Template:RQ:Twain How to Tell a Story

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Mark Twain's work What Is Man? And Other Essays (1st edition, 1897; and 1898 version). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:

• 1st edition (1897) .
• 1898 version (contents).

The template takes the following parameters:

• |year= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 1898 version, specify |year=1898. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1st edition (1897).
• |section= – if an essay is divided into sections, use this parameter to specify the section number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.
• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: the page number(s) 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).

This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the name of the essay quoted from, and to link to an 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.

1898 version

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Twain How to Tell a Story|year=1898|page=4|passage=Very often, of course, the rambling and disjointed humorous story finishes with a '''nub''', point, snapper, or whatever you like to call it.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Twain How to Tell a Story|year=1898|4|Very often, of course, the rambling and disjointed humorous story finishes with a '''nub''', point, snapper, or whatever you like to call it.}}
• Result:
  • 1895 October 3, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “How to Tell a Story”, in How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published 1898, →OCLC, page 4:

    Very often, of course, the rambling and disjointed humorous story finishes with a nub, point, snapper, or whatever you like to call it.