Help:Multiple Languages

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Contents 1 General Information 2 Article Titles 3 Helper Templates

General Information

• Songs should be provided in their original language and script.
• Songs released in multiple languages should have separate pages for each release and should be linked to each other.

Article Titles

• As with all song pages, the pagename should be "Artist:Song Title". Example: Nena:99 Luftballons and Nena:99 Red Balloons.
• If two versions of a song have the same title, a disambiguating phrase needs to be added in parentheses to the version which is not in the artist's native or preferred language. Example: ABBA:Waterloo and ABBA:Waterloo (German Version).

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:

• The artist parameter is optional and usually only necessary if the song title contains a colon ":".
• See here for a list of language codes.