Template:RQ:Lewis Main Street
1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Lewis Main Street/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 Sinclair Lewis's work Main Street (1st edition, 1920). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|1=or|chapter=– the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.|section=– each chapter is divided into sections. Use this parameter to specify the section number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.|2=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.
|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]- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Lewis Main Street|chapter=XXIX|section=V|page=352|passage=What's the matter with his talking so polite? '''Hell's bells''', Harry, no harm in being polite. There's some regular he-men that are just as polite as women, prett' near.}}; or{{RQ:Lewis Main Street|XXIX|section=V|352|What's the matter with his talking so polite? '''Hell's bells''', Harry, no harm in being polite. There's some regular he-men that are just as polite as women, prett' near.}}
- Result:
- 1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXIX, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, section V, page 352:
- What's the matter with his talking so polite? Hell's bells, Harry, no harm in being polite. There's some regular he-men that are just as polite as women, prett' near.
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