Editing Encyclopædia Britannica (section)

=== Editorial advisors ===
As of 2012, ''Britannica'' had an editorial board of advisors, which included a number of distinguished figures, primarily scholars from a variety of disciplines.<ref name="propedia_editorial advisors">{{Cite journal |last=Goetz |first=Philip W. |date=2007 |title=The New Encyclopædia Britannica |journal=Encyclopaedia Britannica Incorporated |edition=15th edition, {{lang|la|Propædia}} |location=Chicago, Illinois |page=5 |bibcode=1991neb..book.....G}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://corporate.britannica.com/board/ |title=Encyclopædia Britannica Board of Editors |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=30 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204050531/https://corporate.britannica.com/board/ |archive-date=4 February 2012 |url-status = dead}}</ref>

The ''Propædia'' and its ''Outline of Knowledge'' were produced by dozens of editorial advisors under the direction of [[Mortimer J. Adler]].<ref name="propedia_other_editorial_advisors">{{Cite journal |last=Goetz |first=Philip W. |date=2007 |title=The New Encyclopædia Britannica |journal=Encyclopaedia Britannica Incorporated |edition=15th edition, {{lang|la|Propædia}} |location=Chicago, Illinois |pages=524–530 |bibcode=1991neb..book.....G}}</ref> Roughly half of these advisors have since died, including some of the Outline's chief architects – [[Rene Dubos]] (d. 1982), [[Loren Eiseley]] (d. 1977), [[Harold D. Lasswell]] (d. 1978), [[Mark Van Doren]] (d. 1972), [[Peter Ritchie Calder]] (d. 1982) and Mortimer J. Adler (d. 2001). The {{lang|la|Propædia}} also lists just under 4,000 advisors who were consulted for the unsigned {{lang|la|Micropædia}} articles.<ref name="micropaedia_consultants">{{Cite journal |last=Goetz |first=Philip W. |date=2007 |title=The New Encyclopædia Britannica |journal=Encyclopaedia Britannica Incorporated |edition=15th edition, {{lang|la|Propædia}} |location=Chicago, Illinois |pages=675–744 |bibcode=1991neb..book.....G}}</ref>