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One of the subcategories is <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_articles_incorporating_text_from_the_1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica">Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica</a> which contains the categories generated by the <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:EB1911" title="Template:EB1911">EB1911</a>}}</code> template. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Background:_Encyclopaedia_Britannica" data-mw-thread-id="h-Background:_Encyclopaedia_Britannica"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Background:_Encyclopaedia_Britannica"></span>Background: <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i><span data-mw-comment-end="h-Background:_Encyclopaedia_Britannica"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Encyclopaedia_Britannica&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Background: Encyclopaedia Britannica"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>This needs filling out</i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="The_history_of_adaptation" data-mw-thread-id="h-The_history_of_adaptation"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-The_history_of_adaptation"></span>The history of adaptation<span data-mw-comment-end="h-The_history_of_adaptation"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Encyclopaedia_Britannica&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The history of adaptation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Starting in 2006, much of the still-useful text in the 1911 <i>Encyclopaedia</i> was adapted and absorbed into Wikipedia. Special focus was given to topics that had no equivalent in Wikipedia at the time. The process we used is outlined at the end of this page. Since then, a lot of the text has been incrementally improved or replaced by more modern information as editors slowly made Wikipedia better. A small number of articles are still missing details that could be usefully imported, but they are few. If you want to do this, refer to the tips at the end. </p><p>Now what's important is re-annotating the articles according to current ideas of attribution and citation. In 2006, it was considered sufficient to tag articles with the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:1911" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:1911">1911</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template; now, Wikipedia's citation conventions require more. See <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_articles_incorporating_a_citation_from_the_1911_Encyclopaedia_Britannica_with_no_article_parameter" title="Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with no article parameter">Category:Wikipedia articles_incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with no article parameter</a> for one source of such articles. </p><p>The original adaptation did not consistently make use of the 1922 edition, which is a three-volume supplement containing updates for the 1911 edition. It may be useful in, for example, adding new biographical material to then-living subjects. See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/1922_verification" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1922 verification">Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1922 verification</a> for more details. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Recommended_reference_style" data-mw-thread-id="h-Recommended_reference_style-The_history_of_adaptation"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Recommended_reference_style-The_history_of_adaptation"></span>Recommended reference style<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Recommended_reference_style-The_history_of_adaptation"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Encyclopaedia_Britannica&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Recommended reference style"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although some articles are still missing, most articles are available in Wikisource (see <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" class="extiw" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica">1911 <i>Encyclopædia Britannica</i></a>). In these cases, a link to Wikisource can be used as documented below. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Attributing_EB1911_articles" data-mw-thread-id="h-Attributing_EB1911_articles-Recommended_reference_style"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Attributing_EB1911_articles-Recommended_reference_style"></span>Attributing EB1911 articles<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Attributing_EB1911_articles-Recommended_reference_style"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Encyclopaedia_Britannica&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Attributing EB1911 articles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>If an article contains text <i>copied</i> from the Eleventh edition of the <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i>, suitable attribution must be provided (see the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Plagiarism" title="Wikipedia:Plagiarism">Plagiarism</a> guideline). The template <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:EB1911" title="Template:EB1911">EB1911</a>}}</code> is provided to aid the editor with adding attribution. </p> <pre> ==References== * Bullet list of other references '''Attribution:''' *{{EB1911|title=name of EB article}} </pre> <p>Which appears as: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p><b>References</b> </p> <ul><li>Bullet list of other references</li></ul> <p><b>Attribution:</b> </p> <ul><li><span class="noprint"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PD-icon.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Public Domain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/12px-PD-icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/18px-PD-icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/24px-PD-icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="196" data-file-height="196"/></a></span> </span>This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFChisholm1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). "name of EB article". <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i> (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=name+of+EB+article&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.edition=11th&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1911&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWikipedia%3AWikiProject+Encyclopaedia+Britannica" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </blockquote> <p>The documentation to be found by following the link to <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:EB1911" title="Template:EB1911">EB1911</a>}}</code> explains how to add more parameters such as volume and page numbers as well as the author of the article if one is given (many of the articles were written anonymously). </p><p>If the article exists in Wikisource use: <code>wstitle=</code> </p> <pre>{{EB1911|wstitle=Anarchism}} </pre> <p>appears as: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p><span class="noprint"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430"/></span></span> </span>This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChisholm1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Anarchism" class="extiw" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Anarchism">Anarchism</a>". <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i> (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Anarchism&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.edition=11th&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1911&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWikipedia%3AWikiProject+Encyclopaedia+Britannica" class="Z3988"></span> </p> </blockquote> <p>Otherwise use <code>title=</code> and <code>url=</code>: </p> <pre>{{EB1911|title=Anarchism|url=https://archive.org/stream/encyclopaediabri01chisrich#page/914/mode/2up}} </pre> <p>appears as: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p><span class="noprint"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PD-icon.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Public Domain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/12px-PD-icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/18px-PD-icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/24px-PD-icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="196" data-file-height="196"/></a></span> </span>This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChisholm1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/encyclopaediabri01chisrich#page/914/mode/2up">"Anarchism"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i> (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Anarchism&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.edition=11th&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1911&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fencyclopaediabri01chisrich%23page%2F914%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWikipedia%3AWikiProject+Encyclopaedia+Britannica" class="Z3988"></span> </p> </blockquote> <p>Archive.org contains authentic scans. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/bri.html">Studylight</a> is a secondary source with advertising, but the text can be copied to your clipboard. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Use_inline_citations" data-mw-thread-id="h-Use_inline_citations-Attributing_EB1911_articles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Use_inline_citations-Attributing_EB1911_articles"></span>Use inline citations<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Use_inline_citations-Attributing_EB1911_articles"></span></h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Encyclopaedia_Britannica&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Use inline citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>If as above a long citation is used in a References section, then those sentences or paragraphs which contain text copied from EB1911 should be noted with a short inline citation as described in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CITESHORT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CITESHORT">WP:CITESHORT</a>. </p> <pre> Anapaest, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short and the third long and accented; so called as the reverse of a dactyl, which has the first a long syllable, followed by two short ones. An anapaestic verse is one which only contains, or is mostly made up of, anapaestic feet.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=914}} == Notes == {{reflist}} == References == * {{EB1911 |wstitle=Anapaest |volume=1 |page=914}} </pre> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p> Anapaest, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short and the third long and accented; so called as the reverse of a dactyl, which has the first a long syllable, followed by two short ones. An anapaestic verse is one which only contains, or is mostly made up of, anapaestic feet.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911914_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911914-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> <b>Notes</b> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911914-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911914_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChisholm1911">Chisholm 1911</a>, p. 914.<span class="error harv-error" style="display: inline; font-size:100%"> sfn error: multiple targets (6×): CITEREFChisholm1911 (<a href="/wiki/Category:Harv_and_Sfn_template_errors" title="Category:Harv and Sfn template errors">help</a>)</span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <p> <b>References</b> </p> <ul><li><span class="noprint"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430"/></span></span> </span>This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChisholm1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Anapaest" class="extiw" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Anapaest">Anapaest</a>". <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 914.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Anapaest&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.pages=914&rft.edition=11th&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1911&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWikipedia%3AWikiProject+Encyclopaedia+Britannica" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </blockquote> <p>The page number is optional if the source is all on one page. </p><p>As an alternative one can use long inline citations as described in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:INLINECITE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:INLINECITE">WP:INLINECITE</a>. In which case an "inline=1" parameter is used: </p> <pre> Anapaest, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short and the third long and accented; so called as the reverse of a dactyl, which has the first a long syllable, followed by two short ones. An anapaestic verse is one which only contains, or is mostly made up of, anapaestic feet.<ref>{{EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Anapaest |volume=1 |page=914}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} </pre> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p> Anapaest, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short and the third long and accented; so called as the reverse of a dactyl, which has the first a long syllable, followed by two short ones. An anapaestic verse is one which only contains, or is mostly made up of, anapaestic feet.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> <b>References</b> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="noprint"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430"/></span></span> </span>One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChisholm1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Anapaest" class="extiw" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Anapaest">Anapaest</a>". <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 914.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Anapaest&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.pages=914&rft.edition=11th&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1911&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWikipedia%3AWikiProject+Encyclopaedia+Britannica" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> </blockquote> <p>Whether one uses inline short or long citations is usually dictated by prior usage in the article (see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CITEVAR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CITEVAR">WP:CITEVAR</a>). However, if no choice has been made by a previous, editor then the inline short and long citation in the references section works well for all types of article, but is particularly useful when the EB article spans multiple pages, while the long inline citation works well for short one page or less articles (such as the one paragraph <i>Anapaest</i> article above). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Citing_EB_articles" data-mw-thread-id="h-Citing_EB_articles-Recommended_reference_style"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Citing_EB_articles-Recommended_reference_style"></span>Citing EB articles<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Citing_EB_articles-Recommended_reference_style"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Encyclopaedia_Britannica&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Citing EB articles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>If a Wikipedia article uses information contained in an <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i> article but does not literally copy the text, there is a template called <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_EB1911" title="Template:Cite EB1911">Cite EB1911</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> which takes the same variables as the attribution template above. </p> <pre>*{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Clerke, Agnes Mary}}</pre> <p>appears as: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChisholm1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. 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Their content should be crosschecked with a scanned version or the Gutenberg version. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Guidelines" data-mw-thread-id="h-Guidelines"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Guidelines"></span>Guidelines<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Guidelines"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Encyclopaedia_Britannica&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Guidelines"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>One of the tasks of the project is to identify any further guidelines that will be needed for editing material in older editions <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i>. </p><p>For example, <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i> articles may sometimes contain assessments of the subjects, and these should not appear in Wikipedia articles as simple factual statements when they are at best editorial comment. Where such assessments are of interest and still relevant, they may be rephrased as opinions See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ATTRIBUTEPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ATTRIBUTEPOV">WP:ATTRIBUTEPOV</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Maintenance" data-mw-thread-id="h-Maintenance"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Maintenance"></span>Maintenance<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Maintenance"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Encyclopaedia_Britannica&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Maintenance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/1911_verification" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1911 verification">Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1911 verification</a></div> <p>The scale and ambition of the project is large, given that the eleventh edition of the <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i> had 40,000 articles in 29 volumes (the 9th edition had 17,000 articles but they were larger so the size of the Encyclopaedia remained about the same). 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<p>Some older text from this page is kept here for historical interest. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ideal_forms_of_adaptation" data-mw-thread-id="h-Ideal_forms_of_adaptation-The_history"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Ideal_forms_of_adaptation-The_history"></span>Ideal forms of adaptation<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Ideal_forms_of_adaptation-The_history"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Encyclopaedia_Britannica&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Ideal forms of adaptation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Starting from the text of an <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i> article that is in the public domain, there are two basic methods in which it might be used in Wikipedia. </p> <dl><dt>New article</dt></dl> <p>If there is currently no Wikipedia article on the subject of the biography, one may be created by copying the original source and editing the text: </p> <ul><li>convert any inline <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i> references into footnotes but make sure to follow the guidance <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SAYWHEREYOUREADIT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SAYWHEREYOUREADIT">SAYWHEREYOUREADIT</a>. Normally, you will not have read the source cited by <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica,</i> so don't cite it. If you indeed do check EB's source, then cite it as a new reference.</li> <li>Create an adequate lead section.</li> <li>Wikify and copy edit the text, updating any old-fashioned prose and trimming out excess detail.</li> <li>Sort into sections.</li> <li>Add the <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:EB1911" title="Template:EB1911">EB1911</a>}}</code> attribution template at the end (see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Plagiarism" title="Wikipedia:Plagiarism">Wikipedia:Plagiarism</a>).</li></ul> <p>The <i>ideal situation</i> is that <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:EB1911" title="Template:EB1911">EB1911</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> can be filled in with a link to the Wikisource version of the article. This deals with the needs of the reader who wishes to see what references EB gave, or would like to chase up detail that has been removed. </p><p>Such articles should also be linked in to other pages, and appropriate categories added. A link to the current <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i> is also justified if it covers the subject, but if it is not cited place it in a Further reading or external links section. </p> <dl><dt>Add to existing article</dt></dl> <p>If there is already a Wikipedia article on the subject, it may be a stub, or a fuller article. For a very short stub treatment as for a new article may be appropriate. Otherwise content from the older editions <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i> should be added, carefully and tactfully, as required-- material in the older editions <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i> should not be used to contradict or supersede well sourced later material. Additions should be referenced inline using <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_EB1911" title="Template:Cite EB1911">Cite EB1911</a>}}</code> or similar annotation. If text from older editions of <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i> is used, <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:EB1911" title="Template:EB1911">EB1911</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> or similar annotation should also be added to the references section of the article. Both these templates (or similar annotation) should be filled in with details such as author (if there is one many articles were written anomalously) and the article title. If the original EB1911 article exists on Wikisource then when using <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_EB1911" title="Template:Cite EB1911">Cite EB1911</a>}}</code> or <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:EB1911" title="Template:EB1911">EB1911</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> then use the parameter <code>wstitle=<i>article title</i></code> to link to the Wikisource article (see below for more details). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="EB1911_howto" data-mw-thread-id="h-EB1911_howto-The_history"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-EB1911_howto-The_history"></span>EB1911 howto<span data-mw-comment-end="h-EB1911_howto-The_history"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Encyclopaedia_Britannica&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: EB1911 howto"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">1911 <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i></a> is <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">out of copyright</a> and can in some cases be used as a source of material for the English <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>. </p><p>In accordance to the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Plagiarism" title="Wikipedia:Plagiarism">Plagiarism</a> guideline, the inclusion of text from the 1911 of the <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i> which would be a breach of copyright if the edition was still under copyright "must be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cited</a> and attributed through the use of an appropriate" (see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:1911_Encyclopaedia_Britannica#Online_versions_of_the_encyclopaedia" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica">appropriate section</a> below). </p><p>There are a number templates to aid with attributing and citing the eleventh edition of the <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i>. These are: </p> <ul><li><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:EB1911" title="Template:EB1911">EB1911</a>}}</code> which must be used when attribution is necessary.</li> <li><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_EB1911" title="Template:Cite EB1911">Cite EB1911</a>}}</code> can be used in place of the standard template <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_encyclopedia" title="Template:Cite encyclopedia">cite encyclopedia</a>}}</code> as it fills out the standard fields that do not change (such as editor).</li> <li><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:EB1911_poster" title="Template:EB1911 poster">EB1911 poster</a>}}</code> for use in the external links section if there is an article in the <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i> on <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">wikisource</a> about the subject which is <b>not</b> cited by the Wikipedia article.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_good,_the_bad_and_the_ugly" data-mw-thread-id="h-The_good,_the_bad_and_the_ugly-EB1911_howto"><span id="The_good.2C_the_bad_and_the_ugly"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-The_good,_the_bad_and_the_ugly-EB1911_howto"></span>The good, the bad and the ugly<span data-mw-comment-end="h-The_good,_the_bad_and_the_ugly-EB1911_howto"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Encyclopaedia_Britannica&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: The good, the bad and the ugly"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There is some beautifully written material in the <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i> that has not been outmoded and still can serve modern readers. You should feel free to quote sections using the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Quote" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Quote">quote</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template, as long as you do so from an original, textually reliable source, <i>giving proper credit</i> and including a link to <a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">1911 <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i></a>. </p><p>As the text in the <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i> is no longer under copyright you may copy its text directly into a Wikipedia article. If you do so you must attribute the text as specified in the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Plagiarism" title="Wikipedia:Plagiarism">Plagiarism</a> guideline. </p><p>The 1911 <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i> can continue to be a resource for readers well into the <a href="/wiki/21st_century" title="21st century">21st century</a>, as long as editors use it with care and discretion. It is now quite old, and there are many problems with this material in a modern encyclopaedia. Even in 1917, the U.S. art critic, <a href="/wiki/Willard_Huntington_Wright" class="mw-redirect" title="Willard Huntington Wright">Willard Huntington Wright</a>, criticized it as an unreliable source in his scathing <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Misinforming_a_Nation" class="extiw" title="s:Misinforming a Nation">Misinforming a Nation</a></i>, a 200+ page critical examination of the problems with the encyclopedia. Wright saw the "myth" of the EB1911 being the best and greatest encyclopaedia as a testament to a successful marketing campaign which usually didn't hold up under critical examination. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Check_list" data-mw-thread-id="h-Check_list-EB1911_howto"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Check_list-EB1911_howto"></span>Check list<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Check_list-EB1911_howto"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Encyclopaedia_Britannica&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Check list"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following is a checklist of things to do to make this material most useful for Wikipedia. </p> <ol><li><b>Use for information only</b>: Consider using the article for information only. That is, restructure and rewrite the whole article, supplementing the encyclopedia information with other sources. That isn't always worth the effort, so the following are some points to keep in mind when using encyclopedia material.</li> <li><b>Unreliable scanned source:</b> Since some online versions are scanned using OCR software, there are often typographical errors or gaps in the text, especially where there are diacritical marks or Greek text, and also particularly at the end, where some material may be at the top of the succeeding article. You must copy-edit material carefully for gross errors, give it Wikipedia markup, and, as always, check the Wikipedia index for associated material and link as needed.</li> <li><b>Unreliable old information:</b> Many facts given have been supplanted, diseases overcome, kings overthrown, empires dissolved, new materials and new uses for old materials discovered, and so forth. You should run a web search or check some other reference sources and not rely entirely on the <i>Encyclopædia</i> material.</li> <li><b>Obsolete formatting and wordiness:</b> The articles are very complete and the paragraphs are very long. Almost all articles can benefit from being broken up into shorter paragraphs for online reading and most articles can be shortened without loss for modern readers. You may also want to insert subsection headers every time the subject changes. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)">Dates</a> should be converted from forms like <i>17th of June 1844</i> to <i>17 June 1844</i>. The bibliographical notes are particularly cluttered and should be pared down to: Author date, <i>title</i> [p. num].</li> <li><b>Old fashioned attitudes:</b> Many attitudes expressed are outdated, particularly with regard to race. Phrases like "the first white man" can be replaced by "the first European". Other attitudes may be prudish or too much in line with the interests of Victorian England. Many articles show academic biases (especially of historiography) that can be hard to eradicate; the material that has been modernized still often reflects the underlying methods and approaches of the original article.</li> <li><b>Names have changed:</b> Many names have been changed as colonialism has been replaced by nationalism. Fernando Po is now Bioko. "Somali country" is now <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a> (and part of <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a>), and so forth. Many people familiar to the 1911 reader have slipped into obscurity. It is no longer sufficient to say "Lord Derby said"; he has to be identified more precisely (often if the subject is notable, a Wikipedia biography article will exist and a link can be provided like so: <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Stanley,_16th_Earl_of_Derby" title="Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby">Lord Derby</a>).</li> <li><b>British spelling:</b> The presentation is British, and also designed for compactness. In accordance with <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">Wikipedia:Manual of Style</a>, if the topic is American it may be best to change spellings like "labour" to "labor"; if a British subject, the British English spelling is preferable. You may also want to add <a href="/wiki/Full_stop" title="Full stop">full stops</a> after "Mrs" and the like. 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