Editing Encyclopedia:WikiProject Songs (section)

=={{Anchor|Naming conventions}} Style==

===Article titles===
The title of an article about a song should be the song's title itself <em>without [[quotation mark]]s</em>, for example, [[Paranoid Android]]. If there is another article with that title, use the format '<song name> (song)', for example, "[[Wonderwall (song)]]". If there is more than one song article with a title then disambiguate by putting the artist name in the title to make '<song name> (<artist name> song)', for example "[[Because (Beatles song)]]". The [[possessive]] case is not to be used either: thus, "Beatles song," and not, "Beatles' song".

If the song is in a foreign language and titled using the [[Latin alphabet]], then, unless the song is commonly known by a translated name in the English-speaking world, the original foreign title should be used. This may require using accented letters which are not used in English. Examples: "[[Ein bißchen Frieden]]", "[[Je n'ai que mon âme]]", "[[Fångad av en stormvind]]". 

If the single title does not use the Latin alphabet, the article name should be the transliterated form of the title using Latin characters. Examples: "[[Kaihōku]]" instead of {{Nihongo2|解放区}} or "Liberated District", "[[Ya Soshla S Uma]]" not "Я сошла с ума" or "I've Lost My Mind", "[[Sanso Gateun Neo (Love Like Oxygen)]]" instead of "{{lang|ko|산소 같은 너}} (Love Like Oxygen)" or "You're Like Oxygen (Love Like Oxygen)".

===Formatting===
When creating any music articles remember that song and single titles go in quotation marks "like this" and album titles are italicised ''like this''. The song title should be in boldface in the first sentence and in infobox chronologies, but the surrounding quotation marks should not be in boldface.

When linking to song articles, use [[Wikipedia:Piped link|piping]] to conceal the disambiguation terms, for example use the syntax "<nowiki>[[Because (The Beatles song)|Because]]</nowiki>", to make the link simply appear as "[[Because (The Beatles song)|Because]]".

Also, although piping is normally discouraged on disambiguation pages, song and album titles are an exception:
* For a song, use double quotes with the syntax: <nowiki>[[Because (The Beatles song)|"Because" (The Beatles song)]]</nowiki>, to format the title as: [[Because (The Beatles song)|"Because" (The Beatles song)]].
* For an album, use pairs of single quotes with the syntax: <nowiki>[[Abbey Road (album)|''Abbey Road'' (album)]]</nowiki>, to format the title as: [[Abbey Road (album)|''Abbey Road'' (album)]].
* See [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)]] for details.

==={{Anchor|Capitalization of song titles}} Capitalization===
{{See|Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Album article style guide#Capitalization}}