How To Use [EX] tags for quoting external content

[Mick West]

When quoting content from an external source use the [EX] tags. Examples

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnavlon416087.html
[EX]A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.[/EX]

becomes
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnavlon416087.html

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

Content from External Source

You can also EX something by selecting the text, and then clicking on the "External Quote" button in the tool bar (under the three dots)




When you quote an external source, always add a link if one is available, like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory

The chemtrail conspiracy theory posits that some trails left by aircraft are chemical orbiological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes for purposes undisclosed to the general public in clandestine programs directed by various government officials.[1] This theory is not accepted by the scientific community, which states that they are just normalcontrails, as there is no scientific evidence supporting the chemtrail theory.

Content from External Source

For quoting internal content (i.e. other posts on Metabunk), see:
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/how-to-quote-another-post-using-quote-tags.2561/[/EX]

 

[Mick West]

I'm going to be fixing up quotes as I see them, in both new and old posts. So if you see "Edited by Mick" under a post, it's probably that.

One advantage of these EX tag is that the quote still shows up when you "Reply with Quote"

I might add a "BUNK" tag to label things that are probably bunk.

 

[JFDee]

May I suggest that the URLs in the EX tags are automatically length-reduced, just as the inline ones?
Mainly for aesthetic reasons, of course ...

 

[Mick West]

I've changed it so it just links the "external source" now, so it's always the same size.