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Revision as of 02:18, 24 December 2006

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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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

  • 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, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, Harry Potter, Middle-earth, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Wizard of Oz, Inheritance Trilogy.

Related WikiProjects

The similar WikiProjects are

Current and past books related discussions on WP

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:

Child project stubs

Generic stubs

Article structure

Naming

Structures

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

Books

Authors

Libraries

Others

Resources

Literary encyclopedias

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

WikiProject iconBooks NA‑class
WikiProject iconThis page is within the scope of WikiProject Books. To participate in the project, please visit its page, where you can join the project and discuss matters related to book articles. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BooksWikipedia:WikiProject BooksTemplate:WikiProject BooksBook articles
NAThis page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment 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.
Book's title
AuthorGeorge Orwell
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreSatire
PublisherSecker and Warburg
Publication date
1945
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages112 p. (UK paperback edition)
ISBNISBN 0140126708 (UK paperback edition) Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character

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:

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.

Exemplary articles

FA books:

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

Work to be done

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

Write new articles or expand old ones:

Sort or expand stub articles:

Remove red links from these award winning book lists:

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.

Bot-assisted assessment

Not yet created.

Participants

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

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WikiProject Books.

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