Template:RQ:Melville Battle-Pieces/documentation
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Usage
[edit]This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Herman Melville's work Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1st edition, 1866). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work (contents) at the Internet Archive.
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|1=,|chapter=, or|poem=– mandatory: the name of the chapter or poem quoted from. If quoting from one of the chapters or poems 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 |
|---|---|---|
| The Coming Storm | ‘The Coming Storm’: A Picture by S[anford] R[obinson] Gifford, and Owned by E. B. Included in the N[ational] A[cademy] Exhibition, April, 1865. (Written c. April 1865.) | page 143 |
| Formerly a Slave | ‘Formerly a Slave.’ An Idealized Portrait, by E[lihu] Vedder, in the Spring Exhibition of the National Academy, 1865. (Written c. 1865.) | page 154 |
| Misgivings | Misgivings (written 1860) | page 13 |
| The Portent | The Portent (written 1859) | page 11 |
| Stonewall Jackson | Stonewall Jackson. Mortally Wounded at Chancellorsville. (Written May 1863.) | page 79 |
| Stonewall Jackson (Ascribed to a Virginian) | Stonewall Jackson (Ascribed to a Virginian) | page 81 |
| Verses Inscriptive and Memorial | ||
| Home Guards | On the Home Guards who Perished in the Defense of Lexington, Missouri | page 165 |
| End matter | ||
| [Please specify the page] | Notes | page 245 |
| Supplement | page 257 | |
- For help with adding other poems or their dates of writing to the template, leave a message on the talk page or at "Wiktionary:Grease pit".
|stanza=– the stanza number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals (if indicated in the work) or Arabic numerals (if not indicated in the work).|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 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 determine (in some cases) the chapter or part of the work quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
If quoting from "The Portent", specify the page number as
|page=11.
|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:Melville Battle-Pieces|poem=The Portent|stanza=1|page=11|passage=Hanging from the beam, / Slowly swaying (such the law), / '''Gaunt''' the shadow on your green, / Shenandoah!}}; or{{RQ:Melville Battle-Pieces|The Portent|stanza=1|11|Hanging from the beam, / Slowly swaying (such the law), / '''Gaunt''' the shadow on your green, / Shenandoah!}}
- Result:
- 1859 (date written), Herman Melville, “The Portent”, in Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1866, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 11:
- Hanging from the beam, / Slowly swaying (such the law), / Gaunt the shadow on your green, / Shenandoah!
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