Template:RQ:Ruskin Arrows

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote John Ruskin's work Arrows of the Chace: Being a Collection of Scattered Letters Published Chiefly in the Daily Newspapers,—1840–1880 (1st edition, 1880). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:

• Volume I (Letters on Art and Science).
• Volume II (Letters on Politics, Economy, and Miscellaneous Matters).

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |volume= – mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, either |volume=I or |volume=II.
• |2= or |chapter= – the name of the chapter quoted from.
• |date= –
  • Use |date= to specify the date when the letter quoted from was published in the format 23 September 1843 or September 23, 1843, which will be displayed as "1843 September 1843".
  • Alternatively, to specify the date when a letter was written, specify |written=1 or |written=yes. This will add "(date written)" after the date. If a date of writing is uncertain requires special formatting, specify |noformat=1 or |noformat=yes and use wikitext markup to format the date; for example: |date='''1853''' 26.
• (|month= and) |year= – if only the month and year, or year alone, of the letter quoted from is known, use |month= and/or |year= to specify this information.

The dates when the letters in the work were written and published are indicated in tables in the volumes:

• Volume I.
• Volume II.

(These are from an American edition of the work, as the tables in the British edition have missing text at the margins.)

• |3= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from in Arabic or lowercase Roman numerals, as the case may be. 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 or |pages=x–xi.
  • 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 part of the work quoted from, and to link to an online version of the work.

• |4=, |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:Ruskin Arrows|volume=I|chapter=Art Criticism|date='''1843''' December? (date written; published '''1844''' January)|noformat=1|page=21|passage=People continually forget that there is a ''separate'' '''public''' for every picture, and for every book. Appealed to with reference to any particular work, the '''public''' is that class of persons who possess the knowledge which it presupposes, and the faculties to which it is addressed. With reference to a new edition of ]'s ], the "'''public'''" means little more than the Royal Society. With reference to one of ]'s poems, it means all who have hearts.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Ruskin Arrows|I|Art Criticism|date='''1843''' December? (date written; published '''1844''' January)|noformat=1|21|People continually forget that there is a ''separate'' '''public''' for every picture, and for every book. Appealed to with reference to any particular work, the '''public''' is that class of persons who possess the knowledge which it presupposes, and the faculties to which it is addressed. With reference to a new edition of ]'s ], the "'''public'''" means little more than the Royal Society. With reference to one of ]'s poems, it means all who have hearts.}}
• Result:
  • 1843 December? (date written; published 1844 January), John Ruskin, “Art Criticism”, in , editor, Arrows of the Chace: Being a Collection of Scattered Letters Published Chiefly in the Daily Newspapers,—1840–1880 , volume I (Letters on Art and Science), Orpington, Kent : George Allen, , published 1880, →OCLC, part I (Art Criticism and Art Education), page 21:

    People continually forget that there is a separate public for every picture, and for every book. Appealed to with reference to any particular work, the public is that class of persons who possess the knowledge which it presupposes, and the faculties to which it is addressed. With reference to a new edition of [Isaac] Newton's Principia, the "public" means little more than the Royal Society. With reference to one of [William] Wordsworth's poems, it means all who have hearts.