Template:RQ:Hammet Maltese Falcon
1930, Dashiell Hammet, The Maltese Falcon, New York, N.Y., London: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC:
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Usage
editThis template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Dashiell Hammet's work The Maltese Falcon (1st edition, 1930). It may 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=
or|chapter=
– the name of the chapter 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=110–111
. - 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:
- This parameter must be specified for the template to link to the online version of the work.
|3=
,|text=
, or|passage=
– a passage quoted from the book.|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:Hammet Maltese Falcon|chapter=The Emperor's Gift|page=148|passage=This is going to be the most '''astounding''' thing you’ve ever heard of, sir, and I say that knowing that a man of your caliber in your profession must have known some '''astounding''' things in his time.}}
; or{{RQ:Hammet Maltese Falcon|The Emperor's Gift|148|This is going to be the most '''astounding''' thing you’ve ever heard of, sir, and I say that knowing that a man of your caliber in your profession must have known some '''astounding''' things in his time.}}
- Result:
- 1930, Dashiell Hammet, “The Emperor’s Gift”, in The Maltese Falcon, New York, N.Y., London: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, page 148:
- This is going to be the most astounding thing you’ve ever heard of, sir, and I say that knowing that a man of your caliber in your profession must have known some astounding things in his time.
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Hammet Maltese Falcon|chapter=The Levantine|pages=57–58|pageref=58|passage=Beside the wallet and its contents there were three gaily colored silk handkerchiefs fragrant of ''chypre''; a platinum Longines watch on a platinum and red gold chain, attached at the other end to a small pear-shaped pendant of some white metal; a handful of United States, British, French, and Chinese coins; a ring holding half a dozen keys; a silver and onyx fountain-pen; a metal comb in a '''leatherette''' case; a nail-file in a '''leatherette''' case; [...]}}
- Result:
- 1930, Dashiell Hammet, “The Levantine”, in The Maltese Falcon, New York, N.Y., London: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, pages 57–58:
- Beside the wallet and its contents there were three gaily colored silk handkerchiefs fragrant of chypre; a platinum Longines watch on a platinum and red gold chain, attached at the other end to a small pear-shaped pendant of some white metal; a handful of United States, British, French, and Chinese coins; a ring holding half a dozen keys; a silver and onyx fountain-pen; a metal comb in a leatherette case; a nail-file in a leatherette case; [...]