Template:RQ:Thackeray Miscellanies/documentation
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Usage
This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from a collection of William Makepeace Thackeray's works entitled Miscellanies: Prose and Verse (1st edition, 1855–1857, 4 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books and the Internet Archive:
Parameters
The template takes the following parameters:
|1=or|volume=– mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, from|volume=Ito|volume=IV.|chapter=– if the work is divided into chapters, the name of the chapter quoted from, or the chapter number in uppercase Roman numerals.|2=or|title=– mandatory: the title of the work quoted from. If quoting from one of the works indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:
| Parameter value | Result | First page number |
|---|---|---|
| Volume I | ||
| Volume II | ||
| Volume III | ||
| Barry Lyndon | The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. [The Luck of Barry Lyndon.] (1844)
|
page 1 |
| The Bedford-Row Conspiracy | The Bedford-Row Conspiracy | page 467 |
| A Little Dinner at Timmins's | A Little Dinner at Timmins’s (1848) | page 435 |
| Volume IV | ||
| The Fitz-Boodle Papers | The Fitz-Boodle Papers (1842)
|
page 1 |
| A Shabby Genteel Story | A Shabby Genteel Story (1840)
|
page 221 |
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|section=– a section of the work quoted from.|3=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory in some cases: the page or range of pages 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).
- 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 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=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 Miscellanies|volume=IV|chapter=A Shabby Genteel Dinner, and Other Incidents of a Like Nature|title=A Shabby Genteel Story|page=254|passage=Three '''shreds''' of celery in a glass.}}; or{{RQ:Thackeray Miscellanies|IV|chapter=A Shabby Genteel Dinner, and Other Incidents of a Like Nature|A Shabby Genteel Story|254|Three '''shreds''' of celery in a glass.}}
- Result:
- 1840, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “A Shabby Genteel Dinner, and Other Incidents of a Like Nature”, in “A Shabby Genteel Story”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume IV, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1857, →OCLC, page 254:
- Three shreds of celery in a glass.
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