Template:RQ:Christie Poirot Investigates/documentation
Usage
editThis template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from Agatha Christie's work Poirot Investigates (1st edition, 1924; 2007 facsimile). It 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=
,|chapter=
, or|story=
– mandatory: the name of the chapter or story quoted from.|2=
or|page=
, or|pages=
– mandatory in some cases: 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).
- Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this:
- You must specify this information to have the template link to the online version of the work.
|3=
,|text=
, or|passage=
– a 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:Christie Poirot Investigates|story=The Million Dollar Bond Robbery|page=126|passage=Word was passed to the Customs authorities, and every soul that left the ship was gone over with a '''toothcomb'''!}}
; or{{RQ:Christie Poirot Investigates|The Million Dollar Bond Robbery|126|Word was passed to the Customs authorities, and every soul that left the ship was gone over with a '''toothcomb'''!}}
- Result:
- 1924 March, Agatha Christie, “The Million Dollar Bond Robbery”, in Poirot Investigates, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, published 2007, →ISBN, page 126:
- Word was passed to the Customs authorities, and every soul that left the ship was gone over with a toothcomb!
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