Template:RQ:Dickens Oliver Twist/documentation
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Usage
[edit]This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist (1st collected edition, 1838). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:
Parameters
[edit]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 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=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
[edit]- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Dickens Oliver Twist|volume=I|chapter=Oliver Continues Refractory|page=110|passage="Now, you are a nice young fellow, ain't you?" said Sowerberry, giving Oliver a shake and a '''box''' on the ear.}}
; or{{RQ:Dickens Oliver Twist|I|Oliver Continues Refractory|110|"Now, you are a nice young fellow, ain't you?" said Sowerberry, giving Oliver a shake and a '''box''' on the ear.}}
- Result:
- 1837 May, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Oliver Continues Refractory”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], published 1838, →OCLC, page 110:
- "Now, you are a nice young fellow, ain't you?" said Sowerberry, giving Oliver a shake and a box on the ear.
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