Template:RQ:Twain American Claimant

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Mark Twain's work The American Claimant (1st edition, 1892). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |chapter= – the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals. If quoting "Explanatory" or "The Weather in this Book", specify |chapter=Explanatory or |chapter=Weather.
• |2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: 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 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 link to the online version of the work.

• |3=, |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:Twain American Claimant|chapter=XI|page=117|passage=What you needed, I reckon, was less '''book learning''' and more bread-and-butter learning.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Twain American Claimant|XI|117|What you needed, I reckon, was less '''book learning''' and more bread-and-butter learning.}}
• Result:
  • 1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XI, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L Webster & Co., →OCLC, page 117:

    What you needed, I reckon, was less book learning and more bread-and-butter learning.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Twain American Claimant|chapter=XXII|pages=233–234|pageref=234|passage=This answer fell just at the right time and just in the right place, to save the poor unstable young man from changing his political complexion once more. He had been on the point of beginning to totter again, but this prop '''shored him up''' and kept him from floundering back into democracy and re-renouncing aristocracy.}}
• Result:
  • 1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXII, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L Webster & Co., →OCLC, pages 233–234:

    This answer fell just at the right time and just in the right place, to save the poor unstable young man from changing his political complexion once more. He had been on the point of beginning to totter again, but this prop shored him up and kept him from floundering back into democracy and re-renouncing aristocracy.