Template:Infobox publisher/doc

This template is designed for articles about publishing companies.

Usage

Copy this version to use, remove hidden notes (both the <!-- and --> characters) that surround certain entries, in order for the data you enter to appear in the published article. All fields must be lowercase, and all are optional.

{{{name}}}

[[File:{{{image}}}|{{{image_size}}}|alt={{{alt}}}|upright=1]] {{{caption}}}
Parent company	{{{parent}}}
Status	{{{status}}}
Traded as	{{{traded_as}}}
Predecessor	{{{predecessor}}}
Founded	{{{founded}}}
Founder	{{{founder}}}
Defunct	{{{defunct}}}
Successor	{{{successor}}}
Country of origin	{{{country}}}
Headquarters location	{{{headquarters}}}
Distribution	{{{distribution}}}
Key people	{{{keypeople}}}
Publication types	{{{publications}}}
Nonfiction topics	{{{topics}}}
Fiction genres	{{{genre}}}
Imprints	{{{imprints}}}
Revenue	{{{revenue}}}
Owner(s)	{{{owner}}}
No. of employees	{{{numemployees}}}
Official website	{{{website}}}

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Official website	{{#property:P856}}

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Description of fields

No fields are mandatory but fill in as many fields as possible.

• name: publisher name, especially if article title has a dab ("Awesome Fiction (publisher)")
• image: An image of the company logo; make sure it is non-free use if uploading. Do not use a thumbnail or include a caption, but include the file name without square brackets.
• image_size (optional): Specify the image size in pixels, e.g. 250px.
• parent: If a subsidiary, include the parent company.
• status: legal status, or active. Use defunct with end date for closed publishers.
• traded_as: The stock exchange(s) and stock ticker symbol(s) of publicly traded companies, using stock ticker templates. Information about the company's status as a component of a major index can also be added. If there is more than one entry, use {{ubl}} to format the entries. A list of available stock ticker symbol templates is available at Category:Ticker symbol templates.
  Examples: {{NYSE|DLB}} OR {{ubl|{{NASDAQ|MSFT}}|{{SEHK|4338}}|[[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] component|[[NASDAQ-100]] component|[[S&P 500]] component}}
• founded: Year the company was started, if known. Use the template {{Start date}}, as in {{Start date|YEAR OF FOUNDING}}
• founder: Name of the founder(s); wikilink if possible.
• country: Include the country where the publisher is based. Do not use flag icons, as this places an unnecessary emphasis on nationality; see MOS:FLAG for a detailed rationale.
• headquarters: City where the headquarters of the publisher are located (do not use the headquarters of the parent company, that will be specified on the parent company's page).
• distribution: The distribution of the publisher, where its books are sold. Use regional if local distribution only, national if distribution is to an entire country, international if distribution is to multiple countries, and worldwide if it distributes books to anywhere on Earth.
• publications: to indicate the types of publications, such as books, magazines or scientific journals.
• topics:Specify non-fiction topics, such as medicine, science, social sciences, psychology; the level of detail depends on the breadth covered by the publisher.
• genre: If the publisher publishes fiction, specify the genre.
• imprints: If the company has a small number of imprints, list them. Otherwise, list them in the body text with a heading of ==Imprints== and link to it using a within-page link - [[#Imprints|Many]] produces Many and will automatically link to the imprints section heading.
• website or url: Specify the official website. Use {{URL}}. If not specified, the infobox will display the (P856) property from the publisher's Wikidata entry, when available (see Oxford University Press for an example). To prevent the display of the URL from Wikidata, specify |website=none or |url=none.

Example

Awesome Fiction

Example publisher logo Example publisher logo
Parent company	Awesome Distributions Inc.
Status	Active
Traded as	n/a
Predecessor	Predecessor company
Founded	1990 (1990)
Founder	Awesome Q. Publisher
Defunct	n/a
Successor	n/a
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	New York City
Distribution	Worldwide
Key people	Jane Doe, CEO
Publication types	Books and magazines
Nonfiction topics	Science
Fiction genres	Science fiction
Imprints	Awescience (science) Awescifi (science fiction)
Revenue	US$1 billion (2013)
Owner(s)	Owner
No. of employees	500
Official website	example.com

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Awesome Fiction

Example publisher logo Example publisher logo
Parent company	Awesome Distributions Inc.
Status	Active
Traded as	n/a
Predecessor	Predecessor company
Founded	1990 (1990)
Founder	Awesome Q. Publisher
Defunct	n/a
Successor	n/a
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	New York City
Distribution	Worldwide
Key people	Jane Doe, CEO
Publication types	Books and magazines
Nonfiction topics	Science
Fiction genres	Science fiction
Imprints	Awescience (science) Awescifi (science fiction)
Revenue	US$1 billion (2013)
Owner(s)	Owner
No. of employees	500
Official website	example.com

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Microformat

The HTML mark-up produced by this template includes an hCard microformat that makes an organization's details readily parsable by computer programs. This aids tasks such as the cataloguing of articles and maintenance of databases. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please visit the Microformat WikiProject.

Subtemplates

• Use {{Start date and age}} for the date on which an organisation was "established", "founded", "opened" or otherwise started, unless that date is before 1583 CE.
• Use {{URL}} for an organisation's URL.

Please do not remove instances of these subtemplates.

Classes used

The HTML classes of this microformat include:

• adr
• agent
• category
• country-name
• extended-address
• fn
• geo
• label
• latitude
• locality
• longitude
• nickname
• note
• org
• region
• street-address
• url
• vcard

Please do not rename or remove these classes
nor collapse nested elements which use them.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Infobox publisher in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Infobox publisher

An infobox for articles about publishing houses/companies

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
name	name	no description	Unknown	optional
image	image	no description	Unknown	optional
image size	image size	no description	Unknown	optional
imagesize	imagesize	no description	Unknown	optional
image_upright	image_upright	no description	Unknown	optional
alt	alt	no description	Unknown	optional
image caption	image caption	no description	Unknown	optional
caption	caption	no description	Unknown	optional
parent	parent	no description	Unknown	optional
status	status	no description	Unknown	optional
traded_as	traded_as	no description	Unknown	optional
nasdaq	nasdaq	no description	Unknown	optional
predecessor	predecessor	no description	Unknown	optional
founded	founded	no description	Unknown	optional
founder	founder founders	no description	Unknown	optional
defunct	defunct dissolved	no description	Unknown	optional
successor	successor	no description	Unknown	optional
country	country	no description	Unknown	optional
headquarters	headquarters	no description	Unknown	optional
distribution	distribution	no description	Unknown	optional
keypeople	keypeople	no description	Unknown	optional
publications	publications	no description	Unknown	optional
topics	topics	no description	Unknown	optional
genre	genre	no description	Unknown	optional
imprints	imprints	no description	Unknown	optional
revenue	revenue	no description	Unknown	optional
owner	owner	no description	Unknown	optional
numemployees	numemployees	no description	Unknown	optional
website	website url	no description	Unknown	optional

Tracking category

• Category:Pages using infobox publisher with unknown parameters (0)

See also

• {{Infobox book}}