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This help page discusses songs that have been released in more than one language. If you would like to translate a song, please see Help:Translations instead.


General Information

  • Please enter song lyrics in their original language and script.
  • If a song has been released in more than one language, create separate pages for each release and link them to each other (see section "Helper Templates" below).
  • If more than one language is used within a song, enter each language in the "language" parameter of the SongFooter in alphabetical order, separated only by a hyphen, e.g.: "English-German", "German-Russian".

Article Titles

Helper Templates

  • The {{MultipleLanguages}} template was created to allow for easier navigation between the different language releases of a song. For this to be effective, the template needs to be added to each release of the song. The template should be placed on each song page directly above the <lyrics> tag, or above the {{TranslatedSong}} template if the latter is also used on the page.
  • The different language versions should be listed in the same order within the template on all pages on which it is used.

Example:

{{MultipleLanguages
|artist=David Bowie
|"Heroes"/en
|Helden/de
|Héros/fr
|"Heroes"/"Helden"/English-German}}

This produces:

 Translation.pngThis song has been released in several languages:
English: ""Heroes"", Deutsch: "Helden", Français: "Héros", English-German: ""Heroes"/"Helden""
  • The {{artist}} parameter is optional and usually only necessary if the song title contains a colon ":".
  • See here for a list of language codes.

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