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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Page Titles 2.1 Containing Ruby 3 Lyrics 4 Missing Parts 5 SongFooter Template

[edit] Introduction

These are guidelines that apply to Japanese songs in addition to those found here.

[edit] Page Titles

Songs with Japanese titles should have the page name with the original Japanese song name. The template {{JaTitle}} can then be used to add the romanization and translation. See BUMP OF CHICKEN:天体観測 for an example.

[edit] Containing Ruby

As seen in this example (みんな去(い)ってしまった (1976)) some page titles contain {{ruby}}. Currently there is no known way to format page titles (currently, adding the ruby tag to a page title does not work out well...), but the link is formattable.

For page titles, either have it with ruby (the bold section): 漢字(ルビ) <<kanji>>(<<ruby>>), or without ruby: 漢字 <<kanji>>
*preferably with ruby as some readings are completely different to the normal reading:

• Example: 人間(ロボット) ningen(ROBOTTO) human(robot)

The link appearance mainly depends on how the title was displayed on the CD, and is adaptable much easier than Page Titles.

[edit] Lyrics

• Lyrics sections should be marked with the type of lyrics it is, either Kanji, Romanization/Romaji/etc., or Translation. This should be done like this:

==Kanji==
<lyrics>
これは運命かも　君に逢えるって

• The first letter in each line of lyrics is capitalized for English translations, capitalization of the romanized lyrics should follow the rules for romanization.
• It is best if the lyrics displayed reflect the lyrics as they are found on the recorded version.

[edit] Missing Parts

If you do not have kanji, a romanization or an English translation for a given song, please mark the song as needing that part with these templates:

• {{RequestKanji}}
• {{RequestRomanization|Japanese}}
• {{RequestTranslation|Japanese}}

If you have a missing part to an existing song, remove the appropriate marker after adding it.

[edit] SongFooter Template

Japanese songs generally use a few additional parameters for the song footer, these being the romanized versions of the artist, album and song parameters.

SongFooter Template Example:

{{SongFooter|
|album    = 運命
|romanizedAlbum=Unmei
|artist   = 石川形一
|romanizedAritst=Keiichi Ishikawa
|song     = この世には
|romanizedSong= Kono Yo Ni Wa
|fLetter  = K
|video    = 
|language = Japanese
|asin     = 
|iTunes   = 
}}

The parameter fLetter is not Symbol, but rather the the first letter of the romanized title. If the first letter is something other than a kanji/kana/alphabet, please mark it as 0-9 or Symbol as appropriate.

Brief but helpful explanation of how the parameters within SongFooters are used can be found here.