Template:RQ:West Black Lamb/documentation
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Usage
[edit]This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Rebecca West's work Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1st edition, 1941; 1946 reprint). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|1=or|volume=– mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, either|volume=Ior|volume=II.|2=or|chapter=– the name of the chapter quoted from.|3=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) to be 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=110–111. - 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:
- This parameter must be specified to have the template link to an online version of the work.
|4=,|text=, or|passage=– a passage quoted from the work.|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:West Black Lamb|volume=I|chapter=Dalmatia|page=153|passage=After his death he [{{w|Diocletian}}] remained corporeally in possession of the palace, his tomb resting in the centre of the mausoleum. Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple '''pall''' from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime, {{...}}}}; or{{RQ:West Black Lamb|I|Dalmatia|153|After his death he [{{w|Diocletian}}] remained corporeally in possession of the palace, his tomb resting in the centre of the mausoleum. Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple '''pall''' from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime, {{...}}}}
- Result:
- 1941, Rebecca West [pseudonym; Cicily Isabel Fairfield], “Dalmatia”, in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey through Yugoslavia in 1937, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1946, →OCLC, page 153:
- After his death he [Diocletian] remained corporeally in possession of the palace, his tomb resting in the centre of the mausoleum. Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime, […]
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