Template:RQ:Scott Journal/documentation

Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Walter Scott's work The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (1st edition, 1890). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:

• Volume I (entries dated 20 November 1825 to 30 June 1827).
• Volume II (entries dated 1 July 1827 to 16 April 1832).

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |chapter= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from a chapter of the work other than the journal (for example, the preface or the appendix), the name of the chapter.
• |1= or |date= – mandatory: if quoting from the journal, the date of the entry in the format 20 November 1825 or November 20, 1825. You must specify this information to have the template determine the volume number (I or II) quoted from.
• |2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) to be quoted from in Arabic or lowercase Roman numerals, as the case may be. If quoting from the notes to the poem, specify the page number(s) in lowercase Roman numerals. 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 or |pages=v–vi.
  • 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).

You must specify this information to have the template link to an online version of the work.

• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment about the passage quoted.
• |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

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Scott Journal|date=18 May 1826|page=195|passage=They are treading fast and thick. For weeks you could have heard a '''foot-fall'''.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Scott Journal|18 May 1826|195|They are treading fast and thick. For weeks you could have heard a '''foot-fall'''.}}
• Result:
  • 1826 May 18 (date written), Walter Scott, “[Entry dated 18 May 1826]”, in David Douglas, editor, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott […], volume I, Edinburgh: David Douglas, published 1890, →OCLC, page 195:

    They are treading fast and thick. For weeks you could have heard a foot-fall.