Editing Encyclopedia:WikiProject Albums

{{short description|Album article collaboration}}
{{For|songs|Wikipedia:WikiProject Songs}}
{{For|the notability guideline|WP:NMG#Albums}}
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 |userbox = User WikiProject Albums
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'''WikiProject Albums''' is an organization of Wikipedians dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of all kinds of [[album|audio recording album]]s. We seek ways of simplifying album pages so users can get the basic information fast, creating high-quality new pages, ensuring a standardized format and making articles as informative as possible.

Feel free to ask questions on the [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums|talk page]]. Below is a basic guide to writing an article on a specific album; this is only a guide and you should feel free to personalize an article as you see fit, though others may change it to fit our standards.

==Departments==
* [[/Assessment]]
* [[/Popular pages]] ([[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums/Popular_pages|Watchlist of popular pages]])
* [[/Sources]]
* [[/Stub templates and categories]]
* List of {{subpages}}

=={{Anchor|Style}}Album article style advice==
All editors are encouraged to consult the style guide, which has many guidelines, suggestions, and tips for creating and improving album articles.

*[[/Album article style advice]]

==Project templates==
===Participate===
Everyone is welcome to join the project and contribute. Lists of members can be found in [[:Category:WikiProject Albums participants]] and [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Participants|this list]].

To join the project, please add: <nowiki>{{User WikiProject Albums}}</nowiki> to your [[Wikipedia:User page|user page]]. After you save (publish) that [[WP:UBX|userbox]] to your user page, you will automatically be added to the [[:Category:WikiProject Albums participants|members category]].
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===Welcome new member===
If you'd like to welcome new users with a message that is tailored to the project, please use the code <code><nowiki>{{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Welcome}}</nowiki></code> which will leave [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Welcome|this message]] on their talk page.

==={{Anchor|Stubs}} Album articles===
When you create or find a new album article, please use the {{tl|WikiProject Albums}} template to include the article in the scope of this project by adding at the top of the ''talk page'':
<pre>{{WikiProject Albums
| class = 
| attention = 
| needs-infobox = 
}}</pre>
<pre>{{WikiProject Albums |class= |attention= |needs-infobox= }}</pre>
Either form is acceptable.

The parameters are used as follows:
* The parameter '''class''' adds the article to categories based on its quality assessment. Use ratings <code>stub</code>, <code>start</code>, <code>C</code>, <code>B</code>, <code>GA</code> or <code>FA</code> according to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Assessment#Quality scale|the quality scale]]. If you are unsure about which rating applies, please leave the parameter without a value.
* If the page does not have an [[Template:Infobox album|infobox]], set '''needs-infobox''' to <code>yes</code>. Otherwise remove this parameter.
* If the page needs immediate '''attention''', set it to <code>yes</code>. Otherwise remove this parameter.

Note that for several years, there was an '''importance''' parameter, but this was removed [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums/Archive 67#Proposed_change_to_Template:WikiProject_Albums|per consensus]] in 2023.

===Barnstar===
To recognize a fellow editor for their work on album articles, feel free to use the Project's [[Wikipedia:Barnstars|barnstar]]. Add the following code to their talk page. Type your own personal message in place of "message".

{{tlsp|WikiProject Albums Barnstar|message <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>}}
<br /><br />
{| style="border: 1px solid {{{border|gray}}}; background-color: {{{color|#fdffe7}}};"
|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:middle" | [[Image:WPABarnstar.png|100px]]
|rowspan="2" |
|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The WikiProject Albums Barnstar'''
|-
|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | {{{1}}}
|}<noinclude>

==Notability==
While members of this project like to see new articles about albums, not all albums should have articles at Wikipedia. Many consider any original studio album by a [[Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Entertainers|notable artist]] to be important enough to deserve an article; other editors follow stricter guidelines. See the following policies and policy proposals:
* [[Wikipedia:Notability (albums)]]
* [[Wikipedia:Notability (comedy)]] (historical, inactive as of February 2007)
* [[Wikipedia:Notability (music)]]
* [[Wikipedia:Notability]]

==Discography==
There are no explicit guidelines on how to incorporate an album article in a [[discography]]. Of course, there are several ways it can be done. In all cases, please keep the following hints in mind:
* sort the albums, e.g. ascending by date (since a discography is in some sense a [[chronology]]),
* if you [[Help:Table|use tables]], use wikicode, to make the list easier to maintain.

A simple way to list albums could be:
* ''first album'' (year of release)
* ''second album'' (year of release)

Note that album titles should be in ''italics'' and only albums, not release years, should be linked.

A different way using a table could be:
{|class="wikitable"
|+Albums by ''artist''
! scope="col"| Title
! scope="col"| Release date
! scope="col"| Notes
! scope="col"| Label
|-
! scope="row"| ''Firstname''
| 1999-01-01
| first studio album
| Label name
|-
! scope="row"| ''Secondname''
| 2000-01-01
| another note
| Label name
|}

Most album covers are non-free images, and are not permitted in discographies (or any other gallery or list). See [[Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria]] #8 and [[Wikipedia:Non-free content#Acceptable_images]] for clarification of this policy.

{{for|further examples|Category:Discographies}}
{{for|current discussion about discography format|Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musicians/Article guidelines#Discography section}}

==500 greatest albums==
One of our project goals is to bring as many albums as possible that are listed in [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|''Rolling Stone's'' 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]] to at least [[WP:ASSESS#Grades|GA (Good Article)]] status.

{{center|Numbers of articles that reached at least GA-status:}}
{{User:GreatOrangePumpkin/Prog500}}

The full list is located [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/500|here]].

==Open tasks==
Are you looking for Project-related work to do? Here is a list of work that may need to be done:
{{To do|1}}

==Articles==
===Article alerts===
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Article alerts}}

===New articles===
{{for|a list of new articles found by [[:User:AlexNewArtBot|AlexNewArtBot]]|User:AlexNewArtBot/AlbumSearchResult}}

==Review and assessment==
===Statistics===
{{User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Album}}

==See also==
* [[/Moving infobox reviews into article space]] (archived)
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable albums|Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable albums]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Discographies]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Songs]]
* [[Wikipedia:Record charts]]

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[[Category:WikiProject Music|Albums]]
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