Template:Infobox album

Template documentation

Nirvana
Greatest hits album by Nirvana
Released	October 29, 2002 (2002-10-29)
Recorded	1988–1994
Genre	Grunge
Length	49:38
Label	DGC Records
Producer	Steve Albini, Jack Endino, Steve Fisk, Scott Litt, Butch Vig
Chronology chronology
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (1996) Nirvana (2002) With the Lights Out (2004)

The standard infobox for album articles is the {{Infobox album}} template. The box to the right is an example. You can click on "edit this page" and copy-and-paste the markup to a different article, replacing its information with info on the album you choose to write about.

The infobox code should be placed at the top of the article.

Code

Most articles should only need the following fields. Do not remove fields from this list when the value is unknown; in that case the values should be left blank. Please note that the field names are case-sensitive.

{{Infobox album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
| Name       = 
| Type       = 
| Artist     = 
| Cover      = 
| Alt        = 
| Released   = <!-- {{Start date|||}} -->
| Recorded   = 
| Genre      = 
| Length     = <!-- {{Duration|m=|s=}} -->
| Label      = 
| Producer   = 
| Last album = 
| This album = 
| Next album = 
}}

Details

Try to fill in as many of the details as you can. If some details are unknown, leave the section blank. Wikilink wherever appropriate, but make sure you check your links.

Name

The album's title should be specified using text (not a logo), which will be automatically italicized.

Type

The Type field refers to the general type of album. Enter a code from the following chart. The type will appear with the appropriate color and wikilink. Don't use codes "single" and "song"; there are specific infoboxes {{Infobox single}} and {{Infobox song}} available for those. If the type is unknown, leave the field blank.

Code	Display
studio	Studio album by artist
demo	Demo album by artist
ep	EP by artist
live	Live album by artist
greatest	Greatest hits album by artist
remix	Remix album by artist
box	Box set by artist
compilation	Compilation album by artist
mixtape	Mixtape by artist
soundtrack	Soundtrack album by artist
film	Film score by artist
cast	Cast recording by artist
video	Video by artist
other	other by artist

Album Cover

An image of the official front cover of the original version of the album (or a reissue, if no original cover can be found) should be included at Cover. Album cover artwork may be scanned, or downloaded from another site such as Allmusic or Amazon.com.

• Upload a copy of the album cover (under fair use). The image will display in the infobox in its real size, capped by the value of the user's "Thumbnail size" parameter in his or her appearance preferences. The width of the image should usually be 220–300px; for a square image, 300 is ideal. To satisfy fair use criteria, the total number of pixels in any copyrighted image (i.e. the width in px × the height in px) should not exceed 100,000.
• On the image description page, use the {{Non-free album cover}} image copyright tag. Selecting "Album or single cover" from the pulldown list on the image upload page will accomplish this.
• Add detailed fair use rationale for each use of the image. You can also use the {{Non-free use rationale album cover}} template.
• Fill the template's Cover field with the name of your file (the full image syntax is not required here—just the file name with the extension).
• Remove the request-photo or request-image template from the talk page of the article.

If nothing is entered into this field, the article will be added to the tracking category Category:Album infoboxes lacking a cover. The article will also be added to the category if one of the following values is used: ???, Nocover.png, nocover.png. setting the field to the value blank will leave the cover area empty without categorizing the article into the above category. This is useful if the cover does not exist, for example the album was not released yet, or the cover cannot be added due to other limitations.

Alt

Alt text for the album cover, for visually impaired readers.

Released

Original album release date, depending on the article style, without the quotation marks). If the day is unknown, indicate only month and year ("December 2003"); if the month is unknown indicate only the year ("2003"). Only the earliest known date that the album was released should be specified; later release dates (incl. re-issues) can be mentioned in a Release history section.

Recorded

Details on where and when the album was recorded should be included.

Genre

The one or more music genres that the album reflects, delimited by a comma should be listed here.

Length

The length of the album should be specified in minutes and seconds, even if it is longer than one hour, for example 74:23. Use {{Duration}}, for example {{Duration|m=74|s=23}}. It may be helpful to include a source in a comment, such as <!--CD liner notes-->.

Several albums have been released with bonus tracks or multiple track listings. In this case, just list the length of the original release. In the case of albums which are released with multiple track listings simultaneously, only list the most common length or that of the standard edition of the album.

Label

Only the record label that the album was originally released on should be specified. Where significantly different versions have been released (featuring alternative track listings) e.g. in the US vs UK, the later release date or record label should be mentioned in the article, for example in a Release history section. Drop words like "Records" from the end of the label's name (e.g. use [[Universal Records|Universal]] rather than [[Universal Records]]).

Producer

The name of the producer should be linked to the corresponding article. If there is more than one producer, the names can be delimited by commas or {{flatlist}}.

Professional reviews

Formerly, a Reviews field was included in this template. Professional reviews may no longer be included in the infobox, but should be described in paragraph form in a "Reception" section. The template {{Album ratings}} can be used to illustrate review scores in this section.

Chronology

This group of fields establishes a timeline of an artist's releases. In general, all albums and EPs should be placed in a single, chronological chain in order of release date.

Italic title

By default, the infobox achieves this automatically for album articles. If the page title is not the album title, as when only a section is devoted to an album, and in unusual cases where the title would not be italicized in running prose, set this parameter to "no" to prevent the page title from being italicized.

Longtype

This field can be used if you wish to include information such as the title of the film that an album is the soundtrack to, or the name of the artist that a tribute album is in honor of. The text in this field appears between the type and the word "by".

Border

Choosing "yes" here will insert a 1px grey border around the cover image. This is useful for instances where the image and the background will blend together.

Caption

If the album has been issued with different front covers, which version the image refers to should be noted here.

Language

This field should identify what language(s) are used in the lyrics of the album.

Director

This field is only applicable to video albums. The name of the director should be linked to the corresponding article. If there is more than one director, the names should be delimited by commas.

Compiler

This field is only applicable to compilation albums of any kind where the person or entity responsible for selecting the album's track listing is known.

Chronology

This field can be used when the album belongs to an overall series that is not adequately described by the artist's name alone; in these situations, the text entered in this field replaces the artist name that would normally be displayed preceding "chronology". Examples include series of compilation albums compiled by different people, and series of soundtracks (which are often "various artists" collections).

Misc

A number of templates exist that can be inserted in the Misc field, including {{Extra album cover}}, {{Extra chronology}}, {{Singles}}. If you use any of these templates, don't forget to add a second set of closing brackets for the nested template.

Microformats

The HTML mark up produced by this template includes an hCalendar microformat, which makes the event details parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia, or via a browser tool operated by a person, to (for example) add the subject to a calendar or diary application.

Sub-templates

Dates will only be included if you use {{Start date}} or {{End date}} (use the former for single dates; but do not use any of these if the date is before 1583 CE).

URLs will only be included if you use {{URL}}.

Please do not remove instances of these sub-templates.

Classes

hCalendar uses HTML classes including:

• attendee
• contact
• description
• dtend
• dtstart
• location
• organiser
• summary
• url
• vevent

Please do not rename or remove these classes; nor collapse nested elements which use them.

The HTML mark up produced by this template includes an hAudio microformat, which makes the recording's details parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia, or via a browser tool operated by a person, to (for example) add the subject to a playlist or database.

Sub-templates

Date-of-publication ("published") information will only be included in the microformat if {{Start date}} (or {{Start date and age}} where appropriate) is used in a parent template or infobox but do not use these if the date is before 1583 CE).

For the length or duration of a recording, say 3 minutes 45 seconds, use {{Duration}} thus: {{Duration|m=3|s=45}}, which renders as 3:45. An optional h parameter can be used for hours.

Please do not remove instances of these sub-templates.

Classes

hAudio uses HTML classes including:

• haudio
• fn
• album
• description
• category
• contributor
• duration
• h
• item
• min
• photo
• position
• price
• published
• s

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