Template:RQ:John Gay Shepherd's Week

The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:John Gay Shepherd's Week/documentation.

Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote John Gay's work The Shepherd’s Week (1st edition, 1714). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |chapter= – if quoting from the proeme or prologue, specify |chapter=Proeme or |chapter=Prologue.
• |url= or |page= – mandatory in some cases: as the proeme and prologue are not paginated, you must either:
  • use |url= to specify the URL of the webpage of the online version of the work to be linked to, like this: |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a69TdT-7Fy4C&pg=PP11; or
  • use |page= to specify the Google Books "page" to be linked to. The actual work is unpaginated, but Google Books has assigned numbers to each page of the work. For example, if the URL of the webpage to be linked to is https://books.google.com/books?id=a69TdT-7Fy4C&pg=PP11, specify |page=11.

One of these parameters must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.

• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: if quoting from the main part of the work, 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 specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

You must specify this information to have the template determine the chapter quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

• |line= or |lines= – the line number(s) quoted from. If specifying a range of numbers, separate the first and last numbers of the range with an en dash.
• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage to be quoted from the work.
• |footer= – a comment about 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:John Gay Shepherd's Week|page=21|passage=The wailings of a maiden I recite, / A maiden fair, that Sparabella hight. / Such ſtrains ne'er '''warble''' in the linnet's throat, / Nor the gay goldfinch chaunts ſo ſweet a note, {{...}}}}; or
  • {{RQ:John Gay Shepherd's Week|21|The wailings of a maiden I recite, / A maiden fair, that Sparabella hight. / Such ſtrains ne'er '''warble''' in the linnet's throat, / Nor the gay goldfinch chaunts ſo ſweet a note, {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1714, J[ohn] Gay, “Wednesday; or, The Dumps”, in The Shepherd’s Week. In Six Pastorals, London: R. Burleigh , →OCLC, page 21:

    The wailings of a maiden I recite, / A maiden fair, that Sparabella hight. / Such ſtrains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat, / Nor the gay goldfinch chaunts ſo ſweet a note, […]

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:John Gay Shepherd's Week|chapter=Proeme|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a69TdT-7Fy4C&pg=PP11|passage=Other poet '''travailing''' in this plain high-way of paſtoral know I none.}}; or
  • {{RQ:John Gay Shepherd's Week|chapter=Proeme|page=11|passage=Other poet '''travailing''' in this plain high-way of paſtoral know I none.}}
• Result:
  • 1714, J[ohn] Gay, “The Proeme to the Courteous Reader”, in The Shepherd’s Week. In Six Pastorals, London: R. Burleigh , →OCLC:

    Other poet travailing in this plain high-way of paſtoral know I none.