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This is the main page for WikiProject Encyclopaedia Britannica, concerned with importing and adapting material from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (EB), a large encyclopedia, with a focus on the articles from older editions that are now in the public domain. The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition is a major resource with 29 volumes that are public domain. There are also earlier editions that cover some subjects dropped by the eleventh edition, in particular the 9th edition that like the 11th edition is partially available on Wikisource (see s:EB1911 and S:EB9 and s:EB1922)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles is the parent WikiProject of this project. s:WS:EB1911 is the sister project dealing with the proof-reading of texts.
The single most useful category for this project is probably
Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica relating to the {{
Cite EB1911}}
template. One of the subcategories is
Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica which contains the categories generated by the {{
EB1911}}
template.
This needs filling out
Starting in 2006, much of the still-useful text in the 1911 Encyclopaedia 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.
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 {{ 1911}} template; now, Wikipedia's citation conventions require more. See Category:Wikipedia articles_incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with no article parameter for one source of such articles.
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 Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1922 verification for more details.
Although some articles are still missing, most articles are available in Wikisource (see 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica). In these cases, a link to Wikisource can be used as documented below.
If an article contains text copied from the Eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, suitable attribution must be provided (see the
Plagiarism guideline). The template {{
EB1911}}
is provided to aid the editor with adding attribution.
==References== * Bullet list of other references '''Attribution:''' *{{EB1911|title=name of EB article}}
Which appears as:
References
- Bullet list of other references
Attribution:
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "name of EB article". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
The documentation to be found by following the link to {{
EB1911}}
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).
If the article exists in Wikisource use: wstitle=
{{EB1911|wstitle=Anarchism}}
appears as:
public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). " Anarchism". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
Otherwise use title=
and url=
:
{{EB1911|title=Anarchism|url=https://archive.org/stream/encyclopaediabri01chisrich#page/914/mode/2up}}
appears as:
public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Anarchism". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
Archive.org contains authentic scans. Studylight is a secondary source with advertising, but the text can be copied to your clipboard.
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 WP:CITESHORT.
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}}
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. [1]
Notes
- ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 914. sfn error: multiple targets (6×): CITEREFChisholm1911 ( help)
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). " Anapaest". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 914.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
The page number is optional if the source is all on one page.
As an alternative one can use long inline citations as described in WP:INLINECITE. In which case an "inline=1" parameter is used:
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}}
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. [1]
References
- ^ public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). " Anapaest". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 914. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
Whether one uses inline short or long citations is usually dictated by prior usage in the article (see WP:CITEVAR). 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 Anapaest article above).
If a Wikipedia article uses information contained in an Encyclopaedia Britannica article but does not literally copy the text, there is a template called {{ Cite EB1911}} which takes the same variables as the attribution template above.
*{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Clerke, Agnes Mary}}
appears as:
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
See {{ Cite EB1911}} for a full list of parameters.
Whenever possible, include the following parameters in a {{ EB1911}} or {{ Cite EB1911}} template. Very little extra effort is needed to determine the values of some of them.
{{EB1911|wstitle=Ramsay, Allan (painter)|display=Ramsay, Allan|volume=22|pages=878–879}}
since the "(painter)" tag is needed to locate the correct Wikisource article, but doesn't appear in the encyclopaedia itself. Currently, display is recognized with wstitle but not title, but it is never wrong to include it with title, because eventually the original will appear in Wikisource and the parameter will be seen.
If there is an article from the Eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica on Wikisource, then the template {{ Cite EB1911}} can be used in the "further reading" or the "external links" sections to inform the reader of this, but as an alternative, there is a "poster template" which will place a box on the right of the section into which it is placed.
If the article exists in wikisource use:
{{EB1911 poster|Anarchism}}
appears as:
N.B. do not put an asterisk in front of {{ EB1911 poster}} as it removes the box from around the template.
Sometimes versions of the 1911 EB may claim a new copyright. The following may clarify the merits or otherwise of such a claim.
In US law, typographical corrections are not sufficient to create a new copyright. Sites which rely on that and/or correction of scanning don't actually have a valid copyright claim unless they add some new creative content. See the West Publishing decisions described at Feist v. Rural and this quote from Matthew Bender v. West Publishing Co., which is itself taken from Grove Press, Inc. v. Collectors Publication, Inc., 264 F. Supp. 603, 605 (C.D. Cal. 1967):
In addition, correcting a scan to restore it to the original text is not creative, since it's simply restoring the work to its original public domain form.
Care is needed to distinguish between such "trivial" changes which don't create a copyright and the possibility that there's a new article or additional material of some sort involved, for any new material could be copyrighted. This appears to be a problem with at least two online versions (see below).
Trademark law doesn't provide ongoing protection beyond the expiration of copyright. See Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. (2003),
Several online sources are available for consultation by editors. A list of these can be found at
In addition, CD-Roms can be purchased at classiceb.com (which is not the publisher of the modern Encyclopædia Britannica).
The commercial versions at Other sources for 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica text not only have scanning errors, but are potentially tainted by additional, copyrighted material and cannot be trusted to contain the pure out-of-copyright text. Their content should be crosschecked with a scanned version or the Gutenberg version.
One of the tasks of the project is to identify any further guidelines that will be needed for editing material in older editions Encyclopaedia Britannica.
For example, Encyclopaedia Britannica 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 WP:ATTRIBUTEPOV.
The scale and ambition of the project is large, given that the eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 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). So the need for a formal project comes from the sheer number of articles to adapt and track.
Some older text from this page is kept here for historical interest.
Starting from the text of an Encyclopaedia Britannica article that is in the public domain, there are two basic methods in which it might be used in Wikipedia.
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:
{{
EB1911}}
attribution template at the end (see
Wikipedia:Plagiarism).The ideal situation is that {{ EB1911}} 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.
Such articles should also be linked in to other pages, and appropriate categories added. A link to the current Encyclopaedia Britannica is also justified if it covers the subject, but if it is not cited place it in a Further reading or external links section.
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 Encyclopaedia Britannica should be added, carefully and tactfully, as required-- material in the older editions Encyclopaedia Britannica should not be used to contradict or supersede well sourced later material. Additions should be referenced inline using {{
Cite EB1911}}
or similar annotation. If text from older editions of Encyclopaedia Britannica is used, {{
EB1911}} 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 {{
Cite EB1911}}
or {{
EB1911}} then use the parameter wstitle=article title
to link to the Wikisource article (see below for more details).
The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica is out of copyright and can in some cases be used as a source of material for the English Wikipedia.
In accordance to the Plagiarism guideline, the inclusion of text from the 1911 of the Encyclopaedia Britannica which would be a breach of copyright if the edition was still under copyright "must be cited and attributed through the use of an appropriate" (see appropriate section below).
There are a number templates to aid with attributing and citing the eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. These are:
{{
EB1911}}
which must be used when attribution is necessary.{{
Cite EB1911}}
can be used in place of the standard template {{
cite encyclopedia}}
as it fills out the standard fields that do not change (such as editor).{{
EB1911 poster}}
for use in the external links section if there is an article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica on
wikisource about the subject which is not cited by the Wikipedia article.There is some beautifully written material in the Encyclopaedia Britannica that has not been outmoded and still can serve modern readers. You should feel free to quote sections using the {{ quote}} template, as long as you do so from an original, textually reliable source, giving proper credit and including a link to 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
As the text in the Encyclopaedia Britannica 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 Plagiarism guideline.
The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica can continue to be a resource for readers well into the 21st century, 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, Willard Huntington Wright, criticized it as an unreliable source in his scathing Misinforming a Nation, 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.
The following is a checklist of things to do to make this material most useful for Wikipedia.
Stanley Lane-Poole writing in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica stated that "Burton had not the charm of style or imagination which gives immortality to a book of travel".<ref>{{EB1911|inline=1|first=Stanley |last=Lane-Poole |wstitle=Burton, Sir Richard Francis|volume=4|page=865}}</ref>
This is a
WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
|
This is the main page for WikiProject Encyclopaedia Britannica, concerned with importing and adapting material from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (EB), a large encyclopedia, with a focus on the articles from older editions that are now in the public domain. The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition is a major resource with 29 volumes that are public domain. There are also earlier editions that cover some subjects dropped by the eleventh edition, in particular the 9th edition that like the 11th edition is partially available on Wikisource (see s:EB1911 and S:EB9 and s:EB1922)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles is the parent WikiProject of this project. s:WS:EB1911 is the sister project dealing with the proof-reading of texts.
The single most useful category for this project is probably
Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica relating to the {{
Cite EB1911}}
template. One of the subcategories is
Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica which contains the categories generated by the {{
EB1911}}
template.
This needs filling out
Starting in 2006, much of the still-useful text in the 1911 Encyclopaedia 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.
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 {{ 1911}} template; now, Wikipedia's citation conventions require more. See Category:Wikipedia articles_incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with no article parameter for one source of such articles.
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 Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1922 verification for more details.
Although some articles are still missing, most articles are available in Wikisource (see 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica). In these cases, a link to Wikisource can be used as documented below.
If an article contains text copied from the Eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, suitable attribution must be provided (see the
Plagiarism guideline). The template {{
EB1911}}
is provided to aid the editor with adding attribution.
==References== * Bullet list of other references '''Attribution:''' *{{EB1911|title=name of EB article}}
Which appears as:
References
- Bullet list of other references
Attribution:
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "name of EB article". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
The documentation to be found by following the link to {{
EB1911}}
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).
If the article exists in Wikisource use: wstitle=
{{EB1911|wstitle=Anarchism}}
appears as:
public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). " Anarchism". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
Otherwise use title=
and url=
:
{{EB1911|title=Anarchism|url=https://archive.org/stream/encyclopaediabri01chisrich#page/914/mode/2up}}
appears as:
public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Anarchism". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
Archive.org contains authentic scans. Studylight is a secondary source with advertising, but the text can be copied to your clipboard.
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 WP:CITESHORT.
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}}
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. [1]
Notes
- ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 914. sfn error: multiple targets (6×): CITEREFChisholm1911 ( help)
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). " Anapaest". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 914.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
The page number is optional if the source is all on one page.
As an alternative one can use long inline citations as described in WP:INLINECITE. In which case an "inline=1" parameter is used:
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}}
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. [1]
References
- ^ public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). " Anapaest". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 914. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
Whether one uses inline short or long citations is usually dictated by prior usage in the article (see WP:CITEVAR). 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 Anapaest article above).
If a Wikipedia article uses information contained in an Encyclopaedia Britannica article but does not literally copy the text, there is a template called {{ Cite EB1911}} which takes the same variables as the attribution template above.
*{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Clerke, Agnes Mary}}
appears as:
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
See {{ Cite EB1911}} for a full list of parameters.
Whenever possible, include the following parameters in a {{ EB1911}} or {{ Cite EB1911}} template. Very little extra effort is needed to determine the values of some of them.
{{EB1911|wstitle=Ramsay, Allan (painter)|display=Ramsay, Allan|volume=22|pages=878–879}}
since the "(painter)" tag is needed to locate the correct Wikisource article, but doesn't appear in the encyclopaedia itself. Currently, display is recognized with wstitle but not title, but it is never wrong to include it with title, because eventually the original will appear in Wikisource and the parameter will be seen.
If there is an article from the Eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica on Wikisource, then the template {{ Cite EB1911}} can be used in the "further reading" or the "external links" sections to inform the reader of this, but as an alternative, there is a "poster template" which will place a box on the right of the section into which it is placed.
If the article exists in wikisource use:
{{EB1911 poster|Anarchism}}
appears as:
N.B. do not put an asterisk in front of {{ EB1911 poster}} as it removes the box from around the template.
Sometimes versions of the 1911 EB may claim a new copyright. The following may clarify the merits or otherwise of such a claim.
In US law, typographical corrections are not sufficient to create a new copyright. Sites which rely on that and/or correction of scanning don't actually have a valid copyright claim unless they add some new creative content. See the West Publishing decisions described at Feist v. Rural and this quote from Matthew Bender v. West Publishing Co., which is itself taken from Grove Press, Inc. v. Collectors Publication, Inc., 264 F. Supp. 603, 605 (C.D. Cal. 1967):
In addition, correcting a scan to restore it to the original text is not creative, since it's simply restoring the work to its original public domain form.
Care is needed to distinguish between such "trivial" changes which don't create a copyright and the possibility that there's a new article or additional material of some sort involved, for any new material could be copyrighted. This appears to be a problem with at least two online versions (see below).
Trademark law doesn't provide ongoing protection beyond the expiration of copyright. See Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. (2003),
Several online sources are available for consultation by editors. A list of these can be found at
In addition, CD-Roms can be purchased at classiceb.com (which is not the publisher of the modern Encyclopædia Britannica).
The commercial versions at Other sources for 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica text not only have scanning errors, but are potentially tainted by additional, copyrighted material and cannot be trusted to contain the pure out-of-copyright text. Their content should be crosschecked with a scanned version or the Gutenberg version.
One of the tasks of the project is to identify any further guidelines that will be needed for editing material in older editions Encyclopaedia Britannica.
For example, Encyclopaedia Britannica 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 WP:ATTRIBUTEPOV.
The scale and ambition of the project is large, given that the eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 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). So the need for a formal project comes from the sheer number of articles to adapt and track.
Some older text from this page is kept here for historical interest.
Starting from the text of an Encyclopaedia Britannica article that is in the public domain, there are two basic methods in which it might be used in Wikipedia.
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:
{{
EB1911}}
attribution template at the end (see
Wikipedia:Plagiarism).The ideal situation is that {{ EB1911}} 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.
Such articles should also be linked in to other pages, and appropriate categories added. A link to the current Encyclopaedia Britannica is also justified if it covers the subject, but if it is not cited place it in a Further reading or external links section.
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 Encyclopaedia Britannica should be added, carefully and tactfully, as required-- material in the older editions Encyclopaedia Britannica should not be used to contradict or supersede well sourced later material. Additions should be referenced inline using {{
Cite EB1911}}
or similar annotation. If text from older editions of Encyclopaedia Britannica is used, {{
EB1911}} 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 {{
Cite EB1911}}
or {{
EB1911}} then use the parameter wstitle=article title
to link to the Wikisource article (see below for more details).
The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica is out of copyright and can in some cases be used as a source of material for the English Wikipedia.
In accordance to the Plagiarism guideline, the inclusion of text from the 1911 of the Encyclopaedia Britannica which would be a breach of copyright if the edition was still under copyright "must be cited and attributed through the use of an appropriate" (see appropriate section below).
There are a number templates to aid with attributing and citing the eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. These are:
{{
EB1911}}
which must be used when attribution is necessary.{{
Cite EB1911}}
can be used in place of the standard template {{
cite encyclopedia}}
as it fills out the standard fields that do not change (such as editor).{{
EB1911 poster}}
for use in the external links section if there is an article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica on
wikisource about the subject which is not cited by the Wikipedia article.There is some beautifully written material in the Encyclopaedia Britannica that has not been outmoded and still can serve modern readers. You should feel free to quote sections using the {{ quote}} template, as long as you do so from an original, textually reliable source, giving proper credit and including a link to 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
As the text in the Encyclopaedia Britannica 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 Plagiarism guideline.
The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica can continue to be a resource for readers well into the 21st century, 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, Willard Huntington Wright, criticized it as an unreliable source in his scathing Misinforming a Nation, 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.
The following is a checklist of things to do to make this material most useful for Wikipedia.
Stanley Lane-Poole writing in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica stated that "Burton had not the charm of style or imagination which gives immortality to a book of travel".<ref>{{EB1911|inline=1|first=Stanley |last=Lane-Poole |wstitle=Burton, Sir Richard Francis|volume=4|page=865}}</ref>