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In many cases, the single general reference template, usually in the footer material, is still all that we have. Current citation practice requires that at least each paragraph of the article have an acknowledgement of its source, especially when the text is still a significant copy. Worse, there may
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Since the main project's activity in 2006, incremental changes by Knowledge editors have fixed many of the issues outlined in this section. You will occasionally find an error to be fixed, but they are now much less common than they were. Ideally, though, these steps should still be taken because a
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While the 1911 Encyclopaedia was one of the most complete encyclopedias of its era, it has become dated as territories have changed, technology improved and prevailing social attitudes have changed. In addition, some of the Encyclopaedia Britannica Eleventh Edition entries may have been loaded into
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template and add a note after the trailing hyphen. This will help with automatic calculation of the statistics. It's possible we will want to do another review pass, so lines should not be deleted, but articles can be considered done when they have been basically checked for accuracy and
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Knowledge based on uncritical use of available online copies, which may themselves have suffered from scanning errors, the insertion of inauthentic text, or wholesale deletions. In the intervening years many of these problems have been cleaned up; many remain.
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If the article is, in large part, substantially a copy of the original, include a standalone notation in the at the bottom of the References section. If there is more than one entry in the References section you should add a heading of the form
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The choice of method may take note of the article's current citation style (mostly inline or mostly harvard-style). If the source article is longer than a page, it is advisable to use the first method with a
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If the Knowledge article needs neither attribution nor citation, but you think the Encyclopaedia article is interesting for additional (particularly historical) insight, then add an entry to
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template to indicate to another editor that the article could usefully have 1911 text added to it. Eventually, tagged articles should be fixed. They can be found in
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reference template added. Many of these Knowledge articles contain largely identical copies of the century-old text, which brings with it two significant problems:
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First, check for scanning errors. The original scans were of good quality, but there are occasional mistakes and garbled text, and often missing
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If the article contains verbatim text from the Encyclopaedia, it may need some basic copy-editing. Try to use an authentic copy, such as that at
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If the article contains verbatim text from the Encyclopaedia, it's important to acknowledge the source explicitly to avoid plagiarism charges.
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If the Knowledge article does not contain verbatim text, but does contain statements that rely on the Encyclopaedia as an authority, use the
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if the Wikisource title is not the same as the title in the printed Encyclopaedia (for example, if Wikisource includes a disambiguation tag)
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There are some rare cases where you can add EB1911 text to an existing article. If you don't want to do so immediately, you can use the
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If it has multiple sources but contains isolated sentences substantially copied from the Encyclopaedia, mark them with a
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of article topics, and may have inadequate or outdated information. They seemed to correspond with entries in the 1911
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Editors can help on three fronts: detailed attributions, verification, and general reference notation.
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Finally, when an article has been checked, edit the appropriate subpage: remove the
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be other material (sourced or not) interpolated or added to the original material
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Next, be alert for outdated information, or inappropriate point of view, and
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parameter. This will make the footnote text explain that it’s a copy.
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Free, public-domain sources for 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica text
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appropriateness, and have at least one of the 1911 templates.
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Index

Knowledge:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
Overall progress
Encyclopedia of Massachusetts Indians
1911 verification
ACF Regionals answers
Hotlist of topics
General topics
Science topics
Catholic Encyclopedia
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Encyclopaedia Biblica
Evangelical Dictionary of Theology
Gutenberg authors
Jewish Encyclopedia
Literary Encyclopedia
Mathematician biographies (phase 2)
Polish Biographical Dictionary
Find-A-Grave
Stanford Archive answers
U.S. television stations
Missing paintings
Miscellaneous
politicians
songs
TV shows
others
Project missing articles
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