This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from John Kennedy Toole's work A Confederacy of Dunces (1st edition, 1980; and 1981 version). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:
The template takes the following parameters:
|year=
– mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 1981 version, specify |year=1981
. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1st edition (1980).|section=
– the section number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.|1=
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 specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).|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.{{RQ:Toole Confederacy of Dunces|year=1981|section=I|page=27|passage=As a medievalist Ignatius believed in the '''''rota Fortunae''''', or wheel of fortune, a central concept in '']'', the philosophical work which had laid foundation for medieval thought. {{...}} Was his wheel rapidly spinning downward?}}
; or{{RQ:Toole Confederacy of Dunces|year=1981|section=I|27|As a medievalist Ignatius believed in the '''''rota Fortunae''''', or wheel of fortune, a central concept in '']'', the philosophical work which had laid foundation for medieval thought. {{...}} Was his wheel rapidly spinning downward?}}
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