Template:RQ:Carroll Snark

The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Carroll Snark/documentation.

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Lewis Carroll's work The Hunting of the Snark (1st edition, 1876). 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:

• |fit= or |part= – the main part of the work is divided into eight "fits". Use this parameter to specify the fit number quoted from, from |fit=1 to |fit=8. The parameter may be omitted if the page number is specified.
• |1= 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. 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 or |pages=x–xi.
  • 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).

This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the name of the chapter (the dedicatory poem "Inscribed to a Dear Child" or the preface) or "fit" number (1st–8th) 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:Carroll Snark|fit=4|page=43|passage=But the Butcher turned nervous, and dressed himself fine, / With yellow kid gloves and a ruff— / Said he felt it exactly like going to dine, / Which the Bellman declared was all "'''stuff'''."}}; or
  • {{RQ:Carroll Snark|page=43|passage=But the Butcher turned nervous, and dressed himself fine, / With yellow kid gloves and a ruff— / Said he felt it exactly like going to dine, / Which the Bellman declared was all "'''stuff'''."}}; or
  • {{RQ:Carroll Snark|43|But the Butcher turned nervous, and dressed himself fine, / With yellow kid gloves and a ruff— / Said he felt it exactly like going to dine, / Which the Bellman declared was all "'''stuff'''."}}
• Result:
  • 1874–1876 (date written), Lewis Carroll , “Fit the Fourth.⁠ The Hunting.”, in The Hunting of the Snark , London: Macmillan and Co., published March 1876, →OCLC, page 43:

    But the Butcher turned nervous, and dressed himself fine, / With yellow kid gloves and a ruff— / Said he felt it exactly like going to dine, / Which the Bellman declared was all "stuff."