Template:RQ:Sandburg Smoke and Steel

1920, Carl Sandburg, “(please specify the poem)”, in Smoke and Steel, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC:

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Carl Sandburg's work Smoke and Steel (1st edition, 1920). 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:

|1=, |chapter=, or |poem= – mandatory: the name of the "chapter" or poem 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=110–111.
- 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 link to the online version of the work.

|3=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage to be quoted from the work.
|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:Sandburg Smoke and Steel|poem=The Sins of Kalamazoo|page=49|passage=The sins of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson. / The sins of Kalamazoo are a convict gray, a dishwater '''drab'''. / And the people who sin the sins of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson. / They run to '''drabs''' and grays—and some of them sing they shall be washed whiter than snow—and some: We should worry.}}; or
- {{RQ:Sandburg Smoke and Steel|The Sins of Kalamazoo|49|The sins of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson. / The sins of Kalamazoo are a convict gray, a dishwater '''drab'''. / And the people who sin the sins of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson. / They run to '''drabs''' and grays—and some of them sing they shall be washed whiter than snow—and some: We should worry.}}
Result:
- 1920, Carl Sandburg, “The Sins of Kalamazoo”, in Smoke and Steel, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, page 49:
  The sins of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson. / The sins of Kalamazoo are a convict gray, a dishwater drab. / And the people who sin the sins of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson. / They run to drabs and grays—and some of them sing they shall be washed whiter than snow—and some: We should worry.

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