Wikipedia:WikiProject Books
First, an important note for everyone to remember:
A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about books. 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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Project details
Title
WikiProject Books
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.
Parentage
Descendant WikiProjects
The descendant WikiProjects are
and specialised WikiProjects like: Sherlock Holmes, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, Harry Potter, Middle-earth, The Wizard of Oz, Star Wars.
Related WikiProjects
The similar WikiProjects are
- WikiProject Poetry
- WikiProject Children's literature
- WikiProject Comics
- WikiProject Critical Theory (also under Philosophy)
- WikiProject Science pearls deals with science related publications
- WikiProject Librarians.
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]] )
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:
- For novel stubs ({{novel-stub}}) see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels
- {{book-stub}}
- {{child-book-stub}}
- {{nonfiction-book-stub}}
- {{bio-book-stub}}
- {{crime-book-stub}}
- {{hist-book-stub}}
- {{poli-book-stub}}
- {{reli-book-stub}}
- {{science-book-stub}}
- {{play-stub}}
- {{story-stub}}
Structure
Discuss the format for each article based on the WikiProject. Include various categories applicable to the topic.
Naming
Templates
For non-fiction article templates see /Non-fiction_article.
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.
General Strategy and Discussion forum
Templates
Infobox template for a book Template:Infobox Book
Book card--I like this version better than the above. It just lacks a space for photo whci I can easily add.--Lacatosias 09:56, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
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:
Exemplary articles
FA books:
- Book of Kells
- The Cantos
- The Country Wife
- Hrafnkels saga
- 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 Giver
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Oroonoko
- Starship Troopers
- The Brothers Karamazov
Work to be done
- See the project's to-do list at /To-do
Write new articles or expand old ones:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels#Work to be done
- 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:
Remove red links from these award winning book lists:
Participants
The following is a list of participants to this project. For people interested in userboxes, there is a general one available, not specific for this project. Place {{User Bibliophile}} template to Your user page.
Template:User Bibliophile
- GUllman
- AlainV
- 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