Wikipedia:WikiProject Romance/Guidelines/Style guides

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.
• Do not link dates, per WP:MOSNUM.
• 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.
• Avoid using peacock terms, weasel words and "in-'Verse" perspective. Remember that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and Wikipedia is not a fansite, a collection of indiscriminate information, nor a soapbox for personal perspectives or suppositions. Everything must be reliably sourced.

The Biography WikiProject has general tips for creating an article, which you may find helpful.

• Wikipedia:Notability (people)
• Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)
• Manual of Style (Ethiopia-related biography articles:proper names)
• Manual of Style (Ireland-related biography articles)
• Manual of Style (Islam-related biography articles: honorifics)
• Manual of Style (Japan-related biography articles:Names)
• Manual of Style (Thailand-related biography articles:Names)
• Manual of Style (dates of birth and death)
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people)
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (royalty and nobility)
• Wikipedia:Categorization of people
• Wikipedia:Autobiography

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:

{{Infobox writer 
|image = 
|imagesize =
| name        =  ~First name~ ~Last name~
| caption     =
| pseudonym   =  ~First name~ ~Last name~ 
| 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 = 
}}
~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~.

~Author's last name~ ~write out biographical details in an encyclopedic fashion~

1. {{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~}}

• {{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~}}

• {{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~

• 2007 - Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for ~~category~~ for ~~book title~~
• 2008 - Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best ~~category~~ Romance for ~~book title~~{{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}}

~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.~

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.~blog~.com Author's Blog]
• [http://www.~website~.com/ Author's Website]

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:~Last name~, ~First name~ }}

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.

{{category tree all|Romantic_fiction_writers|depth=1}}

{{category tree all|British_erotica_writers|depth=1}}

{{category tree all|Chick_lit_writers|depth=1}}

{{category tree all|Erotica_writers|depth=1}}

And for finding those broken about by cities, and other ways, see:

{{category tree all|Writers|depth=1}}

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.

• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books)
• Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
• Notability (fiction)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Style guidelines

Here are some common categories. Be sure to click on the arrow to get the appropriate subcategory.

For finding categories not listed below, browse categories by topic or a searchable alphabetical index.

{{category|RITA Award-winning works}}

{{category tree all|Romance novels|depth=1‎}}

And for finding those broken about by countries, and other ways, see:

{{category tree all|Novels|depth=1}}

Some articles will about an author and their work will warrant the bibliography becoming a list, like Nora Roberts bibliography. For those instances, the following may prove helpful. For more information, visit the Wikipedia:WikiProject Bibliographies.

Bibliographies are Lists and must comply with the following list-related guidelines and manuals of style:

• the notability guideline for stand-alone lists.
• the manual of style for lists in general.
• the manual of style for stand-alone lists.
• Manual of Style for bibliographies
• Recommended structure

Bibliographies of living authors must comply with the guidelines for biographies of living persons.

Bibliographies within Wikipedia should be added to one or more of the following categories (including many sub-categories):

{{category tree all|Bibliographies|depth=1}}

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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