Template:RQ:Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing/documentation

Usage

This template can be used to indicate quotations from P. G. Wodehouse's work Jeeves in the Offing (1963); the 1st edition (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1960; →OCLC) is not currently available online. The template can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |year= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 1963 version, specify |year=1963. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1st edition (1960).
• |1= or |chapter= – the chapter number uppercase Roman numerals (if quoting from the 1st edition) or Arabic numerals (if quoting from the 1963 version).
• |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 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=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 (1960)

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing|chapter=XII|passage="Well, if you must know," he said, "she's broken the engagement." This didn't get us any farther. We had assumed as much. You don't go calling people rats if love still lingers. "But it's only an hour or so," I said, "since I left her outside a hostelry called the 'Fox and Goose', and she had just been giving you a rave notice. What '''came unstuck'''? What did you do to the girl?"}}; or
  • {{RQ:Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing|XII|"Well, if you must know," he said, "she's broken the engagement." This didn't get us any farther. We had assumed as much. You don't go calling people rats if love still lingers. "But it's only an hour or so," I said, "since I left her outside a hostelry called the 'Fox and Goose', and she had just been giving you a rave notice. What '''came unstuck'''? What did you do to the girl?"}}
• Result:

  1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

  "Well, if you must know," he said, "she's broken the engagement." This didn't get us any farther. We had assumed as much. You don't go calling people rats if love still lingers. "But it's only an hour or so," I said, "since I left her outside a hostelry called the 'Fox and Goose', and she had just been giving you a rave notice. What came unstuck? What did you do to the girl?"

1963 version

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing|year=1963|chapter=3|page=33|passage=No doubt he, like me, had been buoying himself up for years with the thought that we should never meet again and that, whatever '''brickbats''' life might have in store for him, he had at least got Bertram out of his system. A nasty jar it must have been for the poor bloke having me suddenly pop up from a trap like this.}}
• Result:
  • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter 3, in Jeeves in the Offing, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1963 (1975 printing), →OCLC, page 33:

    No doubt he, like me, had been buoying himself up for years with the thought that we should never meet again and that, whatever brickbats life might have in store for him, he had at least got Bertram out of his system. A nasty jar it must have been for the poor bloke having me suddenly pop up from a trap like this.