Template:RQ:Riis Other Half
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1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Riis Other Half/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 Jacob Riis’s work How the Other Half Lives (1st edition, 1890). 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:
|chapter=– if quoting from the preface (page vii), specify|chapter=Preface. If not, specify the page parameter to have the template determine the chapter quoted from.|1=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 specify the page number that the template should link 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 determine the chapter quoted from, and to link to an online version of the work.
|2=,|text=, or|passage=– a passage quoted from the work.|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:Riis Other Half|page=77|passage=Huddled together in loathsome files, they squat there over night, or until an '''inquisitive''' policeman breaks up the congregation with his club, which in Mulberry Street has always free swing.}}; or{{RQ:Riis Other Half|77|Huddled together in loathsome files, they squat there over night, or until an '''inquisitive''' policeman breaks up the congregation with his club, which in Mulberry Street has always free swing.}}
- Result:
- 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “A Raid on the Stale-beer Dives”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 77:
- Huddled together in loathsome files, they squat there over night, or until an inquisitive policeman breaks up the congregation with his club, which in Mulberry Street has always free swing.