Template:RQ:Shaw Androcles/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from George Bernard Shaw's work Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion (1st edition, 1916; and standard edition, 1931 (1951 printing)), as well as a rough proof of Androcles and the Lion (1913). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:

• Rough proof of Androcles and the Lion (1913) – lacks the preface and appendix.
• 1st edition (1916).
• Standard edition (1931 (1951 printing)) – contains revisions to the text.

Play	First page number
	1st edition	Standard edition
Androcles and the Lion (written 6 February 1912)	page v	page 1
Overruled (written 1912)	page 53	page 151
Pygmalion (written 1912)	page 97	page 193

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |edition= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the rough proof of Androcles and the Lion specify |edition=proof, and if quoting from the standard edition (1931) specify |edition=standard. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1st edition (1916).
• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from in Arabic or lowercase Roman numerals, as the case may be. 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 |x–xi=.
  • 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 determine the name of the play and part of the work quoted from, and to link to an online version of the work.

• |act= – in most cases, if the page number is specified the template can determine the act number quoted from. However, if it is unable to do so, this parameter must be used to specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, like this: |act=II.
• |2=, |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

1st edition (1916)

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Shaw Androcles|page=44|passage='''What ho''', there! All who are within hearing, return without fear. Caesar has tamed the lion.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Shaw Androcles|44|'''What ho''', there! All who are within hearing, return without fear. Caesar has tamed the lion.}}
• Result:
  • 1912 February 6 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Androcles and the Lion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act II, page 44:

    What ho, there! All who are within hearing, return without fear. Caesar has tamed the lion.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Shaw Androcles|pages=xxiv–xxv|pageref=xxiv|passage=Let us admit that without the proper clues the gospels are, to a modern educated person, nonsensical and incredible, whilst the apostles are unreadable. But with the clues, they are fairly '''plain sailing'''. {{w|Jesus}} becomes an intelligible and consistent person.}}
• Result:
  • 1915 December (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Androcles and the Lion. Preface on the Prospects of Christianity.”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, pages xxiv–xxv:

    Let us admit that without the proper clues the gospels are, to a modern educated person, nonsensical and incredible, whilst the apostles are unreadable. But with the clues, they are fairly plain sailing. Jesus becomes an intelligible and consistent person.

Standard edition (1931 (1951 printing))

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Shaw Androcles|edition=standard|page=212|passage=These are the only visible luxuries: the rest is the irreducible minimum of poverty's needs: a wretched bed heaped with all sorts of coverings that have any warmth in them, a draped packing case with a basin and jug on it and a little looking glass over it, a chair and table, the refuse of some suburban kitchen, and an American '''alarum''' clock on the shelf above the unused fireplace: the whole lighted with a gas lamp with a penny in the slot meter.}}
• Result:
  • 1931, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts”, in Androcles and the Lion. Overruled. Pygmalion, standard edition, London: Constable and Company, published 1951, →OCLC, Act I, page 212:

    These are the only visible luxuries: the rest is the irreducible minimum of poverty's needs: a wretched bed heaped with all sorts of coverings that have any warmth in them, a draped packing case with a basin and jug on it and a little looking glass over it, a chair and table, the refuse of some suburban kitchen, and an American alarum clock on the shelf above the unused fireplace: the whole lighted with a gas lamp with a penny in the slot meter.

See also

• {{RQ:Shaw Pygmalion}} – to quote from this play in the work