Template:RQ:Buchan Lost Lady
1899, John Buchan, A Lost Lady of Old Years: A Romance, London, New York, N.Y.: John Lane, The Bodley Head, →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Buchan Lost Lady/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 John Buchan's work A Lost Lady of Old Years (1st collected edition, 1899). 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=110–111. - 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 book (I–III) quoted from, and to 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:Buchan Lost Lady|chapter=Crabbed Age and Youth|page=228|passage="God, my lads," he cried, "if I had just my fingers on your '''thrapples''', I'd thraw them fine and send your gutsy sauls to the deil that begat them."}}; or{{RQ:Buchan Lost Lady|Crabbed Age and Youth|228|"God, my lads," he cried, "if I had just my fingers on your '''thrapples''', I'd thraw them fine and send your gutsy sauls to the deil that begat them."}}
- Result:
- 1899, John Buchan, “Crabbed Age and Youth”, in A Lost Lady of Old Years: A Romance, London, New York, N.Y.: John Lane, The Bodley Head, →OCLC, book II, page 228:
- "God, my lads," he cried, "if I had just my fingers on your thrapples, I'd thraw them fine and send your gutsy sauls to the deil that begat them."
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