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Contents 1 Required Tools 2 Song Names 3 Various Artists 4 Different releases 5 How to distinguish between an album and a single? 6 Should Wikipedia be added?

[edit] Required Tools

There is a big need for someone to create a tool to automatically create a correctly formatted Album page based on the MusicBrainz or similar database. This will save the users the problem of having to correctly insert and format the data themselves, and reduce the amount of errors. OmerRaviv

Like this you mean wikifyer?  _♫Яєd_{xx ♪}♫♪_♫♪^Talk 15:36, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, only once I type the artist and album names, i shouldn't need to go around looking for\copy pasting the track listing, the tool should automatically fetch it from MusicBrainz (which I believe isn't a copyrights issue). Also, there should be an option to only fill in the artist, in which case it will produce an Artist page with all the albums filled in. In addition, it would be nice if once I enter an artist's name, that artist's albums (according to MusicBrainz will not be available in a drop-down list.)OmerRaviv

[edit] Song Names

"Capitalize the first letter of every word in the song name" That is entirely incorrect. For example, the correct title of the Norma Jean song is Memphis Will Be Laid to Waste, NOT Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste. --bleedwithme 21:50, 29 June 2006 (PDT)

This generalization is needed for linking (and finding) the case-sensitive wiki titles. We would have a lot of duplicates and dead links without this measure. (And some uniformity isn't that bad, IMHO) --Lentando 09:57, 14 December 2006 (EST)

Also, when making links to the song, you can pipe the link to show the correct capitilization
So this: [[Norma Jean:Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste|Memphis Will Be Laid to Waste]]
Will display this: Memphis Will Be Laid to Waste. --WillMak050389 16:17, 14 December 2006 (EST)

[edit] Various Artists

What is necessary to do in this case? Like in soundtracks, for example. -Tae 18:44, 27 August 2006 (PDT)

This topic was covered in part over here. However, as to soundtracks with more than one artist on them, I am not sure if the cd should appear on each artist's page or on one primary page with links from the others or what. Perhaps the artist should have a compilations sections. But I would think that the song and the artist should be put in the track title, i.e.

1. Gamble Rumble by Move

But this is just my opinion.

- Teknomunk 21:14, 27 August 2006 (PDT)

I know this is an old and outdated post, but I thought if there were any other users out there who still wondered about this it would be helpful to know that the usual practice has now become to create a "Compilations" section on the artist's page listing and linking to songs on soundtracks and various artists albums.  _♫Яєd_{xx ♪}♫♪_♫♪^Talk 07:18, 26 August 2008 (EDT)

The Last.fm links do not work properly for soundtracks (e.g. the link for Orange Country should point to [1]). BravoAlpha 10:21, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

[edit] Different releases

What should be done, prospectively, for an album that has been released by more than one record label and features a different tracklist? For example, some versions of Feist's Let It Die feature the song L'Amour Ne Dure Pas Toujours in the place of Tout Doucement. Perhaps an indicater could be added as to which release is the album that appears on the artist's page, then the variant songs could be included in Other Songs with the tag "- (was included in the (x) release of (album)" afterwards? Just a thought. DamionOWA 05:56, 20 December 2006 (EST)

Usually I include all songs from an album's various incarnations with the album. I list the original track listing, then any new or bonus tracks I place afterwards, with a note in parentheses about what edition it is found on. Examples: Blue Öyster Cult:Blue Öyster Cult (1972) and Aerosmith:Nine Lives (1997) --Kiefer 08:27, 20 December 2006 (EST)

[edit] How to distinguish between an album and a single?

In a discography. The Other Saluton 06:30, 26 August 2008 (EDT)

Singles currently are not included in the main discography section, but under a "Singles" section below the main album discography. Then a link to the single is given, but with no track listing on the Artist page. If one needs to differentiate between an album and a single that was released in the same year and has the same title (as can certainly happen), then adding (Single) before the release date is how to handle the single. EX: [[My Favorite Artist:New Album (Single) (2008)]]    Kiefer    talk    contribs    admin   08:47, 26 August 2008 (EDT)

Thanks. The Other Saluton 10:32, 27 August 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Should Wikipedia be added?

If there's a wikipedia-article about an album, I add the wikipedia-template (like on Axel Rudi Pell:Tales Of The Crown (2008).

First question: What do you think about it? Second question: I think it's better to add a wikipedia-parameter to the album-template and to put the link to wikipedia in another line after Genre. Acccept 03:13, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Team a has been working on a brand-new, completely overhauled and vastly improved version of {{Album}}, which also includes a wikipedia parameter. See here (scroll down to the bottom). It hasn't been released into the wild yet, though. — 6x9 (Talk) 03:50, 1 January 2009 (UTC)