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 (0)
- Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference (24,811)
- 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.