First, an important note for everyone to remember:

A few Ireland Information Guide users 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!

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 Ireland Information Guide, and to discuss and suggest guidelines for writing articles.

The most complete list of books that have Ireland Information Guide 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

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Literature.

Descendant Wikiprojects

The descendant WikiProjects are Classic and other Canonical Fiction, WikiProject Poetry, WikiProject Contemporary Fiction, WikiProject Mass Market and Genre Fiction, WikiProject Miscellaneous Prose - Criticism, Letters, Memoirs etc. and two descendants of that list are WikiProject Fictional Series and WikiProject Critical Theory (Also under Philosophy).

Similar Wikiprojects

The similar WikiProjects are WikiProject Albums.

Participants

• GUllman
• AlainV
• Phil | Talk as and when I get time, obviously
• Kwill (Talk) my primary interest is in hashing out what is essential from an ordering/purchasing point of view - also old editions and such
• Simonides

Structure

Discuss the format for each article based on the WikiProject. Include various categories applicable to the topic.

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 and 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.
• Manuscripts and other unpublished books.
• Pamphlets.

Not included:

• Computer files, databases and Internet sites that have never been published on paper.
• Comic books, magazines, journals, newspapers and other serials that were issued more frequently than once a year should be included in WikiProject Periodicals.
• Documents that are likely to be separate sheets of paper, unbound.

General Strategy and Discussion forum

• /General
• /Strategy

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: