Help:Adding New Songs
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- For a simple guide to adding song pages, see the Quickstart guide.
Please skim Lyriki's standards before reading this guide. |
Recommended Page Format
{{Song | song = SongTitle | artist = Artist | album = Album | year = AlbumYear | credits = Composers | lyricist = Lyricist }} <lyrics>Lyrics line 1 Lyrics line 2 Lyrics line 3 Lyrics line 4</lyrics> {{C:Song|SortLetter|SortTitle}}
Simply fill in the appropriate information wherever there is a bold word in this template.
- Generally, use only one pair of lyrics tags — more than one should be used for different versions or translations exclusively.
This is important since tools that extract information from the site rely on it. - Inside the lyrics tags you can't use the Wiki format modifiers. If you want to format the lyrics, use standard HTML tags instead.
- See the sorting help page for details on sorting issues and considerations.
- This template assumes the song is only on one album.
- If you do not know some of the information, leave it blank — someone else will fill it in later. Blank parameters will help identify missing information to those editing the page in the future.
- If the album and artist pages are not already made, it would be very helpful to create them also!
Songs On Multiple Albums
If a song is present on multiple albums, the same template can be used as shown below. An example page using this format can be found at The Beatles:Come Together.
{{Song | song = SongTitle | artist = Artist | albums = {{song album|Artist|Album1|Album1Year}}<br />{{song album|Artist|Album2|Album2Year}} | credits = Composers | lyricist = Lyricist }} <lyrics>Lyric line 1 Lyric line 2 Lyric line 3 Lyric line 4</lyrics> {{C:Song|SortLetter|SortTitle}}
Simply fill in the appropriate information wherever there is a bold word in this template.
- See the sorting help page for details on sorting issues and considerations.
- If you do not know some of the information, leave it blank — someone else will fill it in later.
Songs With Multiple Artists
The same template can also be used to show a song with multiple artists. An example page using this format can be found at John Parish & Polly Jean Harvey:That Was My Veil.
{{Song | song = SongTitle | artists = {{song artist|Artist1}} and {{song artist|Artist2}} | albums = {{song album|Artist1|Album|AlbumYear}} | year = AlbumYear | credits = Composers | lyricist = Lyricist }} <lyrics>Lyric line 1 Lyric line 2 Lyric line 3 Lyric line 4</lyrics> {{C:Song|SortLetter|SortTitle}}
Simply fill in the appropriate information wherever there is a bold word in this template.
- See the sorting help page for details on sorting issues and considerations.
- Note that when the song has multiple artists, you can't use the album/year parameters — use the albums parameter instead with the {{song album}} template as in the previous section.
- If you do not know some of the information, leave it blank — someone else will fill it in later.