Template:RQ:Thackeray Comic Tales/documentation
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Usage
This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from William Makepeace Thackeray's work Comic Tales and Sketches (1st edition, 1841, 2 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books:
| Title | First page number |
|---|---|
| Volume I (archived at the Internet Archive) | |
| Papers by Mr. Yellowplush, Sometime Footman in Many Genteel Families | |
| I. Miss Shum’s Husband | page 1 |
| II. The Amours of Mr. Deuceace | page 41 |
| Skimmings from “The Dairy of George IV” | page 71 |
| Foring Parts | page 93 |
| Mr. Deuceace at Paris | page 113 |
| Mr. Yellowplush’s Ajew | page 242 |
| Epistles to the Literati | page 264 |
| Volume II (archived at the Internet Archive) | |
| Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan | page 1 |
| The Professor. A Tale of Sentiment. | page 151 |
| The Bedford-Row Conspiracy | page 185 |
| Stubbs’s Calendar; or, The Fatal Boots | page 279 |
Parameters
The template takes the following parameters:
|1=or|volume=– mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, either|volume=Ior|volume=II.|chapter=and/or|chaptername=– if a title is divided into chapters, use|chapter=to specify the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, and/or|chaptername=the name of the chapter.|2=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory: 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=10–11or|pages=v–vi. - You must also use
|pageref=to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
- This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the title quoted from, and to link to an online version of the work.
|3=,|text=, or|passage=– the passage to be quoted.|footer=– a comment on the passage quoted.|brackets=– use|brackets=onto 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:Thackeray Comic Tales|volume=I|chapter=I|page=2|passage=here we were, quarrelling and making up, sober and tipsy, starving and '''guttling''' by turns, just as ma got money or spent it.}}; or{{RQ:Thackeray Comic Tales|I|chapter=I|2|here we were, quarrelling and making up, sober and tipsy, starving and '''guttling''' by turns, just as ma got money or spent it.}}
- Result:
- 1841, Michael Angelo Titmarsh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “Papers by Mr. Yellowplush, Sometime Footman in Many Genteel Families. I. Miss Shum’s Husband. Chapter I.”, in Comic Tales and Sketches. , volume I, London: Hugh Cunningham, , →OCLC, page 2:
- [T]here we were, quarrelling and making up, sober and tipsy, starving and guttling by turns, just as ma got money or spent it.
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