Template:RQ:Wodehouse Two Left Feet
1914 August – 1916 May, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “(please specify the page)”, in The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories, London: Methuen & Co. […], published 8 March 1917, →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Wodehouse Two Left Feet/documentation. [edit]
- Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox
Usage
[edit]This template can be used to indicate quotations from P. G. Wodehouse's work The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories (1st edition, 1917; and 1922 version). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:
- 1st edition (1917) [not currently available online].
- 1922 version (contents).
| Short story | First page number |
|---|---|
| 1922 version | |
| Bill the Bloodhound (April 1915) | page 1 |
| Extricating Young Gussie (January 1916) | page 19 |
| Wilton’s Holiday (July 1915) | page 41 |
| The Mixer: I. He Meets a Shy Gentleman. (November 1915) | page 55 |
| The Mixer: II. He Moves in Society. (December 1915) | page 71 |
| Crowned Heads (April 1915) | page 87 |
| At Geisenheimer’s (October 1915) | page 103 |
| The Making of Mac’s (May 1915) | page 121 |
| One Touch of Nature (August 1914) | page 137 |
| Black for Luck (July 1915) | page 149 |
| The Romance of an Ugly Policeman (January 1915) | page 167 |
| A Sea of Troubles (June 1915) | page 183 |
| The Man with Two Left Feet (May 1916) | page 197 |
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|year=– mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 1922 version, specify|year=1922. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1st edition (1917).|1=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory: 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 name of the short story quoted from, and to link to an online version of the work.
|2=,|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]- 1922 version
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Wodehouse Two Left Feet|year=1922|page=67|passage=At first he was quite '''peevish'''. "What's the idea," he said, "coming and spoiling a man's beauty-sleep? Get out."}}; or{{RQ:Wodehouse Two Left Feet|year=1922|67|At first he was quite '''peevish'''. "What's the idea," he said, "coming and spoiling a man's beauty-sleep? Get out."}}
- Result:
- 1915 November, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “The Mixer: I. He Meets a Shy Gentleman.”, in The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories, London: Methuen & Co. […], published 1922, →OCLC, page 67:
- At first he was quite peevish. "What's the idea," he said, "coming and spoiling a man's beauty-sleep? Get out."
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