Template:RQ:Housman Shropshire Lad
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1896, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “(please specify the poem number)”, in A Shropshire Lad, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, The Bodley Head, published 1906, →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Housman Shropshire Lad/documentation. [edit]
- Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox
Usage
[edit]This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote A. E. Housman's work A Shropshire Lad (1906); the 1st edition (London: The Richards Press, 1896; →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.
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|1=or|poem=– mandatory: the poems in the work are numbered from I to LXIII. Use this parameter to specify the poem number in uppercase Roman numerals, like this:|poem=I. Some of the poems have an additional title. This will be automatically supplied by the template.|stanza=– the stanza number in Arabic numerals.|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).
- Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this:
- 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=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:Housman Shropshire Lad|poem=LXII|stanza=1|page=91|passage='Terence, this is stupid stuff: / You eat your '''victuals''' fast enough; / There can't be much amiss, 't is clear, / To see the rate you drink your beer.[']}}; or{{RQ:Housman Shropshire Lad|LXII|stanza=1|91|'Terence, this is stupid stuff: / You eat your '''victuals''' fast enough; / There can't be much amiss, 't is clear, / To see the rate you drink your beer.[']}}
- Result:
- 1896, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] LXII”, in A Shropshire Lad, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, The Bodley Head, published 1906, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 91:
- 'Terence, this is stupid stuff: / You eat your victuals fast enough; / There can't be much amiss, 't is clear, / To see the rate you drink your beer.[']
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