Template:RQ:Whitman Specimen Days
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1882–1883, Walt Whitman, “(please specify the title)”, in Specimen Days & Collect, Philadelphia, Pa.: Rees Welsh & Co., […], →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Whitman Specimen Days/documentation. [edit]
- Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox
Usage
[edit]This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Walt Whitman's work Specimen Days & Collect (1st edition; 1882–1883). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work 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 titles 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Emerson's Books | Emerson’s Books, (the Shadows of Them) | page 319 |
| A Happy Hour's Command | A Happy Hour’s Command (2 July 1882) | page 7 |
| Poetry To-day in America | Poetry To-day in America—Shakspeare—the Future (February 1881) | page 288 |
| Preface, 1872 | Preface, 1872, to ‘As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free,’ (now ‘Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood,’ in Permanent Ed’n.) (1872) | page 275 |
|date=, or (|month=and)|year=– if the date of the title quoted from is known but not automatically indicated by the template, use|date=to specify it in the format2 July 1882orJuly 2, 1882. If only the month and year, or year alone, of the title is known, use|month=and/or|year=to specify this information.|part=and/or|stanza=– if a poem is divided into parts and/or stanzas, the part and/or stanza number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.|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 determine the part of the work quoted from, and to link to an online version of the work.
|3=,|text=, or|passage=– the passage to be quoted.|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:Whitman Specimen Days|chapter=Emerson's Books|page=320|passage=Indeed, who wants the real animal or hunter? What would that do amid astral and '''bric-a-brac''' and tapestry, and ladies and gentlemen talking in subdued tones of [[w:Robert Browning|[Robert] Browning]] and [[w:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow|[Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow]] and art?}}; or{{RQ:Whitman Specimen Days|Emerson's Books|320|Indeed, who wants the real animal or hunter? What would that do amid astral and '''bric-a-brac''' and tapestry, and ladies and gentlemen talking in subdued tones of [[w:Robert Browning|[Robert] Browning]] and [[w:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow|[Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow]] and art?}}
- Result:
- 1882–1883, Walt Whitman, “[Collect. Notes Left Over.] Emerson’s Books, (the Shadows of Them).”, in Specimen Days & Collect, Philadelphia, Pa.: Rees Welsh & Co., […], →OCLC, page 320:
- Indeed, who wants the real animal or hunter? What would that do amid astral and bric-a-brac and tapestry, and ladies and gentlemen talking in subdued tones of [Robert] Browning and [Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow and art?
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