Revision as of 20:00, 25 May 2026 by wikipedia>Jonesey95(partial revert of mixed up parameters and new parameters added without discussion or documentation or testing. Preserving some helpful changes.)
This template adds an automatically generated short description.If the automatic short description is not desired, override it by adding {{Short description}} at the top of the article.
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|author= – name of author
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|title_orig= – if title has been translated, title in original language
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|translator= – name of translator, if applicable
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|illustrator= – name of illustrator, if applicable
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|country= – home country of author
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|language= – original language of story
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|series= – series the story is a part of, if applicable
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|genre= – genre the story falls into, see below
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|published_in= – what the story was first released in, (e.g. the name of the anthology, magazine, etc.)
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|publication_type= – how the story was first released, e.g. anthology, periodical, etc
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|publisher= – name of publisher responsible for first edition
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|media_type= – the media the story was first released in, e.g. hardback, paperback, magazine, newspaper, online
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|pub_date= – date of first release or publication
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|english_pub_date= – if applicable, date of first publication in English
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|preceded_by= – if applicable, the name of the work preceding the story in a series
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|followed_by= – if applicable, the name of the work following the story in a series
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|preceded_by_italics= – replaces <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|preceded_by= if the preceding story requires an italic title (e.g. a novel)
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|followed_by_italics= – replaces <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|followed_by= if the following story requires an italic title (e.g. a novel). if applicable, a link to the text on Wikisource
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|pages= – how many pages long the work is (prefer 1st edition; specify edition if otherwise)
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|award= – award the work has won (if multiple awards, use <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|awards= instead)
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|awards= – list of awards the work has won (if a single award, use <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|award= instead)
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|native_wikisource= – Title of work's page if hosted at a non-English Wikisource.
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|orig_lang_code= – Two digit language code to refer non-English wikisource. Drawn from ISO language codes. Required to make native_wikisource parameter to work.
For genre, see List of literary genres. There are older deprecated aliases for parameters pub_date, published_in and english_pub_date called release_date, released_in and english_release_date.
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