Template:RQ:Wells Plattner Story/documentation
Usage
[edit]This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote H. G. Wells's work The Plattner Story and Others (1st collected edition, 1897). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work (contents) at the Internet Archive.
| Short story | First page number |
|---|---|
| The Plattner Story (April 1896) | page 1 |
| The Argonauts of the Air (December 1895) | page 29 |
| The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham (May 1896) | page 47 |
| In the Abyss (August 1896) | page 71 |
| The Apple (October 1896) | page 94 |
| Under the Knife (January 1896) | page 106 |
| The Sea-Raiders (6 December 1896) | page 126 |
| Pollock and the Porroh Man (May 1895) | page 142 |
| The Red Room (March 1896) | page 165 |
| The Cone (18 September 1895) | page 179 |
| The Purple Pileus (1896) | page 196 |
| The Jilting of Jane (1897) | page 213 |
| In the Modern Vein (March 1894) | page 224 |
| A Catastrophe (April 1895) | page 239 |
| The Lost Inheritance (1897) | page 252 |
| The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic (August 1895) | page 262 |
| A Slip under the Microscope (January 1896) | page 274 |
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|1=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory: 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 the name of the short story quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
|2=,|text=, or|passage=– a passage to be quoted from the work.|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:Wells Plattner Story|page=188|passage=The cone's not fixed, it's hung by a chain from a lever, and balanced by an '''equipoise'''.}}; or{{RQ:Wells Plattner Story|188|The cone's not fixed, it's hung by a chain from a lever, and balanced by an '''equipoise'''.}}
- Result:
- 1895 September 18, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Cone”, in The Plattner Story and Others, London: Methuen & Co. […], published March 1897, →OCLC, page 188:
- The cone's not fixed, it's hung by a chain from a lever, and balanced by an equipoise.
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