Is it appropriate to use blockquote for "made up" quotes?

Question

In a new project we have some "user stories" which are completely made up. Those users make different short statements about what they want/need.

Now first it was completely sensible for me to use a blockquote or q for the statements in my markup but as I was reading the html spec for these tags I asked myself more and more if it actually is appropriate to use them. What do you think?

Answer 1

The spec doesn't say that q or blockquote have to be things people actually said. In fact, one of the examples of blockquote is a Shakespeare sonnet.

So that's the objective answer: The spec doesn't seem to say one way or another. You could take the language "...quoted from another source..." really literally, but I don't think it's meant to be taken that literally.

Subjectively, FWIW, as long as you're not being misleading (regardless of the markup you use), I wouldn't call it inappropriate.