Template:RQ:Wells War of the Worlds

1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, (please specify the page number(s)):

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Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote H. G. Wells's work The War of the Worlds (serialised edition in Pearson's, 1897; and 1st collected edition, 1898). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:

• Serialised edition in Pearson's (1897).
• 1st collected edition (1898).

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |edition= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the serialised edition, specify |edition=Pearson's.
• |1= or |chapter= – if quoting from the serialised edition, specify the name of the chapter quoted from. For the 1st collected edition, specify |page= to have the template determine the chapter quoted from.
• |2= 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 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 book number (I or II) and chapter (for the 1st collected edition) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

• |column= or |columns= – if quoting from the serialised edition, specify the column number quoted from, either |column=1 or |column=2. If quoting from both columns, separate the column numbers with an en dash, like this: |columns=1–2.
• |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

Serialised edition (1897)

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Wells War of the Worlds|edition=Pearson's|chapter=What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton|page=39|column=2|passage=They were all too '''assiduously''' engaged to talk to us as we passed.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Wells War of the Worlds|edition=Pearson's|What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton|39|column=2|They were all too '''assiduously''' engaged to talk to us as we passed.}}; or
• Result:
  • 1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton”, in “The War of the Worlds”, in Pearson’s, London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, published 1897, page 39, column 2:

    They were all too assiduously engaged to talk to us as we passed.

1st collection edition (1898)

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Wells War of the Worlds|page=28|passage=Those who have never seen a living '''Martian''' can scarcely imagine the strange horror of their appearance. The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedge-like lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, {{...}}}}; or
  • {{RQ:Wells War of the Worlds||28|Those who have never seen a living '''Martian''' can scarcely imagine the strange horror of their appearance. The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedge-like lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Cylinder unscrews”, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, book I (The Coming of the Martians), page 28:

    Those who have never seen a living Martian can scarcely imagine the strange horror of their appearance. The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedge-like lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, […]

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Wells War of the Worlds|pages=4–5|pageref=5|passage=[W]e must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such '''apostles''' of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?}}
• Result:
  • 1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Eve of the War”, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, book I (The Coming of the Martians), pages 4–5:

    [W]e must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?