Template:Cite EB1922/doc
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Purpose
[edit]This template enables the citation of articles from the Wikisource project 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica in the manner of {{cite encyclopedia}}.
Usage
[edit]minimum usage is:
{{Cite EB1922|wstitle=name of the article}}
or
{{Cite EB1922|title=name of the article}}
The template {{{BASENAME}}} is a wrapper around {{cite encyclopedia}} some of the parameters used by {{cite encyclopedia}} can be set when calling this template. These are:
- |author= |first= |last= |page= |pages= |url= |volume=
See the documentation of {{cite encyclopedia}} for more details about these parameters.
There are three other parameters which can be used in this template that affect it and are not passed on as parameters into {{cite encyclopedia}} these are:
- |noicon=x |vb=x |display=display name
Details of theses parameters can be found lower down this page.
Examples
[edit]Display using wstitle
(Wikisource link)
[edit]{{Cite EB1922|wstitle=Fischer, Theobald}}
displays as:
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. .
Display using title
(no Wikisource link)
[edit]{{Cite EB1922|title=Fischer, Theobald}}
displays as:
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Fischer, Theobald". Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.
When title
is being used, url
can be used to specify an external link.
With comment
[edit]{{Cite EB1922|wstitle=Fischer, Theobald}} A German-born geographer who developed the Mediterranean region concept.
displays as:
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. A German-born geographer who developed the Mediterranean region concept. .
Using noicon
[edit]{{Cite EB1922|wstitle=Fischer, Theobald|noicon=x}}
displays as:
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Fischer, Theobald". Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.
Using vb
[edit]If text is incorporated verbatim into an article, the vb
parameter can be used to tack on a notice appropriate to the policy in Wikipedia:Plagiarism.
{{Cite EB1922|wstitle=Lowell, Abbott Lawrence|vb=x}}
displays as:
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). . Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.
Using display
[edit]The mechanics of Wikisource will sometimes require that a link have disambiguation information which is not part of the original title. The display
parameter allows this information to be hidden for the purpose of the citation. For example:
{{Cite EB1922|wstitle=Nicholas (Russian Grand Duke)|display=Nicholas (Nikolai Nikolayevich), Russian Grand Duke}}
displays as:
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. .
Hidden categories
[edit]For an overview category for this template see: Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica.
See also
[edit]- {{EB1922 poster}}