Template:Cite EB1911/doc

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 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.

Summary
The template can be placed in different locations and depending on the what it is required the parameters can be mixed and matched:

Detailed notes
This template is wrapper around. 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 for example "publisher = Cambridge University Press". Over and above the standard parameter passed into there are some additional parameters and those are listed hereafter in a separate table from the table of parameters passed into.

Minimum is:   or   

Full set is:  

Tracking categories
Depending on the parameters passed into this template, it adds the following hidden categories to the articles in which it is used:

For an overview group category of the above see: Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.