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If singles from deluxe edition re-issues should not be included as a single from their respective album then no bonus tracks should, like “ Ours” by Taylor Swift, it is a bonus track on the deluxe edition of Speak Now and yet is included in the single section of the infobox. You cannot just cherry pick and pick and chose like that so that rule needs to be removed from the WP:Infobox album#Single section as it needs to apply to all deluxe edition bonus tracks or none at all. No picking and choosing. 2600:1015:B127:726B:C8A1:8DE1:197C:DBD0 ( talk) 20:54, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
“Ours” was not released from a reissue. Simply from a deluxe that was released the same day as the standard version of the album. A reissue is when the artist releases a new version of the album at some point in the future from when the first version was released. That’s the difference. 2601:48:8100:5A60:70BB:A90B:21CA:84B9 ( talk) 23:32, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
It is now recommended that additional chronologies be used "for split albums, collaborative albums, and series of albums". However, for many artists such as Taylor Swift and Garth Brooks, releases like live albums or box sets are so common that it is hard to jump from the page of one studio album to the page of another. In fact, "studio album chronology" edits are quite not uncommon (e.g. see pages of Sonic Youth's studio albums). Moreover, it seems that additional chronologies are especially fit for many rappers' mixtape series (e.g. Young Thug and Lil Wayne), while in practice such practices are rarely seen. Maybe we can offer a better guidance on this issue here. Jason211pacem ( talk) 15:23, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
Greetings, see this edit made to the infobox album sandbox. Would like to make this change to this infox. Currently, any usage of the infox without an entry in the "cover" field places the page in Category:Album infoboxes lacking a cover, which currently contains over 12,000 pages. Many of these pages are for movies, video games, or TV shows with a subsection for their soundtrack album. Adding a cover image into these secondary infoboxes does not meet the fair use policy. So what we currently have is a category cluttered up with thousands of pages that appropriately do not have a cover image. This requested edit would only include pages with infobox album in the lead section, making the category much easier to maintain. J04n( talk page) 23:37, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
@ Zmbro, can you explain for these?( [2] [3]) Also there's another discussions at Talk:The_Storm_Before_the_Calm#Euro_label, you can make any comment below. 2402:1980:82B1:74F9:0:0:0:1 ( talk) 06:11, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
I noticed that this album infobox seems to be the only one to have some parameters be linked, compared to the person infobox, film infobox, TV infobox, or even something like ship career infobox. The links are:
Looking at the article Nirvana (band), the above links never appear in the article body, so I wonder if the linked parameters are vestigial and a little unnecessary if they aren't used in articles. I would like to suggest that we do not need to have these links for the parameters since they are instances of too much generalistic linking. The other infoboxes do not have such links for their parameters. Any objection to removal? Erik ( talk | contrib) ( ping me) 21:18, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Since television season articles have now been moved and they've lost their disambiguation, there are now possible display title clashes between {{
Infobox television season}} and this template. To fix this, editors should use |italic_title=no
on this template. Another possible more general fix is to place the italic code inside
Module:Is infobox in lead so only when this template is the lead template it should handle italicization of the article title.
Gonnym (
talk) 12:42, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Infobox album template. |
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Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13Auto-archiving period: 30 days |
Template:Infobox album is permanently
protected from editing because it is a
heavily used or highly visible template. Substantial changes should first be proposed and discussed here on this page. If the proposal is uncontroversial or has been discussed and is supported by
consensus, editors may use {{
edit template-protected}} to notify an administrator or template editor to make the requested edit. Usually, any contributor may edit the template's
documentation to add usage notes or
categories.
Any contributor may edit the template's sandbox. Functionality of the template can be checked using test cases. |
Infoboxes | ||||
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Albums Template‑class | |||||||
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If singles from deluxe edition re-issues should not be included as a single from their respective album then no bonus tracks should, like “ Ours” by Taylor Swift, it is a bonus track on the deluxe edition of Speak Now and yet is included in the single section of the infobox. You cannot just cherry pick and pick and chose like that so that rule needs to be removed from the WP:Infobox album#Single section as it needs to apply to all deluxe edition bonus tracks or none at all. No picking and choosing. 2600:1015:B127:726B:C8A1:8DE1:197C:DBD0 ( talk) 20:54, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
“Ours” was not released from a reissue. Simply from a deluxe that was released the same day as the standard version of the album. A reissue is when the artist releases a new version of the album at some point in the future from when the first version was released. That’s the difference. 2601:48:8100:5A60:70BB:A90B:21CA:84B9 ( talk) 23:32, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
It is now recommended that additional chronologies be used "for split albums, collaborative albums, and series of albums". However, for many artists such as Taylor Swift and Garth Brooks, releases like live albums or box sets are so common that it is hard to jump from the page of one studio album to the page of another. In fact, "studio album chronology" edits are quite not uncommon (e.g. see pages of Sonic Youth's studio albums). Moreover, it seems that additional chronologies are especially fit for many rappers' mixtape series (e.g. Young Thug and Lil Wayne), while in practice such practices are rarely seen. Maybe we can offer a better guidance on this issue here. Jason211pacem ( talk) 15:23, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
Greetings, see this edit made to the infobox album sandbox. Would like to make this change to this infox. Currently, any usage of the infox without an entry in the "cover" field places the page in Category:Album infoboxes lacking a cover, which currently contains over 12,000 pages. Many of these pages are for movies, video games, or TV shows with a subsection for their soundtrack album. Adding a cover image into these secondary infoboxes does not meet the fair use policy. So what we currently have is a category cluttered up with thousands of pages that appropriately do not have a cover image. This requested edit would only include pages with infobox album in the lead section, making the category much easier to maintain. J04n( talk page) 23:37, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
@ Zmbro, can you explain for these?( [2] [3]) Also there's another discussions at Talk:The_Storm_Before_the_Calm#Euro_label, you can make any comment below. 2402:1980:82B1:74F9:0:0:0:1 ( talk) 06:11, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
I noticed that this album infobox seems to be the only one to have some parameters be linked, compared to the person infobox, film infobox, TV infobox, or even something like ship career infobox. The links are:
Looking at the article Nirvana (band), the above links never appear in the article body, so I wonder if the linked parameters are vestigial and a little unnecessary if they aren't used in articles. I would like to suggest that we do not need to have these links for the parameters since they are instances of too much generalistic linking. The other infoboxes do not have such links for their parameters. Any objection to removal? Erik ( talk | contrib) ( ping me) 21:18, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Since television season articles have now been moved and they've lost their disambiguation, there are now possible display title clashes between {{
Infobox television season}} and this template. To fix this, editors should use |italic_title=no
on this template. Another possible more general fix is to place the italic code inside
Module:Is infobox in lead so only when this template is the lead template it should handle italicization of the article title.
Gonnym (
talk) 12:42, 31 March 2024 (UTC)