This templaterequires a title parameter:title= orwstitle= 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 messagearticle 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:
some additional information:title instead ofwstitle,url to the external page instead of link to wikisource; thefirst andlast names of the author of the article, thevolume andpage [number]s.
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.
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}}.
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 tolast ignored iflast is set. This is a standard parameter.
wstitle=name of the article on wikisource
If set, set link to EB article on wikisource, and unsetstitle andurl 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 theprevious section). Footnote is deprecated and will be removed in later versions
Useswstitle= if it has a value. Ifwstitle= is empty or missing, usestitle= if it has a value. Iftitle= is empty or missing, usesarticle=. Default value is blank.
url=
url=
Set to the value of url= unlesswstitle= is set in which case it is not set.
access-date=
access-date=
Set to the value ofaccess-date= unlesswstitle= is set in which case it is not set.
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)
{{EB1911 poster}} display an EB 1911 Wikisource article in a top box on the right
{{Update-EB}} for articles with information from the 1911 Encyclopaedia that are outdated and require updates (for example information in geographical articles overemphasises railway links and ignores more recent forms of transport, and do not mention 100 years of political changes).
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 parametermode can be set to cs2 to allow this template to emulate the look of{{citation}} if that is considered to be desirable.
