Template:RQ:Dunsany Fifty-one Tales
1915 April, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “(please specify the story)”, in Fifty-one Tales, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Dunsany Fifty-one Tales/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 Lord Dunsany's work Fifty-one Tales (1st edition and 1st American edition, 1915). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:
- 1st edition (1915; contents).
- 1st American edition (1915; contents) – has differences from the 1st edition.
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|edition=– mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 1st American edition (1915), specify|edition=US. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1st edition (1915).|1=,|chapter=, or|story=– mandatory: the name of the short story quoted from. If quoting from one of the stories indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:
| Parameter value | Result | First page number | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st edition | 1st American edition | ||
| In both editions | |||
| The Assignation | The Assignation | page 1 | page 9 |
| The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts) | The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts) | page 78 | page 100 |
| Only in the 1st edition | |||
| The Poet Speaks with Earth | The Poet Speaks with Earth | page 111 | |
| Only in the 1st American edition | |||
| The Mist | The Mist | page 107 | |
|2=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:- Separate the first and last page number 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 page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
- This parameter must be specified to have the template link to an 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]- 1st edition (1915)
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Dunsany Fifty-one Tales|chapter=The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts)|page=79|passage=[S]he besought them to bring her a live sphinx; and therefore they went to the menageries, and then to the forests and the desert places, and yet could find no sphinx. {{...}} But they were not men that it is easy to '''baffle''', and at last they found a sphinx in a desert at evening watching a ruined temple whose gods she had eaten hundreds of years ago when her hunger was on her.}}; or{{RQ:Dunsany Fifty-one Tales|The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts)|79|[S]he besought them to bring her a live sphinx; and therefore they went to the menageries, and then to the forests and the desert places, and yet could find no sphinx. {{...}} But they were not men that it is easy to '''baffle''', and at last they found a sphinx in a desert at evening watching a ruined temple whose gods she had eaten hundreds of years ago when her hunger was on her.}}
- Result:
- 1915 April, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts)”, in Fifty-one Tales, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, →OCLC, page 79:
- [S]he besought them to bring her a live sphinx; and therefore they went to the menageries, and then to the forests and the desert places, and yet could find no sphinx. […] But they were not men that it is easy to baffle, and at last they found a sphinx in a desert at evening watching a ruined temple whose gods she had eaten hundreds of years ago when her hunger was on her.
- 1st American edition (1915)
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Dunsany Fifty-one Tales|edition=US|chapter=The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts)|pages=100–101|pageref=100|passage=[S]he besought them to bring her a live sphinx; and therefore they went to the menageries, and then to the forests and the desert places, and yet could find no sphinx. {{...}} But they were not men that it is easy to '''baffle''', and at last they found a sphinx in a desert at evening watching a ruined temple whose gods she had eaten hundreds of years ago when her hunger was on her.}} - Result:
- 1915 April, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts)”, in Fifty-one Tales, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Mitchell Kennerley, →OCLC, pages 100–101:
- [S]he besought them to bring her a live sphinx; and therefore they went to the menageries, and then to the forests and the desert places, and yet could find no sphinx. […] But they were not men that it is easy to baffle, and at last they found a sphinx in a desert at evening watching a ruined temple whose gods she had eaten hundreds of years ago when her hunger was on her.
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