Template:RQ:James Better Sort
1903 February 26, Henry James, “(please specify the short story)”, in The Better Sort, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
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Usage
editThis template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from Henry James's work The Better Sort (1st edition, 1903). 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=or|story=– mandatory: the name of the short story quoted from. If the parameter is given the value specified in the first column of the following table, the template links to an English Wikipedia article about the story as shown in the second column:
| Parameter value | Result |
|---|---|
| The Beast in the Jungle | The Beast in the Jungle |
| The Birthplace | The Birthplace |
| Mrs. Medwin | Mrs. Medwin |
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|chapter=– the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.|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=onto 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:James Better Sort|story=The Birthplace|chapter=VII|page=296|passage=It is in this old chimney corner, the quaint '''inglenook''' of our ancestors—just there in the far angle, where His little stool was placed, and where, I dare say, if we could look close enough, we should find the hearthstone scraped with His little feet—that we see the inconceivable child gazing into the blaze of the old oaken logs and making out there pictures and stories, see Him conning, with curly bent head, His well-worn hornbook, or poring over some scrap of an ancient ballad, some page of some such rudely bound volume of chronicles as lay, we may be sure, in His father's window-seat.}}; or{{RQ:James Better Sort|The Birthplace|chapter=VII|296|It is in this old chimney corner, the quaint '''inglenook''' of our ancestors—just there in the far angle, where His little stool was placed, and where, I dare say, if we could look close enough, we should find the hearthstone scraped with His little feet—that we see the inconceivable child gazing into the blaze of the old oaken logs and making out there pictures and stories, see Him conning, with curly bent head, His well-worn hornbook, or poring over some scrap of an ancient ballad, some page of some such rudely bound volume of chronicles as lay, we may be sure, in His father's window-seat.}}
- Result:
- 1903 February 26, Henry James, “The Birthplace”, in The Better Sort, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, chapter VII, page 296:
- It is in this old chimney corner, the quaint inglenook of our ancestors—just there in the far angle, where His little stool was placed, and where, I dare say, if we could look close enough, we should find the hearthstone scraped with His little feet—that we see the inconceivable child gazing into the blaze of the old oaken logs and making out there pictures and stories, see Him conning, with curly bent head, His well-worn hornbook, or poring over some scrap of an ancient ballad, some page of some such rudely bound volume of chronicles as lay, we may be sure, in His father's window-seat.
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