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A quotation is a type of post that is primarily a subset of the contents of another post, and often has a citation of that other post.

Why

Primary focus

You should post a quotation post when a quotation is the primary focus of your post, the primary content you want to convey, and everything else (URL, author, summary, tags, photo of quote) intended as optional secondary contextual information about the quote.

If any of those (URL, author, summary, tags, photo of quote) feels or seems more like the primary focus or "point" that your post is trying to make / capture / express, then read "Instead use" to see what post type you should use instead.

Portion not whole

Use a quotation when you are only quoting part of someone else's post, not the whole thing (see #repost below for quoting all of someone else's post).

The point of a quotation is to call out a specific subset, or emphasize one point or paragraph from someone else's post. Such explicit subsetting or extraction is the actual creative act of a quotation post.

E.g.: http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2014/08/27/1/

Emphasis exception

If you are quoting a post in its entirety and taking the time to emphasize specific words or phrases in the quote, e.g. with italics or bolding and a trailing "emphasis added" or "strong emphasis added" phrase explicitly noting that, then once again a quotation post makes more sense.

Instead use

repost

A quotation of the entirety (rather than a subset) of another post should be a repost instead.

If you really mean to quote the entirety of what someone is saying in a post, then your intent is reposting, not quoting, thus you should use a repost.

There is a specific exception to this "use a repost instead" guidance, and that is when adding explicit and visible emphasis to portions of the entirety of someone else's post. In that case see the Emphasis exception noted above.

bookmark

A quotation which uses (a portion of) the name/title of another post (rather than (a portion of) its content) should be a bookmark instead.

photo

A quotation used to restate or describe part of the text of a photo is likely intended more as a caption for that photo rather than the photo meant to illustrate the quote.

E.g.: http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2014/05/15/2/headline-news

When a quotation is clearly secondary to a photo in a post, even if the quotation is only part of the text of the post, and deliberately chosen, it's still secondary to the photo, and thus the post should be a photo post.

How to markup

A quotation can be minimally marked up as a note, with the entry content (e-content) containing:

a <blockquote> that wraps the quoted text itself (including explicit quotes "" “”)
a <cite class="h-cite"> that wraps a citation of the source of the quotation, with at a minimum:
- a nested hyperlink (<a href>) linking to the source, ideally using a fragmention directly to (at least the start of) the quotation.
- link text of the name of the article/book/source

IndieWeb Examples

Aaron Parecki

Aaron Parecki posts bookmarks on http://aaronparecki.com/bookmarks using p3k since 2014-09-07 (and using WordPress from 2006-12-10 to 2014-09-06), some of which include a quotation, e.g.:

Some quotations are posted as plaintext notes rather than as a bookmark.

Silo Examples

Tumblr supports an explicit quotation post kind, and presents quotation posts differently from other posts. (needs screenshots using default Tumblr skin)

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-A '''<dfn>quotation</dfn>''' is a type of post that includes a subset of the contents of another post, and a [[citation]] of that other post.
+A '''<dfn>quotation</dfn>''' is a type of post that a subset of the contents of another post, and a [[citation]] of that other post.
-A quotation of the entirety of another post should be a [[repost]] instead.
-A quotation which uses the name/title of another post (rather than its content) should be a [[bookmark]] instead.
+A quotation which uses the name/title of another post (rather than its content) should be a [[bookmark]] instead
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