Template:RQ:Melville White Jacket

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Herman Melville's work White-Jacket (1st edition, 1850, 2 volumes; 1855 edition). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books and the Internet Archive:

• 1st edition (1850):
  • Volume I (archived at the Internet Archive).
  • .
• 1855 edition.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |edition= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 1st edition (1850), specify |edition=1st. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1855 edition.
• |volume= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 1st edition, specify the volume number quoted from, either |volume=I or |volume=II. (At present, volume II is not available online.)
• |1= or |chapter= – the name of the chapter quoted from.
• |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 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.

• |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.

1st edition (1850)

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Melville White Jacket|edition=1st|volume=I|chapter=Smuggling in a Man-of-War|page=285|passage=A knowing old sheet-anchor-man, an unprincipled fellow, putting '''this, that, and the other''' together, ferrets out the mystery; {{...}}}}; or
  • {{RQ:Melville White Jacket|edition=1st|volume=I|Smuggling in a Man-of-War|285|A knowing old sheet-anchor-man, an unprincipled fellow, putting '''this, that, and the other''' together, ferrets out the mystery; {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1850, Herman Melville, “Smuggling in a Man-of-War”, in White Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 285:

    A knowing old sheet-anchor-man, an unprincipled fellow, putting this, that, and the other together, ferrets out the mystery; […]

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Melville White Jacket|edition=1st|volume=I|chapter=Edging Away|pages=182–183|pageref=183|passage=Though we had seen no land since leaving Calloa, Cape Horn was said to be somewhere to the West of us; and though there was no positive evidence of the fact, the weather encountered might be accounted pretty good '''presumptive''' proof.}}
• Result:
  • 1850, Herman Melville, “Edging Away”, in White Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, pages 182–183:

    Though we had seen no land since leaving Calloa, Cape Horn was said to be somewhere to the West of us; and though there was no positive evidence of the fact, the weather encountered might be accounted pretty good presumptive proof.

1855 edition

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Melville White Jacket|chapter=Some of the Ceremonies in a Man-of-War Unnecessary and Injurious|page=197|passage=The general usages of the American Navy are founded upon the usages that prevailed in the Navy of monarchical England more than a century ago; nor have they been materially altered since. {{...}} here still lingers in American men-of-war all the '''stilted''' etiquette and childish parade of the old-fashioned Spanish court of Madrid.}}
• Result:
  • 1850, Herman Melville, “Some of the Ceremonies in a Man-of-War Unnecessary and Injurious”, in White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers; London: Richard Bentley, published 1855, →OCLC, page 197:

    The general usages of the American Navy are founded upon the usages that prevailed in the Navy of monarchical England more than a century ago; nor have they been materially altered since. […] here still lingers in American men-of-war all the stilted etiquette and childish parade of the old-fashioned Spanish court of Madrid.