Template:RQ:Shaw Man and Superman


Usage

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from George Bernard Shaw's work Man and Superman (1st edition, 1903). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

Parameters

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The template takes the following parameters:

  • |chapter= – if quoting from the epistle dedicatory, specify |chapter=Epistle Dedicatory.
  • |1= or |page=, or |pages=mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. If quoting from the epistle dedicatory, indicate the page number(s) in lowercase Roman numerals. 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 or |pages=x–xi.
    • 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).
You must specify this information to have the template determine the part of the work and the act number (if applicable) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
  • |2=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage to be 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

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  • Wikitext:
    • {{RQ:Shaw Man and Superman|page=116|passage=After them came the politician, who said there was only one purpose in Nature, and that was to get him into parliament. I told him I did not care whether he got into parliament or not; so he called me '''Mugwump''' and went his way.}}; or
    • {{RQ:Shaw Man and Superman|116|After them came the politician, who said there was only one purpose in Nature, and that was to get him into parliament. I told him I did not care whether he got into parliament or not; so he called me '''Mugwump''' and went his way.}}
  • Result:
  • Wikitext: {{RQ:Shaw Man and Superman|page=194|passage=Man does desire an ideal '''Superman''' with such energy as he can spare from his nutrition, and has in every age magnified the best living substitute for it he can find. His least incompetent general is set up as an Alexander; his King is the first gentleman in the world; his Pope is a saint. He is never without an array of human idols who are all nothing but sham '''Supermen'''.}}
  • Result:
    • 1901–1903, John Tanner [pseudonym; George Bernard Shaw], “[The Revolutionist’s Handbook and Pocket Companion] Man’s Objection to His Own Improvement”, in Man and Superman. A Comedy and a Philosophy, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1903, →OCLC, page 194:
      Man does desire an ideal Superman with such energy as he can spare from his nutrition, and has in every age magnified the best living substitute for it he can find. His least incompetent general is set up as an Alexander; his King is the first gentleman in the world; his Pope is a saint. He is never without an array of human idols who are all nothing but sham Supermen.