Oyé Expanse-Wiki editors!
Not sure if this is the right place for announcements like this, but anyway ;)
I'ld like to introduce a new handy template I've made to use for Book references. After I saw at least a dozen different ways and styles for references to books/chapters, I thought it might be helpful to have a handy and easy to use template for this. So here it is: {{Bookref}}
It's very simple to use and to remember (I hope), just enter the 2 parameters bookcode (like LW, AG, TW, etc.) and the number of the chapter and it will do the rest, including adding the appropriate viewpoint character.
- Examples
{{Bookref|LW|3}} → The Expanse Novel Leviathan Wakes - Chapter 3: Holden
{{Bookref|AG|33}} → The Expanse Novel Abaddon's Gate - Chapter 33: Bull
{{Bookref|TW|42}} → The Expanse Novel Tiamat's Wrath - Chapter 42: Alex
Use "p" and "e" for Prologues/Epilogues (or 0 and 99):
{{Bookref|AG|p}} → The Expanse Novel Abaddon's Gate - Prologue: Manéo
{{Bookref|PR|e}} → The Expanse Novel Persepolis Rising - Epilogue: Duarte
Use "i1" to "i6" for the 6 interludes in CB, or "i" for the one in TW:
{{Bookref|CB|i4}} → The Expanse Novel Cibola Burn - Interlude: The Investigator (33.5)
{{Bookref|TW|i}} → The Expanse Novel Tiamat's Wrath - Interlude: The Dancing Bear (24.5)
To refer to whole books or to novellas without chapters just use the bookcode only:
{{Bookref|NG}} → The Expanse Novel Nemesis Games
{{Bookref|A}} → The Expanse Novella Auberon
{{Bookref|D}} → The Expanse Short Story "Drive"
Or refer to more than one chapter using the optional parameter multi=
{{Bookref|CW|multi=3, 11 & 34}} → The Expanse Novel Caliban's War - Chapters 3, 11 & 34
Find more examples and all special cases in the documentation.
Hope you like it.
Feel free to comment or make further suggestions. :)
Btw., I made a similar template for TV references too: {{TVref}}
{{TVref|3|7}} → The Expanse TV Series - Season 3, Episode 7: "Delta-V"
More on its documentation page.
PS: I log all my templates here!