates that add quotation marks, especially decorative ones such as {{ Cquote }} , are reserved for pull quotes (i.e. should be avoided in articles).
This template is used in the "See also" sections of the documentation pages of each of the templates it lists, to make maintenance easier. It has no function in articlespace. === See also === {{ Quotation mark templates }}
To change this template's initial visibility, the |state= parameter may be used: {{Quotation templates | state = collapsed}} will show the template collapsed, i.e. hidden apart from its title bar. {{Quotation templates | state = expanded}} will show the template expanded, i.e. fully visible.
In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, [1] [2] speech marks, [3] quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name.
Quotation marks for emphasis of a single word or phrase are incorrect, and "scare quotes" are discouraged. Quotation marks are to show that you are using the correct word as quoted from the original source. For example: His tombstone was inscribed with the name "Aaron" instead of the spelling he used during his life.
If script-quote is defined, use quote to hold a Romanization (if available) of the text in script-quote. script-quote : Original quotation for languages that do not use a Latin-based script (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, etc.); not italicized, follows italicized Romanization defined in quote (if available).
The only reason to disallow curly quotation marks is the necessity of entering them as HTML entities, a difficulty that should disappear whenever the English Wikipedia moves to Unicode. Until then, replacing all quotation characters with the proper HTML entities and asking users to type the proper HTML entities is far too much to ask.