Template:RQ:London Theft

The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:London Theft/documentation.

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Jack London's work Theft: A Play in Four Acts (1st edition, 1910). 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:

• |chapter= – if quoting from the "Actors' Description of Characters", specify |chapter=Characters.
• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. If quoting from the "Actors' Description of Characters", specify the page number(s) in lowercase Roman numerals. 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).

You must specify this information to have the template determine the act (I–IV) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage quoted from the work.
• |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:London Theft|page=3|passage=I can't understand why an old '''wheel-horse''' like Elsworth should kick over the traces that way.}}; or
  • {{RQ:London Theft|3|I can't understand why an old '''wheel-horse''' like Elsworth should kick over the traces that way.}}
• Result:
  • 1910 November, Jack London, Theft: A Play in Four Acts, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, Act I, page 3:

    I can't understand why an old wheel-horse like Elsworth should kick over the traces that way.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:London Theft|chapter=Characters|pages=x–xi|pageref=xi|passage={{smallcaps|Anthony Starkweather.}} {{...}} Essentially a moral man, his rigid New England morality has suffered a '''sea change''' and developed into the morality of the master-man of affairs, equally rigid, equally uncompromising, but essentially Jesuitical in that he believes in doing wrong that right may come of it.}}
• Result:
  • 1910 November, Jack London, “Actors’ Description of Characters”, in Theft: A Play in Four Acts, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, pages x–xi:

    Anthony Starkweather. […] Essentially a moral man, his rigid New England morality has suffered a sea change and developed into the morality of the master-man of affairs, equally rigid, equally uncompromising, but essentially Jesuitical in that he believes in doing wrong that right may come of it.