Template:RQ:Dickens American Notes
1842, Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Dickens American Notes/documentation. [edit]
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Usage
[edit]This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Charles Dickens's work American Notes for General Circulation (1st edition, 1842, 2 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books:
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|1=or|volume=– mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, either|volume=Ior|volume=II.|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. 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.
|4=,|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:Dickens American Notes|volume=II|chapter=A Night Steamer on the Potomac River.{{nb...|A Virginia Road, and a Black Driver. Richmond. Baltimore. The Harrisburgh Mail, and a Glimpse of the City. A Canal Boat.}}|page=4|passage=I '''valiantly''' resolve not to go to bed at all, but to walk up and down the pier till morning.}}; or{{RQ:Dickens American Notes|II|A Night Steamer on the Potomac River.{{nb...|A Virginia Road, and a Black Driver. Richmond. Baltimore. The Harrisburgh Mail, and a Glimpse of the City. A Canal Boat.}}|4|I '''valiantly''' resolve not to go to bed at all, but to walk up and down the pier till morning.}}
- Result:
- 1842, Charles Dickens, “A Night Steamer on the Potomac River. […]”, in American Notes for General Circulation. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 4:
- I valiantly resolve not to go to bed at all, but to walk up and down the pier till morning.
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Dickens American Notes|volume=I|chapter=Worcester. The Connecticut River. Hartford. New Haven. To New York.|pages=176–177|pageref=176|passage=There was one little prim old lady, of very smiling and good-humoured appearance, who came '''sidling''' up to me from the end of a long passage, {{...}}}} - Result:
- 1842, Charles Dickens, “Worcester. The Connecticut River. Hartford. New Haven. To New York.”, in American Notes for General Circulation. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 176–177:
- There was one little prim old lady, of very smiling and good-humoured appearance, who came sidling up to me from the end of a long passage, […]
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