Template:Infobox book/doc
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A formatted infobox for book-length secondary works on cannabis history, ethnobotany, policy and culture. Used on article pages for scholarly monographs, edited volumes and major reports that warrant their own prose treatment on the wiki.
The template sits beside Infobox Historical Source and ResearchItem in the literature taxonomy. Historical Source covers primary texts of any period, from sixteenth-century herbals to twentieth-century field reports. ResearchItem is a light catalogue entry for journal articles, fed by the research ingest pipeline. Infobox book is for the works in between: books that earn their own page because they synthesise, argue or document at a scale a catalogue row cannot carry. A book qualifies if it would need an article-length page to explain its argument, sources or significance to landrace conservation. A single chapter or article does not qualify and belongs in ResearchItem. A primary historical document, including a very recent one, belongs in Infobox Historical Source.
The status parameter carries forthcoming, in print and out of print, so books awaiting release sit in the same template as published ones without requiring a separate workflow.
Usage
{{Infobox book
|title = Ganja Matters
|subtitle = Empire and the Pursuits of Cannabis in British India
|author = Utathya Chattopadhyaya
|author_affiliation = University of California, Santa Barbara
|publisher = University of California Press
|place = Oakland
|year = forthcoming
|status = Forthcoming
|language = English
|isbn = 9780520425682 (paper), 9780520425699 (cloth)
|oa_url = https://www.luminosoa.org/
|subjects = Colonial cannabis policy, Excise and taxation, Gender, Labour
|relevance = Social history of colonial ganja regulation in Bengal, the heartland of South Asian landrace ganja
|regional_cat = India
}}
Parameters
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| title | Yes | Main title of the book |
| subtitle | No | Subtitle, shown beneath the title |
| image | No | Filename of cover image. Only upload if the rights allow it |
| image_caption | No | Caption for the image |
| author | Yes | Author or authors |
| author_affiliation | No | Author's institutional affiliation |
| editor | No | Editor, for edited volumes |
| publisher | No | Publisher name |
| place | No | Place of publication |
| year | Yes | Year of publication, or forthcoming
|
| status | No | Publication status. One of: Forthcoming, In print, Out of print |
| edition | No | Edition designation if not the first |
| pages | No | Page count |
| language | No | Language of the text |
| series | No | Book series, if part of one |
| subjects | No | Comma-separated list of subjects or themes. Each value is stored as a separate semantic property |
| relevance | No | One-line note on the book's relevance to landrace conservation. Displayed as a highlighted row, no equivalent body section is required |
| isbn | No | ISBN or ISBNs. Multiple editions can be listed in one field |
| doi | No | DOI, without the https://doi.org/ prefix
|
| oa_url | No | Open-access edition URL |
| regional_cat | No | Regional category. Country or region the book primarily concerns (eg India, Indonesia, Southeast Asia). Leave blank for works without a clear regional focus |
Body layout
A book page using this template carries a six-section prose structure beneath the infobox.
Lead. Two to four sentences identifying the book by title and subtitle, naming the author and publisher, locating it in the field and stating its central argument. No heading. The infobox sits to the right of the lead.
Author. Short paragraph on the author's scholarly position and prior work on the topic, biographical only as far as it contextualises the book.
Argument. The book's thesis and how it is organised, drawn from the publisher's description, the table of contents and the introduction where accessible. State the argument in your own words. Direct quotation is reserved for phrases that lose meaning when paraphrased, and stays well under fifteen words per quote with one quote per source.
Sources and method. The archive base, field sites and methodological frame. This section earns its keep on the wiki by telling future contributors where the book's primary material can be followed up.
Reception. Reviews, endorsements and academic discussion. For published books, paraphrase from review essays and cite each one. For forthcoming books, pre-publication endorsements and the reception of the author's prior work serve as proxies.
See also. Related books, primary sources and region pages already on the wiki.
References. CS1 throughout. for the book itself and chapters within it, {{cite book}}: Empty citation (help) for reviews and online material, {{cite web}}: Empty citation (help) for cited articles. {{cite journal}}: Empty citation (help)
closes the section.
The infobox carries the wiki-specific relevance note as a one-line highlighted row; no parallel body section is needed.
Categories
All pages using this template are placed in Category:Books. A regional category set by regional_cat is added when present.
Semantic properties
The template emits the following SMW properties via #set. Display-only parameters (subtitle, image, image_caption, author_affiliation, editor, edition, pages, series, relevance) are not stored. The regional_cat value drives a category rather than a property.
| Parameter | Property |
|---|---|
| title | Has source title |
(fixed value Book) |
Has source type |
| author | Has source author |
| publisher | Has publisher |
| place | Has publication place |
| year | Has publication date |
| language | Has source language |
| status | Has publication status |
| isbn | Has ISBN |
| doi | Has DOI |
| oa_url | Has open access URL |
| subjects | Has subject (one value per comma-separated entry) |