Template:RQ:Besant Deacon's Orders

The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Besant Deacon's Orders/documentation.

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Walter Besant's work In Deacon's Orders etc. (1st edition, 1895). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work (contents) at the Internet Archive.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |act= – if quoting from "The Solid Gold Reef Company Limited", the act number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.
• |section= – most of the short stories are divided into sections. Use this parameter to specify the section number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.
• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: the page or range of pages 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=v–vi.
  • 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 (and, in "In Deacon's Orders", the name of the chapter) 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:Besant Deacon's Orders|section=II|page=126|passage=Then he felt, not another crumpled rose, but a thorn; a dozen '''spiky''' thorns sticking into him in the most cruel manner.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Besant Deacon's Orders|section=II|126|Then he felt, not another crumpled rose, but a thorn; a dozen '''spiky''' thorns sticking into him in the most cruel manner.}}
• Result:
  • 1895, Walter Besant, “The Equal Woman”, in In Deacon’s Orders etc., London: Chatto & Windus, , →OCLC, section II, page 126:

    Then he felt, not another crumpled rose, but a thorn; a dozen spiky thorns sticking into him in the most cruel manner.