Template:RQ:Emerson May-Day/documentation

Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Ralph Waldo Emerson's work May-Day and Other Pieces (1st edition, 1867). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work (contents) at the Internet Archive.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |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).

This information must be specified to have the template determine the name of the poem or part of the work quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

• |chapter= or |poem= – mandatory in some cases: if the page number is specified as indicated above, the template can determine if the poems "May-Day" and "The Adirondacs" is quoted from. The names of shorter poems must be specified using |chapter= or |poem=.
• |part= – if a poem is divided into parts, use this parameter to specify the part number in uppercase Roman numerals.
• |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.

Examples

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Emerson May-Day|page=24|passage=I care not if the pomps you show / Be what they '''soothfast''' appear, / Or if yon realms in sunset glow / Be bubbles of the atmosphere.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Emerson May-Day|24|I care not if the pomps you show / Be what they '''soothfast''' appear, / Or if yon realms in sunset glow / Be bubbles of the atmosphere.}}
• Result:
  • 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 24:

    I care not if the pomps you show / Be what they soothfast appear, / Or if yon realms in sunset glow / Be bubbles of the atmosphere.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Emerson May-Day|pages=48–49|pageref=48|passage=Look to yourselves, ye polished gentlemen! / No city airs or arts pass current here. / Your rank is all reversed: let men of cloth / Bow to the stalwart '''churls''' in overalls: / ''They'' are the doctors of the wilderness, / And we the low-priced laymen.}}
• Result:
  • 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Adirondacs. A Journal. Dedicated to My Fellow-travellers in August, 1858.”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, pages 48–49:

    Look to yourselves, ye polished gentlemen! / No city airs or arts pass current here. / Your rank is all reversed: let men of cloth / Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls: / They are the doctors of the wilderness, / And we the low-priced laymen.