Pete,

I will offer an interim moderators reply.

We do prefer, no insist upon that quotations do have a link to their source, preferably a web link or a source e.g. Rommel's Memoirs pg.39 refers and are in quotation marks I.e. opened with [q-e] and closed with [/q-e].

Excessive quotations are looked at seriously as there could be copyright issues and we have had visits from those who have an interest in preserving copyright. SWC wants to avoid litigation.

Brevity also helps and I regularly summarise quotes from press articles.

Hopefully a wiser head will come along to explain more if required.