Template:RQ:Alger Randy

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Horatio Alger's work Randy of the River: Or The Adventures of a Young Deckhand (1st edition, 1906). 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 |chapter= – the name of the chapter quoted from.
• |2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from in Arabic or lowercase Roman numerals, as the case may be. 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 or |pages=iii–iv.
  • 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 link to the 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.

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Alger Randy|chapter=The Iron Works Affair|page=57|passage=The trouble is, I trusted him too much from the start. He has proved to be a '''snake in the grass'''.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Alger Randy|The Iron Works Affair|57|The trouble is, I trusted him too much from the start. He has proved to be a '''snake in the grass'''.}}
• Result:
  • 1906, Horatio Alger, Jr., “The Iron Works Affair”, in Randy of the River: Or The Adventures of a Young Deckhand (Rise in Life Series), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 57:

    The trouble is, I trusted him too much from the start. He has proved to be a snake in the grass.