Template:RQ:Wodehouse Damsel/documentation

Usage

This template can be used to indicate quotations from P. G. Wodehouse's work A Damsel in Distress (1919), as it was originally serialized in The Saturday Evening Post and a collected book version; the 1st collected edition published in the same year (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1919; →OCLC) is not currently available online. The template can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:

• Original version from The Saturday Evening Post:
  • Number 45, 10 May, chapters I–II.
  • Number 46, 17 May, chapters III–VI.
  • Number 47, 24 May, chapters VII–IX.
  • Number 48, 31 May, chapters X–XIII.
  • Number 49, 7 June, chapters XIV–XVI.
  • Number 50, 14 June, chapters XVII–XX.
  • Number 51, 21 June, chapters XXI–XXIII.
  • Number 52, 28 June, chapters XXIV–XXVII.
• Book version.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |version= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the book version of the work, specify |version=book.
• |1= or |chapter= – the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.

  If quoting from the magazine version of the work, this parameter must be specified to have the template determine the number quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

• |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).

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

• |3= or |column=, or |columns= – if quoting from the magazine version of the work, the column number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, separate the numbers with an en dash, like this: |columns=1–2.
• |4=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |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

Saturday Evening Post version

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Wodehouse Damsel|chapter=VI|page=90|columns=2–3|passage=And this morning, '''bright and early''', the beak parted him from ten quid.}}
• Result:
  • 1919 May 17, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, “A Damsel in Distress”, in George Horace Lorimer, editor, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 191, number 46, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, chapter VI, page 90, columns 2–3:

    And this morning, bright and early, the beak parted him from ten quid.

Book version

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Wodehouse Damsel|version=book|chapter=VI|page=73|passage=And this morning, '''bright and early''', the beak parted him from ten quid.}}
• Result:
  • 1919 May 17, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, chapter VI, in A Damsel in Distress, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 73:

    And this morning, bright and early, the beak parted him from ten quid.