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Usage
This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Victor Appleton's work Tom Swift in Captivity: Or A Daring Escape by Airship (1st edition, 1912). (Victor Appleton is a pseudonym used by several authors.) It 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:
|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. 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 indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
- Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this:
- 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=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
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Appleton Captivity|chapter=Tom's Mysterious Box|page=164|passage=There was a flicker of matches as they were applied to the fuses, and then a '''splutter''' of sparks. An instant later it seemed as if the whole heavens had been lighted up.}}{{RQ:Appleton Captivity|Tom's Mysterious Box|164|There was a flicker of matches as they were applied to the fuses, and then a '''splutter''' of sparks. An instant later it seemed as if the whole heavens had been lighted up.}}
- Result:
- 1912, Victor Appleton [pseudonym], “Tom’s Mysterious Box”, in Tom Swift in Captivity: Or A Daring Escape by Airship (Tom Swift Series), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 164:
- There was a flicker of matches as they were applied to the fuses, and then a splutter of sparks. An instant later it seemed as if the whole heavens had been lighted up.
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