Contents 1 General Information 2 Wikipedia 2.1 Floating Box 2.2 Simple Text 2.3 Simple Text with Icon 3 Song Flagging 3.1 Multiple Languages 3.2 Instrumental Tracks 4 Informational templates 4.1 Awards 5 Flagging for Edits 6 Artist Pages 7 Multiple languages 8 User (talk) pages 9 User pages 10 Wiki restrictions 11 External linking 12 Administration

General Information

Templates are provided to reduce the amount of repetitive wikitext in pages. Templates are a sort of shorthand, to make creating and editing wiki pages easier. Templates also help to make LyricWiki visually more uniform. Templates are placed within two sets of curly brackets, or braces, {{}} and contain one or more divisions of information.

If the template has more than one division, each division is separated by a vertical line, or pipe |. The first division contains the name of the template, followed by any number of divisions containing information that are used to complete the template. More often, the template uses named parameters to make the order irrelevant and the parameters optional.

This page contains a listing of all frequently used and useful templates available on LyricWiki. If you find a template to be missing, please insert it at the appropriate location in the list. For documentation and use of the template, please refer to the template page.

Templates without much information are usually formatted as:

{{Name|Division Two|Division Three}}

Templates containing more information are usually formatted as:

{{Name
|Division Two 
|Division Three 
|Division Four 
|Named Parameter One = value 
|Named Parameter Two = value 
}}

NOTE: Like all pages on LyricWiki, templates are case-sensitive, except the first letter of the template name. Therefore, {{Wikipedia}} and {{wikipedia}} will produce the same result, but {{WikiPedia}} won't.

Wikipedia

All LyricWiki articles for which a Wikipedia page exists should include a link to that page. The {{ArtistHeader}}, {{Album}} and {{SongFooter}} templates have parameters for producing such a link. Here are some additional options:

Floating Box

A floating box containing the article link and the Wikipedia graphic.

For example, the Wikipedia template:

{{Wikipedia|Country (film)|Country}}

produces:

In this example, the first division holds the template's name (in this case, Wikipedia), followed by two divisions that specify information for completing the template. The second division specifies the name of the Wikipedia article being linked to. In this case, "Country" wouldn't be specific enough to link to the film's article, so "Country (film)" must be used. The final division specifies the title that LyricWiki users will see, i.e. "Country".

See the template documentation for more information.

NOTE:

• For song pages, the {{WP-Song}} template is preferred over {{Wikipedia}}.
• For country, state and hometown categories, {{WP-Flag}} can be used instead of {{Wikipedia}}. This will display the country's flag instead of the Wikipedia globe.

Simple Text

A simple text link to a Wikipedia page can be created using the {{wp}} template:

{{wp|Article name|display text}}

All parameters of the {{wp}} are the same as for the {{Wikipedia}} template. For example, this text...

Read about {{wp|Country (film)|Country}} on Wikipedia.

...produces the following result:

Read about Country on Wikipedia.

Simple Text with Icon

The template {{wpi}} is similar to the simple text link above but is preceded by a Wikipedia icon:

Read about {{wpi|Country (film)|Country}} on Wikipedia.

...produces the following result:

Read about Country on Wikipedia.

Song Flagging

Multiple Languages

In the case that a song is released in more than one language, it is recommended that links to the other versions of the lyrics be added. The {{MultipleLanguages}} template makes this task easier.

{{MultipleLanguages
|English Song Title/en
|Spanish Song Title/es
|...
}}

See David Bowie:"Heroes" for a working example.

Common language codes are:

• de (German)
• en (English)
• es (Spanish)
• fr (French)
• ja (Japanese)
• ko (Korean)
• pl (Polish)
• ru (Russian)
• zh (Chinese)

A complete Wikipedia list of ISO 639-1 language codes can be found here.

Instrumental Tracks

Tracks that are instrumentals should be marked with the {{Instrumental}} template inside the lyric tags:

<lyrics>{{Instrumental}}</lyrics>

This template only has one division, its name. It produces the following:

Informational templates

• Information about the song: {{SInfo}}
• General information box: {{Info}}
• Instrumental song: {{Instrumental}}
• Cover version of a song:
  • {{Cover}} for a link to the original song
  • {{Cover2}} for a link to the cover version
  • {{Covered}} for a collapsible list of artists who have covered the song
• Additional albums song released on: {{AddAlb}}
• Parody of another song: {{Parody}}
• Unplugged (Acoustic) album: {{Unplugged}}
• Remix of original song: {{Remix}}
• {{GameFeature}}
• {{Live Lyrics}}
• {{No.1}}

Awards

• (Grammy) award: {{Award}} (or specifically: {{Grammy}}).
• Album Of The Week: {{AOTW}}
• Song Of The Day: {{SOTD}}

Flagging for Edits

• General request for editing: {{Edit}}
• When possible, please use one of the following instead:
  • Accented characters displayed incorrectly: {{AccentedCharacters}} (shortcut: {{Accent}}).
  • Artist pages with songs not split into albums: {{Split}}
  • Request meaning of song: {{Songmeaning}}
  • Merge request: {{Mergefrom}} and {{Mergeto}}
  • Mass rename request: {{Move}}
  • Song pages with parts of lyrics missing: {{Partial}}

Artist Pages

See Help:Contents/Editing/Formatting/Artists for more information.

• To display an album picture next to a track listing insert the {{Album Art}} template directly under the album's title:

{{Album Art|IMAGE|ALBUM NAME}}

IMAGE is generally in the form ARTIST - ALBUM NAME.jpg

• When {{Album Art}} invades into an album listing below it, use {{Clear}} after that album listing to prevent the invasion. {{Clear}} inserts a division break.
• {{ft}} for listing featured artists
• {{H4}} for formatting headers for individual discs
• {{Labels}}
• {{tl|Genres))

Multiple languages

• Songs released in more than one language: {{MultipleLanguages}}
• Songs translated by users: {{TranslatedSong}}
• To provide a translation side by side with the original lyrics: {{Translation}}
• Request for translation to English: {{RequestTranslation}}
• Request for romanization of foreign alphabet: {{RequestRomanization}}
• Request to add lyrics written in Kana and Kanji: {{RequestKanaKanji}}
• For pages with non-English titles to provide translation (and romanization where applicable): {{TransTitle}}

User (talk) pages

• Welcome to LyricWiki message: {{Welcome}}
• Welcome to LyricWiki and invitation to register for unregistered users: {{WelcomeIP}}
• Reverted edit: {{Reverted}} (for inappropriate but good-faith edits)
• Vandalism warning: {{WarnUser}} or {{WarnUser/Editing}} (for users who are clearly committing vandalism)
• {{ArchNav}}: for archive talk pages

User pages

• To designate a user page: {{Userpage}}
• Userboxes: {{Userbox}}
• {{Nav}}

Wiki restrictions

• Incorrect title:
  • General: {{WrongTitle}}
  • Incorrect capitalization: {{Lowercase}}
  • Symbols substituted by writing: {{Wtsymbol}}

External linking

• Link to Wikipedia:
  • Floating box with Wikipedia icon: {{Wikipedia}}
  • Floating box with Wikipedia icon, for song pages: {{WP-Song}}
  • Text-only link: {{wp}}
• External links section, for
  • Songs: {{SongFooter}}
  • Albums: {{AlbumFooter}}
  • Artists: {{ArtistFooter}}

Administration

• To request administrator intervention, use
  • Warn user: {{WarnUser}}
  • Reverted: {{Reverted}}
  • Request for deletion: {{Deletion}}
• Administrators can use these to tag restricted pages:
  • Complicated code: {{Complicated}}
  • Protected page: {{ProtectedPage}}
  • User block notice: {{BlockUser}}