Welcome to the WikiProject Romance Guidelines - Style Guides
To keep a consistent style to the articles, these guidelines should be followed. IMPORTANT: If this is your first time creating an article for this project, please read our page on Creating a new article first, as it has specifics on what articles are notable enough to be created.
This is an essay on style. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more WikiProjects on how to format and present article content within their area of interest.
The following general guidelines reflect standard Wikipedia style policy:
All article and section titles should follow sentence case, in which only the first word and proper nouns are capitalized.
The article name, when first mentioned, should be bold.
Titles of books should be italicized. Such a title or name that is also the article name should be both bolded and italicized when first mentioned.
Titles for short stories and book chapters should be "double-quoted". Such a title that is also the article name should be both "double-quoted and bolded" (in outside-to-inside order - i.e., don't boldface the quotation marks) when first mentioned.
Articles should be categorized in the correct subcategory.
A List of quotations constitutes non-encyclopedic trivia, such as is regularly removed from Wikipedia articles. Quotations are better added at Wikiquote. However, if a quotation is used to illustrate a point in the article text, then it is allowed.
The below pattern can be cut and pasted into your sandbox that will, if filled out and cited, be at least a Start Class in assessment:
<!--Author article template : part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Romance-->
<!--Replace text within ~ squiggles (tilde) like these ~ with the specific information
about the author. Please try to insert as much information as you can and then remove
sections that are not relevant.-->
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
|image = <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people - see [[WP:NONFREE]] -->
|imagesize =
| name = ~First name~ ~Last name~
| caption =
| pseudonym = ~First name~ ~Last name~ <!--separate multiple pen names with a <br> -->
| birth_date =
| birth_place =
| occupation = [[Novelist]]
| nationality =
| period = ~YYYY~ - present
| genre = [[contemporary romance]]
| alma_mater =
| debut_works = ~book title~
| notableworks =
| influences =
| influenced =
| awards = {{Awards|award=RITA award |year=~YYYY~ |title=~booktitle~ |role= |name=Best ~category~ Romance}}
| website = <!--i.e. http://www.lindagoodnight.com/ -->
}}
'''~Author's full name~''' is an ~nationality~ author of ~genre(s)~. In ~YYYY~, s/he received the [[Romance Writers of America]] [[RITA Award]] for Best ~category~ Romance for her novel ''~book title~''.
<!-- Expand the lead paragraph above to summarize the article. The lead must explain why this person is notable. Briefly describe distinctive characteristics of the author, awards, and notable adaptations. Do not make any statement that is not expanded later in another section of the article. See [[Wikipedia:Lead section]]
(WP:LEAD) for guidelines.
-->
==Biography==
~Author's last name~ ~write out biographical details in an encyclopedic fashion~
==Bibliography==
=== XYZ Series ===
# {{cite book | title = ~book title~|year = ~YYYY~ |date= ~Month~ ~YYYY~|publisher= ~Name of publisher~|isbn= ~ISBN if it has one, if not delete this parameter~}}
===Stand-alone works===
* {{cite book | title = ~book title~|year = ~YYYY~ |date= ~Month~ ~YYYY~|publisher= ~Name of publisher~|isbn= ~ISBN if it has one, if not delete this parameter~}}
===Anthologies and short stories===
* {{cite book | title = ~book title~|year = ~YYYY~ |date= ~Month~ ~YYYY~|publisher= ~Name of publisher~|isbn= ~ISBN if it has one, if not delete this parameter~}} in ''~Collection Name~''
==Awards and reception==
<!-- including two examples below since these are the most common awards-->
* 2007 - [[Romantic Times]] Reviewers Choice Award for ~~category~~ for ''~~book title~~''<ref></ref>
* 2008 - Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best ~~category~~ Romance for ''~~book title~~''<ref name="rwa.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.rwa.org/p/cm/ld/fid=535|title=myRWA : RITA Awards : RITA Winners|work=rwa.org|accessdate=23 May 2015}}</ref>
~Expand on any reviews notable books have received. Make sure it is balanced. Balance is tricky. If most reviews are positive, make sure it is weighted that way too. In other words, it is of encyclopedic importance to note criticism, but if that criticism constitutes a quarter of opinion, make sure it gets a quarter of the space here.~
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links ==
* [http://www.~blog~.com Author's Blog]
* [http://www.~website~.com/ Author's Website]
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:~Last name~, ~First name~ }}
<!--Below are some common categories and am including them to make it easier. Cut and add as applicable. Replace American with the correct nationality, and women with male when applicable-->
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:American romantic fiction writers]]
[[Category:RITA Award winners]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] or [[Category:~decade~ births]]
[[Category:20th-century women writers]]
[[Category:21st-century women writers]]
[[Category:20th-century American novelists]]
[[Category:21st-century American novelists]]
[[Category:American women writers]]
[[Category:American women novelists]]
[[Category:Women romantic fiction writers]]
[[Category:Writers from ~state spelled out~]]
[[Category:Pseudonymous writers]]
~Stub notice, if necessary~
Below are the stub notices and other templates you can use, as well as a link to categories.
Here are some common categories. Be sure to click on the arrow to get the appropriate subcategory.
For finding categories not listed below (like ones to their alma mater or city of residence), browse categories by topic or a searchable alphabetical index.
The Novel Wikiproject already has a great style guide for laying out an article on a book. See Manual of Style/Novels for more info. To make it even easier, they have a pattern for an article you can copy and paste into your sandbox and fill out what's needed.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Bibliographies, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Bibliographies on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BibliographiesWikipedia:WikiProject BibliographiesTemplate:WikiProject BibliographiesBibliographies articles
Only the rare author will have pages for their character. Most likely, these pages have already been made, like Mr. Darcy. The Novels WikiProject has an article pattern you can copy and paste to make creation easier.
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