Template:BDA1906/doc

Usage

This template is a wrapper around the citation template {{Cite BDA1906}}. It places a prescript before the citation template to meet the requirements of the section "copying material from free sources" in the plagiarism guideline. this template must be used in place of {{Cite BDA1906}} if text is copied from an article in The Biographical Dictionary of America into a Wikipedia article.

This template uses two parameters:

noicon=any text — prevents the display of the leading icon (N.B, any text is usually either "1", "x", "y" or "yes").

inline=any text – alter wording in the prescript from "This article..." to "One or more of the preceding sentences..." the latter is use if the template is used within a ref..tag pair as an inline citation (displayed as a footnote).

All the parameters are passed on into the template {{Cite BDA1906}}. See its documentation for more details.

Examples

{{BDA1906 |wstitle=Allen, Ebenezer |volume=1 |page=81}}

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). "Allen, Ebenezer". The Biographical Dictionary of America. Vol. 1. Boston: American Biographical Society. p. 81.

{{BDA1906 |wstitle=Allen, Ebenezer |volume=1 |page=81 |noicon=y}}

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). "Allen, Ebenezer". The Biographical Dictionary of America. Vol. 1. Boston: American Biographical Society. p. 81.

{{BDA1906 |wstitle=Allen, Ebenezer |volume=1 |page=81 |inline=y }}

One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). "Allen, Ebenezer". The Biographical Dictionary of America. Vol. 1. Boston: American Biographical Society. p. 81.

{{BDA1906 |wstitle=Allen, Ebenezer |volume=1 |page=81 |inline=y |noicon=y}}

One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). "Allen, Ebenezer". The Biographical Dictionary of America. Vol. 1. Boston: American Biographical Society. p. 81.

Common mistakes to avoid

This template sets & displays the year of (1906) by default, so there is no need to use either a date= or year= field. Adding either of those fields will cause a Category:CS1 maint: date and year error & display a "Script warning: One or more {{cite encyclopedia}} templates have maintenance messages" on the article it is used in.

When those errors occur in this circumstance they can be fixed by removing the redundant year=/date= field.

Maintenance categories

• Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from The BDA (1906)
  • Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from The BDA (1906)

See also

• {{Cite BDA1906}} for use as an in-line citation
• {{BDA1906 poster}} — display a The Biographical Dictionary of America Wikisource article in a top box on the right (placed in the External links section)