Template:RQ:London South Sea Tales/documentation
Usage
editThis template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Jack London's work South Sea Tales (1st edition, 1911). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the HathiTrust Digital Library:
Short story | First page number |
---|---|
The House of Mapuhi (January 1909) | page 1 |
The Whale Tooth (29 December 1909) | page 57 |
Mauki (December 1909) | page 81 |
‘Yah! Yah! Yah!’ (December 1910) | page 119 |
The Heathen (September 1909) | page 149 |
The Terrible Solomons (March 1910) | page 197 |
The Inevitable White Man (14 May 1910) | page 233 |
The Seed of McCoy (April 1909) | page 257 |
Parameters
editThe 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).
- Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this:
- You must specify this information to have the template determine the name of the short story quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
|2=
or|passage=
– a passage quoted from the work.|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:London South Sea Tales|page=61|passage=The frizzle-headed man-eaters were '''loath''' to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.}}
; or{{RQ:London South Sea Tales|61|The frizzle-headed man-eaters were '''loath''' to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.}}
- Result:
- 1909 December 29, Jack London, “The Whale Tooth”, in South Sea Tales, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, page 61:
- The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.
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