AwardAnnals:Creative work page

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Contents 1 Overview 2 Naming Convention 3 Format 3.1 “Needs” templates 3.2 Infobox 3.3 Reviews 3.4 Related works 3.5 Find this book 3.6 Categories

Overview

A creative work (CW) page provides information about a book, film, or any other creative work. The information is made available throughout the site by including an infobox template. There are currently four infobox templates that are integrated into the site:

• Template:Infobox Book
• Template:Infobox Film
• Template:Infobox Album
• Template:Infobox Creative Work

Saving a page with one of these templates enters the template information into a CW database. A “listing” of the work can then be displayed using an annalentry construct with the page title. For instance, {{annalentry:American Gods}} yields:

Consequently, the infobox is the most important element on a CW page. The remaining elements should be designed to aid a patron in why the CW has been honored, and how to obtain or visit the CW in order to experience and judge first-hand.

A special page has been designed to aid in the creation of CW pages. Special:CWhelper provides fields to be filled in and does a search for cover art and synopses. It will put all the fields together into a standard CW page template that can be edited, and will also create new pages/categories for creators.

Naming Convention

Page names are normally lowercase except for the first letter, but the name of a CW is a proper name demanding capitalization. Here are a few guidelines for naming a CW page:

• The first word is always capitalized, even if the first word is “A” or “The”.
• Never put “A” or “The” at the end after a comma, like “Title, The”. This is a good way to alphabetize, but it is not needed for the page title.
• If the title contains extended characters, make a redirect page without extended characters. For instance ”The Resume” should redirect to the actual title of ”The Résumé”.
• If the CW’s main title is not unique, add some more words. For instance, if two CWs have the same title:
  • Add the subtitle (or part of it) to one or both of them title.
  • If they are of different types, add “(book)” to the end of the book’s page title, and so forth.
  • If they are films, add the year in parenthesis.
  • Add the creator’s name in parenthesis.
  • If none of these is suitable, make something up

Format

Most CW pages follow a straightforward format, which is illustrated in the following example. .

<!-- include relevant ”needs” templates -->
{{
{{Infobox Book | 
| title       = Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
| sort        = Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
| subtitle    = 
| series      = [[Harry Potter series|Book 4 of Harry Potter]]
| image       = [[Image:10090.jpg|200px]]
| author      = [[J.K. Rowling]]
| publisher   = Scholastic
| description = This is a short synopsis of the sort found on the back of a 
paperback book. A single paragraph is best—perhaps 500 to 800 characters. 
It may be the beginning of a review, ending with an ellipsis…
}}

After the Infobox template, include the publisher’s jacket copy or a similar 
synopsis.  Make sure not to violate copyrights. Anything from the publisher 
that is designed to promote the book is okay—it is considered “fair use” of 
the copy. Reviews from Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble are permitted 
as long as a link to them is included—see the “Find this book” section.

This can be as long as needed. The description in the Infobox must be 
shorter because it will be included in annals and honor rolls.

== Reviews ==

=== Amazon.com ===

This is the review from Amazon.  It usually ends with an em dash and the 
reviewer’s name in italics. —''Therese Littleton''   

=== Barnes and Noble ===

Ditto. Do not write your own review.  

== Related works ==
{{annalentry:The book
| The film
| The album
| The sequel
| The remake}}

== Find this book ==

{{Associate list book | title=American Gods | author=Gaiman }}

[[Category:Works by Neil Gaiman|American Gods]]
[[Category:Fantasy books|American Gods]]
[[Category:Horror books|American Gods]]
[[Category:Fiction books|American Gods]]
[[Category:Speculative Fiction books|American Gods]]

“Needs” templates

If parts of the infobox must be left blank, include an appropriate template. An informational message show at the top of the CW page and the page will be included in one of the CW “needs” categories.

• {{CW needs image}}
• {{CW needs description}}
• {{CW needs editing}}

Infobox

The page begins with an Infobox. While the Infobox is a template in the normal sense, it is also used to populate a creative works table in the Award Annals database. The information provided can be included in other areas of the site using the annalentry magic word. It is important, therefore, to include all the relevant data.

• Title: Use the title of the work, not necessarily the title of the page. For instance, the page might be named American Beauty (film) to differentiate it from the soundtrack, but the infobox should only list the official title of the work. Do not include a subtltle.

• Sort: This is how the work should be sorted. Titles beginning with “The” or “A” should should leave these off, beginning with the first significant word.

• Subtitle: Many works of nonfiction have a lengthy subtitle to explain the significance of the title. Many novels have a subtitle like “A Novel” or “A Mystery”. The subtitle will appear after the main title in the listing, as shown in this example:

• Series: If the work is part of a series, and that series has it’s own page, include a link to the page. The text should include the work’s place in the series if possible. “Book 1 of Harry Potter” links to “Harry Potter series” in this example:

• Image: The cover image should be as large (high resolution) as possible, scaled to 200px as shown in the example. The publisher, studio, or label owns the right to the book cover, DVD cover, or album cover, so any image of such cover is okay to upload—it is considered fair use as long as the page aids in marketing the work. Additionally, our association with Amazon.com explicitly permits use of their images, so feel free to use them as a source.

• Author: A comma delimited list of the creators. For other Infoboxes, this may be “director” or “artist”. If the creator’s page does not already exist, please create it per the guidelines below.

• Publisher: or “distributor” or “label”. This is not used for anything, but be nice and include it.

• Description: As described in the example, a paragraph that conveys something about the work to whoever might be looking over a list of works in an honor roll. This same description may be used in series pages, so consider how it will read in order with the other works in the series.

Reviews

A few reviews, probably from Amazon.com and/or another associated site. The purpose of the review should be to inform patrons as to the content and quality of the work. Analyses are not welcome—link to Wikipedia for an analysis and spoilers.

Related works

If the work is related to other works, list them here using the annalentry construct. There is no need to include other works in a series if the series is already included in the infobox template. Include:

• book-film-soundtrack.
• sequels not considered a series
• new/old editions of the same book
• remakes of the same film
• remixes of the same album

Find this book

Include the template associate list book (or film or album) and a bullet list of relevant sites will be inserted along with search parameters. Associate list film has accepts an IMDB parameter, which is the page ID on the Internet Movie Database. If you are adding a film, please include this parameter so that the IMDB link will go directly to the appropriate page. Such IDs would be nice for Amazon or other sites, but their IDs are not permanent, and the resulting page might not include a list of all available editions.

Feel free to include other sites, especially for hard-to-find titles.

Categories

Categories to include:

• Category:Works by (Creator Name)|(Sort Title of Work) include one for each creator
• Category:Genre books|(Sort Title of Work) please check for existence of the category first

You may notice that a “Books by title” category is automatically included by the infobox.