Template:RQ:Dickens Pickwick Papers/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Charles Dickens's The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers, 1st collected edition, 1837). It may be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:

• Chapters I–XXVIII.
• Chapters XXIX–LVI.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |chapter= – the name of the chapter quoted from.
• |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.

Examples

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Dickens Pickwick Papers|chapter=Showing, among a Variety of Pleasant Matters, how Majestic and Impartial Mr. Nupkins was; and how Mr. Weller Returned Mr. Job Trotter's Shuttlecock, as Heavily as It Came. With Another Matter, which will be Found in Its Place.|page=256|passage=Beg your pardon, Sir, but this here officer o' yourn in the '''gambooge''' tops, 'ull never earn a decent livin' as a master o' the ceremonies any vere.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Dickens Pickwick Papers|Showing, among a Variety of Pleasant Matters, how Majestic and Impartial Mr. Nupkins was; and how Mr. Weller Returned Mr. Job Trotter's Shuttlecock, as Heavily as It Came. With Another Matter, which will be Found in Its Place.|256|Beg your pardon, Sir, but this here officer o' yourn in the '''gambooge''' tops, 'ull never earn a decent livin' as a master o' the ceremonies any vere.}}
• Result:
  • 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “Showing, among a Variety of Pleasant Matters, how Majestic and Impartial Mr. Nupkins was; and how Mr. Weller Returned Mr. Job Trotter’s Shuttlecock, as Heavily as It Came. With Another Matter, which will be Found in Its Place.”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 256:

    Beg your pardon, Sir, but this here officer o' yourn in the gambooge tops, 'ull never earn a decent livin' as a master o' the ceremonies any vere.