Template:RQ:Arlen Piracy/documentation
Usage
editThis template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Michael Arlen's work "Piracy": A Romantic Chronicle of These Days (1924); the 1st edition (London: W[illiam] Collins Sons & Co., 1922; →OCLC) is not currently available online. The template can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.
Parameters
editThe template takes the following parameters:
|1=
or|chapter=
– the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals. The chapter number starts from I in the prologue, each book, and epilogue.|section=
– the section number quoted from in Arabic numerals.|2=
or|page=
, or|pages=
– mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
|pages=10–11
. - You must also use
|pageref=
to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
- This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the part of the work quoted from (prologue, 1st–3rd books, or epilogue) and to link to the online version of the work.
|3=
,|text=
, or|passage=
– the passage to be quoted.|footer=
– a comment on the passage quoted.|brackets=
– use|brackets=on
to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, “some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell”) rather than an actual use of it (for example, “we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset”), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.
Examples
edit- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Arlen Piracy|chapter=II|section=1|page=84|passage=They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine '''blare''' which is England's punishment for having lost America.}}
; or{{RQ:Arlen Piracy|II|section=1|84|They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine '''blare''' which is England's punishment for having lost America.}}
- Result:
- 1922 October, Michael Arlen, “Book the Second: The Friends. Chapter II.”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, London, Glasgow: W[illiam] Collins Sons & Co., […], published August 1924, →OCLC, section 1, page 84:
- They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.
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