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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Title Guidelines 3 Album Page Format 4 Template 5 Album Template 6 Song List 7 Album Footer

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 and compilation albums by multiple artists are formatted slightly differently than the guidelines given here. For soundtracks see the Soundtrack Help page. For compilation albums by multiple artists see the Compilation Help page. For film pages see the Film Help page.

Title Guidelines

• Capitalize the first letter of every word in the artist's title, the album's name and the song's name. (For more information about LyricWiki's page naming guidelines: 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

An added section, giving important and relevant information about the album (awards, historical relevance, etc.) could also 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  = <<Initial Album Letter>>
|Released = <<YEAR>>
|Genre    = <<Genre>>
|Length   = <<00:00>>
|Cover    = <<PictureName.jpg>>
}}

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

{{AlbumFooter
|artist    = <<Artist Name>>
|album     = <<Album Name>>
}}

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 it's initial 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  = <<Initial Album Letter>>
|Released = <<YEAR>>
|Genre    = <<Genre>>
|Length   = <<00:00>>
|Cover    = <<PictureName.jpg>>
}}

• The following guidelines apply to the fLetter entry:
  • The very first letter should always be used, even if the first word is A, An, or The. EX: fLetter=T
  • If the first letter is a number, then use: fLetter=0-9
  • If the first letter is a symbol, or is part of a non-Latin-based, ideographic writing system, such as Japanese, then use: fLetter=Symbol
• If the year that the album was released is unknown, instead of a year, use: ????
• If a picture for the album has not yet been uploaded, the PictureName can be left blank.

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 in the song name. If the song has different capitalization than this, the links may have an alternate text specified. This is done by changing the capitalization of the second time the song title is listed in the line.

Example:

[[Artist:Correct Capitalization Of The Song|acTuaL capItaliZation of thE soNg]]

• 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.
• If the album is a multi-disc set, then the discs should be separated with subheadings:

Example:

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

=== 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. This template creates external links to help users search for the album on Amazon and Last.fm. The basic AlbumFooter template is:

{{AlbumFooter
|artist = <<Artist Name>>
|album  = <<Album Name>>
}}

However, the template does accept further parameters, some of which are shown below:

{{AlbumFooter
|artist          = <<Artist Name>>
|album           = <<Album Name>>
|asin            = <<Amazon.com Asin Code>>
|iTunes          = <<iTunes Code>>
|musicbrainz     = <<MusicBrainz Code>>
|wikipedia       = <<Wikipedia Page Name>>
|discogs         = <<Discogs Code>>
}}

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