Wikipedia:WikiProject Romance/Guidelines/Style guides

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.

General guidelines
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.

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

Guidelines

 * Notability (people)
 * Biographies of living persons
 * 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)
 * Naming conventions (people)
 * Naming conventions (royalty and nobility)
 * Categorization of people
 * Autobiography

Templates
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'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~.

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

Anthologies and short stories

 * in ~Collection Name~

Awards and reception

 * 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

~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.~

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.

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

Novel style guide
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.

Guidelines

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

Categories
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.

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

Bibliography style guide
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 WikiProject Bibliographies.

Guidelines
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.

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

Character style guide
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.