Template:RQ:Wells Shape

The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Wells Shape/documentation.

Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote H. G. Wells's work The Shape of Things to Come (1st American edition, 1933); the 1st edition published in the same year (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1933; →OCLC) is not currently available online. The template 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 name of the chapter quoted from.
• |footnote= – the footnote symbol quoted from; for example, |footnote=*.
• |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 specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

You must specify this information to have the template determine the book number (1st–5th) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – a 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:Wells Shape|chapter=Melodramatic Interlude|page=338|passage=But there was a third principal in this primitive drama, the wife of Essenden, a woman of great energy, great possessiveness and '''obtrusive''' helpfulness.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Wells Shape|Melodramatic Interlude|338|But there was a third principal in this primitive drama, the wife of Essenden, a woman of great energy, great possessiveness and '''obtrusive''' helpfulness.}}
• Result:
  • 1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Melodramatic Interlude”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, 4th book (The Modern State Militant), page 338:

    But there was a third principal in this primitive drama, the wife of Essenden, a woman of great energy, great possessiveness and obtrusive helpfulness.