Template:RQ:Melville Battle-Pieces

The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Melville Battle-Pieces/documentation.

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Herman Melville's work Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1st edition, 1866). 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:

• |1=, |chapter=, or |poem= – mandatory: the name of the chapter or poem quoted from. If quoting from one of the chapters or poems indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:

For help with adding other poems or their dates of writing to the template, leave a message on the talk page or at "Wiktionary:Grease pit".

• |stanza= – the stanza number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals (if indicated in the work) or Arabic numerals (if not indicated in the work).
• |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=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 (in some cases) the chapter or part of the work quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

If quoting from "The Portent", specify the page number as |page=11.

• |3=, |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:Melville Battle-Pieces|poem=The Portent|stanza=1|page=11|passage=Hanging from the beam, / Slowly swaying (such the law), / '''Gaunt''' the shadow on your green, / Shenandoah!}}; or
  • {{RQ:Melville Battle-Pieces|The Portent|stanza=1|11|Hanging from the beam, / Slowly swaying (such the law), / '''Gaunt''' the shadow on your green, / Shenandoah!}}
• Result:
  • 1859 (date written), Herman Melville, “The Portent”, in Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, , published 1866, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 11:

    Hanging from the beam, / Slowly swaying (such the law), / Gaunt the shadow on your green, / Shenandoah!