Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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Usage
This template indicates that an article incorporates information from the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, a work now in the public domain.
If the Wikipedia article incorporates a copy of text from (or close paraphrasing of) an article in the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, then use the template {{EB1911}} which prepends an attribution string to the citation (see the plagiarism guideline).
Error message
This template requires a title parameter: title= or wstitle= to associate the source of the text being used with a specific part of the massive encyclopaedia from which it is copied or paraphrased. More information on these and other parameters are set out below. In the absence of a title parameter being supplied, the template will display the error message article name needed and set a category flagging that no article name has been given.[nb 1]
Summary
The template can be placed in different locations and depending on the what it is required the parameters can be mixed and matched:
| Parameters | Example | Note |
|---|---|---|
| {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=EB name}} | Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. | Use wstitle=EB name if the article exists on Wikisource. If not use title=EB name . |
| {{Cite EB1911|title=|url=|first=|last=|volume=|pages=}} | Plummer, Charles (1911). "Alfred the Great". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 582–584. | Some additional information: title instead of wstitle, url to the external page instead of link to Wikisource; the first and last names of the author of the article, the volume and page [number]s. |
Detailed notes
This template is wrapper around {{cite encyclopedia}}. In its default mode it attributes text to an article from Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
This template automatically sets some of the parameters passed into {{cite encyclopedia}} for example "publisher = Cambridge University Press". Over and above the standard parameter passed into {{cite encyclopedia}} there are some additional parameters and those are listed hereafter in a separate table from the table of parameters passed into {{cite encyclopedia}}.
Minimum is: {{Cite EB1911 |title=EB article name}} or {{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=EB article name}}
Full set is: {{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= |display= |noicon= |short= |footnote= |author= |last= |first= |author-link= |chapter= |title= |url= |access-date= |volume= |page= |pages= |ref= |mode=}}
| Parameter | Note |
|---|---|
| author=author name | Assigned to last ignored if last is set. |
| wstitle=name of the article on Wikisource | If set, set link to EB article on Wikisource, and unsets title and url if they are also set. |
| noicon=1 | Suppresses the lead icon (useful with {{Wikisource-inline}}). |
| short=1 | Suppresses publisher and editor display. |
| display=label for Wikisource link | If set, this text is used as a label when linking to EB article on Wikisource. It is useful for hiding disambiguation extensions, and should show the actual title in the printed EB. |
| Parameter | Set to | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| last= | author= or last= | If author= and last= are set the value of last= is used. author2, (or last2) etc, are provided if there is more than one author |
| first= | first= | Set to the value of first= or not set |
| author-link= | author-link= | Set to the value of author-link= or not set (author-link2 etc is available if needed) |
| editor-first= | Hugh | Automatically set within the template unless short is set |
| editor-last= | Chisholm | Automatically set within the template unless short is set |
| encyclopedia= | Encyclopædia Britannica | Automatically set within the template |
| chapter= | chapter= | Set to the text of chapter= or not set |
| title= | wstitle= or title= or article= | Uses wstitle= if it has a value. If wstitle= is empty or missing, uses title= if it has a value. If title= is empty or missing, uses article=. Default value is blank. |
| url= | url= | Set to the value of url= unless wstitle= is set in which case it is not set. |
| access-date= | access-date= | Set to the value of access-date= unless wstitle= is set in which case it is not set. |
| language= | en | Set by default within the template, cannot be overridden |
| edition= | 11th | Set by default within the template, can be overridden |
| date= | Not set (see year) | |
| year= | 1911 | Set by default within the template, can be overridden |
| month= | Not set | |
| publisher= | Cambridge University Press | Automatically set within the template unless short is set |
| volume= | volume= | Set to the value of volume= or not set |
| location= | Not set | |
| id= | Not set | |
| isbn= | Not set | |
| oclc= | Not set | |
| doi= | Not set | |
| page= | page= | Set to the value of page= or not set |
| pages= | pages= | Set to the value of pages= or not set |
| quote= | Not set | |
| ref= | ref = | Set to the value of ref= or not set |
| mode= | mode= | Set to the value of mode= or set to default.[nb 2] |
Tracking categories
Depending on the parameters passed into this template, it adds the following hidden categories to the articles in which it is used:
- Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with no article parameter (2)
- Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference (24,868)
- Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica without Wikisource reference (0)
For an overview group category of the above see: Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
See also
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Encyclopaedia Britannica—for information on usage of the material.
- {{EB1911}} Attribute an EB 1911 article.
- {{Cite EB9}} to cite Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th edition
- {{Cite EB15}} to cite Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th edition
- {{Sect1911}} Attribute a section to EB 1911.
- {{EB1911 poster}} display an EB 1911 Wikisource article in a top box on the right.
- {{Update-EB}} for articles with issues related to using information from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Notes
- ^ It is not much use to the reader to inform them that a Wikipedia article contains some text supported by a citation from somewhere in the 29-volumes of the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica!
- ^ The parameter is provided because {{cite encyclopedia}} (the wrapper for this template) sets mode="cs1" (citation style 1) while the other standard template {{citation}} sets mode="cs2" (citation style 2). So the parameter mode can be set to cs2 to allow this template to emulate the look of {{citation}} if that is considered to be desirable.