CZ:Works

This page contains standards and regulations related to Works subpages.

We would like a historian, literary scholar, philosopher, or other humanist to help fill out this page. It should describe our policies with regard to lists of written works (books, poems, written music, etc.).

What are Works pages?

Works pages contain lists of books, articles, artworks, etc., authored or otherwise created by the person who is the subject of the main article. They are separate from Bibliography pages, which contain lists of books, articles, etc. about the subject of the main article.

The name of the author need not be included on Works subpages, except where there was a co-author. It is understood that the author of the work is the person named in the main article.

Works pages fulfill a very particular need: they provide a listing of the works which appeared in an author's lifetime (and, in some cases, posthumously). The works page is not the location for a detailed discussion of the chronology of different works-- this belongs in the main article or perhaps on a Timeline subpage. It is not the location for a discussion of different editions of an authors' works; that belongs on the bibliography subpage.

For modern authors, the date for a given work should be the date of publication. For earlier authors, the dating should follow the conventions of the field.

Purpose

To list the major works of the person in the article.

Guidelines for editing

Since there's nothing here yet, I will provide a pointer to an article that has one of these: Claude Shannon. I was working on this article and others felt that the works needed to go on a separate tab, which I personally would not have chosen, since I intended to center the article around a discussion of these works, but after I saw it, I thought I could live with it, and that it was perhaps even rather nice.Pat Palmer 15:15, 10 May 2008 (CDT)

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