Template:EB1911/doc

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.

Quick explanation (aide-mémoire)
The template can be placed in different locations and depending on the use, the parameters can be mixed and matched:

Detailed notes
This template is a wrapper around which in turn is a wrapper around. 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 instead of this template.

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 below in a separate table from the table of parameters passed into.

Minimum is:  or   

Full set is: 

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 and, depending on parameters used, it also adds the following hidden categories: