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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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[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.

[edit] Parentage

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Literature
• 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, Novellas, Novelettes & Short stories.
• WikiProject Religious texts

and specialised WikiProjects like: Balzac, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, Harry Potter, Middle-earth, Lemony Snicket, The Wizard of Oz, Inheritance Trilogy, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

Related 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 and rhetorical theory are rough synonyms)
• 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 Religious texts
• Philosophical literature task force
• WikiProject Poetry documents information on national poetries, poetry movements and groups and individual poets and on poetic forms, styles and techniques
• WikiProject Journalism covers news literature such as newspapers and magazines
• WikiProject Media franchises covers multimedia series mostly

[edit] Current and past books related discussions on WP

• 20:32, 13 October 2007 (UTC): Differences between book and film versions of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (AFD)
• 00:31, 2 October 2007 (UTC): AFD: Modern pseudepigrapha
• 20:48 29 August 2007 (UTC): First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (PROD)
• 19:58 26 August 2007 (UTC): Ancestors: 900 Years in the Life of a Chinese Family (PROD)

I have removed the PROD on this as I have indicated on the article talk page - appears notable to me.:: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 09:30, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

• 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] Descendant projects 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

	Books portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Books. To participate, you can edit the article. 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
|nested = 
|small = 
|class = 
|needs-infobox = 
|needs-infobox-cover = 
|listas = 
}}

• 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:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment#Grades.
• 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
Author	George Orwell
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Satire
Publisher	Secker and Warburg
Publication date	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}} )

Template:Book list for a list, bibliography, or series of books:

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)
• Original Stories from Real Life
• Ormulum
• Peterborough Chronicle
• The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
• The Relapse
• The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
• 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 Lord of the Rings
• Oroonoko
• Starship Troopers
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

[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
• Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of publications

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 (done)
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (done)
• Newbery Medal
• National Book Award
• Book Sense Book of the Year Award

The most complete list of books that have Wikipedia articles is at Wikipedia:Wikiproject Books/Lists of books. Please help maintain this list by adding requested articles to the list and writing articles about books that have been requested. Help make sure that all the books on this list have been assigned to categories by adding the genres that are subcategories of Category:Books to each article.

[edit] New articles review

• Review new literature, books related articles collected by a bot. Archives of this page.