Template:RQ:London When God Laughs/documentation
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Usage
[edit]This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Jack London's work When God Laughs and Other Stories (1st edition, 1911). 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=
,|chapter=
, or|story=
– mandatory: the name of the chapter or short story quoted from.
Page Story 1 When God Laughs 25 The Apostate 69 A Wicked Woman 91 Just Meat 129 Created He Them 153 The Chinago 187 Make Westing 207 Semper Idem 219 A Nose for the King 233 The “Francis Spaight” 255 A Curious Fragment 277 A Piece of Steak
|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=110–111
. - You must also use
|pageref=
to specify the page number that the template should link 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:
- You must specify this information to have the template link to the online version of the work.
|3=
,|text=
, or|passage=
– a passage quoted from the work.|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:London When God Laughs|story=Just Meat|page=125|passage=And Jim supported his twitching body by holding on to the sink, the while he '''yearned''' toward the yellowish concoction that stood for life.}}
; or{{RQ:London When God Laughs|Just Meat|125|And Jim supported his twitching body by holding on to the sink, the while he '''yearned''' toward the yellowish concoction that stood for life.}}
- Result:
- 1911 January, Jack London, “Just Meat”, in When God Laughs and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 125:
- And Jim supported his twitching body by holding on to the sink, the while he yearned toward the yellowish concoction that stood for life.
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