Wikipedia:Using Catholic Encyclopedia material

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Due to its public-domain status, the Catholic Encyclopedia can be incorporated into any work, including Wikipedia. When using the material two things should be considered :

  • It was written in the first two decades of the Twentieth Century and many parts are dated
  • It explicitly follows a Catholic point of view

Wikipedia articles which derive from a Catholic Encyclopedia article should bear this message:

This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.

The message can be added by inserting {{catholic}} in the article.

Adding a parameter allows a link to the entry in Wikisource's Catholic Encyclopedia by inserting: {{Catholic|articlename}}

Where:

Example:

{{Catholic|St. Oswin}} gives this: This article incorporates text from the entry St. Oswin in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.

Some of the articles using this template can be seen here, while some with issues using the {{catholic-cleanup}} template can be seen here.