Template:RQ:Besant World
1887, Walter Besant, The World Went Very Well Then […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Besant World/documentation. [edit]
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Usage
editThis template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Walter Besant's work The World Went Very Well Then (1st edition, 1887, 3 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:
Parameters
editThe template takes the following parameters:
|1=or|volume=– mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, from|volume=Ito|volume=III.|2=or|chapter=– the name of the chapter quoted from.|3=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory in some cases: the page or range of pages quoted from in Arabic or lowercase Roman numerals, as the case may be. 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=10–11or|pages=vii–viii. - 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 link to an online version of the work.
|4=,|text=, or|passage=– the passage to be quoted.|footer=– a comment on the passage quoted.|brackets=– use|brackets=onto 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:Besant World|volume=I|chapter=How Jack Came to Deptford|page=52|passage=And there is kind of no ship or boat, built to swim in the sea, {{...}} which does not lie at anchor in the Thames, somewhere between Greenwich Reach and London Bridge. {{...}} [A]lso His Majesty's '''men-of-war'''—frigates, sloops-of-war, cutters, fire-ships, and every kind of vessel employed to beat off the enemies of the country, who would prey upon our commerce and destroy our merchantmen.}}; or{{RQ:Besant World|I|How Jack Came to Deptford|52|And there is kind of no ship or boat, built to swim in the sea, {{...}} which does not lie at anchor in the Thames, somewhere between Greenwich Reach and London Bridge. {{...}} [A]lso His Majesty's '''men-of-war'''—frigates, sloops-of-war, cutters, fire-ships, and every kind of vessel employed to beat off the enemies of the country, who would prey upon our commerce and destroy our merchantmen.}}
- Result:
- 1887, Walter Besant, “How Jack Came to Deptford”, in The World Went Very Well Then […], volume I, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 52:
- And there is kind of no ship or boat, built to swim in the sea, […] which does not lie at anchor in the Thames, somewhere between Greenwich Reach and London Bridge. […] [A]lso His Majesty's men-of-war—frigates, sloops-of-war, cutters, fire-ships, and every kind of vessel employed to beat off the enemies of the country, who would prey upon our commerce and destroy our merchantmen.
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