Template:RQ:Service Songs of a Sourdough/documentation
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Usage
[edit]This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Robert W. Service's work Songs of a Sourdough (1st edition, 1907). 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 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 Cremation of Sam McGee | The Cremation of Sam McGee | page 35 |
Fighting Mac | ‘Fighting Mac.’ A Life Tragedy. | page 66 |
The Law of the Yukon | The Law of the Yukon | page 5 |
The Shooting of Dan McGrew | The Shooting of Dan McGrew | page 30 |
The Younger Son | The Younger Son | page 59 |
- For help with linking other English Wikipedia articles to the template, leave a message on the talk page or at "Wiktionary:Grease pit".
|stanza=
or|stanzas=
– the stanza number(s) quoted from in Arabic numerals. Separate the first and last number of a range with an en dash, like this:|stanzas=1–2
.|2=
or|page=
, or|pages=
– mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. 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=10–11
. - 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 have the template 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=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:Service Songs of a Sourdough|poem=The Cremation of Sam McGee|stanza=10|page=38|passage=Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a '''derelict''' there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May." / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum: / Then "Here," said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."}}
; or{{RQ:Service Songs of a Sourdough|The Cremation of Sam McGee|stanza=10|38|Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a '''derelict''' there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May." / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum: / Then "Here," said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."}}
- Result:
- 1907, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, in Songs of a Sourdough, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, →OCLC, stanza 10, page 38:
- Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May." / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum: / Then "Here," said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."
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