Template:EB1911/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:EB1911.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is used on approximately 13,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

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Usage

This template indicates that an article incorporates text from the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, which is now in the public domain.

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 encyclopedia 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]}

Quick explanation (aide-mémoire)

The template can be placed in different locations and depending on the use, the parameters can be mixed and matched:

Location	Parameters	Example	Note
==References==	{{EB1911\|wstitle=EB name}}	This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Alfred the Great". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.	Use wstitle=EB name if the article exists on Wikisource if not use title=EB name
==References==	{{EB1911\|title=\|url=\|first=\|last=\|volume=\|pages=}}	This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: 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.
inline citation	{{EB1911\|inline=1\|wstitle=EB name}}	One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Alfred the Great". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.	inline=1. Alters the prescript from "This article..." to "One or more...". Suitable for noting that a paragraph is copied from EB.
inline citation	{{EB1911\|noprescript=1\|title=EB name}}	Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Alfred the Great". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.	noprescript=1. Removes the prescript suitable for a citation where a paragraph is a summary of a paragraph from an EB article and not a copy. title= for no copy on Wikisource.
==Further reading==	{{EB1911\|noprescript=1\|url=http://...\|title=EB name}}	Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Alfred the Great". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.	noprescript=1. Removes the prescript title= for the article name not yet on Wikisource. url= for where the text can be found online.
==External links==	{{EB1911\|noprescript=1\|wstitle=EB name}}	Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Alfred the Great". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.	noprescript=1. Removes the prescript as the source is not used in the article.

Detailed notes

This template is a wrapper around {{Cite EB1911}} which in turn is a wrapper around {{Cite encyclopedia}}. In its default mode it attributes text to an article from Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. If attribution is not required (because the article is used as an information source, but not directly copied, or closely paraphrased) then use {{Cite EB1911}} instead of this template.

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 below in a separate table from the table of parameters passed into {{cite encyclopedia}}.

Minimum is:{{EB1911|title=EB article name}} or {{EB1911|wstitle=EB article name}}

Full set is:{{EB1911|wstitle= |title= |display= |noprescript= |noicon |inline= |author= |last= |first= |author-link= |chapter= |url= |access-date= |volume= |page= |pages= |ref= |mode=}}

Additional parameters
Parameter	Note
author=author name	Assigned to last ignored if last is set. This is a standard parameter.
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.
display=label for Wikisource link	If set, this text is used as the display 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.
inline=1 or footnote=1	Changes the default prescript from "This article" to "One or more of the preceding sentences". Useful for inline citations (see inline examples in the previous section). Footnote is deprecated and will be removed in later versions
noicon=1	Suppresses the lead icon (useful with {{Wikisource-inline}}).
noprescript=1	Suppresses the prescript.

Parameters passed into {{cite encyclopedia}}
Parameter	Set to	Notes
last=	author= or last=	If author= and last= are set the value of last= is used. Use last2= (etc) if there is more than one author.
first=	first=	Set to the value of first= or not set. first2= if there is more than one author
author-link=	author-link=	Set to the value of author-link= or not set. Use author-link2 to set the value of author-link2 etc.
editor-first=	Hugh	Automatically set within the template
editor-last=	Chisholm	Automatically set within the template
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 wrapped template
edition=	Eleventh	Automatically set within the template
date=		Not set (see year)
year=	1911	Automatically set within the template
month=		Not set
publisher=	Cambridge University Press	automatically set within the template
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
mode=	mode=	Set to the value of mode= or set to default.^{[nb 2]}
ref=	harv	automatically set within the template, but it can be overwritten with a user supplied value. It means that {{sfn}} and {{harvnb}} can be used to link to this template, for example, `{{sfn\|Chisholm\|1911}}`. (more details)

Tracking categories

This template adds the hidden category "Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica" to the articles it is used in.

The template calls {{Cite EB1911}} and, depending on parameters used, it also adds the following hidden categories:

Notes

^ It is not much use to the reader to inform them that a Wikipedia article contains some text copied 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.

No description.

Template parameters
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
1	`1`	no description	Unknown	optional
noicon	`noicon`	Set to "1" to suppress the icon.	Unknown	optional
no-icon	`no-icon`	no description	Unknown	optional
wstitle	`wstitle`	Title of the article on Wikisource Example Bardowiek	Unknown	optional
no-prescript	`no-prescript`	no description	Unknown	optional
noprescript	`noprescript`	no description	Unknown	optional
inline	`inline`	Changes the default prescript from "This article" to "One or more of the preceding sentences". Useful for inline citations. Example 1	Unknown	optional
_debug	`_debug`	no description	Unknown	optional
volume	`volume`	no description Example 3	Unknown	optional
page	`page`	no description	Unknown	optional

[1] It is not much use to the reader to inform them that a Wikipedia article contains some text copied from somewhere in the 29 volumes of the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica!

[2] 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.

[nb 1]

[nb 2]