Template:RQ:Doyle Green Flag
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1900, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport (Bell’s Indian and Colonial Library), London, Bombay, Maharashtra: George Bell & Sons, →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Doyle Green Flag/documentation. [edit]
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Usage
[edit]This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Arthur Conan Doyle's work The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport (1900); the 1st edition published in the same year (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1900; →OCLC) is not currently available online. The template can be used to create a link to an online version of the work (contents) at the Internet Archive.
| Short story | First page number |
|---|---|
| The Green Flag (June 1893) | page 1 |
| Captain Sharkey | page 25 |
| The Crime of the Brigadier (January 1900) | page 83 |
| The Croxley Master (October–December 1899) | page 104 |
| The ‘Slapping Sal’ | page 171 |
| The Lord of Château Noir (July 1894) | page 185 |
| The Striped Chest | page 204 |
| A Shadow Before | page 225 |
| The King of the Foxes (July 1898) | page 245 |
| The Three Correspondents | page 265 |
| The New Catacomb | page 297 |
| The Début of Bimbashi Joyce (January 1897) | page 319 |
| A Foreign Office Romance | page 333 |
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|section=– if a short story is divided into sections, 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).
- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
- This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the name of the short story quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
|2=,|text=, or|passage=– the passage to be quoted.|footer=– a comment on the passage quoted.|brackets=– use|brackets=onto 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
[edit]- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Doyle Green Flag|page=8|passage=Along the edge of this position lay the Arab host, a '''motley crew''' of shock-headed desert clansmen, fierce predatory slave-dealers of the interior, and wild dervishes from the Upper Nile, all blent together by their common fearlessness and fanaticism.}}; or{{RQ:Doyle Green Flag|8|Along the edge of this position lay the Arab host, a '''motley crew''' of shock-headed desert clansmen, fierce predatory slave-dealers of the interior, and wild dervishes from the Upper Nile, all blent together by their common fearlessness and fanaticism.}}
- Result:
- 1893 June, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Green Flag”, in The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport (Bell’s Indian and Colonial Library), London, Bombay, Maharashtra: George Bell & Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 8:
- Along the edge of this position lay the Arab host, a motley crew of shock-headed desert clansmen, fierce predatory slave-dealers of the interior, and wild dervishes from the Upper Nile, all blent together by their common fearlessness and fanaticism.
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