Template:RQ:Observer

“(please specify the article title)”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

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The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Observer/documentation. ^[edit]

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

Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote an article from The Observer (London). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the article at the Guardian website or, preferably, a version of it archived at the Internet Archive.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |author=, and |authorlink= – use |1= or |author= to specify the name of the author of the article, and |authorlink= the name of a Wikipedia article about the author. To add the names of coauthors, use |author2= to |author5=, and |authorlink2= to |authorlink5=.
• |2= or |title= – mandatory: the title of the article quoted.
• |url=, |archiveurl=, and/or |archivedate= – mandatory in some cases:
  • Where possible, use |archiveurl= to specify the URL of an online version of the article archived at the Internet Archive. (It is not necessary to use |archivedate=.)
  • If the article is archived on another website, use |url= to specify the original URL, and |archiveurl= and |archivedate= to specify the archive URL and the date of archiving.

This parameter must be specified to have the template link to an online version of the work.

• |section= – the name of the section of the newspaper quoted from.
• |3= or |date= – the date of the article quoted from.
• |volume= and |issue= – the volume and issue number of the print version of the article quoted.
• |page= or |pages= – the page number(s) of the print version of the article quoted. When quoting a range of pages, separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
• |4=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage 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.

Examples

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Observer|author=Laura Cumming|authorlink=Laura Cumming|title=Haroon Mirza: reality is somehow what we expect it to be – review|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705204845/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/dec/09/haroon-mirza-reality-is-somehow-what-we-expect-it-to-be-review-ikon|date=9 December 2018|passage=It is '''fully''' as shocking as it is meant to be. You step into a pitch black chamber, treading on what feels like a perilous cattle grid, which seems to trigger the crackling circle of white light that starts into life above you.}}
• Result:
  • 2018 December 9, Laura Cumming, “Haroon Mirza: reality is somehow what we expect it to be – review”, in The Observer‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-05:

    It is fully as shocking as it is meant to be. You step into a pitch black chamber, treading on what feels like a perilous cattle grid, which seems to trigger the crackling circle of white light that starts into life above you.