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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.

The similar WikiProjects are

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:

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:

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:

Not included:

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)[reply]

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:

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

Work to be done

See the project's to-do list at /To-do
The current work project is WikiProject Books/Worklist to compile a list of articles for Wikipedia 1.0

Write new articles or expand old ones:

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

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