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Could someone who knows all this estoric stuff add a Type field similar to this template to the {{ Extra tracklisting}} template? I've asked for it to be done on that talk page and the one for Extra chronology, and there has been no response. Thanks. -- Reaper X 15:25, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey! I just created a page earlier today to list at the bottom of the infobox any singles released from an album: Template:Singles ( talk · links · ). Let me know what you guys think. It's to be added into the "misc" section, so here's to hoping it works. I've so far transcluded it into What To Do With Daylight and Albertine by Brooke Fraser and am going to give it a shot in some others I dabble in too. Again, any criticisms or adjustments, please feel free to do directly to the page there and note the talk page itself. I've made it allow up to 12 Singles. I think that should be more than enough, but does everybody agree? I've never heard of more than 12 singles being released from an individual album before (however I'm not sure this would be appropriate for anything other than general studio releases, rather than Greatest Hit mixes or Live albums unless the tracks were originally derived from the Live album or Best of, such as Recurring Dream by Crowded House featuring the songs Not The Girl You think You Are, Instinct (song) and Everything is good for you, but I'd include only those of the page there).
Anyway, let me know!
Is there a reason why there's a blank line after the "Next album" field? It seems to be taking up unnecessary space. ShadowHalo 01:07, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey there. I've created a new template that hopefully supersedes the star rating {{ Rating-3}}, {{ Rating-4}}, {{ Rating-5}}, {{ Rating-6}} and {{ Rating-10}}, since it unifies all these templates into one: {{ Rating}}. Just write {{Rating|3|6}} to get , or {{Rating|2.5|8}} for . More examples can be found at the template page. Comments welcome. :) -- Conti| ✉ 02:18, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
I've replaced the old templates with the new one in the template documentation. -- Conti| ✉ 00:02, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
I've just noticed a potential problem with the template, that I should have seen before. Because each of the stars is a separate image, individual stars are allowed to wrap to a new line occasionally. I don't know how often this would come into play in the wild, but there are potentially long reviewer titles that might cause this wrap inside an infobox, resulting in...say...three stars on one line and two on the next. Visually disturbing. There is a possibility that this problem only shows up in Opera (the browser I use), but might otherwise be something to look into. -- Huntster T • @ • C 01:07, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
I've been having some problems lately determining which album type is appropriate for DJ mix albums. As of right now this album type does not fall into any that are already defined. A "Remix Album" is a collection of remixed songs where each track is distinctly separate from the other. For example: NIN - Further Down the Spiral, or Linkin Park - Reanimation. While many Mix albums contain remixed songs, I feel there is a need to differentiate them. A mix album can contain all non-remixed songs. I also do not feel that "Compilation Album" is appropriate either. A CD from the "Now that's what I call..." series is more appropriate for being labeled a "Compilation Album". Mix albums are distinct in that the track mixing is a crucial point. For most popular types of EDM the songs are typically beat-matched and mixed together to create one continuous piece of music, not individual songs (even though the songs are often tracked out). I propose that a new album type, the " Mix album", be added to the list. -- MattWatt 05:32, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
type = compilation longtype = [[Mix Album]]
I made a change to Template:Infobox Album/doc to refer only to {{ Extra album cover 2}} and {{ Extra chronology 2}} and never to {{ Extra album cover}} or {{ Extra chronology}}, after bringing this up on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums, not realizing this talk page was also active. Another change that I'd like to make is to change this: Caption allows an optional header to be inserted, with an explanatory label. to this: Upper caption allows an optional header to be inserted and Lower caption allows for an optional explanatory label. since there is no Caption field. Anyone object? -- PEJL 07:42, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Is the "cover size"-parameter broken? At least I cannot get it to work... --- Lhademmor 12:28, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
As many albums do win some major, or minor awards, mostly based on sales or other, I find it fitting if a section were added to the template. Fortyfeet 01:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Like with the request for a remix/mix album, I was thinking that a "rarities" album type should be included as a green entry with the "compilations" and such. Examples I know of are
My Lives,
Anthology 3: Rarities and
Afterglow (Crowded House album). I'm sure there's more, but that's what comes to mind quickly. Who's for this?
--
linca
linca 14:03, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
this is a request for a split album type. this type of album includes sampler cds put out by record labels, such as The Bled/From Autumn To Ashes Vagrant Sampler and split cds such as Here She Comes Now/Venus in Furs by Nirvana and The Melvins. See Split album and sampler album/ sampler record (they will hopefully be merged soon). Violask81976 23:14, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
For artists that have a separate discography page, it would be nice to have link to that page (and not just to the artists' main page) in this template. For example, the second occurrence of {{ Artist}} (before "Chronology") could link to the discography instead. ChKa 17:24, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
Someone already raised the idea of adding this to the template a year ago. The balance of opinion by the people who weighed in then seemed to be in favor, but it never happened. It really should - this is exactly the kind of basic, consistent and concise information that infoboxes are good for. The Infobox Single template already includes chart positions. Anyone else agree they belong on the Album Infobox? InnocuousPseudonym 19:21, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Besides, Chart Position can be listed with all it's detail and splendor as a 'Level 2 Headline'. Then you can have 5,000 links to all the chart keepers and magazines or a simple "This album did not chart"(in or out of the top 100)...-- ZapperZippy 15:31, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Can we add one more field to this template, for "Catalog number" (preferably to appear directly after "Label")? -- BRG 20:19, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
I find it important to add the graphic designer of the respective cover to the infobox album templates. -- ΛэтєяиuS 09:55, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
What do you guys think about using something like this to prompt people to add inthe cover art for albums instead of directing people to the no cover page we could direct them straight to the upload page using an image map like this:
What do you guys think? If you like it, someone who knows how to edit the template can put it in. I couldn't find where to change it in the template itself. -- linca linca 12:04, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to propose that the parameter "this album" be removed, as the album title already provides the data needed for the display. Additionally, I think that the next and prev links should have the formatting built in as well. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 14:22, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Untitled |
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User:PEJL/Template:Infobox Album test
I'd like to make some changes to the infobox. Since it is {{ editprotected}}, we need an administrator to make the changes and we need consensus. I'll outline what I propose be changed below, and hold off on formally requesting the changes be made for a few days, to allow any concerns to be voiced. Here's what I propose be changed:
A diff containing all of these changes is available here. Any objections? -- PEJL 00:19, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}}
Category:Non-standard album infoboxes REALLY does not seem like a cat that should be visible in the article namespace. Sohelpme 04:39, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Speaking of non-standard album infoboxes, WikiProject Songs considers a template modification I did two months ago, Template:Infobox Maxi single, to be redundant (discussion now underway as of 12:58, 28 June 2007 (UTC) at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Infobox Maxi single). From my own research, maxi singles may be either standalone or paired with an album. Can this Template (viz., Infobox album) be successfully recoded to satisfy an anticipable maxi single doc requirement? - B.C.Schmerker 12:58, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
I think it would be very useful if there could be information about the inlays of albums, like whether or not they included the lyrics of the songs. Is that possible, and is this the right place to be asking that question? Thanks. Gronky 19:55, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
I think it would be great in a sense of it'd be hard to put that into the prose of an article. Personally there's a bunch of things that could be put in a secondary template with random information about the article, like lyric sheets - yes, no, leak - yes, no, cover songs, etc. Yea, they could be put into prose, but i think a box would be alot easier to present and look neater then a couple of choppy sentences that don't really fit into any type of main heading. That's one thing I'm working on covering in my wiki. - Viola sk8 1976 16:56, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
How is whether or not a CD booklet contains lyrics, whether or not an album was leaked, etc. encyclopedic and significantly notable except in irregular cases (if there was serious controversy surrounding the album being leaked)? Wikipedia isn't a catalog or a fan site, or at least it didn't use to be. -- FuriousFreddy 01:03, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Do we go for cover, compilation or what? I'll go with cover for now. -- Jamdav86 16:34, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}}
The categories that were previously on Template:Infobox Album were moved to Template:Infobox Album/doc in the changes here and here. I think at least Category:Music infobox templates should be moved back to Template:Infobox Album (in a noinclude section), to make Category:Music infobox templates not include Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums (which transcludes Template:Infobox Album/doc). The sorting order for the category should also be set to "|Album", to make it sort under "A" instead of "I", for consistency with the other entries in the category. Does this sound reasonable? Perhaps a comment should also be left explaining why this shouldn't be reversed in the future. -- PEJL 23:19, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
Please add it:Template:Album. Thanks. -- 79.0.184.126 09:39, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
Honestly, I find that "Producer(s)" thingy a bit ludicrous:
...In my opinion, anyway. -- 62.147.37.217 14:12, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
{{
editprotected}}
This appears to be the change currently proposed:
{{#if: {{{Producer|}}} | <!-- -->{{!}} '''[[Record producer|Producer]]''' <!-- -->{{!}} colspan="2" {{!}} {{{Producer}}} <!-- -->{{!-}} }}
This option allows us to use singular or plural, as appropriate, with only a little extra code:
{{#if: {{{Producer|}}}{{{Producers|}}} | <!-- -->{{!}} '''[[Record producer|Producer]]{{#if:{{{Producers|}}}|s}}''' <!-- -->{{!}} colspan="2" {{!}} {{{Producer|}}}{{{Producers|}}} <!-- -->{{!-}} }}
And the same for Compiler, of course. Just a thought. Might make things a bit more complicated than they need to be. If nobody comments before too long, I anticipate seeing Option 1 implemented. – Luna Santin ( talk) 21:01, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
What code should be used if you want to add another album cover after the extra chronology? The Misc section is already used for the chronology, so I don't know where to put the additional album cover. Can you just stick it after the chronology, before you close the infobox? I'm mainly concerned with Fall Out Boy / Project Rocket Split EP, which needs to include the original album art, before the re-release ( Image:Prfob split.jpg). I'm not sure how exactly that would work. — Akrabbim talk 21:41, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
{{
editprotected}}
I would like to add
hCalendar
microformat mark-up to this template. This requires just teh addition of three HTML classes, vevent, summary and description:
class="infobox"
to
class="infobox vevent"
| style="background: {{Template:Infobox Album/color|{{{Type|}}}}}; text-align: center;" colspan="3" | '''''{{{Name}}}'''''
to
| class="summary" style="background: {{Template:Infobox Album/color|{{{Type|}}}}}; text-align: center;" colspan="3" | '''''{{{Name}}}'''''
|- [line break]| style="background: {{Template:Infobox Album/color|{{{Type|}}}}}; text-align: center;" colspan="3" | '''{{Template:Infobox Album/link|{{{Type}}}}} {{#if:{{{Longtype|}}}| {{{Longtype}}}}} {{#if:{{{Artist|}}}|by {{{Artist}}}}}'''
to
|- class="description" [line break]| style="background: {{Template:Infobox Album/color|{{{Type|}}}}}; text-align: center;" colspan="3" | '''{{Template:Infobox Album/link|{{{Type}}}}} {{#if:{{{Longtype|}}}| {{{Longtype}}}}} {{#if:{{{Artist|}}}|by {{{Artist}}}}}'''
Date entry will be by using {{ Start date}} in the existing "Released" field.
Would someone oblige, please? Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 09:48, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
class="dtstart"
. It's no more complex than {{
Birth date}}, on which it is based, and which is widely used throughout Wikipedia. {{
Start date}} can be omitted for incomplete dates, until such time as that functionality is added - the work to do that is already in hand. Where multiple dates occur, the earliest should use {{
Start date}} (any other occurrences would be ignored by microformat parsers, anyway). The purpose is to facilitate machine-readable date tagging of articles, so that in future, for example, searches within chronological ranges can be conducted; or search results sorted by date. Recording dates are arbitrary and wide-ranging; an album's release date marks its formal appearance in the wider world (that's not to say that, in future, all such dates couldn't be marked up as hCalendars, with appropriate summaries; but let's walk before we run). For an article already marked-up with {{
Start date}} in an hCalendar, see
Eurovision Song Contest 1963.
Andy Mabbett |
Talk to Andy Mabbett 13:27, 1 August 2007 (UTC)This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
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Could someone who knows all this estoric stuff add a Type field similar to this template to the {{ Extra tracklisting}} template? I've asked for it to be done on that talk page and the one for Extra chronology, and there has been no response. Thanks. -- Reaper X 15:25, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey! I just created a page earlier today to list at the bottom of the infobox any singles released from an album: Template:Singles ( talk · links · ). Let me know what you guys think. It's to be added into the "misc" section, so here's to hoping it works. I've so far transcluded it into What To Do With Daylight and Albertine by Brooke Fraser and am going to give it a shot in some others I dabble in too. Again, any criticisms or adjustments, please feel free to do directly to the page there and note the talk page itself. I've made it allow up to 12 Singles. I think that should be more than enough, but does everybody agree? I've never heard of more than 12 singles being released from an individual album before (however I'm not sure this would be appropriate for anything other than general studio releases, rather than Greatest Hit mixes or Live albums unless the tracks were originally derived from the Live album or Best of, such as Recurring Dream by Crowded House featuring the songs Not The Girl You think You Are, Instinct (song) and Everything is good for you, but I'd include only those of the page there).
Anyway, let me know!
Is there a reason why there's a blank line after the "Next album" field? It seems to be taking up unnecessary space. ShadowHalo 01:07, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey there. I've created a new template that hopefully supersedes the star rating {{ Rating-3}}, {{ Rating-4}}, {{ Rating-5}}, {{ Rating-6}} and {{ Rating-10}}, since it unifies all these templates into one: {{ Rating}}. Just write {{Rating|3|6}} to get , or {{Rating|2.5|8}} for . More examples can be found at the template page. Comments welcome. :) -- Conti| ✉ 02:18, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
I've replaced the old templates with the new one in the template documentation. -- Conti| ✉ 00:02, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
I've just noticed a potential problem with the template, that I should have seen before. Because each of the stars is a separate image, individual stars are allowed to wrap to a new line occasionally. I don't know how often this would come into play in the wild, but there are potentially long reviewer titles that might cause this wrap inside an infobox, resulting in...say...three stars on one line and two on the next. Visually disturbing. There is a possibility that this problem only shows up in Opera (the browser I use), but might otherwise be something to look into. -- Huntster T • @ • C 01:07, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
I've been having some problems lately determining which album type is appropriate for DJ mix albums. As of right now this album type does not fall into any that are already defined. A "Remix Album" is a collection of remixed songs where each track is distinctly separate from the other. For example: NIN - Further Down the Spiral, or Linkin Park - Reanimation. While many Mix albums contain remixed songs, I feel there is a need to differentiate them. A mix album can contain all non-remixed songs. I also do not feel that "Compilation Album" is appropriate either. A CD from the "Now that's what I call..." series is more appropriate for being labeled a "Compilation Album". Mix albums are distinct in that the track mixing is a crucial point. For most popular types of EDM the songs are typically beat-matched and mixed together to create one continuous piece of music, not individual songs (even though the songs are often tracked out). I propose that a new album type, the " Mix album", be added to the list. -- MattWatt 05:32, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
type = compilation longtype = [[Mix Album]]
I made a change to Template:Infobox Album/doc to refer only to {{ Extra album cover 2}} and {{ Extra chronology 2}} and never to {{ Extra album cover}} or {{ Extra chronology}}, after bringing this up on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums, not realizing this talk page was also active. Another change that I'd like to make is to change this: Caption allows an optional header to be inserted, with an explanatory label. to this: Upper caption allows an optional header to be inserted and Lower caption allows for an optional explanatory label. since there is no Caption field. Anyone object? -- PEJL 07:42, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Is the "cover size"-parameter broken? At least I cannot get it to work... --- Lhademmor 12:28, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
As many albums do win some major, or minor awards, mostly based on sales or other, I find it fitting if a section were added to the template. Fortyfeet 01:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Like with the request for a remix/mix album, I was thinking that a "rarities" album type should be included as a green entry with the "compilations" and such. Examples I know of are
My Lives,
Anthology 3: Rarities and
Afterglow (Crowded House album). I'm sure there's more, but that's what comes to mind quickly. Who's for this?
--
linca
linca 14:03, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
this is a request for a split album type. this type of album includes sampler cds put out by record labels, such as The Bled/From Autumn To Ashes Vagrant Sampler and split cds such as Here She Comes Now/Venus in Furs by Nirvana and The Melvins. See Split album and sampler album/ sampler record (they will hopefully be merged soon). Violask81976 23:14, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
For artists that have a separate discography page, it would be nice to have link to that page (and not just to the artists' main page) in this template. For example, the second occurrence of {{ Artist}} (before "Chronology") could link to the discography instead. ChKa 17:24, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
Someone already raised the idea of adding this to the template a year ago. The balance of opinion by the people who weighed in then seemed to be in favor, but it never happened. It really should - this is exactly the kind of basic, consistent and concise information that infoboxes are good for. The Infobox Single template already includes chart positions. Anyone else agree they belong on the Album Infobox? InnocuousPseudonym 19:21, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Besides, Chart Position can be listed with all it's detail and splendor as a 'Level 2 Headline'. Then you can have 5,000 links to all the chart keepers and magazines or a simple "This album did not chart"(in or out of the top 100)...-- ZapperZippy 15:31, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Can we add one more field to this template, for "Catalog number" (preferably to appear directly after "Label")? -- BRG 20:19, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
I find it important to add the graphic designer of the respective cover to the infobox album templates. -- ΛэтєяиuS 09:55, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
What do you guys think about using something like this to prompt people to add inthe cover art for albums instead of directing people to the no cover page we could direct them straight to the upload page using an image map like this:
What do you guys think? If you like it, someone who knows how to edit the template can put it in. I couldn't find where to change it in the template itself. -- linca linca 12:04, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to propose that the parameter "this album" be removed, as the album title already provides the data needed for the display. Additionally, I think that the next and prev links should have the formatting built in as well. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 14:22, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Untitled |
---|
User:PEJL/Template:Infobox Album test
I'd like to make some changes to the infobox. Since it is {{ editprotected}}, we need an administrator to make the changes and we need consensus. I'll outline what I propose be changed below, and hold off on formally requesting the changes be made for a few days, to allow any concerns to be voiced. Here's what I propose be changed:
A diff containing all of these changes is available here. Any objections? -- PEJL 00:19, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}}
Category:Non-standard album infoboxes REALLY does not seem like a cat that should be visible in the article namespace. Sohelpme 04:39, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Speaking of non-standard album infoboxes, WikiProject Songs considers a template modification I did two months ago, Template:Infobox Maxi single, to be redundant (discussion now underway as of 12:58, 28 June 2007 (UTC) at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Infobox Maxi single). From my own research, maxi singles may be either standalone or paired with an album. Can this Template (viz., Infobox album) be successfully recoded to satisfy an anticipable maxi single doc requirement? - B.C.Schmerker 12:58, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
I think it would be very useful if there could be information about the inlays of albums, like whether or not they included the lyrics of the songs. Is that possible, and is this the right place to be asking that question? Thanks. Gronky 19:55, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
I think it would be great in a sense of it'd be hard to put that into the prose of an article. Personally there's a bunch of things that could be put in a secondary template with random information about the article, like lyric sheets - yes, no, leak - yes, no, cover songs, etc. Yea, they could be put into prose, but i think a box would be alot easier to present and look neater then a couple of choppy sentences that don't really fit into any type of main heading. That's one thing I'm working on covering in my wiki. - Viola sk8 1976 16:56, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
How is whether or not a CD booklet contains lyrics, whether or not an album was leaked, etc. encyclopedic and significantly notable except in irregular cases (if there was serious controversy surrounding the album being leaked)? Wikipedia isn't a catalog or a fan site, or at least it didn't use to be. -- FuriousFreddy 01:03, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Do we go for cover, compilation or what? I'll go with cover for now. -- Jamdav86 16:34, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}}
The categories that were previously on Template:Infobox Album were moved to Template:Infobox Album/doc in the changes here and here. I think at least Category:Music infobox templates should be moved back to Template:Infobox Album (in a noinclude section), to make Category:Music infobox templates not include Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums (which transcludes Template:Infobox Album/doc). The sorting order for the category should also be set to "|Album", to make it sort under "A" instead of "I", for consistency with the other entries in the category. Does this sound reasonable? Perhaps a comment should also be left explaining why this shouldn't be reversed in the future. -- PEJL 23:19, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
Please add it:Template:Album. Thanks. -- 79.0.184.126 09:39, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
Honestly, I find that "Producer(s)" thingy a bit ludicrous:
...In my opinion, anyway. -- 62.147.37.217 14:12, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
{{
editprotected}}
This appears to be the change currently proposed:
{{#if: {{{Producer|}}} | <!-- -->{{!}} '''[[Record producer|Producer]]''' <!-- -->{{!}} colspan="2" {{!}} {{{Producer}}} <!-- -->{{!-}} }}
This option allows us to use singular or plural, as appropriate, with only a little extra code:
{{#if: {{{Producer|}}}{{{Producers|}}} | <!-- -->{{!}} '''[[Record producer|Producer]]{{#if:{{{Producers|}}}|s}}''' <!-- -->{{!}} colspan="2" {{!}} {{{Producer|}}}{{{Producers|}}} <!-- -->{{!-}} }}
And the same for Compiler, of course. Just a thought. Might make things a bit more complicated than they need to be. If nobody comments before too long, I anticipate seeing Option 1 implemented. – Luna Santin ( talk) 21:01, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
What code should be used if you want to add another album cover after the extra chronology? The Misc section is already used for the chronology, so I don't know where to put the additional album cover. Can you just stick it after the chronology, before you close the infobox? I'm mainly concerned with Fall Out Boy / Project Rocket Split EP, which needs to include the original album art, before the re-release ( Image:Prfob split.jpg). I'm not sure how exactly that would work. — Akrabbim talk 21:41, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
{{
editprotected}}
I would like to add
hCalendar
microformat mark-up to this template. This requires just teh addition of three HTML classes, vevent, summary and description:
class="infobox"
to
class="infobox vevent"
| style="background: {{Template:Infobox Album/color|{{{Type|}}}}}; text-align: center;" colspan="3" | '''''{{{Name}}}'''''
to
| class="summary" style="background: {{Template:Infobox Album/color|{{{Type|}}}}}; text-align: center;" colspan="3" | '''''{{{Name}}}'''''
|- [line break]| style="background: {{Template:Infobox Album/color|{{{Type|}}}}}; text-align: center;" colspan="3" | '''{{Template:Infobox Album/link|{{{Type}}}}} {{#if:{{{Longtype|}}}| {{{Longtype}}}}} {{#if:{{{Artist|}}}|by {{{Artist}}}}}'''
to
|- class="description" [line break]| style="background: {{Template:Infobox Album/color|{{{Type|}}}}}; text-align: center;" colspan="3" | '''{{Template:Infobox Album/link|{{{Type}}}}} {{#if:{{{Longtype|}}}| {{{Longtype}}}}} {{#if:{{{Artist|}}}|by {{{Artist}}}}}'''
Date entry will be by using {{ Start date}} in the existing "Released" field.
Would someone oblige, please? Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 09:48, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
class="dtstart"
. It's no more complex than {{
Birth date}}, on which it is based, and which is widely used throughout Wikipedia. {{
Start date}} can be omitted for incomplete dates, until such time as that functionality is added - the work to do that is already in hand. Where multiple dates occur, the earliest should use {{
Start date}} (any other occurrences would be ignored by microformat parsers, anyway). The purpose is to facilitate machine-readable date tagging of articles, so that in future, for example, searches within chronological ranges can be conducted; or search results sorted by date. Recording dates are arbitrary and wide-ranging; an album's release date marks its formal appearance in the wider world (that's not to say that, in future, all such dates couldn't be marked up as hCalendars, with appropriate summaries; but let's walk before we run). For an article already marked-up with {{
Start date}} in an hCalendar, see
Eurovision Song Contest 1963.
Andy Mabbett |
Talk to Andy Mabbett 13:27, 1 August 2007 (UTC)