Template:RQ:Melville Mardi/documentation

Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Herman Melville's work Mardi (1st edition, 1849, 2 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:

• Volume I.
• Volume II.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |volume= – mandatory: the volume number quoted from, either |volume=I or |volume=II.
• |2= or |chapter= – the name of the chapter quoted from.
• |3= 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).

This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.

• |4=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.

Examples

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Melville Mardi|volume=II|chapter=They Visit One Doxodox|page=279|passage=But I beseech thee, wise Doxodox! instruct me in thy dialectics, that I may embrace thy more '''recondite''' lore.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Melville Mardi|II|They Visit One Doxodox|279|But I beseech thee, wise Doxodox! instruct me in thy dialectics, that I may embrace thy more '''recondite''' lore.}}
• Result:
  • 1849, Herman Melville, “They Visit One Doxodox”, in Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 279:

    But I beseech thee, wise Doxodox! instruct me in thy dialectics, that I may embrace thy more recondite lore.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Melville Mardi|volume=I|chapter=Taji Takes Counsel with Himself|pages=208–209|pageref=209|passage=So then, weighing all things well, and myself severely, I resolved to follow my Mentor's wise counsel; neither arrogating aught, nor '''abating''' of just dues; but circulating freely, sociably, and frankly, among the gods, heroes, high-priests, kings, and gentlemen, that made up the principalities of Mardi.}}
• Result:
  • 1849, Herman Melville, “Taji Takes Counsel with Himself”, in Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 208–209:

    So then, weighing all things well, and myself severely, I resolved to follow my Mentor's wise counsel; neither arrogating aught, nor abating of just dues; but circulating freely, sociably, and frankly, among the gods, heroes, high-priests, kings, and gentlemen, that made up the principalities of Mardi.