Template:RQ:Christie Mysterious Affair
1920 October, Agatha Christie, “(please specify the page)”, in The Mysterious Affair at Styles […], New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, published March 1927:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Christie Mysterious Affair/documentation. [edit]
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Usage
[edit]This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from Agatha Christie's work The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1927); the 1st edition (New York, N.Y.; London: John Lane Co., 1920; →OCLC) is not currently available online. The template can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the HathiTrust Digital Library.
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|1=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 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 name of the chapter quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
|2=,|text=, or|passage=– a 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:Christie Mysterious Affair|page=218|passage=Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is '''method in his madness'''.}}; or{{RQ:Christie Mysterious Affair|218|Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is '''method in his madness'''.}}
- Result:
- 1920 October, Agatha Christie, “The Arrest”, in The Mysterious Affair at Styles […], New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, published March 1927, page 218:
- Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Christie Mysterious Affair|pages=182–183|pageref=183|passage=What does that matter? Arsenic would put poor Emily out of the way just as well as strychnine. If I'm convinced he did it, it doesn't matter a '''jot''' to me ''how'' he did it.}} - Result:
- 1920 October, Agatha Christie, “Fresh Suspicions”, in The Mysterious Affair at Styles […], New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, published March 1927, pages 182–183:
- What does that matter? Arsenic would put poor Emily out of the way just as well as strychnine. If I'm convinced he did it, it doesn't matter a jot to me how he did it.
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