Help:Author pages

Page name

See also: Wikisource:Author names

The name of the page should not include titles. The full name of the author is preferred, unless he/she is better known by a pseudonym—but if the author has multiple pseudonyms, the real name is the best choice. Use redirects for all alternative names (see below).

Author template

Use {{Author}} at the top of the page. The template as standard is used as follows:

{{author
 | firstname    = 
 | lastname     = 
 | last_initial = 
 | birthyear    = 
 | deathyear    = 
 | description  = 
 | image        = 
 | wikipedia    = 
 | wikiquote    = 
 | commons      = 
 | commonscat   =
}}

Other optional parameters can be added:

 | invert_names   = 
 | portal         = 
 | related_author = 
 | wikinews       = 
 | wiktionary     = 
 | wikibooks      = 
 | wikiversity    = 
 | wikispecies    = 
 | meta           = 
 | defaultsort    = 
 | dates          = 
 | image_caption  = 
 | upright        = 

The parameters' usage is explained in the template documentation.

Works by the author

Immediately following the {{author}} template there should be a section named "Works" which contains the list of the author's works with a link to the main page of the work.

== Works ==

* ''[[Title]]'' (year)

If the work was originally written in a language different to English, add the name of the translator with a link to his/her page.

== Works ==

* ''[[Title]]'' (year) translated by [[Author:Translator|]]

If the author has written various types of works, use subsections in order to make finding a work easy.

== Works ==

=== Novels ===

* ''[[Title]]'' (year)

=== Poetry ===

* ''[[Title]]'' (year)

Works translated by the author

If the author has translated works into English, list them in a subsection of "Works" with the name of the original author.

== Works ==

=== Translations ===

* ''[[Title]]'' (year) by [[Author:Original author|]]

Works about the author

If there are works about the author on Wikisource, list them in a new section whose name includes "Works about" followed by the family name of the author.

== Works about Family name==

* ''[[Title]]'' (year) by [[Author:|]]
* ''[[Title]]'' (year) by [[Author:|]], translated by [[Author:|]]

Copyright tag

See also: Help:Copyright tags

Authors should have a copyright tag, just like individual works, to indicate the status of their works. The most common copyright tags are:

• If the author died over 100 years ago and their works were published prior to 1923, use {{PD-old}}
• If the author died more recently but their works were still published prior to 1923, use {{Pd/1923}}
• If any works were published after 1922 and before 1964 and their copyright non-renewal is confirmed, use {{PD-US-no-renewal}}
• If any works were published between 1964 and 1996, use {{Pd/1996}}

With all of these templates except {{PD-old}}, if the year of the author's death is known, it can be added as a parameter to the template. For example: {{Pd/1923|year of death}}

See individual copyright tags for more information.

Categories

See also: Help:Categorization and Category:Authors

The {{author}} template automatically adds categories about: the initial letter of the family name, the period of life, the years of birth and death. The copyright tag adds a category about the copyright status of author's works. Optional categories can be added manually. Add them as follows, using the name of the more specific categories you find in these category trees.

[[Category:Name of the category]]

Interlinks

If the author has a page at Wikisource in another language, add an interlink as follows. You can add several interlinks.

[[language code:Name of the namespace in that language:Name of the author in that language]]

For example, [[la:Scriptor:Gaius Iulius Caesar]].

After creating the author page

Once you have done all that is specified above (where applicable), preview the page, verify that all works well, then save. After doing this, add the author to one of these lists.

Wikisource:Authors-A · Wikisource:Authors-B · Wikisource:Authors-C · Wikisource:Authors-D · Wikisource:Authors-E · Wikisource:Authors-F · Wikisource:Authors-G · Wikisource:Authors-H · Wikisource:Authors-I · Wikisource:Authors-J · Wikisource:Authors-K · Wikisource:Authors-L · Wikisource:Authors-M · Wikisource:Authors-N · Wikisource:Authors-O · Wikisource:Authors-P · Wikisource:Authors-Q · Wikisource:Authors-R · Wikisource:Authors-S · Wikisource:Authors-T · Wikisource:Authors-U · Wikisource:Authors-V · Wikisource:Authors-W · Wikisource:Authors-X · Wikisource:Authors-Y · Wikisource:Authors-Z

Disambiguation and redirects

See also: Help:Disambiguation

If there are authors with the same name, the names of their pages should contain their birth and death years in form (YYYY-YYYY) after their name. In the disambiguation page use {{disambiguation}} followed by links to each author's page.

Create a redirect at every author's alternative name. The text to use there is #REDIRECT[[Author:Name of the target page]].

See also

• Wikisource:Style guide