Category:Books from the real world
Writing " . . . from the real world" articles
Books from the real world is a member of a category that organizes things within Doctor Who universe. As such it (or, if a subcategory, articles within it) must be written from that point of view. Care must be taken with articles or subcategories like this to ensure that we stress only what is known within the DWU.
Main body of article
Please remember that the main parts of articles within a DWU category should only give information that is actually provided in the story or stories concerned. For instance, an article about a song from the real world shouldn't state the writers of that song, its highest UK chart position or, generally, the year in which it debuted. Almost never is such information provided in a DWU source. Likewise, people from the real world usually are not given full birth and death dates or detailed career information in a DWU story. We don't know from a DWU source, for instance, even what the dates of Margaret Thatcher's prime ministership were. They could be different from that which obtained in the real world, especially given the presence of strictly fictional prime ministers, like Harriet Jones. While copying Wikipedia articles is not forbidden by our Manual of Style, it should be strictly avoided for subjects within the " . . . from the real world" categories. Limit yourself to only that information which can be seen or heard from the story concerned. Remember, all these articles will have a wikipediainfo link, anyway, allowing readers to easily access Wikipedia, if they so choose.
Behind-the-scenes sections
"Common knowledge" about subjects like these should only be given in the behind the scenes section, or, if brief, in an italicized section beneath the article proper. Information given in the behind-the-scenes section should be limited to only what is relevant to amplify the meaning of the main part of the article. For instance, the real world hosts of the television programme, What Not to Wear are relevant to the DWU article, because those presenters provided the voices of the hosts in the DWU version of What Not to Wear seen in Bad Wolf. However, their names should not be given in the main body of the article, because that fact is not established by the episode. Instead, the information is best included in the behind-the-scenes section. By contrast, Orlando Bloom's involvement in The Lord of the Rings and The Pirates of the Caribbean is completely irrelevant to the DWU — until and unless either of those facts are established by the DWU or he participates in a DWU production — and shouldn't be included in the behind-the-scenes section.
Subcategories
This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 215 total.
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- Harry Potter
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Historia Regum Britanniae
- History book
- A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (in-universe)
- The Hobbit
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- The House at Pooh Corner
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
- How to Be Topp
- The Hunger Games
- The Hungry Tiger of Oz
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- Madness and Civilisation
- The Magician's Nephew
- Malleus Maleficarum
- The Manuscript Found at Saragossa
- Martin Chuzzlewit
- The Master and Margarita
- Mein Kampf
- The Metamorphosis
- Micah Clarke
- Middlemarch
- Miss Marple (series)
- Les Misérables
- Moby-Dick
- Moll Flanders
- Monty Python's Big Red Book
- The Moonstone
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- The Myth of the Twentieth Century
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- The Parliament of Blood
- Pensées
- The Perfumed Garden
- Persuasion
- Peter Pan
- The Phantom of the Opera
- The Phoenix and the Carpet
- Physics for the Inquiring Mind
- The Pickwick Papers
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Praxis (book)
- Present Day Metallurgical Engineering on the Rand
- The Price of Salt
- Pride and Prejudice
- Principia
- Principia Mathematica
- The Prisoner of Zenda
- Puss in Boots
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- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
- The Secret Garden
- The Secret Seven
- Sense and Sensibility
- Shall We Tell the President?
- The Sneetches and Other Stories
- The Snowman
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- The Song of the Wren
- Spycatcher
- The Stark Munro Letters
- Stig of the Dump
- The Story of Fester Cat
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- Stranger in a Strange Land
- Struwwelpeter
- A Study in Scarlet
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- The Tale of Beowulf
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Tales of the Dead
- Talmud
- Thankless Child
- The Grimoire of Pope Honorius
- Theatre of Curious Acts
- Thesaurus
- Thomas the Tank Engine
- The Thoughts of Chairman Mao
- The Three Musketeers
- Through the Looking-Glass
- Thumbelina
- The Tiger Who Came to Tea
- The Time Machine
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- Torah
- The Travels of Marco Polo
- Treasure Island
- The Trial
- Tristram Shandy
- Troilus and Criseyde
- The Tumbled House