Template:RQ:Stevenson Merry Men

The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Stevenson Merry Men/documentation.

Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Robert Louis Stevenson's work The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1st collected American (authorized) edition, 1887); the 1st edition published in the same year (London: Chatto & Windus, 1887; →OCLC) is not currently available online. The template can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books (contents; archived at the Internet Archive).

The template takes the following parameters:

• |chapter= and/or |chaptername= – "The Merry Men" and "The Treasure of Franchard" are subdivided into chapters. Use |chapter= to specify the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, and |chaptername= the name of the chapter.
• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: 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 specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

This information must be specified to have the template determine the name of the story quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

• |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.

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Stevenson Merry Men|page=201|passage=The next day it was glorious weather; depth upon depth of blue '''over-canopied''' the mountains; the sun shone wide; and the wind in the trees and the many falling torrents in the mountains filled the air with delicate and haunting music.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Stevenson Merry Men|201|The next day it was glorious weather; depth upon depth of blue '''over-canopied''' the mountains; the sun shone wide; and the wind in the trees and the many falling torrents in the mountains filled the air with delicate and haunting music.}}
• Result:
  • 1885 December, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Olalla”, in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1st American (authorized) edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1887, →OCLC, page 201:

    The next day it was glorious weather; depth upon depth of blue over-canopied the mountains; the sun shone wide; and the wind in the trees and the many falling torrents in the mountains filled the air with delicate and haunting music.