Template:Infobox Album/doc

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.



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.

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&mdash;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:,  ,. setting the field to the value  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. It may be helpful to include a source in a comment, such as.

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  rather than  ).

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.

Professional reviews
Formerly, a  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.

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