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Usage
This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from a collection of George Orwell's works entitled Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays (1st edition, 1950). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work (contents) at the Internet Archive.
Parameters
The template takes the following parameters:
|1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:
- Separate the first and last page number 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 determine the name of the essay quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
|chapter= or |essay= – mandatory in some cases: in most cases, if the page number is specified the template can determine the name of the essay quoted from. However, if it is unable to do so, to quote the essay indicated in the second column, give this parameter the value indicated in the first column of the following table:
|2=, |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.
Examples
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Orwell Elephant|chapter=Toad|page=202|passage=Before the swallow, before the daffodil, and not much later than the snowdrop, the '''common toad''' salutes the coming of spring after his own fashion, which is to emerge from a hole in the ground, where he has lain buried since the previous autumn, and crawl as rapidly as possible towards the nearest suitable patch of water.}} (the name of the essay must be specified as the template is unable to determine it automatically); or{{RQ:Orwell Elephant|chapter=Toad|202|Before the swallow, before the daffodil, and not much later than the snowdrop, the '''common toad''' salutes the coming of spring after his own fashion, which is to emerge from a hole in the ground, where he has lain buried since the previous autumn, and crawl as rapidly as possible towards the nearest suitable patch of water.}}
- Result:
1946 April 12, George Orwell , “ Some Thoughts on the Common Toad”, in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, London: Secker and Warburg, published 1950, →OCLC, page 202:Before the swallow, before the daffodil, and not much later than the snowdrop, the common toad salutes the coming of spring after his own fashion, which is to emerge from a hole in the ground, where he has lain buried since the previous autumn, and crawl as rapidly as possible towards the nearest suitable patch of water.
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Orwell Elephant|pages=2–3|pageref=3|passage=Early one morning the sub-inspector at a police station the other end of the town rang me up on the 'phone and said that an elephant was ravaging the bazaar. Would I please come and do something about it? {{...}} It was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one which had gone "'''must'''". It had been chained up, as tame elephants always are when their attack of "'''must'''" is due, but on the previous night it had broken its chain and escaped.}}
- Result:
1936, George Orwell , “Shooting an Elephant”, in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, London: Secker and Warburg, published 1950, →OCLC, pages 2–3:Early one morning the sub-inspector at a police station the other end of the town rang me up on the 'phone and said that an elephant was ravaging the bazaar. Would I please come and do something about it? It was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one which had gone "must". It had been chained up, as tame elephants always are when their attack of "must" is due, but on the previous night it had broken its chain and escaped.