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Usage
This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Herman Melville's work Mardi (1st edition, 1849, 2 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:
Parameters
The template takes the following parameters:
|1=
or |volume=
– mandatory: the volume number quoted from, either |volume=I
or |volume=II
.
|2=
or |chapter=
– the name of the chapter quoted from.
|3=
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 indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
- This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.
|4=
, |text=
, or |passage=
– the passage to be quoted.
Examples
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Melville Mardi|volume=II|chapter=They Visit One Doxodox|page=279|passage=But I beseech thee, wise Doxodox! instruct me in thy dialectics, that I may embrace thy more '''recondite''' lore.}}
; or
{{RQ:Melville Mardi|II|They Visit One Doxodox|279|But I beseech thee, wise Doxodox! instruct me in thy dialectics, that I may embrace thy more '''recondite''' lore.}}
- Result:
1849, Herman Melville, “They Visit One Doxodox”, in Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. , volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, , →OCLC, page 279:But I beseech thee, wise Doxodox! instruct me in thy dialectics, that I may embrace thy more recondite lore.
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Melville Mardi|volume=I|chapter=Taji Takes Counsel with Himself|pages=208–209|pageref=209|passage=So then, weighing all things well, and myself severely, I resolved to follow my Mentor's wise counsel; neither arrogating aught, nor '''abating''' of just dues; but circulating freely, sociably, and frankly, among the gods, heroes, high-priests, kings, and gentlemen, that made up the principalities of Mardi.}}
- Result:
1849, Herman Melville, “Taji Takes Counsel with Himself”, in Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. , volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, , →OCLC, pages 208–209:So then, weighing all things well, and myself severely, I resolved to follow my Mentor's wise counsel; neither arrogating aught, nor abating of just dues; but circulating freely, sociably, and frankly, among the gods, heroes, high-priests, kings, and gentlemen, that made up the principalities of Mardi.