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The title page often shows the title of the work, the person or body responsible for its intellectual content, and the imprint, which contains the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication. [2] Particularly in paperback editions it may contain a shorter title than the cover or lack a descriptive subtitle.
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Example: Oscar Wilde's play Salomé/Salome was first written in French (title: Salomé), but the first printed edition in English, of which the translation was supervised by the author, was Salome. Notwithstanding that later English editions variously had either Salomé or Salome on the title page, the Wikipedia article is at Salome.
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 ...
For historical works, follow the dominant usage in modern, English-language, reliable sources. Examples: Les Liaisons dangereuses (French; the English title is Dangerous Liaisons) El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (Spanish; the English title is The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, or Don Quixote for short)
The MediaWiki software is configured so that a page title on the English Wikipedia (as stored in the database) cannot begin with a lower-case letter, and links that begin with a lower-case letter are treated as if capitalized, i.e. [[foo]] is treated the same as [[Foo]]. Examples of articles affected by this problem are: eBay, located at EBay
A frontispiece in books is a decorative or informative illustration facing a book's title page, usually on the left-hand, or verso, page opposite the right-hand, or recto page of a book. [1] In some ancient editions or in modern luxury editions the frontispiece features thematic or allegorical elements, in others is the author's portrait that ...
The name or names given in the first sentence does not always match the article title. This page gives advice on the contents of the first sentence, not the article title. By the design of Wikipedia's software, an article can have only one title. When this title is a name, significant alternative names for the topic should be mentioned in the ...