Template:RQ:Dickens Old Curiosity Shop/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Charles Dickens's work The Old Curiosity Shop (1st collected edition, 1841). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |chapter= – mandatory: the chapter number quoted from in Arabic numerals. This must be specified to have the template determine whether volume I (chapters 1–37) or II (chapters 38–last) of the work is quoted from.

• If quoting from the unnumbered last chapter, specify |chapter=Last.
• If quoting from the epilogue entitled "Master Humphrey from His Clock Side in the Chimney-corner", specify |chapter=Epilogue.

• |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).

This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.

In addition, note the following:

• This work was first published in weekly parts in the magazine Master Humphrey's Clock. In the collected edition of the work, the publisher retained the original magazine pagination, omitted all material unrelated to the work, and created the following unusual page numbers in volume I (which should be specified as indicated) to keep the remaining pages in numerical order:
  • Page 2–38.
  • Page 47–79.
  • Page 96–102.
• Although the work is presented in one book, it is divided into two volumes with the page numbering starting from 1 in each volume.

• |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

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Dickens Old Curiosity Shop|chapter=32|page=274|passage=By morning's cheerful glow, but oftener still by evening's gentle light, the child, with a respect for the short and happy intercourse of these two sisters which forbade her to approach and say a thankful word, although she '''yearned''' to do so, followed them at a distance in their walks and rambles, {{...}}}}; or
  • {{RQ:Dickens Old Curiosity Shop|32|274|By morning's cheerful glow, but oftener still by evening's gentle light, the child, with a respect for the short and happy intercourse of these two sisters which forbade her to approach and say a thankful word, although she '''yearned''' to do so, followed them at a distance in their walks and rambles, {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “Chapter the Thirty-second”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC, page 274:

    By morning's cheerful glow, but oftener still by evening's gentle light, the child, with a respect for the short and happy intercourse of these two sisters which forbade her to approach and say a thankful word, although she yearned to do so, followed them at a distance in their walks and rambles, […]

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Dickens Old Curiosity Shop|chapter=1|page=47-79|passage=But all that night, waking or in my sleep, the same thoughts recurred and the same images retained possession of my brain. I had ever before me the old dark murky rooms—the '''gaunt''' suits of mail with their ghostly silent air—the faces all awry, grinning from wood and stone— {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “Chapter the First”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC, page 47–79:

    But all that night, waking or in my sleep, the same thoughts recurred and the same images retained possession of my brain. I had ever before me the old dark murky rooms—the gaunt suits of mail with their ghostly silent air—the faces all awry, grinning from wood and stone— […]