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Ariel Sharon

Ariel Sharon (26 February 1928 - 11 January 2014) was a major-general in the Israeli army, Israeli politician and Prime Minister 2001–2006.

1990s

 * Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.
 * Quoted in Friedman, Robert I., Zealots for Zion: Inside Israel's West Bank Settlement Movement (New York, New York: Random House, 1992), 132-52.
 * Everybody has to move; run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements, because everything we take now will stay ours. Everything we don't grab will go to them.
 * Stated in 1998, New York Times (online).

2000s

 * I am for lasting peace... United, I believe, we can win the battle for peace. But it must be a different peace, one with full recognition of the rights of the Jews in their one and only land: peace with security for generations and peace with a united Jerusalem as the eternal, undivided capital of the Jewish people in the state of Israel forever.
 * Ariel Sharon. "I an for lasting peace." at New York Post Forum, November 13, 2000, cited at Freeman.org, November 14, 2000.

 * אני אכן חושב שמלחמת לבנון היתה מהמוצדקות במלחמות ישראל. ועכשיו לעובדות: אני שומע את האמירות של ברק על הטרגדיה של 18 השנים בלבנון. צריך לזכור שהכניסה שלנו ללבנון החלה לפני 25 שנה, כשיצחק רבין היה רה"מ ופרס שר הביטחון. בשלב הראשון נכנסנו לדרום לבנון ואחרי חודש כבר היינו נוכחים בצפון לבנון וזאת בשל טרור מצד אש"ף. הגענו למצב שמחצית מאוכלוסיית הארץ נטשה את הצפון וזזה דרומה. אחרי המלחמה השתרר בצפון שקט להרבה שנים [...] כבר באוקטובר 82' הייתי היחיד שאמר שכבר אפשר לצאת מלבנון, אבל אז כבר לא הייתי שר ביטחון
 * Translation: I do think that the Lebanon War was one of the most justified of Israel's wars. Now to the facts: I hear Barak's statements on the 18 years tragedy in Lebanon. It should be remembered that our entrance to Lebanon started 25 years ago, when Yitzhak Rabin was the Prime Minister and Peres was the Minister of Defense. At the first stage, we entered south Lebanon and after a month we were already present in north Lebanon due to PLO terrorism. We reached a situation in which half of Israel's population deserted the north and moved southwardly. After the war, the north became quiet for many years [...] As early as October 1982, I was the only one who said that it's already possible to get out of Lebanon, but then I was no longer the Minister of Defense.
 * Elections campaign speech at a high school, Ynet, January 18, 2001

 * Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.
 * in: "Clashes mar Mid-East inquiry," at news.bbc.co.uk, March 25, 2001 (online)

 * It had always been one of my convictions that Jews and Arabs could live together. Even as a child it never occurred to me that Jews might someday be living in Israel without Arabs, or separated from Arabs. On the contrary, for me it had always seemed perfectly normal for the two people to live and work side by side. That is the nature of life here and it always will be.... though Israel is a Jewish nation, it is, of course, not only a Jewish nation... I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for journalists and not for popular consumption, but because I have never believed differently or thought differently, from my childhood on. I am not afraid of Arabs. I feel I can live with them. I believe I understand their problems. I know that we are both inhabitants of this land, and although the state is Jewish, that does not mean that Arabs should not be full citizens in every sense of the word.
 * Ariel Sharon, David Chanoff (2002) Warrior: An Autobiography p. 343, 542-3

 * "Palestinian must pay the price (...). If possible they should get awake every morning finding out they get 10 or 12 corpses, without knowing what happened.(...) You must be creative, efficient, sophisticated" Ariel Sharon to his Chief of Staff (troop commander) Shaul Mofaz, in 2002.

 * I believe that Jews and Arabs can live together. It’s not an easy thing but I believe we can reach an agreement. I don’t want to pretend about talking to Arabs because I meet Arabs, here and on our farm at home. I would like to very careful not to pretend but I think I am one of the only ones here at the present time that will have the power and the strength to tell the citizens of Israel what they have to do and to make compromises and painful compromises, to look into their eyes and say that.
 * November 5, 2002 Times Newspaper

 * [ Iran, Libya and Syria] are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons [of] mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.
 * haaretzdaily.com, February 17, 2003 Haaretz

 * If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions. Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace.
 * in: "Report: Sharon willing to make 'painful concessions," at cnn.com, April 2003 (online)

 * You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation -- to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.
 * Sharon pledges to 'immediately' remove unauthorized outposts, CNN, 26 May 2003.

 * We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.
 * Sharon pledges to 'immediately' remove unauthorized outposts, CNN, 4 June 2003.

 * It is not in our interest to govern you. We would like you to govern yourselves in your own country. A democratic Palestinian state with territorial contiguity in Judea and Samaria and economic viability, which would conduct normal relations of tranquility, security and peace with Israel. Abandon the path of terror and let us together stop the bloodshed. Let us move forward together towards peace.
 * Address by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the Fourth Herzliya Conference, December 18, 2003; cited in: Terje Rød-Larsen, Fabrice Aidan, Nur Laiq (2014), The Search for Peace in the Arab-Israeli Conflict. p. 373

 * As one who fought in all of Israel's wars, and learned from personal experience that without proper force, we do not have a chance of surviving in this region, which does not show mercy towards the weak, I have also learned from experience that the sword alone cannot decide this bitter dispute in this land.
 * Ariel Sharon. "Speech at the Knesset, at knesset.gov, October 2004 (Knesset.gov.il online)

 * We are very much interested in developing and strengthening our relations with India because India is one of the most important countries in the world. We believe in democracy... I hope my visit will contribute to strengthening our relations with India.
 * We want Strong Ties with India: Sharon, 9 September 2003, http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/sep/09sharon1.htm

 * Today Israel and India are embattled democracies, sharing values and the challenge of terrorism. United in our quest for life, liberty and peace our joint determination to fight for these values can inspire our hopes for a better future for our people.
 * Sharon pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi, 9 September 2003, http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/sep/09sharon2.htm

Quotes about Ariel Sharon

 * It is not true, however, that the solutions proposed by the Zionists, of whatever shade, represented historical realism as against the inconsistent utopianism of the Bund. Certainly the prophets were not numerous, but they have to be given their due: Kurt Tucholsky, for example, who already in the mid-1920s sounded the alarm, in a Weimar Republic prey to the demons of order, nationalism, xenophobia and dreams of revanchism; Leon Trotsky, who in the late 1920s warned that the fate of Europe was being played out in Germany, and understood that the bankruptcy of German communism in the face of Hitler bore within it the inexorable unfurling of horror. At this time they were preaching in the desert, including the desert of Judaea. The rabbis who called for obedience to the temporal power in all circumstances, and the inspirers of Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon who at the time paraded in black shirts, are not best placed to cast the first stone at these Jewish visionaries and militants who were struggling at this time for a better world.
 * Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg, Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism (2016)

 * Ariel Sharon is a man of peace.
 * George W. Bush. in: "Profile: Ariel Sharon," at bbc.co.uk, 1 January 2014.

 * If I know Arik [Ariel Sharon's nickname], he'll head straight for Cairo and try to get votes for Likud.
 * Moshe Dayan, The Yom Kippur War, Rabinovich, pg 255; Defense Minister Dayan on the third day of the Yom Kippur War.

 * When Ariel Sharon, attempting to justify the Lebanese adventure, spoke of "over one thousand victims of terrorism," there was, as one had come to expect with him, a considerable disparity be tween what he said and the truth. According to the IDF spokesman, terrorism had been on an absolute decline: in the three years preceding the Lebanon War, thirty-seven persons were killed in all hostile actions, and, in the year preceding the war-one. Surely even one is too many, and every person killed is a heartbreak. But let us bear in mind that in the Lebanon War, fought at Sharon's initiative, more Israelis were killed in two weeks than fell at the hands of the terrorist organizations in Israel's harshest security periods, including the periods of pursuit operations and massive IDF offensive actions against terrorists.
 * Shulamith Hareven "Israel: The First Forty Years" in The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)

 * Today I view Sharon and Kahane and the Gush Emunim not simply as examples of the weaknesses of our yidishe mentshlekhkayt, Jewish humanness, but as a political evil. Some of my friends challenge this view as extreme. But I believe it. Kahane and Sharon are not concerned with Jewish values, Jewish security, Jewish survival. I don't believe that their policies are motivated by Jewish fears of annihilation. There are, I know, many Israeli Jews whose refusal to accept a Palestinian state is rooted in real fears, some of which I share. And because of this, I see their position differently, even though I strongly disagree with it. However, Kahane and his kind express blatant racism, chauvinism, a hunger for military power, a greed for territory, an insistence on religious and cultural supremacy. These can be easily analyzed as originating in feelings of inadequacy and insecurity and even fears of annihilation. Yet they are manifested in such hatred of Palestinians, such callous indifference to non-Jews and non-Jewish culture that I do not consider these "psychological roots" of fascism legitimate concerns. And so I continue viewing Kahane and his politics as an evil that impinges on my Jewishness because they actively try to redefine and reshape it through the actions and policies of the Jewish State. Everything Jewish in me resists their efforts
 * Irena Klepfisz "Khaloymes/Dreams in Progress: Culture, Politics, and Jewish Identity" in Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes (1990)

 * [After Ariel Sharon's severe stroke] Ladies and Gentlemen I said last year that Israel was entering into the most dangerous periods of its entire existence as a nation. That is intensifying this year with the loss of Sharon. Sharon was personally a very likeable person, and I am sad to see him in this condition, but I think we need to look at the Bible and the Book of Joel. The prophet Joel makes it very clear that God has enmity against those who "divide my land." God considers this land to be His. You read the Bible and He says "this is my land" and for any Prime Minister of Israel who decides he is going to carve it up and give it away, God says "no, this is mine." I had a wonderful meeting with Yitzhak Rabin in 1974. He was tragically assassinated, it was a terrible thing that happened but nevertheless he was dead. And now Ariel Sharon who again was a very likeable person, a delightful person to be with, I prayed with him personally, but here he's at the point of death. He was dividing God's land and I would say woe unto any Prime Minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the EU, the United Nations, or the United States of America. God says "this land belongs to me. You'd better leave it alone."
 * Pat Robertson, (2006)

 * A bellicose man who seemed to be chomping at the bit to start a war.
 * Ronald Reagan, An American Life, chapter 58; describing then defense minister Ariel Sharon

 * Begin, Shamir and Sharon were the evil three. Sharon is the most evil man I've run across in Israeli politics. [I regarded myself when Prime Minister as] the best friend Israel had in the Western world.
 * Harold Wilson, Speech at Indiana University (4 October 1982) after the Beirut massacre, quoted in The Times (5 October 1982), p. 4

Evening Standard, Mon 13 January 2014, pages 18-19

 * He was a giant on this land.
 * Tony Blair

 * He held to the idea that the Jewish people, so often victims of injustice and persecution, should have a state where they could be independent and free. Think good or ill of Arik Sharon, agree or disagree with him, but that calling - a noble one - was plain and unalloyed.
 * Tony Blair

 * He defended this land like a lion and he taught its children to swing a scythe. He was a military legend in his lifetime and then turned his gaze to the day Israel would dwell in safety.
 * Shimon Peres

 * I didn't always agree with Arik, and he didn't always agree with me. But he was one of the big warriors for the nation of Israel.
 * Benjamin Netanyahu

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Heinz Guderian

Heinz Guderian (17 June 1888 – 14 May 1954) was a Nazi German World War II general and tank commander, theorist of tank combat and one of the developers of blitzkrieg strategy. He was not charged with any war crimes during the Nuremberg Trials since his actions and behavior were ruled to be consistent with those of a professional soldier. Heinz Guderian died at the age of 65, in Schwangau near Füssen (Southern Bavaria) and is buried at the Friedhof Hildesheimerstrasse in Goslar.

Quotes

 * Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who prepared to act with daring.
 * Achtung-Panzer! : The Development of Armoured Forces, Their Tactics and Operational Potential (1937)

 * The moral and intellectual condition of a nation may certainly prove of decisive importance on its own account, but all due attention must also be paid to material considerations. When a nation has to reckon with a struggle against superior forces on several fronts, it must neglect nothing that may conduce to the betterment of its situation.
 * Achtung-Panzer! : The Development of Armoured Forces, Their Tactics and Operational Potential (1937)

 * We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.
 * Letter to his wife (9 November 1941) on the German failures in Operation Barbarossa and the battles of the Eastern Front, quoted in Images of Kursk : History's Greatest Tank Battle, July 1943 (2002) by Nikolas Cornish, p. 6; also in The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War (2009) by Andrew Roberts, p. 409

 * To imitate the ostrich in political matters has never been a satisfactory method of avoiding danger; yet this is what Hitler, as well as his more important political, economic and even military advisers, chose to do over and over again. The consequences of this deliberate blindness in the face of hard facts were devastating; and it was we who now had to bear them.
 * On the failure of Hitler and his advisors to face realities of various situations, especially those of the military on the Eastern Front, in Panzer Leader (1952), Ch. 6 : The Campaign in Russia, p. 190

 * It has been deduced from Hitler's great power over the masses that the Germans are an unusually suggestible race. But in all countries and at all times men have succumbed to the suggestive powers of unusual personalities, even if the wielders of those powers were not always good men in the Christian sense.
 * Panzer Leader (1952), Ch. 13 : Leading Personalities of the Third Reich, p. 432

 * Es gibt keine verzweifelten Lagen, es gibt nur verzweifelte Menschen.
 * There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.
 * As quoted in Die Deutschen gepanzerten Truppen bis 1945 (1965) by Oskar Munzel

 * Man schlägt jemanden mit der Faust und nicht mit gespreizten Fingern.
 * You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.
 * As quoted in Die Deutschen gepanzerten Truppen bis 1945 (1965) by Oskar Munzel, p. 209; this indicated the need to concentrate tank forces for one strong push in one direction and not distribute them over a large area.

 * Der Motor des Panzers ist ebenso seine Waffe wie die Kanone.
 * The engine of the Panzer is a weapon just as the main-gun.
 * As quoted in Die Deutschen gepanzerten Truppen bis 1945 (1965) by Oskar Munzel, p. 159

 * It's simply our duty to save these people, and we still have time to remove them! But it's useless to sacrifice men in this senseless way. It's high time! We must evacuate those soldiers at once!
 * Arguing with Adolf Hitler about the German army being cut off in the Courland Pocket; as quoted in Inside the Third Reich : Memoirs (1971) by Albert Speer, p. 534

 * Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.
 * As quoted in Sword Point (1988) by Harold Coyle, p. 141

 * When the situation is obscure, attack.
 * As quoted in Waging Business Warfare (1988) David J. Rogers, p. 236

 * Nicht Kleckern sondern Klotzen!
 * Boot 'em, don't spatter 'em!
 * As quoted in How Great Generals Win (1993) by Bevin Alexander, p. 227; this statement became a stock phrase which Hitler often repeated. It is comparable to the adage "Don't do things by half."

 * If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.
 * As quoted in Panzerkrieg : The Rise and Fall of Hitler's Tank Divisions (2002) by Peter McCarthy and Mike Syron, p. 33

 * Fahrkarte bis zur Endstation.
 * Ticket to the last station.
 * Shouted to his Panzertroops as they were passing him, indicating that they should go as far as they could; as quoted in Panzerkrieg : The Rise and Fall of Hitler's Tank Divisions (2002) by Peter McCarthy and Mike Syron, p. 83

 * New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles.
 * As quoted in Cavalry from Hoof to Track (2009) by Roman Jarymowycz, Ch. 16 : Cold Warhorse: Pegasus ex Machina

Quotes about Guderian

 * The good news for Liddell Hart was that his work was hugely influential. The bad news was that it was hugely influential not in Britain but in Germany. With the notable exception of Major-General J. F. C. Fuller, senior British commanders like Field Marshal Earl Haig simply refused to accept that 'the aeroplane, the tank [and] the motor car [would] supersede the horse in future wars', dismissing motorized weapons as mere 'accessories to the man and horse'. Haig's brother concurred: the cavalry would 'never be scrapped to make room for the tanks'. By contrast, younger German officers immediately grasped the significance of Liddell Hart's work. Among his most avid fans was Heinz Guderian, commander of the 19th German Army Corps in the invasion of Poland. As Guderian recalled, it was from Liddell Hart and other British pioneers of 'a new type of warfare on the largest scale' that he learned the importance of 'the concentration of armour'.
 * Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006), pp. 386-387

 * Hitler might have waged his war against the Soviet Union more intelligently. Again, he might have listened to the experts (Halder and Guderian among them), who advised him to concentrate German efforts on capturing Moscow rather than diverting Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's Army Group southwards towards Kiev. In a similar vein, Hitler might not have squandered his 6th Army so profligately at Stalingrad; Alan Brooke's fear was that Paulus might instead conquer the Caucasus, opening the way to the Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf oilfields.
 * Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006), pp. 514

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Talk:Television shows/Dialog formatting

For some shows, like Firefly, most of the good quotes are dialog. It's been quoted in a number of ways here on wikiquote. Ideally the chosen format should work well for shows with only single character quotes. Following are several dialog formatting examples (separated by type each time), with examples, pros, and cons. Please add new example styles instead of changing the existing ones here.

Left side 1
Normal left alignment.

Examples
Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.

Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."

Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"

Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!

Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Pros
Clean, simple, easy

Cons
Requires HTML line breaks. Less visual distinction from smaller headlines. Problem distinguishing separated dialog under Monobook style (may be temporary).

Left side 2
Left indent.

Examples

 * Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

 * Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

 * Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.
 * Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

 * [Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]
 * Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."
 * Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"
 * Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
 * Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!
 * Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Pros
Doesn't require HTML linebreaks, and looks quoteblockish. Provides visual distinction from smaller section headers.

Left side 3
Bullet for every line.

Examples

 * Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

 * Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

 * Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.
 * Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

 * [Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]
 * Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."
 * Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"
 * Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
 * Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!
 * Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Pros
Similar to common Wikiquote practice.

Cons
Makes it harder to distinguish different pieces of dialog, especially under Monobook style (although Monobook problem may be temporary).

Left side 4
Bullets for every line said, secondary bullet for successive lines.

Examples

 * Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

 * Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

 * Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.
 * Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

 * [Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]
 * Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."
 * Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"
 * Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
 * Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!
 * Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Pros
Easy for contributor.

Cons
Jarringly strange. Also gives false impression of precedence. Problem distinguishing separated dialog under Monobook style (may be temporary).

Attribution 1
Character:

Examples
Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.

Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."

Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"

Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!

Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Pros
Would look better with a special "Formatting words said".

Attribution 2
Character: in italic.

Examples
Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.

Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."

Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"

Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!

Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Cons
Confusing if certain words said need to be emphasized.

Attribution 3
Character name and colon in bold.

Examples
Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.

Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."

Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"

Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!

Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Pros
Distinguishes between character and quoted text. Similar to IMDb quotes.

Cons
Slightly more work for creator.

Attribution 4
Character name in bold, colon not.

Examples
Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.

Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."

Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"

Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!

Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Pros
Distinguishes between character and quoted text. Familiar to IMDb quote readers.

Cons
Slightly more work for creator.

Comments
I don't see the distinction between Attribution 3 and Attribution 4. -- Jeff Q 06:23, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Attribution 3 has the colon in bold; 4 doesn't. I've indicated it better in the descriptions. - Jeandré, 2004-06-14t21:31z

Attribution 5
Dash character after line.

Examples
Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail. - Wash

Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right. - Mal

I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life. - Sir Warrick Harrow

And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community. - Mal

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land." - Wash's Stegosaurus

I think we should call it "your grave!" - Wash's Ceratosaur

Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! - Stegosaurus

Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! - Ceratosaur

Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven! - Stegosaurus

Pros
Similar to the way quotes are normally attributed.

Cons
Doesn't work for dialog at all.

Linking speakers 1
Links to the actors' article on en.wikipedia.

Examples
Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.

Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."

Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"

Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!

Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Pros
Likely to already have an article. Follows IMDb practice (although that may make more sense for IMDb than Wikiquote).

Cons
Unlikely that the actor wrote the line, tho they did deliver it. Doesn't link to what it says.

Linking speakers 2
Links to articles about the characters on en.wikipedia.

Examples
Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.

Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."

Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"

Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!

Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Pros
Links to article (if it exists) that describes highlighted character.

Cons
Unlikely to have article, fictional characters should very rarely have articles devoted to them. Wikiquote won't differentiate between existing and non-existing Wikipedia links, so all links show as blue (none red).

Comments
[I]t's true that characters frequently don't have articles on Wikipedia. I would suggest that, if a character is not there, simply don't provide the link. They can always be added if and when such an article is created. Also, the non-existent Wikipedia articles have blue links because Wikiquote isn't smart enough to detect page existence on its sister project. You have to follow the link to find out if there's a page. (Another good reason to include or leave out character links as needed.) -- Jeff Q 06:35, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Linking speakers 3
Link to character articles here on wikiquote.

Examples
Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.

Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."

Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"

Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!

Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Cons
Unnecessary. Unlikely to have article.

Comments
I disagree that the Wikiquote character links are unnecessary, although they should be quite rare. Again, one could leave out links except in those rare cases. -- Jeff Q 06:35, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Linking frequency 1
Link only the first time a character is mentioned in the article.

Examples
Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.

Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."

Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"

Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!

Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Pros
Easier on the eye for short articles.

Cons
Not practical for long articles. If someone sees the page via an anchor (not at the top), they may miss the links.

Linking frequency 2
Link the first time a character is mentioned, for each and every quote.

Examples
Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.

Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."

Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"

Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!

Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Pros
If someone sees the page via an anchor (not at the top), they'll see the links.

Cons
Looks bad. Can be confusing for contributor.

Comments
I don't understand the Pro. At the very least, it sounds like a Con, not a Pro. I'd suggest that that Pro should be "Follows Wiki practice of linking first occurrence in a logical section, while providing links in all areas of the article. (Perhaps the latter is what you're trying to say?) -- Jeff Q 06:23, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * I messed up the 2 linking frequency sections after swapping them. I'm not sure I understand your suggested pro, but I've added Linking frequency 3 below. - Jeandré, 2004-06-14t21:42z

 * Now I messed up. I was trying to express the Wiki practice of only linking text occasionally in an article, either once in the entire article or perhaps once per headed section (it varies), and trying (but failing) to imply that that was roughly equivalent to Linking frequency 2 (which is why I used LF2 for the TV show pages I created). All I did was confuse things. ☺ Since dialog excerpts aren't articles, sections, or even paragraphs, I'd suggest the three logical linking frequencies are: once per article (LF1), once per dialog excerpt (LF2), or every single time (not currently shown). The last is how IMDb does it, but their own experiences in getting contributors to format quotes correctly demonstrates the excessive burden it puts on contributors. -- Jeff Q 22:31, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * By the way, I think this form may look less uniform, but not bad. My main objection to it (even though I think it's the optimum form) is that a contributor just using existing quotes as a guideline (as is frequently the Wiki way) may not notice or understand the principle. My solution on several TV show pages was to list the "rules" at the top of the Talk page, then suggest that if it's too confusing, don't worry much about the formatting and let someone else clean it up (as is also the Wiki way). -- Jeff Q 22:53, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Linking frequency 3
Link the first time a character is mentioned in each major section.

Examples
Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.

Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

Imagine the following is in a different section:

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."

Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"

Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!

Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Pros
If someone sees the page via an anchor (not at the top), they'll see the links.

Linking words 1
Don't link things said, link instead in comments afterwards

Examples
Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.

Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."

Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"

Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!

Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Linking words 2
Link things said to en.wikipedia, or themes here in wikiquote, or other anchors in the page.

Examples
Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.

Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."

Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"

Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!

Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Pros
It's the wiki/web way.

Cons
See discussion at User talk:Hyacinth. Kalki and Hyacinth do not support linking words within quotations. [Seeking to clarify: I do not think links should generally be used within the quotations, for aesthetic and other reasons, but links within notes about them, and in headers are fine. I do not seek to prohibit them, but if they are used at all within a quotation, I think it should be sparingly. We do not have the encyclopedic function of Wikipedia that is enhanced by extensive interlinkng, and I feel that the extensive use of links within quotations themselves can often be distractive from the reflection and contemplation that some expressions deserve or even require, for fullest appreciation. ~ Kalki 20:38, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)]

Formatting descriptions 1
No formatting for descriptions.

Examples
Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.

Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."

Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"

Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!

Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Pros
Easier to create entry.

Cons
Hard for reader to distinguish quoted text from descriptive text.

Formatting descriptions 2
Italicize descriptions.

Examples
Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.

Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."

Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"

Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!

Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Pros
Stands out clearly for reader.

Cons
Slightly more work for creator.

Formatting words said 1
No formatting of words said.

Examples
Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.

Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Wash's Stegosaurus: Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."

Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"

Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Ceratosaur: Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!

Stegosaurus: Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Pros
Since this is what wikiquote is about, it looks best it unadorned. Remember that this style will most likely be combined with a formatted "Linking speakers" style. It also makes it possible to italicize (or embold) emphasized words in dialog; e.g., "Not that one, you fool!"

Formatting words said 2
Italicize words said.

Examples
Wash: ''Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.''

Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.

Sir Warrick Harrow: ''I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.''

Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Wash's Stegosaurus: ''Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."''

Wash's Ceratosaur: I think we should call it "your grave!"

Stegosaurus: Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Ceratosaur: ''Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!''

Stegosaurus: ''Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!''

Cons
Lots of italicized word are hard to read, especially on computers. Opposite of existing general Wikiquote practice and many printed quote references.

Formatting words said 3
Put words said in "double quotes".

Examples
Wash: "Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail."

Mal: "Mercy is the mark of a great man." [stabs Atherton] "Guess I'm just a good man." [stabs Atherton again] "Well, I'm all right."

Sir Warrick Harrow: "I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life."

Mal: "And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community."

[Wash, playing with plastic dinosaurs.]

Wash's Stegosaurus: "Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land.""

Wash's Ceratosaur: "I think we should call it "your grave!""

Stegosaurus: "Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"

Ceratosaur: "Har har har! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!"

Stegosaurus: "Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!"

Pros
Familiar.

Cons
Messes up quotes in quotes. Redundant if characters prefixed. Messier when mixed with descriptive text. Doesn't match existing practice in other dialog references (e.g., IMDb).

Quote breaks 1
Blank line between separate quotes.

Examples

 * Xander: I laugh in the face of danger! Then I… hide until it goes away.

 * Giles: Why should someone want to harm Cordelia?
 * Willow: Maybe because they met her?

Pros

 * Standard practice; already in use on most pages. Looks good using Classic, Nostalgia, and Cologne Blue page styles.

Cons

 * Hard to see quote separation using Monobook (current default) page style.

Quote breaks 2
Flush-left equals-sign between separate quotes.

Examples

 * Xander: I laugh in the face of danger! Then I… hide until it goes away.

=
 * Giles: Why should someone want to harm Cordelia?
 * Willow: Maybe because they met her?

Pros

 * Works for all predefined page styles. Easy to add. Quote separation is clear.

Cons

 * Looks messy. Uses most vertical space of options.

Quote breaks 3
Half-size horizontal rule (line) between separate quotes.

Examples

 * Xander: I laugh in the face of danger! Then I… hide until it goes away.

 * Giles: Why should someone want to harm Cordelia?
 * Willow: Maybe because they met her?

Pros

 * Works for all predefined page styles. Neat and clear. Uses little vertical space.

Cons

 * Separator text not as simple (although easy to copy & paste).

Left side 1

 * 1) Jeandré, 2004-10-09t16:21z

Left side 2

 * 1) Jeandré, 2004-06-13t22:00z
 * 2) Jeff Q 07:07, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC) (at least until Wikidom creates better poetry/dialog/lyrics format)

Attribution 3

 * 1) Jeandré, 2004-10-09t16:21z

Attribution 4

 * 1) Jeff Q 22:14, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC) (Attribution 3 just as good for me, except already using Attribution 4 in three TV show articles.)
 * 2) RoboAction 10:46, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC) (I like, it's clean and good for the eyes)

Linking speakers 1

 * 1) Jeandré, 2004-07-29t18:58z I'm still not solid on any of the choices.

Linking speakers 2

 * 1) Jeff Q 07:07, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Linking frequency 2

 * 1) Jeff Q 07:07, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Linking frequency 3

 * 1) Jeandré, 2004-06-14t22:09z

Linking words 1

 * 1) Jeandré, 2004-06-14t22:01z I changed to 1, but can think of a few exceptions, especially foreshadowing linked to pay-off episodes.
 * 2) Jeff Q 07:07, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC). Don't know why I had originally voted for LW2. I think Kalki's summary comment in LW2 is the definitive argument against it, though I agree there could be exceptions.

Formatting descriptions 2

 * 1) Jeandré, 2004-06-13t22:00z
 * 2) Jeff Q 07:07, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Formatting words said 1

 * 1) Jeandré, 2004-06-13t22:00z
 * 2) Jeff Q 22:41, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC) (See MST3K, Season 8 for complex examples demonstrating my preferences.)

Quote breaks 1

 * 1) Jeandré, using the Nostalgia skin, because Monobook (the default) is all sorts of wrong. I started these options after seeing how Monobook mangles paragraphs; I'm hoping it'll be corrected, or cast into Mount Doom. 2004-07-29t18:57z, 2004-07-30t17:52z

Quote breaks 3

 * 1) Jeff Q 08:46, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC), using Monobook skin (page style) but testing Classic periodically. (See Buffy and MST3K for live examples of this format.)

General comments
In the Pros and Cons, I try to make a distinction between easy/hard for readers and for contributors, since: -- Jeff Q 07:12, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * 1) Readers (hopefully) outnumber contributors by an order of magnitude (or more).
 * 2) Articles will (hopefully) be read far more often than written or edited.
 * 3) Contributors are almost necessarily more Wiki-experienced, so it's worth putting a modest additional burden on them for the sake of better readability.

When I changed my Wikiquote skin to use the new default Monobook style, I realized that all four "Left side" options are poor at distinguishing between separate dialog sections. I conscientiously added this issue to the Cons of all four options, in the hopes (but not expectations) that someone will suggest a new "Left side" option that doesn't have this problem. At the very least, it provides yet another example for the ongoing argument I've had with Wikiquote, Wikipedia, and MetaWiki admins that this new default style utterly fails to consider the vast amount of poetry, song lyrics, and dialog in Wiki articles that count on this visual separation. -- Jeff Q 07:45, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * I started this page because of the MonoBook skin turning line brakes (LBs) into paragraph breaks (PBs). That skin seems to be changing constantly (another reason making it a bad default I think). At the moment MonoBook messes up Left side 3 and 4 by turning LBs into PBs. Left side 2 has little space between paragraphs, but you can still see the difference between LBs and PBs — I've removed 1.2.3. - Jeandré, 2004-06-14t21:51z

Jeff, what happens between Giles' and Willow's tadpoles lines? As someone who hasn't seen the episode, it looks like they immediately follow each other. -- Jeandré, 2004-07-28t19:08z

 * There is some demon-of-the-week discussion between the two quotes. I chose that particular pair of consecutive quotes from the Buffy page specifically because the page formatting changes in the past few months made it look like they were a single quote. Upon reflection, I think this is probably too good an example, as even proper separation doesn't remove this impression. I'll replace it with a less confusing example shortly. -- Jeff Q 00:04, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * For the sake of precision, I should correct my earlier statement. I checked my notes and found that the pair of Buffy quotes formerly used in the "Quote breaks" examples were separated by four unquoteworthy lines of verbiage, which is why they're omitted on the Buffy page. Not really relevant anymore, but I hate leaving erroneous info uncorrected. — Jeff Q 12:08, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I see little action here recently. Standardization is more important for me than any particular standard being chosen. Any hope of moving this forward? Is it waiting for something specific I could possibly help with? MosheZadka 13:16, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * This article held perhaps the first substantial discussion on TV show formatting, but these issues have been more recently dicussed at Wikiquote talk:Templates, where there are many links to examples and other discussions. The real problem is that different people have different opinions on how to organize and format shows. We haven't really managed to come anywhere near a consensus in the past. However, you're always welcome to reinvigorate the discussion. — Jeff Q (talk) 13:25, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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George Harrison

George Harrison (24 or 25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was a British songwriter, musician and film producer who rose to fame as a member of The Beatles.

Quotes

 * If you'd have asked me that question, 9 months ago, well, I would have been able to say, to come to America, to have a number one hit in America, and to play Carnegie Hall, to play the Palladium, to play in front of the Queen, and all that. ... The things we've done, they were our ambitions, say 9 months ago.
 * Asked for his greatest ambition. Pop Chronicles, Show 28 - The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!: The U.S.A. is invaded by a wave of long-haired English rockers. Part 2, (1964, broadcast 1969).

 * If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception. In that way you can see, hear and play with God. Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you.
 * Introduction to 'Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead (1970) by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

 * From the Hindu perspective, each soul is divine. All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.
 * Introduction to Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead (1970) by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada; this paraphrases some statements from An Autobiography of a Yogi (1948) by Paramahansa Yogananda

 * My idea in "My Sweet Lord," because it sounded like a "pop song," was to sneak up on them a bit. The point was to have the people not offended by "Hallelujah," and by the time it gets to "Hare Krishna," they're already hooked, and their foot's tapping, and they're already singing along "Hallelujah," to kind of lull them into a sense of false security. And then suddenly it turns into "Hare Krishna," and they will all be singing that before they know what's happened, and they will think, "Hey, I thought I wasn't supposed to like Hare Krishna!"
 * Interview with Mukunda Goswami (4 September 1982)

 * I always felt at home with Krishna. You see it was already a part of me. I think it's something that's been with me from my previous birth .... I'd rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don't understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.
 * Interview, Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, 1982, Cited in Sushama Londhe in “A Tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and Wisdom Spanning Continents and Time about India and Her Culture”

 * It just annoyed me that people got so into the Beatles. "Beatles, Beatles, Beatles." It's not that I don't like talking about them. I've never stopped talking about them. It's "Beatles this, Beatles that, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles." Then in the end, it's like "Oh, sod off with the Beatles," you know?
 * Interview with Selina Scott on West 57th Street (aired 12 December 1987)

 * I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.
 * Interview with Selina Scott on West 57th Street (aired 12 December 1987)

 * He was annoyed 'cause I didn't say that he'd written one line of this song "Taxman." But I also didn't say how I wrote two lines of "Come Together" or three lines of "Eleanor Rigby," you know? I wasn't getting into any of that. I think, in the balance, I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have had with me!
 * When asked about John Lennon's feelings towards his autobiography, interview with Selina Scott on West 57th Street, aired 12 December 1987

 * Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.
 * Quoted in The Beatles — After the Break-up : In Their Own Words (1991) by David Bennahum, p. 54

 * I felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.
 * of first taking LSD, The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 177

 * If everybody who had a gun just shot themselves there wouldn’t be a problem.
 * The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 226

 * You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it.
 * The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 267

 * That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: "Go away, you bunch of boring people."
 * The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 296

 * I'd thought it would be something like King's Road [London], only more. Somehow I expected them all to own their own little shops. I expected them to all be nice and clean and friendly and happy … (on the contrary, I discovered them to be) hideous, spotty little teenagers.
 * Expressing disenchantment with the "Summer of Love" hippies of San Francisco's famous “hippie haven” i.e., the Haight-Ashbury district, which he visited on 7 August 1967, as quoted in Dark Horse: The Life and Art of George Harrison, Geoffrey Giuliano, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0306807475 ISBN 9780306807473, p. 80.

 * I don't mind anybody dropping out of anything, but it's the imposition on somebody else I don't like. The moment you start dropping out and then begging off somebody else to help you, then it's no good. It doesn't matter what you are as long as you work. It doesn't matter if you chop wood as long as you chop and keep chopping. Then you get what's coming to you. You don't have to drop out. In fact, if you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.
 * Quoted in Dark Horse: The Life and Art of George Harrison, Geoffrey Giuliano, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0306807475 ISBN 9780306807473, p. 80.

 * I got tired of people saying "But what can I do?" Also, the reluctance of the press to report the full details created the need to bring attention to it. So the song "Bangla Desh" was written specifically to get attention to the war prior to the concert.
 * – George Harrison, 1979, George Harrison, I Me Mine, Chronicle Books (San Francisco, CA, 2002; ISBN 0-8118-3793-9).

 * Even now I still meet waiters in Bengali restaurants who say, "When we were in the jungle fighting, it was great to know somebody out there was thinking of us."
 * – George Harrison, 1991 in Elliot J. Huntley, Mystical One: George Harrison – After the Break-up of the Beatles, Guernica Editions (Toronto, ON, 2006; ISBN 1-55071-197-0).

 * The money we raised was secondary. The main thing was, we spread the word and helped get the war ended ... What we did show was that musicians and people are more humane than politicians.
 * – George Harrison, 1992 in Joshua M. Greene, Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison, John Wiley & Sons (Hoboken, NJ, 2006; ISBN 978-0-470-12780-3).

Lyrics

No one else can make you change. And to see you're really only very small And life flows in within you and without you.
 * Try to realize it's all within yourself,
 * Within You Without You, from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

You can know all things on earth. Without looking out of your window you could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels. the less one knows, the less one really knows.
 * Without going out of your door,
 * ''The Inner Light (song) (1968), On Transcendental Meditation and teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

You may think the chords are going wrong But they're not We just wrote it like that
 * If you're listening to this song
 * Only a Northern Song (1967)

 * ...the more I learn the less I know...
 * "It's All Too Much" (1967)

And go where you're going to. '''Think for yourself 'Cause I won't be there with you.'''
 * Do what you want to do,
 * Think for Yourself (1965)

While my guitar gently weeps.'''
 * '''I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
 * While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)

I don't know how someone controlled you They bought and sold you.
 * I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love
 * While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)

While my guitar gently weeps. With every mistake we must surely be learning, Still my guitar gently weeps.
 * I look at the world and I notice it’s turning.
 * While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)

You were perverted too. I don't know how you were inverted No one alerted you.
 * I don't know how you were diverted
 * While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)

It's been a long cold lonely winter.''' Little darling, It feels like years since it's been here. Here comes the sun...
 * '''Little darling,
 * Here Comes the Sun (1969)

I feel that ice is slowly melting Little darling It seems like years since it's been clear Here comes the sun...
 * Little darling
 * Here Comes the Sun (1969)

attracts me like no other lover.
 * Something in the way she moves
 * Something (1969)

Not worrying what they or you say, I'll live and love and maybe someday Who knows baby you may comfort me.
 * If I grow up I'll be a singer, wearing rings on every finger
 * Old Brown Shoe (1969)

Really want to be with you, Really want to see you lord, But it takes so long, my lord.
 * I really want to see you,
 * My Sweet Lord (1970)

 * My sweet Lord (Hallelujah)Hm, my Lord (Hallelujah)My, my, my Lord (Hallelujah)I really want to know you (Hallelujah)Really want to go with you (Hallelujah)Really want to show you Lord (ahh)That it won't take long, my Lord (Hallelujah)Hmm (Hallelujah)My sweet Lord (Hallelujah)My, my, Lord (Hallelujah)Hm, my Lord (Hare Krishna)My, my, my Lord (Hare Krishna)
 * My Sweet Lord (1970)

Where so many people are dying fast And it sure looks like a mess I've never seen such distress. Now won't you lend your hand, try to understand? Relieve the people of Bangladesh.
 * Bangladesh, Bangladesh
 * Bangla Desh (1971); released as a single, and then on The Concert for Bangladesh (1971), and later on the album Living in the Material World (1973)

Give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, Give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul.
 * '''Give me love, give me peace on earth,
 * Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (1973)

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Caddyshack

Caddyshack is a 1980 comedy film about an exclusive golf course that has to deal with a brash new member and a destructive dancing gopher.
 * Directed by Harold Ramis. Written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Harold Ramis and Douglas Kenney.

At last, a comedy that bites!Taglines

Judge Elihu Smails

 * Danny, I'm having a party this weekend. [pauses a beat] How would you like to come over and mow my lawn?
 * I have a little poem I'd like to read in honor of this occasion, if I may. Spaulding, get your foot off the boat.
 * "It's easy to grin
 * when your ship comes in
 * and you've got the stock market beat.
 * But the man worthwhile
 * is the man who can smile
 * when his shorts are too tight in the seat". [laughs] Okay, pookie. Do the honors.

 * [impatiently waits for Danny's final putt] WELL? WE'RE WAITING.

Carl Spackler

 * [standing in an ornamental flowerbed] What an incredible Cinderella story! This unknown, comes out of nowhere, to lead the pack at Augusta. He's at the final hole. He's about 455 yards away, he's gonna hit about a 2-iron, I think. [swings, pulverizes a flower] Oh, he got all of that. The crowd is standing on its feet here at Augusta. The normally reserved Augusta crowd is going wild... [pauses] for this young Cinderella who's come out of nowhere. He's got about 350 yards left, he's going to hit about a 5-iron, it looks like, don't you think? He's got a beautiful backswing... [swings, pulverizes another flower] that's- oh, he got all of that one! He's gotta be pleased with that! The crowd is just on its feet here. He's a Cinderella boy. Tears in his eyes, I guess, as he lines up this last shot. He's got about 195 yards left, and he's got a, looks like he's got about an 8-iron. This crowd has gone deadly silent... Cinderella story, out of nowhere, former greenskeeper, now about to become the Masters champion. [swings, pulverizes yet another flower] It looks like a mirac- it's in the hole! It's in the hole!
 * Note: bolded portion ranked #92 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

 * License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill you must know your enemy, and in this case, my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will not quit, ever. They're like the Viet Cong. Varmint Cong. So what you gotta do is, you gotta fall back on superior firepower, and superior intelligence. And that's all she wrote.
 * I have to laugh, because I've outsmarted myself. My foe, my enemy, is an animal, and in order to conquer him, I have to think like an animal, and, whenever possible, to look like one.  I've gotta get inside this dude's pelt and crawl around for a few days.
 * Great big gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts. How about a nice, cool drink, varmints? Scum! Slime! Menace to the golfing industry! You're a disgrace and you're varmints. You're one of the lowest members of the food chain and you'll probably be replaced by the rat. Well, I have been pushed. I think it's about time that somebody teaches these varmints a little lesson about morality and about what it's like to be a decent, upstanding member of a society! Come to Carl, varmint. Come to Carl. -- Okay, I guess we're playing for keeps now. I guess the kidding around is pretty much over, huh? I guess it's just a matter now of pumping about fifteen thousand gallons of water down there to teach you a little bit of a lesson, is that it? I think it is!
 * This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff.
 * I smell varmint poontang. And the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang, I think.

Dialogue

 * Danny: I'm gonna end up working in a lumberyard the rest of my life.
 * Ty: What's the matter with lumber? I own two lumberyards.
 * Danny: I notice you don't spend too much time there.
 * Ty: I'm not quite sure where they are.

 * Danny: I gotta go to college. I gotta.
 * Ty: Oh, Danny, this isn't Russia. Is this Russia? This isn't Russia, is it? I didn't think so. I like you, Betty.
 * Danny: It's Danny, sir.
 * Ty: Danny. Danny, I'm going to give you a little advice. There's a force in the universe that makes things happen; all you have to do is get in touch with it. Stop thinking... let things happen... and be... the ball.

 * Ty: Do you take drugs, Danny?
 * Danny: Every day.
 * Ty: Good, then what's your problem?
 * Dannny: I don't know.

 * Sandy: [with heavy Scottish brogue]: Carl, I want you to kill all the gophers on the course.
 * Carl: Check me if I'm wrong, Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers, they'll lock me up and throw away the key.
 * Sandy: Not golfers, you great git! Gophers- the little brown, furry rodents!
 * Carl: We can do that. We don't even have to have a reason.
 * Sandy: Aye! Well, do it, man!
 * Carl: All right. Let's do the same thing, but with gophers. [Sandy storms off] It's not my fault nobody can understand what you're saying.

 * Carl: So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas.
 * Angie: A looper?
 * Carl: A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver, he hauls off and whacks one- big hitter, the Lama- long, into a ten-thousand foot crevice, right at the base of this glacier. And do you know what the Lama says?
 * Angie: No.
 * Carl: "Gunga galunga...gunga- gunga lagunga." So we finish the eighteenth... and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know... for the effort, you know?" And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

 * Al: What're we, waiting for these guys? Hey Whitey, where's your hat?
 * Smails: Do you mind, sir. I'm trying to tee off.
 * Al: I'll bet you a hundred bucks you slice it into the woods.
 * Smails: Gambling is illegal at Bushwood sir, and I never slice.
 * [he swings his club, and slices the ball into the woods]
 * Smails: Damn!
 * Al: Okay, you can owe me.
 * Smails: I owe you nothing.

 * Smails: Ty, what did you shoot today?
 * Ty: Oh, Judge, I don't keep score.
 * Smails: Then how do you measure yourself with other golfers?
 * Ty: By height.
 * Smails: You know, you should play with Dr. Beeper and myself. I mean, he's been club champion for three years running and I'm no slouch myself.
 * Ty: Don't sell yourself short Judge, you're a tremendous slouch.

 * Danny: Judge Smails, sir?
 * Smails: Sit down, Danny. I think you know why you're here, so I'll do us the courtesy of not reviewing what happened yesterday. My niece is the kind of girl that has a certain zest for living. The last thing any of us needs now is a lot of loose talk about her behavior.
 * Danny: I swear I didn't tell anybody anything, sir.
 * Smails: Good, good. You know, despite what happened, I'm still convinced that you have many fine qualities. I think you can still become a gentleman someday if you understand and abide by the rules of decent society. There's a lot of...well, badness in the world today. I see it in court every day. I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. I didn't want to do it- I felt I owed it to them. The most important decision you can make right now is what you stand for- goodness...or badness.
 * Danny: Now I know I've made some mistakes in the past. I'm willing to make up for that. I want to be good!
 * Smails: Very good! I know how hard it is for young people today and I want to help. Just ask my grandson, Spaulding. He and I are regular pals. Are you my pal..."Mr. Scholarship Winner"?
 * Danny: Yes, sir! I'm your pal!
 * Smails: [ruffles Danny's hair] How about a Fresca?

 * Spaulding: I want a hamburger-- No, cheeseburger. I want a hot dog, I want a milkshake, I want a potato...
 * Smails: You'll get nothing and like it!

 * Smails: I demand satisfaction.
 * Al: You demand satisfaction? Well I'll tell you what's satisfying: cash. I'll shoot you 18 holes for ten thousand bucks!
 * Smails: [laughs] Wha... I could beat you with one arm!
 * Al: Well, how about teams then, for twenty thousand? You can have Dr. Frankenputz...
 * Dr. Beeper: [mortified] I beg your pardon!
 * Al: And I'll take Ty, here.
 * Ty: Guys, don't include me in this.
 * Al: Come on, Ty, you're an ace. Everybody knows it.
 * Ty: I don't play golf...for money...against people.
 * Al: What are you, religious or something?
 * Ty: You might say that.
 * Smails: Ty, can I have a word with you? In private?
 * Ty: Sure thing, Judge.
 * Smails: Listen, your father and I prepped together, went to war together, played golf together. We built this club, he and I. And let's face it, some people simply do not belong. Let's not... cave in too easy. What do you say, Ty?
 * [Smails and Ty start to laugh]
 * Ty: Let's make it $40,000.
 * Al: Hey, great!
 * Ty: [to a glaring Smails] You know, Judge, my dad... never liked you.

 * Ty: You've got to win this hole.
 * Danny: I kinda thought winning wasn't important.
 * Ty: Me winning isn't. You, do.
 * Danny: Great grammar.

Taglines

 * At last, a comedy that bites!
 * Some People Just Don't Belong.
 * The Snobs Against The Slobs!
 * Playing A Round Of Golf At The Bushwood Club Isn't Just Confined To The Golf Course!
 * At last, a comedy with balls!

Cast

 * Chevy Chase - Ty Webb
 * Rodney Dangerfield - Al Czervik
 * Ted Knight - Judge Elihu Smails
 * Michael O'Keefe - Danny Noonan
 * Bill Murray - Carl Spackler
 * Sarah Holcomb - Maggie O'Hooligan
 * Scott Colomby - Tony D'Annunzio
 * Cindy Morgan - Lacey Underall
 * Dan Resin - Dr. Beeper
 * Henry Wilcoxon - The Bishop

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Travis Bickle
stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man.
 * Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks,

take it anymore'''. Who would not let...Listen you fuckers, you screwheads. Here's a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit, here is someone who stood up. HERE IS ...
 * [voiceover] Listen you fuckers, you screwheads. '''Here's a man who would not

Conversations & others

 * Sport: Catch you later, copper.
 * Travis: I'm no cop, man. I'm hip.
 *  Sport: Funny, you don't look hip. But looks aren't everything.

Go ahead, have yourself a good time.

 * Cab Dispatcher: Can you drive to the Bronx? Manhattan?
 * Travis Bickle: I work anytime, anywhere.
 * Cab Dispatcher: Will you work Jewish holidays?
 * Travis Bickle: Anytime. Anywhere.

Cast

 * Robert De Niro - Travis Bickle
 * Cybill Shepard - Betsy
 * Jodie Foster - Iris
 * Harvey Keitel - Sport
 * Peter Boyle - Wizard

Travis Bickle

 * Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man.

 * [voiceover] Listen you fuckers, you screwheads. Here's a man who would not take it anymore. Who would not let...Listen you fuckers, you screwheads. Here's a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit, here is someone who stood up. HERE IS ...

Conversations & others

 * Sport: Catch you later, copper.
 * Travis: I'm no cop, man. I'm hip.
 *  Sport: Funny, you don't look hip. But looks aren't everything. Go ahead, have yourself a good time.

 * Cab Dispatcher: Can you drive to the Bronx? Manhattan?
 * Travis Bickle: I work anytime, anywhere.
 * Cab Dispatcher: Will you work Jewish holidays?
 * Travis Bickle: Anytime. Anywhere.

Cast

 * Robert De Niro - Travis Bickle
 * Cybill Shepard - Betsy
 * Jodie Foster - Iris
 * Harvey Keitel - Sport
 * Peter Boyle - Wizard

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I like the brief movie description and most of the format elements. In fact, for your example, the only thing I'd change is separating "Conversations" and "Others" because the two aren't parallel. If there aren't any other individual quotees yet, I'd suggest one of three strategies: Of course, any of these can be changed to any other one if the material changes in nature over time.
 * 1) Add sections for likely characters, but leave them empty for now.
 * 2) Just leave them out completely until someone adds a quote.
 * 3) Create an "Others" section, which should recommend including the name of the person quoted.

As I mention at List of films, it may not handle very large quote pages well, but it's excellent for pages organized by character and/or with only a modest amount of dialog (which I believe form a majority of current pages). All in all, nice work. — Jeff Q 00:45, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Oh, I forgot — I'm not crazy about the actor links, since very few Wikiquote pages exist (or are likely to exist in the foreseeable future) for actors. I recommend Wikipedia links instead, which might be what people expect. This issue is part of the ongoing (though fairly quiescent) debate at Talk:Television shows/Dialog formatting (starting at Linking speakers 1). — Jeff Q 00:55, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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The Wikiquote quick index allows you to look up a subject's title by its first two letters. Always search on the first two letters, e.g. Jo for John Smith, not Sm for Smith

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User talk:24.16.35.135

You are welcome to post genuine quotes of real people, but please constrain yourself to posting legitimate quotes of famous people, and not any more fabricated quotes of fabricated people. ~ Kalki 01:13, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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