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'''WikiProject Albums''' is an organization of Wikipedians dedicated to improving Misplaced Pages's coverage of music albums from all ]. We seek ways of simplifying and improving the instructions regarding the writing of album pages so that users can create articles that are as informative as possible by providing basic information in a clear and efficient manner. '''WikiProject Albums''' is an organization of Wikipedians dedicated to improving Misplaced Pages's coverage of music albums from all ]. We seek ways of simplifying and improving the instructions regarding the writing of album pages so that users can create articles that are as informative as possible by providing basic information in a clear and efficient manner.


Below is a basic structure that might be useful when writing articles about music albums, but please keep in mind that this is only a ''guide''; it is not a ], and you should feel free to personalize an article as you see fit, though others may seek ] to make changes based on advice provided here. Editors are strongly encouraged to consult the ], which has many guidelines, suggestions, and tips for creating and improving album articles. This project page is intended as a supplement to, but not a replacement for advice offered by the MoS. Below is a basic structure that might be useful when writing articles about music albums, but please keep in mind that this is only a guide and you should feel free to personalize an article as you see fit, though others may seek ] to make changes based on advice provided here. Feel free to ask questions on the ]. Editors are strongly encouraged to consult the ], which has many guidelines, suggestions, and tips for creating and improving album articles. This project page is intended as a supplement to, but not a replacement for advice offered by the MoS.




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For songs, see Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Songs. For the notability guideline, see WP:NMG § Albums.
This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
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WikiProject Albums is an organization of Wikipedians dedicated to improving Misplaced Pages's coverage of music albums from all genres. We seek ways of simplifying and improving the instructions regarding the writing of album pages so that users can create articles that are as informative as possible by providing basic information in a clear and efficient manner.

Below is a basic structure that might be useful when writing articles about music albums, but please keep in mind that this is only a guide and you should feel free to personalize an article as you see fit, though others may seek consensus to make changes based on advice provided here. Feel free to ask questions on the talk page. Editors are strongly encouraged to consult the Misplaced Pages Manual of Style, which has many guidelines, suggestions, and tips for creating and improving album articles. This project page is intended as a supplement to, but not a replacement for advice offered by the MoS.


Feel free to ask questions on the talk page.

Departments

Album article style guide

Editors are strongly encouraged to consult the Misplaced Pages style guide, which has many guidelines, suggestions, and tips for creating and improving album articles. While the MoS is not prescriptive, its general direction should be respected when writing Misplaced Pages articles.

Project templates

Participate

Everyone is welcome to join the project and contribute. Lists of members can be found in Category:WikiProject Albums members and this list.

To join the project, please add this userbox by adding {{User WikiProject Albums}} to your user page. You will automatically be added to the members category.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Albums.

Welcome new member

If you'd like to welcome new users with a message that is tailored to the project, please use the code {{subst:Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Albums/Welcome}} which will leave this message on their talk page.

Album articles

When you create or find a new album article, please use the {{WikiProject Albums}} template to include the article in the scope of this project by adding at the top of the talk page: 

{{WikiProject Albums
| class = 
| importance = 
| attention = 
| needs-infobox = 
}}
{{WikiProject Albums |class= |importance= |attention= |needs-infobox= }}

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 stub, start, C, B, GA or FA according to the quality scale. If you are unsure about which rating applies, please leave the parameter without a value.
  • For importance, refer to this scale. If you are unsure about which rating applies please leave the parameter without a value.
  • If the page does not have an infobox, set needs-infobox to yes. Otherwise remove this parameter.
  • If the page needs immediate attention, set it to yes. Otherwise remove this parameter.

Barnstar

To recognize a fellow editor for his or her work on album articles, feel free to use the Project's barnstar. Add the following code to his or her talk page. Type your own personal message in place of "message".

{{subst:WikiProject Albums Barnstar|message ~~~~}}

The WikiProject Albums Barnstar
{{{1}}}

Notability

While members of this project like to see new articles about albums, not all albums should have articles at Misplaced Pages. Many consider any original studio albums by a notable artist to be important enough to deserve an article; other editors follow stricter guidelines. See the following policies and policy proposals:

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 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:

Title Release date Notes Label
Firstname 1999-01-01 first studio album Label name
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 Misplaced Pages:Non-free content criteria #8 and Misplaced Pages:Non-free content#Acceptable_images for clarification of this policy.

For further examples, see Category:Discographies. For current discussion about discography format, see Misplaced Pages 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 to at least GA (Good Article) status.

Numbers of articles that reached at least GA-status:
28.8% complete

The full list is located 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 list for Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Albums: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2020-06-11

Collaboration task

  • None for the moment

Maintenance

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New articles

For a list of new articles found by AlexNewArtBot, see User:AlexNewArtBot/AlbumSearchResult.

Review and assessment

Statistics

Album pages by quality
Quality
Total
FA 170
FL 77
GA 1,583
B 1,755
C 9,840
Start 61,361
Stub 75,575
List 1,597
Category 48,272
Disambig 253
File 159,572
Project 199
Redirect 30,880
Template 712
Assessed 391,846
Unassessed 8
Total 391,854
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 808,046 Ω = 5.38

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