Template:RQ:John Gay Beggar's Opera

1728, [John] Gay, The Beggar’s Opera. […], London: […] John Watts, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):

The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:John Gay Beggar's Opera/documentation. ^[edit]

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote John Gay's work The Beggar's Opera (1st edition, 1728). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

The template takes the following parameters:

|chapter= – if quoting from the introduction, specify |chapter=Introduction. As this is unpaginated, use |2= or |page= to specify the "page number" assigned by the Internet Archive to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://archive.org/details/acompositevolume02rugg/page/n6/mode/1up, specify |page=6.
|1= or |scene= – mandatory: the scene number quoted from in lowercase Roman numerals.
|2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: 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 act number (I–III) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

|act= – mandatory in some cases: in most cases, if the page number is specified the template can determine the act number quoted from. However, the template is unable to do so if page 39 is specified, in which case this parameter should be used to specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, like this: |act=II.

|3=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage to be quoted from the work.
|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:John Gay Beggar's Opera|scene=vi|page=7|passage=Come hither ''Filch''. I am as fond of this Child, as though my Mind miſgave me he vvere my ovvn. He hath as fine a Hand at picking a Pocket as a VVWoman, and is as nimble-finger’d as a '''Juggler'''.}}; or
- {{RQ:John Gay Beggar's Opera|vi|7|Come hither ''Filch''. I am as fond of this Child, as though my Mind miſgave me he vvere my ovvn. He hath as fine a Hand at picking a Pocket as a VVWoman, and is as nimble-finger’d as a '''Juggler'''.}}
Result:
- 1728, [John] Gay, The Beggar’s Opera. […], London: […] John Watts, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene vi, page 7:
  Come hither Filch. I am as fond of this Child, as though my Mind miſgave me he vvere my ovvn. He hath as fine a Hand at picking a Pocket as a VVWoman, and is as nimble-finger’d as a Juggler.

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