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Introduction

To help give users a consistent experience on the site, this page will outline the standard format for an Album page. Please note that soundtracks, compilation albums by multiple artists, singles and films are formatted slightly differently than the guidelines given here.

Note: EPs should be formatted in the same way as an album.

Page Name Guidelines

Capitalize the first letter of every word in the artist's name, the album's title and the song's title. For more information about LyricWiki's page naming policy, see Page Names.

Album Page Format

The Album page consists of three major sections:

  1. Album template
  2. List of the songs on the album
  3. AlbumFooter template

Other sections, giving important and relevant information about the album (credits, awards, historical relevance, etc.), can be added after the song list, under an appropriately descriptive heading.

Template

The following is a generic template of how the Album page is formatted. Replace the sections in <<>> with the correct information and remove the <<>> completely: 

{{Album
|Artist    = <<Artist Name>>
|Album     = <<Album Title>>
|fLetter   = <<First Letter of Album Title>>
|Released  = <<YEAR>>
|Genre     = <<Genre>>
|Length    = <<mm:ss>>
|Cover     = <<PictureName.jpg>>
|Wikipedia = <<Wikipedia Page Name>>
|star      = <<Violet, Green, Bronze, Silver or Gold>>
}}

# '''[[<<Artist Name>>:<<Song One>>|<<Song One>>]]'''
# '''[[<<Artist Name>>:<<Song Two>>|<<Song Two>>]]'''

{{AlbumFooter
|akuma       = <<akuma.de code>>
|asin        = <<Amazon.com asin Code>>
|iTunes      = <<iTunes Code>>
|allmusic    = <<AllMusic Code>>
|discogs     = <<Discogs Code>>
|musicbrainz = <<MusicBrainz Code>>
}}

Album Template

The first item on the page is the Album template. This template creates a link back to the artist page, categorizes the album by its initial, year of release and genre, gives the length of the album, and creates an area for the album cover to be displayed.

The format is as follows. Replace the sections in <<>> with the correct information and remove the <<>> completely: 

{{Album
|Artist    = <<Artist Name>>
|Album     = <<Album Title>>
|fLetter   = <<First Letter of Album Title>>
|Released  = <<YEAR>>
|Genre     = <<Genre>>
|Length    = <<mm:ss>>
|Cover     = <<PictureName.jpg>>
|Wikipedia = <<Wikipedia Page Name>>
|star      = <<Violet, Green, Bronze, Silver or Gold>>
}}

Album Types

The album type (double album, EP, single, soundtrack, box set...) can be specified using the |Type = <<album type>> parameter. Any type can be entered, however, three types have special functions:

Artist

  • This parameter produces a link to the artist page and must therefore be the same as the artist page's name.
  • To display a different link text, the parameter |Alias = <<display text>> can be used.

Album

  • This parameter does not have to follow LyricWiki's page naming policy, instead it should follow the "official" album title as closely as possible.

fLetter

  • The following guidelines apply to the |fLetter = parameter:
    • The very first letter should always be used, even if the first word is A, An, or The. Example: for The it would be fLetter=T.
    • If the first letter is a number, use: fLetter=0-9.
    • If the first letter is a symbol (like ";", "(", "-", "*", or "$"), then use: fLetter=Symbol.
    • If the first letter is a character from a non-Latin writing system that uses symbols for entire words, (Chinese, Japanese, & Korean), then the fLetter is the language of the character. For example: fLetter=Chinese
    • If the first letter is a character in a non-Latin alphabet such as Cyrillic, Greek, etc., or is an "accented" character such as Á, Ö, or Ç, use the true fLetter character, not fLetter=Symbol.

Released

Enter the year of release, not the date.

Genre

See Category:Genre for an indication of the most commonly used genres.

Length

The length of the album can often be found on the album's article page at Wikipedia, or on its MusicBrainz page. It should be specified in minutes and seconds, even if it is longer than one hour, e.g. 77:04, not 1h 17m 04s, 1:17:04 or 01:17:04. Exceptions can be made for multiple disc sets, where the format h:mm:ss can be used, e.g. 4:17:51.

Star

Album pages are ranked, like song and artist pages, by their level of completion. This displays as a coloured star at the top of the Album page. The ranking commences with Green and this should be added together with the parameter |star= in the Album template where this is absent. The page can be upgraded from Green to Bronze, Silver, or Gold. Violet is a colour reserved for pages with special needs.

Song List

The middle portion of the Album page is the listing of the songs on the album.

  • Songs should be listed in the order they appear on the album.
  • Capitalize the First Letter Of Every Word Of The Song Name before the pipe "|" character. See LyricWiki:Page Names for more information.
  • The text after the pipe character determines how the link displays on the artist page. This should adhere to the "official" capitalization as used by the artist.
Example: 
[[Artist:Correct CapItaliZation Of ThE SoNg NaME|oFfIciaL capItaliZation OF sONg nAmE]]
  • Special notations about a song (such as featured artists, whether the song is a bonus track, instrumental, live performance, etc.) should be placed after the link to the song, not as part of the song's name. The song title should be kept as close to its official title as possible.
Example: 
# '''[[<<Artist Name>>:<<Song>>|<<Song>>]]''' {{ft|Someone Else}}
  • If the album is a multi-disc set, then the discs should be separated with subheadings.
Example: 
{{H4|Disc One}}
# '''[[<<Artist Name>>:<<Song One>>|<<Song One>>]]'''
# '''[[<<Artist Name>>:<<Song Two>>|<<Song Two>>]]'''
# '''[[<<Artist Name>>:<<Song Three>>|<<Song Three>>]]'''

{{H4|Disc Two}}
# '''[[<<Artist Name>>:<<Song Four>>|<<Song Four>>]]'''
# '''[[<<Artist Name>>:<<Song Five>>|<<Song Five>>]]'''
# '''[[<<Artist Name>>:<<Song Six>>|<<Song Six>>]]'''

A tool is available (based on a script provided by one of our users, Lentando) that will generate a formatted song list from a list of tracks – Wikifyer.

Album Footer

The final item on the Album page is the AlbumFooter template. The basic AlbumFooter template is: 

{{AlbumFooter
|akuma       = <<akuma.de code>>
|asin        = <<Amazon.com ASIN code>>
|iTunes      = <<iTunes code>>
|allmusic    = <<AllMusic code>>
|discogs     = <<Discogs code>>
|musicbrainz = <<MusicBrainz release code>>
}}
  • All parameters are optional.
  • Two additional parameters, "romanizedArtist" and "romanizedAlbum", can be used when the artist name is in an alphabet other than Latin, e.g. Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Japanese, Hebrew, etc.

For details on how to complete the AlbumFooter and a complete list of parameters that the AlbumFooter currently accepts, see Template:AlbumFooter.

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