Wikipedia:WikiProject Books

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First, an important note for everyone to remember:

The members of this WikiProject have come together to make some suggestions about how Wikipedians may contribute to articles about books and literature in general. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

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Contents 1 Project details 1.1 Title 1.2 Scope 1.3 Parentage 1.4 Descendant WikiProjects 1.5 Related WikiProjects 2 Current and past books related discussions on WP 3 Categories 4 Stubs 4.1 Child project stubs 4.2 Generic stubs 5 Article structure 5.1 Naming 5.2 Structures 6 Resources 6.1 Literary encyclopedias 7 Hierarchy definition 8 General Strategy and Discussion forum 9 Templates 10 Uploading images 11 Exemplary articles 12 Work to be done 12.1 New articles review 12.2 Assessment 12.2.1 Bot-assisted assessment 13 Participants

[edit] Project details

[edit] Title

WikiProject Books

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to provide book reviews and publishing history of manuscript and published books (both fiction and nonfiction), significant pamphlets, series of books, serials, graphic novels and compilations of plays, poetry, and short stories that were published as books.

The goals of this project are to identify titles that do not yet have articles in Wikipedia, and to discuss and suggest guidelines for writing articles.

The most complete list of books that have Wikipedia articles is at List of books by title. Please help maintain this list by adding requested articles to the list, writing articles about books that have been requested, filling in and correcting the titles, authors and dates on the list, and correcting links.

If you like the system of Categories (admittedly, some people don't), you can add one of the genres that are subcategories of Category:Books to each article.

[edit] Parentage

• Portal:Literature

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

The descendant WikiProjects are

• WikiProject Novels aims to define a standard of consistency for articles about novels. It also aims to encourage and promote the writing of articles on all types of Novels.
• WikiProject Fictional Series tries to describe fictional series (i.e. novels, television or movie)

and specialised WikiProjects like: Sherlock Holmes, Balzac, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, Harry Potter, Middle-earth, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Wizard of Oz, Inheritance Trilogy.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

The similar WikiProjects are

• WikiProject Children's literature organizing information in articles related to Children's and Young Adult Literature
• WikiProject Comics provides a centralized home for all work done on Wikipedia articles about comics and sequential art
• WikiProject Critical Theory (also under Philosophy) tries to fill the substantial holes in articles about Critical theory (literary theory is a rough synonym)
• WikiProject Free book covers replace modern book covers of old books with PD ones
• WikiProject Science pearls deals with science related publications
• WikiProject Librarians
• WikiProject Japanese Bibliography developing a comprehensive group of articles describing Japanese bibliographical resources.
• WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
• WikiProject Poetry documents information on national poetries, poetry movements and groups and individual poets and on poetic forms, styles and techniques

[edit] Current and past books related discussions on WP

• 18:51, 7 August 2006 (UTC): Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_August_1#Books
• 00:33, 26 July 2006 (UTC): Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Books in Wikipedia
• 00:33, 26 July 2006 (UTC): Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Cliffs Notes on works of literature - should we link them?
• 09:39, 10 July 2006 (UTC): Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_July_9#.5B.5BTemplate:Book_card.5D.5D
• 21:19, 19 June 2006 (UTC): Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_June_19#Template:Thelema_Book
• 21:40, 14 May 2006 (UTC): Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals#Cat:Horror_novel_stubs_.2F_.7B.7Bhorror-novel-stub.7D.7D
• 15:43, 14 May 2006 (UTC): Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WikiProject Literature (why WP:Literature redirects to WP:Books)
• 09:23, 13 May 2006 (UTC): Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:Book_Club
• 22:10, 12 May 2006 (UTC): Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:1869 works
• 22:10, 12 May 2006 (UTC): Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:1850 works
• 22:10, 12 May 2006 (UTC): Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Century and millennium hyphenation
• 22:07, 12 May 2006 (UTC): Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Childrens Books on Homosexuality to Category:Children's books about sexuality
• 22:04, 12 May 2006 (UTC): Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Pages needing ISBN citations to Category:ISBN needed
• 21:59, 12 May 2006 (UTC): Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals#Book_series_stub_.28.7B.7Bbookseries-stub.7D.7D.29
• 21:59, 12 May 2006 (UTC): Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_May_1#Category:Books available as ebooks to Category:Ebooks

[edit] Categories

Book articles are sorted under many categories, look in Category:Books for the list. There are two "main" categories that most books are sorted to:

• Category:Books by year (for example [[Category:1993 books]] )
• Category:Books by genre (for example [[Category:Science fiction books]] )

[edit] Stubs

Main list of stub tags at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Stub_types#Literature. If you find a stub article that has not yet been marked as a stub, please add to the bottom of the article one of the following stub templates:

[edit] Child project stubs

• For novel stubs ({{novel-stub}}) see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels
  • {{honorverse-stub}} — Articles in the Honor Harrington milieu (Honorverse).

[edit] Generic stubs

• {{book-stub}}
  • {{child-book-stub}}
  • {{nonfiction-book-stub}}
    • {{bio-book-stub}}
    • {{crime-book-stub}}
    • {{hist-book-stub}}
    • {{philos-novel-stub}}
    • {{poli-book-stub}}
    • {{reli-book-stub}}
    • {{science-book-stub}}
• {{play-stub}}
• {{story-stub}}

[edit] Article structure

[edit] Naming

• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books) - books
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) - biographies
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Architecture#Create_new_articles - libraries

[edit] Structures

These are guides to the amendment of any existing articles or for the creation of new articles.

Books

• For fictional books see WikiProject Novels/ArticleTemplate (Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels)
• For non-fiction books see /Non-fiction_article
• For a comics related article layout see WikiProject Comics/exemplars (Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics)

Authors

• For general biographies see {{subst:Biography}} or add it into your article page and save (from WikiProject Biography)

Libraries

• For libraries see /Library_article

Others

• For fictional characters see WikiProject Novels/CharacterArticleTemplate (Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels)

[edit] Resources

• Norton anthology of world literature helps in the exploration of world literature and identifying and framing of topics for writing, with timelines and maps
• Library of Congress Online Catalog has edition information and subject headings, if you're trying to figure out what genre something might be or the author's birth & death dates, etc.
• The British Library also has an online catalog.
• The European Library gives free access to the online catalogs and digital collections of Europe's national libraries

[edit] Literary encyclopedias

• The Literary Encyclopedia 3300 profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics and references of 18,000 works. The first 600 words of articles are readable (NB do not copy&paste, for reference and rewriting only)
• Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia (1948-)
• Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature (1991)
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-1921) online
• The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1979), second edition (1993)
• The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural (1986)

[edit] Hierarchy definition

Since there are many types of publications, boundaries must be set so that other WikiProjects can guide articles that this one doesn't. So far, the titles that have been included on the List of books by title are those that if most people saw the item in their hands, they would call it a 'book'.

Included:

• Novels (i.e. Fiction books - see Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels#Hierarchy Definition for expansion)
• Graphic novels.
• Collections of plays, poetry, short stories and comics that were published as books.
• Nonfiction books on any subject.
• Reference works (including almanacs, atlases dictionaries, encyclopedias, gazetteers, lexicons, telephone directories and thesauri).
• Books in any language, using any method of reproduction.
• Published albums of pictures or photographs.
• Bound manuscripts and other unpublished books.
• Pamphlets.

Not included:

• Computer files, databases and Internet sites that have never been published on paper.
• Magazines, journals, newspapers and other serials that were issued more frequently than once a year should be included in WikiProject Journalism.
• Documents that are likely to be separate sheets of paper, unbound.

[edit] General Strategy and Discussion forum

• /General
• /Strategy

[edit] Templates

	Literature Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Books. To participate, you can edit the article attached to this page. You can discuss the Project at its talk page.
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.

The general banner for WikiProject Books is {{WPBooks}}. You can add it to any articles in the scope of the WikiProject like so:

{{WPBooks
|class  = 
|needs-infobox=
}}

• class: Options are FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, Dab, Template, Cat. If blank, this will default as Unassessed. Descriptions of the options can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia/Assessment#Quality scale.
• needs-infobox: Answer yes if the article lacks an infobox, otherwise remove this line. Nothing changes to the appearance to the template if yes is used, however it will be added to the category of book articles needing one.

Title Book's title

Author	George Orwell
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Satire
Publisher	Secker and Warburg
Released	1945
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	112 p. (UK paperback edition)
ISBN	ISBN 0140126708 (UK paperback edition)

Infobox template for a book Template:Infobox Book ( {{Infobox Book}} )

See also Category:Book templates.

Template for a fictional novel: (See also WikiProject Novels.)

Template for a graphic novel or a published collection of daily or weekly comic strips:

Template for a nonfiction book:

Template for a single volume or multi volume reference work:

[edit] Uploading images

Images of book covers should be uploaded with the {{Book cover}} licence tag (Category:Book covers). Older covers i.e. published in the U.S. before 1923, should go to Commons - commons:Special:Upload. For existing images look through links in /Images.

[edit] Exemplary articles

FA books:

• Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches
• Book of Kells
• The Cantos
• The Country Wife
• Hrafnkels saga
• Night (book)
• Ormulum
• Peterborough Chronicle
• The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
• The Relapse
• A Tale of a Tub
• Voynich manuscript

And these Novels or Novellas - Also perview of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels

• The Brothers Karamazov
• The Giver
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Old Man and the Sea
• Oroonoko
• Starship Troopers

Literary terms

Abstract Detail Acropole Adrenachrome Arabian Goggles Beast Epic Biological Essentialism Clavis aurea Ceneme Center of Energy Chronological Narration Composite character Directors of conscience Discontinuous narrative Disinfotainment Fictography more...

[edit] Work to be done

See the project's to-do list at /To-do

• WikiProject Books/Worklist to compile a list of articles for Wikipedia 1.0

Write new articles or expand old ones:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels#Work to be done
• Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Culture_and_fine_arts#Literature
• List of books by genre or type, List of banned books or something else from Category:Lists of books
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable books
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Literary Encyclopedia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable books on history of medicine

Sort or expand stub articles:

• Category:Book stubs
  • Category:Non-fiction book stubs
  • Category:Novel stubs

Remove red links from these award winning book lists:

• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, Newbery Medal, National Book Award

[edit] New articles review

• Review new literature, books related articles collected by a bot.

[edit] Assessment

Quality	Importance
FA	Top
A	High
GA	Mid
B	Low
Start
Stub

For assessing book articles within the project, see /Assesment. This WikiProject is assessing major literature related articles, see /Worklist. For assessing novels see WikiProject Novels/Assessment.

One of the most common methods used by WikiProjects to monitor and prioritize their work is that of assessing the articles within their scope. The de facto standard for these assessments is the Version 1.0 Editorial Team's assessment scale (shown at right).

This project also makes importance assessments.

[edit] Bot-assisted assessment

Not yet created.

[edit] Participants

The following is a list of participants to this project. For people interested in userboxes, there is a general one available, {{User:Scepia/bibliophile}}. See Category:Book fan user templates for others.	This user is a bibliophile.
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Books/User Participant}} is available for this project's participants.	This user is a participant of WikiProject Books.

• GUllman
• AlainV
• alexwilliamson_46
• Phil | Talk as and when I get time, obviously
• Kwill (Talk) my primary interest is in hashing out what is essential from an ordering/purchasing point of view - also old editions and such
• Simonides
• WikiUser I'm reading project material. Let me know what's latest needed.
• Ta bu shi da yu I'm happy to give it a go!
• DaGizza I will participate casually
• --Jacqui M Schedler 16:04, 22 September 2005 (UTC) Got here because I was looking up how I should write The Golden Notebook. I can participate in random bursts, as I am a college student with a thesis.
• Wikipedius (mostly Italian Literature)
• Yorktown 1776 I'll add infoboxes and write some articles.
• --Lacatosias I am a book-eating monster. My whole existenece revolves around books.
• EVula I'd be more than happy to add infoboxes to any and all books I come across (my infoboxes).
• Socialists collective (Talk to the Socialists) We would be more than happy to help where neccessary.
• User:Badlydrawnjeff, looking more to help with children's lit.
• feydey
• Tennessee Wood
• Beth Wellington
• General Eisenhower • (at war or at peace)
• Ray-Ray
• Mingus ah um
• Wootking
• NicosT
• Nikcool - I will do what I can, when I can
• Anonymous_anonymous (talk • contribs) - I'm a participant of Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature
• Hawksun - Really willing to help the project as best as I can.
• LittleDan^talk 13:12, 5 July 2006 (UTC) - I'll help with this, especially placing infoboxes
• ReverendG 02:44, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
• Fabartus—I've been doing a lot of SF already. // Fra
• PeregrineV - I work mostly on novels but am willing to help with all books. PeregrineV 17:43, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• nkB 07:26, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
• Jitterro - I'm mainly working on A Series of Unfortunate Events, but I'll take on anything I can.
• Anarchia
• Lanklan - Mainly dealing with books on IB syllabus, and translating portions of text from German wikipedia.
• NauticaShades 15:22, 13 October 2006 (UTC). I'm in!
• Andrew Dalby 21:04, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
• Fleiger - Mainly interested in fiction and children's literature.
• User:mujinga - I like contemporary fiction, but will probably pop up in different places
• User:Roaming27
• An Apple a day keeps -The Doctor- Away.. Or does it! ^{(talk)(contribs)} - I will help out..
• Rob C (Alarob)
• Pink moon 1287
• Ekantik
• Jacklau96--I will help out in this wikiproject.
• Mikelau97
• Zaparojdik-- I'm interested in scientific books.
• Acjelen
• Bjewiki 23:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
• Awadewit - As my scholarly speciality is eighteenth-century literature, I will probably contribute most in that area.
• Exiledone 21:54, 17 February 2007 (UTC) - Will take on any work especially 20th and 21st century works.
• Gandalf's hat - fictional works