Template talk:Infobox Book

From Wikipedia:

{{Infobox Book
  | name           =  BOOK NAME
  | title_orig     =  ORIGINAL TITLE IF NOT IN ENGLISH
  | translator     =  TRANSLATOR IF ORIGINAL NOT IN ENGLISH (OR TRANSLATORS)
  | image          =  IMAGE (prefer 1st edition - where permitted)
  | image_caption  =  IMAGE CAPTION (should describe the edition used)
  | author         =  AUTHOR (or AUTHORS)
  | illustrator    =  ILLUSTRATOR USED CONSISTENTLY THROUGHOUT (where illustrations are a major feature)
  | cover_artist   =  COVER ARTIST
  | country        =  COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION
  | language       =  LANGUAGE OF BOOK
  | series         =  SERIES IF THERE IS ONE
  | subject        =  SUBJECT (ONLY USE FOR NON-FICTION) (or SUBJECTS)
  | genre          =  GENRE (ONLY USE FOR FICTION) (or GENRES)
  | publisher      =  PUBLISHER OF MAIN PUBLICATION (prefer 1st edition)
  | release_date   =  RELEASE DATE (1st edition)
  | media_type     =  MEDIA TYPE (PAPERBACK, HARDBACK)
  | pages          =  PAGES (prefer 1st edition)
  | size_weight    =  DIMENSIONS (cm), WEIGHT (gm/kg)
  | isbn           =  ISBN (prefer 1st edition)
  | price          =  MANUFACTURER'S SUGGESTED RETAIL PRICE 
  | preceded_by    =  TITLE OF PRIOR BOOK IN SERIES
  | followed_by    =  TITLE OF SUBSEQUENT BOOK IN SERIES
}}

• For Japanese books title_orig consists of the title as "romaji (kanji)"

Price

Prices aren't included in the various infoboxes, I'd leaning towards adding them and putting a standard format for currency in the Manual of Style. The biggest discrepancy is comma/period in the decimal separator, I've typically defaulted to whatever is used in that country which is why you'll see €12,50 and €12.50.

--LLin 14:09, 11 May 2007 (CDT)

Sounds great. I've been putting prices in the notes when I can - having a 'price' field will be good. As for the Manual of Style, when the price is in units used by several countries, I've been putting in the ISO currency identifier after the amount, i.e. USD for US Dollars, CAD for Canadian, AUD for Australian, HKD for Hong Kong, GBP for Pounds Sterling, etc. At least the Yen ¥ and the Euro € have their own wiki markups for their symbols.

--Eishagishi (talk) 13:41, 16 April 2013 (CDT)