This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote John Wesley Powell's work Canyons of the Colorado. The original edition, published in 1895 by Flood & Vincent is not currently available online. A republished version of the work from under the title The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons was published by Dover in 1961 and is available on the Internet Archive:
The template takes the following parameters:
|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:
|pages=10–11
.|pageref=
to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).|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.{{RQ:Powell Colorado|chapter=XV|page=397|passage=The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon—forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the '''diapason''' from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain.}}
{{RQ:Powell Colorado|XV|397|The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon—forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the '''diapason''' from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain.}}