Template:RQ:Longfellow Miles Standish
1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Longfellow Miles Standish/documentation. [edit]
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Usage edit
This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's work The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems (1st edition, 1858). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.
Parameters edit
The template takes the following parameters:
|chapter=or|poem=– mandatory in some cases: if quoting a poem other than "The Courtship of Miles Standish", specify the name of the "chapter" or poem. If this parameter is omitted, the template assumes that "Miles Standish" is the poem quoted from.
| Parameter value | Result | First page number |
|---|---|---|
| [Specify the page] | The Courtship of Miles Standish | page 5 |
| Daybreak | Daybreak | page 194 |
|1=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) to be 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 stanza of "Miles Standish" quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
|stanza=– if quoting from a poem other than "Miles Standish", the stanza number quoted from in Arabic numerals.|2=,|text=, or|passage=– a passage to be quoted from the work.|footer=– a comment on the passage quoted.|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:Longfellow Miles Standish|page=95|passage=All in the village was peace; the men were intent on their labors, / Busy with hewing and building, with garden-plot and with '''merestead''', {{...}}}}; or{{RQ:Longfellow Miles Standish|95|All in the village was peace; the men were intent on their labors, / Busy with hewing and building, with garden-plot and with '''merestead''', {{...}}}}
- Result:
- 1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, stanza VIII (The Spinning-Wheel), page 95:
- All in the village was peace; the men were intent on their labors, / Busy with hewing and building, with garden-plot and with merestead, […]
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