Template:RQ:Malthus Population/documentation
Usage
[edit]This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Thomas Robert Malthus's work An Essay on the Principle of Population (1st edition, 1798). 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 name of the chapter quoted from, or the chapter number in uppercase Roman numerals.|2=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from in Arabic or lowercase Roman numerals, as the case may be. 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=10–11or|pages=i–ii. - 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 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:Malthus Population|chapter=I|page=10|passage=A vvriter may tell me that he thinks man vvill ultimately become an oſtrich. I cannot properly contradict him. But before he can expect to bring any reaſonable perſon over to his opinion, he ought to ſhevv, that the necks of mankind have been gradually '''elongating'''; {{...}} and that the hair is beginning to change into ſtubs of feathers.}}; or{{RQ:Malthus Population|I|10|A vvriter may tell me that he thinks man vvill ultimately become an oſtrich. I cannot properly contradict him. But before he can expect to bring any reaſonable perſon over to his opinion, he ought to ſhevv, that the necks of mankind have been gradually '''elongating'''; {{...}} and that the hair is beginning to change into ſtubs of feathers.}}
- Result:
- 1798, [Thomas Robert Malthus], chapter I, in An Essay on the Principle of Population, as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society. […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 10:
- A vvriter may tell me that he thinks man vvill ultimately become an oſtrich. I cannot properly contradict him. But before he can expect to bring any reaſonable perſon over to his opinion, he ought to ſhevv, that the necks of mankind have been gradually elongating; […] and that the hair is beginning to change into ſtubs of feathers.