Template:RQ:Alcott Hospital Sketches

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Louisa May Alcott's work Hospital Sketches (1st collected edition, 1863). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |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).

This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the name of the short story quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

• |2=, |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.

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Alcott Hospital Sketches|page=95|passage=The ward master comes to the door of each room that is to be thinned, reads off a list of names, bids their owners look sharp and be ready when called for; and, as he vanishes, the rooms fall into an indescribable state of '''topsy-turvyness''', as the boys begin to black their boots, brighten spurs, if they have them, overhaul knapsacks, make presents; {{...}}}}; or
  • {{RQ:Alcott Hospital Sketches|95|The ward master comes to the door of each room that is to be thinned, reads off a list of names, bids their owners look sharp and be ready when called for; and, as he vanishes, the rooms fall into an indescribable state of '''topsy-turvyness''', as the boys begin to black their boots, brighten spurs, if they have them, overhaul knapsacks, make presents; {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1863 May 22 – 1863 June 26, L[ouisa] M[ay] Alcott, “A Postscript”, in Hospital Sketches, Boston, Mass.: James Redpath, , published August 1863, →OCLC, page 95:

    The ward master comes to the door of each room that is to be thinned, reads off a list of names, bids their owners look sharp and be ready when called for; and, as he vanishes, the rooms fall into an indescribable state of topsy-turvyness, as the boys begin to black their boots, brighten spurs, if they have them, overhaul knapsacks, make presents; […]