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4.5.5 The blockquote element This section ends with "Note: Examples of how to represent a conversation are shown below; it is not appropriate to use the cite and blockquote elements for this purpose." However no examples are found there.
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r4530. Check-in comment: add another blockquote example and mention that the conversation examples are later. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4529&to=4530