Template:RQ:Allingham China Governess/documentation
Usage
[edit]This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Margery Allingham's work The China Governess (1st edition, 1963). 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:
|1=or|chapter=– the name of the chapter quoted from.|2=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory in some cases: 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 indicate the page to be linked 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:
- This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.
|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:Allingham China Governess|chapter=The Boy in the Corner|page=214|passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. {{...}} He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a '''latter-day''' hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.}}; or{{RQ:Allingham China Governess|The Boy in the Corner|214|The face which emerged was not reassuring. {{...}} He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a '''latter-day''' hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.}}
- Result:
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “The Boy in the Corner”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 214:
- The face which emerged was not reassuring. […] He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.