Template:RQ:Stevenson Works
a. 1895 (date written), Robert Louis Stevenson, “(please specify the page)”, in Sidney Colvin, editor, The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to XXVIII), Edinburgh: […] T[homas] and A[rchibald] Constable for Longmans Green and Co.; […], published 4–1898, →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Stevenson Works/documentation. [edit]
- Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox
Usage edit
This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from a collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's works edited by Sidney Colvin entitled The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Edinburgh edition, 1894–1898, 28 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:
If a quotation template exists for a specific work (for example, {{RQ:Stevenson Treasure Island}}), use that instead of this template.
Parameters edit
The template takes the following parameters:
|1=or|volume=– mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, from|volume=Ito|volume=XXVIII.|chapter=– if a title is divided into chapters, use this parameter to specify the name of the chapter, or the chapter number in uppercase Roman numerals followed by the name of the chapter in parentheses.|section=– a section of a title quoted from.|2=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from in Arabic or lowercase Roman numerals, as the case may be. 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=10–11or|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).
- 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 title quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
| Title | First page number |
|---|---|
| Volume IV | |
| New Arabian Nights (8 June – 26 October 1878) | page 5 |
| page 113 | |
| The Pavilion on the Links (September–October 1880) | page 223 |
| A Lodging for the Night (October 1877) | page 307 |
| The Sire de Malétroit’s Door (January 1878) | page 339 |
| Providence and the Guitar (2–23 November 1878) | page 373 |
| Volume VIII | |
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (5 January 1886)
|
page 1 |
| The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (January 1878 – 1886) | page 103 |
| Volume XXI | |
Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […] (1 May – 31 July 1866)
|
page ix |
| Volume XXI | |
Juvenilia and Other Papers
|
page 1 |
|
page 29 |
|
page 49 |
|
page 87 |
|
page 231 |
|
page 269 |
|
page 285 |
|
page 297 |
|
page 302 |
| Lay Morals (written 1879) | page 313 |
| Prayers Written for Family Use at Vailima (written a. 1895) | page 379 |
| Volume XXIII | |
| Deacon Brodie or The Double Life […] | page 1 |
| Beau Austin | page 113 |
| Admiral Guinea | page 179 |
| Macaire […] | page 251 |
| Volume XXV | |
| A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (1892) | page 1 |
St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (November 1896 – November 1897)
|
page 1 |
|title=– if the template cannot determine the title quoted from if the page number is specified, use this parameter to specify the title.|act=, and|scene=or|tableau=– mandatory in some cases: if quoting from a dramatic work in volume XXIII, use|act=to specify the act number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, and|scene=or|tableau=to specify the scene or tableau number (as the case may be) in lowercase Roman numerals.|3=,|text=, or|passage=– the passage to be quoted.|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:Stevenson Works|volume=XI|page=239|passage=Of these we may distinguish two great classes: those arts, like sculpture, painting, acting, which are representative, or, as used to be said very clumsily, imitative; and those, like architecture, music, and the dance, which are self-sufficient, and merely '''presentative'''.}}; or{{RQ:Stevenson Works|XI|239|Of these we may distinguish two great classes: those arts, like sculpture, painting, acting, which are representative, or, as used to be said very clumsily, imitative; and those, like architecture, music, and the dance, which are self-sufficient, and merely '''presentative'''.}}
- Result:
- 1885 April, Robert Louis Stevenson, “[Later Essays.] On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature.”, in Sidney Colvin, editor, The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh edition, volume XI (Miscellanies, volume III), Edinburgh: […] T[homas] and A[rchibald] Constable for Longmans Green and Co.; […], published 1895, →OCLC, page 239:
- Of these we may distinguish two great classes: those arts, like sculpture, painting, acting, which are representative, or, as used to be said very clumsily, imitative; and those, like architecture, music, and the dance, which are self-sufficient, and merely presentative.
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