Template:RQ:Birmingham Red Hand

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1912, George A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], The Red Hand of Ulster, London: Smith, Elder & Co., , →OCLC:

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from George A. Birmingham's work The Red Hand of Ulster (1st edition, 1912). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

Parameters

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  • |1= or |chapter= – the chapter number of the work quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.
  • |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=110–111.
    • You must also use |pageref= to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
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  • |3=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be 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.

Examples

  • Wikitext:
    • {{RQ:Birmingham Red Hand|chapter=XXI|page=255|passage=In street fighting at close quarters a gun of this kind is very '''murderous''' and ought to do a terrible amount of destruction.}}; or
    • {{RQ:Birmingham Red Hand|XXI|255|In street fighting at close quarters a gun of this kind is very '''murderous''' and ought to do a terrible amount of destruction.}}
  • Result:
    • 1912, George A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter XXI, in The Red Hand of Ulster, London: Smith, Elder & Co., , →OCLC, page 255:
      In street fighting at close quarters a gun of this kind is very murderous and ought to do a terrible amount of destruction.