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Usage

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Charles Dickens's work Great Expectations (1st collected edition, 1861). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:

Parameters

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The template takes the following parameters:

  • |1= or |volume=mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, from |volume=I to |volume=III.
  • |2= or |chapter= – the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals. The number starts from I in each volume.
  • |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).
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=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

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  • Wikitext:
    • {{RQ:Dickens Great Expectations|volume=III|chapter=XV|page=259|passage=As it came nearer, I saw it to be Magwitch, swimming, but not swimming freely. He was taken on board, and instantly '''manacled''' at the wrists and ankles.}}; or
    • {{RQ:Dickens Great Expectations|III|XV|259|As it came nearer, I saw it to be Magwitch, swimming, but not swimming freely. He was taken on board, and instantly '''manacled''' at the wrists and ankles.}}
  • Result:
  • Wikitext: {{RQ:Dickens Great Expectations|volume=I|chapter=XI|pages=168–169|pageref=168|passage=Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all '''toadies''' and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were '''toadies''' and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a '''toady''' and a humbug.}}
  • Result:
    • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XI, in Great Expectations [], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, [], published October 1861, →OCLC, pages 168–169:
      Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and a humbug.