Template:RQ:Buchan Watcher

1899 January – 1902 January, John Buchan, “(please specify the page)”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC:

Usage edit

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote John Buchan's work The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales (1st collected edition, 1902; and US edition, 1918). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the HathiTrust Digital Library and the Internet Archive:

The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales
Short story First page number
1st collection edition (1902)
No-Man’s-Land page 1
The Far Islands page 103
The Watcher by the Threshold page 147
The Outgoing of the Tide page 225
Fountainblue page 265
US edition (1918)
No-Man’s Land page 11
The Far Islands page 100
The Watcher by the Threshold page 137
The Outgoing of the Tide page 204
The Rime of True Thomas: The Tale of the Respectable Whaup and the Great Godly Man page 238
Basilissa page 255
Divus Johnston page 286
The King of Ypres page 301

Parameters edit

The template takes the following parameters:

  • |edition=mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the US edition (1918), specify |edition=US. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1st edition (1902).
  • |chapter= and |chaptername= – if a story is divided into chapters, use |chapter= to specify the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, and |chaptername= to specify the name of the chapter (if any).
  • |1= or |page=, or |pages=mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
    • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
    • You must also use |pageref= to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
You must specify this information to have the template determine the name of the story quoted from, and to link to an online version of the work.
  • |2=, |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.
  • |termlang= – by default, the template categorizes entries on which it is placed into Category:English terms with quotations. To have the template categorize an entry into Category:Scots terms with quotations instead, specify |termlang=sco.

Examples edit

1st edition (1902)
  • Wikitext:
    • {{RQ:Buchan Watcher|page=234|passage=To be the bride of Christ was the thought that filled her heart; and when, at the fencing of the tables Doctor Chrystal preached from Matthew nine and fifteen, "Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them?" it was remarked by '''sundry''' that Ailie's face was liker the countenance of an angel than of a mortal lass.}}; or
    • {{RQ:Buchan Watcher|234|To be the bride of Christ was the thought that filled her heart; and when, at the fencing of the tables Doctor Chrystal preached from Matthew nine and fifteen, "Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them?" it was remarked by '''sundry''' that Ailie's face was liker the countenance of an angel than of a mortal lass.}}
  • Result:
    • 1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 234:
      To be the bride of Christ was the thought that filled her heart; and when, at the fencing of the tables Doctor Chrystal preached from Matthew nine and fifteen, "Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them?" it was remarked by sundry that Ailie's face was liker the countenance of an angel than of a mortal lass.
  • Wikitext: {{RQ:Buchan Watcher|pages=230–231|pageref=230|passage=Once John, being overtaken in drink on the roadside by the cottage, and dreaming that he was burning in hell, awoke and saw the '''old wife''' hobbling toward him. Thereupon he fled soberly to the hills, and from that day became a quiet-living, humble-minded Christian.}}
  • Result:
US edition (1918)
  • Wikitext: {{RQ:Buchan Watcher|edition=US|page=239|passage=But if you looked south in the dusty forenoon or at hot midday, you saw the far-off glimmer of a white road, the roofs of the ugly little '''clachan''' of Kilmaclavers, and the rigging of the fine new kirk of Threepdaidle.}}
  • Result:
    • 1918, John Buchan, “The Rime of True Thomas: The Tale of the Respectable Whaup and the Great Godly Man”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, US edition, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 239:
      But if you looked south in the dusty forenoon or at hot midday, you saw the far-off glimmer of a white road, the roofs of the ugly little clachan of Kilmaclavers, and the rigging of the fine new kirk of Threepdaidle.