Template:RQ:W. S. Churchill WW2/documentation

Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's work The Second World War (1st edition, 1948–1953, 6 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:

• Volume I (The Gathering Storm, 1948) – not currently available online; the template uses the 3rd edition (1950).
• Volume II (Their Finest Hour, 1949).
• Volume III (The Grand Alliance, 1950). – not currently available online; the template uses the 5th edition (1968).
• Volume IV (The Hinge of Fate, 1950).
• Volume V (Closing the Ring, 1951).
• Volume VI (Triumph and Tragedy, 1953).

Volumes III and V have missing pages; please replace them with better versions when these become available.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |volume= – mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, from |volume=I to |volume=VI.
• |2= or |chapter= – the name of the chapter quoted from.
• |3= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: 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=10–11 or |pages=viii–ix.
  • 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 book number (I or II in each volume) quoted from, and to link to an online version of the work.

• Volume I: page 704 is missing.
• Volume III: pages 42 and 43 are missing.
• Volume V: pages 287 and 288, 533 and 534, 561–564, and 637–640 are missing.

• |4=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |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

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:W. S. Churchill WW2|volume=IV|chapter=The Shipping Strangehold|page=171|passage=Once several good outfits are prepared, any one of which can attack a Japanese-held base or island and beat the life out of the garrison, all their islands will become '''hostages to fortune'''.}}; or
  • {{RQ:W. S. Churchill WW2|IV|The Shipping Strangehold|171|Once several good outfits are prepared, any one of which can attack a Japanese-held base or island and beat the life out of the garrison, all their islands will become '''hostages to fortune'''.}}
• Result:
  • 1950 July, Winston Churchill, “The Shipping Strangehold”, in The Second World War: Volume IV: The Hinge of Fate, th edition, London, Toronto, Ont.: Cassell & Co., →OCLC, book I (The Onslaught of Japan), page 171:

    Once several good outfits are prepared, any one of which can attack a Japanese-held base or island and beat the life out of the garrison, all their islands will become hostages to fortune.