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title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna)">Fauna (animals)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(flora)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (flora)">Flora (plants)</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <ul><li>Arts</li> <li>Entertainment</li> <li>Media</li></ul></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Books</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(broadcasting)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (broadcasting)">Broadcasting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(comics)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics)">Comics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(films)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films)">Films</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(manuscripts)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (manuscripts)">Manuscripts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(music)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions 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ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Scope_and_definitions" data-mw-thread-id="h-Scope_and_definitions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Scope_and_definitions"></span>Scope and definitions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Scope_and_definitions"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(books)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Scope and definitions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Manuscripts" data-mw-thread-id="h-Manuscripts-Scope_and_definitions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Manuscripts-Scope_and_definitions"></span>Manuscripts<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Manuscripts-Scope_and_definitions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(books)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Manuscripts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(manuscripts)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (manuscripts)">Wikipedia:Naming conventions (manuscripts)</a></div> <p>A unique manuscript can have the physical form of a book (e.g. the <a href="/wiki/Eton_Choirbook" title="Eton Choirbook">Eton Choirbook</a>): in such case the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(manuscripts)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (manuscripts)">naming conventions on manuscripts</a> take precedence over the guidance relating to books on this page. By contrast <i>The Eton Choirbook: Facsimile with Introductory Study</i>, published in 2010, is a book in the meaning of the present guideline. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ancient_use_of_the_term_"book"" data-mw-thread-id="h-Ancient_use_of_the_term_"book"-Scope_and_definitions"><span id="Ancient_use_of_the_term_.22book.22"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Ancient_use_of_the_term_"book"-Scope_and_definitions"></span>Ancient use of the term "book"<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Ancient_use_of_the_term_"book"-Scope_and_definitions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(books)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Ancient use of the term "book""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From antiquity to the early modern age it was not uncommon for either the author or subsequent scribes or editors to divide a single written work into separate "books" (volumes, tomes, scrolls), where a more modern author would call such subdivisions "parts" or even "chapters": for example <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Caesar</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Commentarii_de_Bello_Gallico" title="Commentarii de Bello Gallico">Commentarii de Bello Gallico</a></i> contains eight "books", somewhat of "chapter" length when compared to more modern writings. </p><p>For the purpose of this guideline, "book" means the entire <i>work</i>, and not a subdivision, even if that subdivision has a (subsidiary) title of its own. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Series" data-mw-thread-id="h-Series-Scope_and_definitions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Series-Scope_and_definitions"></span>Series<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Series-Scope_and_definitions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(books)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sometimes books are collected into a larger entity, for example a "<a href="/wiki/Trilogy" title="Trilogy">trilogy</a>", or another type of series. Whether Wikipedia treats the individual books on separate pages, or the whole collection of such serialized books on a single page, varies from case to case. In general, however, the "series" page is created first, spinning off pages on individual books only if necessary. </p><p>Examples: <i><a href="/wiki/Oresteia" title="Oresteia">Oresteia</a></i> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Forsyte_Saga" title="The Forsyte Saga">The Forsyte Saga</a></i> – <i><a href="/wiki/Les_Rougon-Macquart" title="Les Rougon-Macquart">Les Rougon-Macquart</a></i> – <i><a href="/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time" title="In Search of Lost Time">In Search of Lost Time</a></i> – <i><a href="/wiki/...For_Dummies" class="mw-redirect" title="...For Dummies">...For Dummies</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Aubrey%E2%80%93Maturin_series" title="Aubrey–Maturin series">Aubrey–Maturin series</a> </p><p>For italicization see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Titles#Series_titles" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles § Series titles</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Comics" data-mw-thread-id="h-Comics-Scope_and_definitions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Comics-Scope_and_definitions"></span>Comics<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Comics-Scope_and_definitions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(books)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Comics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(comics)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics)">Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics)</a></div> <p>See the "comics" Naming Conventions guideline for comics and graphic novels. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Periodicals" data-mw-thread-id="h-Periodicals-Scope_and_definitions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Periodicals-Scope_and_definitions"></span>Periodicals<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Periodicals-Scope_and_definitions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(books)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Periodicals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This guideline does not contain specific information on how to name Wikipedia articles on periodicals (magazines, newspapers, etc.). In most cases naming such articles will not be problematic, nor incompatible with this guideline, except that for periodicals that have no specific English edition, the title is usually not translated (example: <i><a href="/wiki/Pravda" title="Pravda">Pravda</a></i>, not <a href="/wiki/Pravda" title="Pravda"><i>The Truth</i></a>). </p><p>Examples: <i><a href="/wiki/Reader%27s_Digest" title="Reader's Digest">Reader's Digest</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Nature_(journal)" title="Nature (journal)"><i>Nature</i> (journal)</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lancet" title="The Lancet">The Lancet</a></i> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> – <i><a href="/wiki/Acta_Diurna" title="Acta Diurna">Acta Diurna</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Vogue_(magazine)" title="Vogue (magazine)"><i>Vogue</i> (magazine)</a> – <a href="/wiki/Spirou_(magazine)" title="Spirou (magazine)"><i>Spirou</i> (magazine)</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poems_and_lyrics" data-mw-thread-id="h-Poems_and_lyrics-Scope_and_definitions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Poems_and_lyrics-Scope_and_definitions"></span>Poems and lyrics<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Poems_and_lyrics-Scope_and_definitions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(books)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Poems and lyrics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Poems</i> normally follow this guideline on <i>books</i>, e.g. <a href="/wiki/The_Lady_of_the_Lake_(poem)" title="The Lady of the Lake (poem)"><i>The Lady of the Lake</i> (poem)</a>, for the Walter Scott poem. However, when the article pertains to a single short poem not published as a book, the title is not italicized, e.g. <a href="/wiki/Sonnet_130" title="Sonnet 130">Sonnet 130</a>, "<a href="/wiki/An_Arundel_Tomb" title="An Arundel Tomb">An Arundel Tomb</a>". </p><p>Articles on the <i>text</i> used for musical compositions (lyrics or libretto) are usually not separated from the articles on those musical compositions, and follow the naming conventions for such types of works, e.g.: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/La_donna_del_lago" title="La donna del lago">La donna del lago</a></i>, opera based on <i>The Lady of the Lake</i> – page title according to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(operas)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (operas)">Wikipedia:Naming conventions (operas)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ave_Maria_(Schubert)" title="Ave Maria (Schubert)">Ave Maria (Schubert)</a>, a.k.a. <a href="/wiki/Ellens_dritter_Gesang" class="mw-redirect" title="Ellens dritter Gesang">Ellens dritter Gesang</a>, based on the same poem by Walter Scott – Wikipedia page name according to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(music)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (music)">Wikipedia:Naming conventions (music)</a></li></ul> <p>However, there are texts that started to live a life on their own, such as libretto of the <i><a href="/wiki/L%27Olimpiade" title="L'Olimpiade">L'Olimpiade</a></i>, it is treated an article about a <i>book</i> in the sense of this guideline and the title is thus italicized. </p><p>Texts that are as well a prayer and/or liturgical/ritual text, as they are also standard lyrics for compositions (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Kaddish" title="Kaddish">Kaddish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Requiem" title="Requiem">Requiem</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salve_Regina" title="Salve Regina">Salve Regina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Missa_brevis" title="Missa brevis">Missa brevis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wessobrunn_Prayer" title="Wessobrunn Prayer">Wessobrunn Prayer</a>) have the title of their main article (that is the article not on a particular composition) not italicized. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bibliographies" data-mw-thread-id="h-Bibliographies-Scope_and_definitions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Bibliographies-Scope_and_definitions"></span>Bibliographies<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Bibliographies-Scope_and_definitions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(books)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Bibliographies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Bibliographies#Naming" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Bibliographies">Wikipedia:WikiProject Bibliographies § Naming</a></div> <p>See the style guide of the Bibliographies WikiProject for recommendations on the naming of bibliographies. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Title_translations" data-mw-thread-id="h-Title_translations"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Title_translations"></span>Title translations<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Title_translations"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(books)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Title translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(use_English)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)">Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)</a></div> <p>Should a book title, of a book originally written in a foreign language, be translated into English? </p><p>If the original language does not use the <a href="/wiki/Latin_alphabet" title="Latin alphabet">Latin alphabet</a>, the title is normally translated, preferably in English. </p><p>However, in some cases, when a transcription or transliteration of a title originally not in the Latin alphabet is better known, and/or less ambiguous, that version of the title can be used. Example: <i><a href="/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching" title="Tao Te Ching">Tao Te Ching</a></i> (though in this case the situation is further muddied by the choice between <a href="/wiki/Wade%E2%80%93Giles" title="Wade–Giles">Wade–Giles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">pinyin</a> Chinese language <a href="/wiki/Romanization" title="Romanization">romanizations</a>). </p><p>If the book is best known by an English title, use that version of the title. </p><p>Books which have yet to be published in English are preferably referred to by an English version of the title, if the title in the original language would not easily be recognised by the majority of English speakers. For instance, (from <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago#List_of_works" title="José Saramago">José Saramago § List of works</a>): <i>Lucidity</i> and not <i>Ensaio sobre a Lucidez</i>. In this case, the publication of the English translation of the book was later announced as <i>Seeing</i>, causing the link in the author's article to be <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jos%C3%A9_Saramago&diff=39955980&oldid=38264246">changed</a> to <a href="/wiki/Seeing_(novel)" title="Seeing (novel)"><i>Seeing</i> (novel)</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="When_the_title_version_"best_known_in_English"_cannot_be_determined" data-mw-thread-id="h-When_the_title_version_"best_known_in_English"_cannot_be_determined"><span id="When_the_title_version_.22best_known_in_English.22_cannot_be_determined"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-When_the_title_version_"best_known_in_English"_cannot_be_determined"></span>When the title version "best known in English" cannot be determined<span data-mw-comment-end="h-When_the_title_version_"best_known_in_English"_cannot_be_determined"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(books)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: When the title version "best known in English" cannot be determined"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For some books it cannot be determined, not even by <i>educated guesswork</i>, which version of the title is the most common. For these books, try to determine which of the widely spread versions of the book in the English-speaking world was the <i>most authoritative original</i> (that is, the version that contributed most to the book's becoming known in the English-speaking world), and stick to the title as it appeared on that edition. </p><p>Example: <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>'s play <i>Salomé/Salome</i> was first written in French (title: <i>Salomé</i>), but the first printed edition in English, of which the translation was supervised by the author, was <i>Salome</i>. Notwithstanding that later English editions variously had either <i>Salomé</i> or <i>Salome</i> on the title page, the Wikipedia article is at <a href="/wiki/Salome_(play)" title="Salome (play)"><i>Salome</i> (play)</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Subtitles" data-mw-thread-id="h-Subtitles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Subtitles"></span>Subtitles<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Subtitles"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(books)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Subtitles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Wikipedia:Subtitles" redirects here. For information on subtitling audio and video files, see <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Timed_Text" class="extiw" title="commons:Commons:Timed Text">commons:Commons:Timed Text</a>.</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Origin_of_Species_title_page.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Origin_of_Species_title_page.jpg/200px-Origin_of_Species_title_page.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="321" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Origin_of_Species_title_page.jpg/300px-Origin_of_Species_title_page.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Origin_of_Species_title_page.jpg/400px-Origin_of_Species_title_page.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2888" data-file-height="4636"/></a><figcaption>If an authoritative edition of a book has letters of various size on its title page, everything after the largest print is (usually) considered "subtitle" in the context of this guideline</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:SUBTITLES"></span><span id="WP:SUBTITLE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:SUBTITLES&redirect=no">WP:SUBTITLES</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:SUBTITLE&redirect=no">WP:SUBTITLE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Like all articles, books (and other media such as films and video games) that have a <a href="/wiki/Subtitle_(titling)" title="Subtitle (titling)">subtitle</a> should use the work's commonly used name (following <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:COMMONNAME" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:COMMONNAME">WP:COMMONNAME</a>). For books with verbose subtitles, this often means using a concise form in preference to a full "official" name (see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CONCISE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CONCISE">WP:CONCISE</a>), but be aware that many modern titles (especially those that are part of a series, for example <i><a href="/wiki/Dune:_The_Butlerian_Jihad" title="Dune: The Butlerian Jihad">Dune: The Butlerian Jihad</a></i>) often contain subtitles that are a central part of the name of the work. When the most commonly used name is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation">ambiguous</a>, the full title and subtitle might be suitable to be used as a form of natural disambiguation (see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NATURALDIS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NATURALDIS">WP:NATURALDIS</a>). Except for extremely long ones, it is best to provide <i>redirects</i> from the title including the subtitle. </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Orlando:_A_Biography" title="Orlando: A Biography">Orlando: A Biography</a></i>, not <a href="/wiki/Orlando_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Orlando (novel)"><i>Orlando</i> (novel)</a>, nor <a href="/wiki/Orlando_(book)" class="mw-redirect" title="Orlando (book)"><i>Orlando</i> (book)</a>, both of which are redirects. (The subtitle <i>A Novel</i>, however, is not sufficient by itself to disambiguate among two or more <i>novels</i> where one bears the subtitle and another does not.)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Gene:_An_Intimate_History" title="The Gene: An Intimate History">The Gene: An Intimate History</a></i>, as more commonly known than bare <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gene" class="mw-redirect" title="The Gene">The Gene</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_History_of_Western_Philosophy" title="A History of Western Philosophy">A History of Western Philosophy</a></i>, not <i><a href="/wiki/A_History_of_Western_Philosophy_and_Its_Connection_with_Political_and_Social_Circumstances_from_the_Earliest_Times_to_the_Present_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="A History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day">A History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Social_Contract" title="The Social Contract">The Social Contract</a></i>, not <i><a href="/wiki/On_the_Social_Contract;_or,_Principles_of_Political_Rights" class="mw-redirect" title="On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Rights">On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Rights</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species" title="On the Origin of Species">On the Origin of Species</a></i>, not <i><a href="/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species_by_Means_of_Natural_Selection,_or_the_Preservation_of_Favoured_Races_in_the_Struggle_for_Life" class="mw-redirect" title="On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life">On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life</a></i>, nor <i><a href="/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species_by_Means_of_Natural_Selection" class="mw-redirect" title="On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection">On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection</a></i> (see example image →)</li></ul> <p>The standard separator for the title and the subtitle (that is, in cases where both taken together don't constitute a continuing phrase) in the page name is a colon followed by a space, as in the first example above. Other separators include a comma, <a href="/wiki/En_dash" class="mw-redirect" title="En dash">en dash</a>, or simply a space. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Standard_disambiguation" data-mw-thread-id="h-Standard_disambiguation"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Standard_disambiguation"></span>Standard disambiguation<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Standard_disambiguation"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(books)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Standard disambiguation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation">Wikipedia:Disambiguation</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:BOOKDAB"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BOOKDAB&redirect=no">WP:BOOKDAB</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>To disambiguate, add the type of literary work in parentheses, such as "(novel)", "(novella)", "(short story)", "(short story collection)", "(dialogue)", "(essay)", "(play)", "(poem)", "(poetry collection)", etc. If none of these specific qualifiers applies, "(book)" can be used. Note, however, that this qualifier may be perceived as indicating a <i>non-fiction</i> type of writing. </p><p>If further disambiguation is needed, add the author's surname in parentheses: "(Orwell novel)", "(Asimov short story)", etc. In this case it is not advised to leave out the qualifier of which type of book it is, except when referring to works of unclear classification such as <a href="/wiki/Histories_(Herodotus)" title="Histories (Herodotus)"><i>Histories</i> (Herodotus)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Histories_(Tacitus)" title="Histories (Tacitus)"><i>Histories</i> (Tacitus)</a>. Additional examples: </p> <ul><li>From <a href="/wiki/Night_and_Day_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Night and Day (disambiguation)">Night and Day (disambiguation)</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Night_and_Day_(Parker_novel)" title="Night and Day (Parker novel)"><i>Night and Day</i> (Parker novel)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Night_and_Day_(Woolf_novel)" title="Night and Day (Woolf novel)"><i>Night and Day</i> (Woolf novel)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Article_title_format" data-mw-thread-id="h-Article_title_format"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Article_title_format"></span>Article title format<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Article_title_format"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(books)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Article title format"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Titles#Article_title_format" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Article Titles">Wikipedia:Article Titles § Article title format</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(capitalization)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization)">Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization)</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Titles#Italics" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles § Italics</a></div> <p>Book titles, like names of other works, are proper nouns and thus "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LOWERCASE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LOWERCASE">lowercase second and subsequent words</a>" does not apply to them. They are usually italicized (see however also <a href="#Poems_and_lyrics">§ Poems and lyrics</a> above, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Titles#Major_works" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles § Major works</a>). </p><p>This is an additional feature that can help in <i>disambiguation</i>, for instance, for distinguishing articles on a <a href="/wiki/Category:Phrases" title="Category:Phrases">known phrase</a>, and a book that has that phrase as title, examples: </p> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/English_proverbs#C" class="extiw" title="wikiquote:English proverbs">Pearls before swine</a> refers to a Bible quote; <i><a href="/wiki/Pearls_Before_Swine" class="mw-disambig" title="Pearls Before Swine">Pearls Before Swine</a></i> can refer to (among other things) a <a href="/wiki/Pearls_Before_Swine_(comic_strip)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pearls Before Swine (comic strip)">comic strip</a> and a <a href="/wiki/God_Bless_You,_Mr._Rosewater" title="God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater">novel</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Who%27s_Afraid_of_Virginia_Woolf%3F" title="Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?">Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?</a></i> is a play, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/childrens/badwolfmid.htm">Who's afraid of the big bad wolf</a> is a line from a children's song.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Neutrality" data-mw-thread-id="h-Neutrality"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Neutrality"></span>Neutrality<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Neutrality"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(books)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Neutrality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_titles#Neutrality_in_article_titles" title="Wikipedia:Article titles">Wikipedia:Article titles § Neutrality in article titles</a></div> <p>Be aware that parenthetical qualifiers can introduce <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:POV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:POV">point of view (POV)</a> in a Wikipedia page title. For instance, in the mentioned <i><a href="/wiki/Orlando:_A_Biography" title="Orlando: A Biography">Orlando: A Biography</a></i> the author attempted (deliberately, as explained by herself) to create a fiction/non-fiction cross-over genre, and locating the article at either <a href="/wiki/Orlando_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Orlando (novel)"><i>Orlando</i> (novel)</a> or <a href="/wiki/Orlando_(biography)" class="mw-redirect" title="Orlando (biography)"><i>Orlando</i> (biography)</a>, would add <i>POV</i>. However, the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">Neutral Point of View</a> policy does not apply to redirect pages, so it is appropriate to create redirects with these titles in order to make Wikipedia easier to navigate. </p><p>When using the title <i>as written by the author</i>, and nothing else, possible implications of POV are the author's and not Wikipedia's. Trying to "purge" Wikipedia page names of an external author's intentions would be creation of a new POV; the <i>Neutral Point of View</i> policy instructs not to "correct" what authors of notable works want to express with the title they give to their work (see also <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV_tutorial#Article_names" title="Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial">Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial § Article names</a>). If the <i>book title</i> itself has controversial implications, they are better explained in the article text and not crammed in the Wikipedia page title. Hence "(book)" or a similar qualifier is not used in article titles, unless where needed for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation">disambiguation</a>. Examples: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Stupid_White_Men" title="Stupid White Men">Stupid White Men</a></i>, not <a href="/wiki/Stupid_White_Men_(book)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stupid White Men (book)"><i>Stupid White Men</i> (book)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Darwin%27s_Dangerous_Idea" title="Darwin's Dangerous Idea">Darwin's Dangerous Idea</a></i>, not <a href="/wiki/Darwin%27s_Dangerous_Idea_(book)" class="mw-redirect" title="Darwin's Dangerous Idea (book)"><i>Darwin's Dangerous Idea</i> (book)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Divine_Comedy" title="Divine Comedy">Divine Comedy</a></i>, not <a href="/wiki/Divine_Comedy_(poem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Divine Comedy (poem)"><i>Divine Comedy</i> (poem)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="See_also" data-mw-thread-id="h-See_also"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-See_also"></span>See also<span data-mw-comment-end="h-See_also"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(books)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Titles" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles</a> – info on how to represent books in <i>article text</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">Wikipedia:Citing sources</a> – a difference between <i>page names of book articles</i> and <i>books cited as reference</i>, is that in the latter case conventionally the <i>subtitle</i> is always mentioned.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(definite_and_indefinite_articles_at_beginning_of_name)#Titles_of_works" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (definite and indefinite articles at beginning of name)">Wikipedia:Naming conventions (definite and indefinite articles at beginning of name) § Titles of works</a> – examples on whether or not the page name on a book article should start with a definite or indefinite article.</li></ul>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(books)&oldid=1243792464">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(books)&oldid=1243792464</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Category</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_naming_conventions_(arts)" title="Category:Wikipedia naming conventions (arts)">Wikipedia naming conventions (arts)</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 3 September 2024, at 13:29<span class="anonymous-show"> (UTC)</span>.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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