Template:Blockquote paragraphs

Due to the utterly intractable MediaWiki bug reported at Template:Bugzilla, and still unfixed Template:As of, block quoting on Wikipedia, with or without a template, cannot handle freeform linebreaking for paragraphs and poems and the like, unless formatted one very specific (and annoying) way. It's not a problem of blockquote templates, but all uses of {{#if:|

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}}{{#switch:open

|c|close  = 
|s|single
|o|open
|p|pair   = <blockquote{{#if:| {{{params}}}}}

}}{{#switch:open

|c|close  = 
|s|single =  />
|o|open   = >
|p|pair   = >...

}}{{#switch:open

|s|single
|o|open   = 
|c|close
|p|pair   = </blockquote>

}}{{#if:|

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The intuitive choice:

{{bq|Line 1

Line 2
Line 3

Line 4}}

results in the mangled:

Blank lines seem to work at first:

{{bq|Line 1

Line 2

Line 3

Line 4}}

though with quite tall spacing between the content blocks (lines, in our test cases):

Yet this markup fails with wiki ":" citation:

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Just trying to use {{#if:|

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}}{{#switch:pair

|c|close  = 
|s|single
|o|open
|p|pair   = <p{{#if:| {{{params}}}}}

}}{{#switch:pair

|c|close  = 
|s|single =  />
|o|open   = >
|p|pair   = >...

}}{{#switch:pair

|s|single
|o|open   = 
|c|close
|p|pair   = </p>

}}{{#if:|

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}} or {{#if:|

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}}{{#switch:single

|c|close  = 
|s|single
|o|open
|p|pair   = <br{{#if:| {{{params}}}}}

}}{{#switch:single

|c|close  = 
|s|single =  />
|o|open   = >
|p|pair   = >...

}}{{#switch:single

|s|single
|o|open   = 
|c|close
|p|pair   = </br>

}}{{#if:|

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}} markup won't solve all the problems:

{{bq|Line 1 <br/>

Line 2 <br/>
Line 3 <br/>

Line 4}}

results in odd spacing, with the middle blocks too close together:

Meanwhile this version seems OK at first:

{{bq|<p>Line 1</p>

<p>Line 2</p>
<p>Line 3</p>

<p>Line 4</p>}}

but again can't be indented in citation:

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Template:As of, the Template:Em solution for the problem is to use Template:Em with {{#if:|

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}}{{#switch:pair

|c|close  = 
|s|single
|o|open
|p|pair   = <p{{#if:| {{{params}}}}}

}}{{#switch:pair

|c|close  = 
|s|single =  />
|o|open   = >
|p|pair   = >...

}}{{#switch:pair

|s|single
|o|open   = 
|c|close
|p|pair   = </p>

}}{{#if:|

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}} or {{#if:|

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}}{{#switch:single

|c|close  = 
|s|single
|o|open
|p|pair   = <br{{#if:| {{{params}}}}}

}}{{#switch:single

|c|close  = 
|s|single =  />
|o|open   = >
|p|pair   = >...

}}{{#switch:single

|s|single
|o|open   = 
|c|close
|p|pair   = </br>

}}{{#if:|

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}} elements (or others, like nested blockquotes and lists):

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which, while hard to read, especially for long content, results in the expected:

And it Template:Em work with wikimarkup ":" citation, unlike the failed test cases hereinbefore:

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Happily, there is a HTML comment workaround for readability that lets you do whatever you want:

{{bq|1=<!--

-->Line 1 <br/><!--
-->Line 2 <br/><!--
-->Line 3 <br/><!--
-->Line 4.}}

or even:

{{bq|1=<!--

-->Line 1 <br/><!--

-->Line 2 <br/><!--

-->Line 3 <br/><!--

-->Line 4.}}

which results in the expected:

They Template:Em citable:

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