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The title page of a book, thesis or other written work is the page at or near the front which displays its title, subtitle, author, publisher, and edition, often artistically decorated. (A half title , by contrast, displays only the title of a work.)
Page name is a term for the title of any page on Wikipedia. A page is named for the convenience of linking to it by its title. It is shown on the title line, near the top, in large bold letters. On Wikipedia, a database stores all the pages, and so a page is also named for the convenience of a database query to get that page. In the case of ...
The title line of a Media page is File:pagename. (This title is only helpful in some cases.) A Special page follows no such rules. Its title displays no namespace, and can change its pagename. See for example the title of any page listed at Special:SpecialPages. A virtual page is not a page name stored in the database as wikitext.
A Wikipedia article title is the large heading displayed above the article's content, and the basis for the article's page name and URL. [ a ] The title indicates what the article is about and distinguishes it from other articles.
Half-title page of Picturesque New Guinea (1887), with ornamentation above and below the title. The half-title or bastard title is a page carrying nothing but the title of a book—as opposed to the title page, which also lists subtitle, author, publisher and edition. The half-title is usually counted as the first page (p. i) in a printed book. [1]
The counterpart at the bottom of the page is called a page footer (or simply footer); its content is typically similar and often complementary to that of the page header. In publishing and certain types of academic writing , a running head , less often called a running header , running headline or running title , is a header that appears on ...
Colophons are traditionally printed at the ends of books (see History below for the origin of the word), but sometimes the same information appears elsewhere (when it may still be referred to as colophon) and many modern (post-1800) books bear this information on the title page [2] or on the verso of the title leaf, [3] which is sometimes ...
The title traditionally appears on the page as a single line in capital letters, but modern half title pages may be scaled-down versions of the typography from the full title page. The half title page faces a blank verso or an endpaper. [6] Frontispiece: Author or publisher: A decorative illustration on the verso facing the title page.