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WikiProject Albums is an organization of Wikipedians dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of all kinds of audio recording albums. 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 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.
All editors are encouraged to consult the style guide, which has many guidelines, suggestions, and tips for creating and improving album articles.
Everyone is welcome to join the project and contribute. Lists of members can be found in Category:WikiProject Albums participants and this list.
To join the project, please add: {{User WikiProject Albums}} to your user page. After you save (publish) that userbox to your user page, you will automatically be added to the members category.
If you'd like to welcome new users with a message that is tailored to the project, please use the code {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Welcome}} which will leave this message on their talk page.
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
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{{WikiProject Albums |class= |attention= |needs-infobox= }}
Either form is acceptable.
The parameters are used as follows:
stub, start, C, B, GAorFA according to the quality scale. If you are unsure about which rating applies, please leave the parameter without a value.yes. Otherwise remove this parameter.yes. Otherwise remove this parameter.Note that for several years, there was an importance parameter, but this was removed per consensus in 2023.
To recognize a fellow editor for their work on album articles, feel free to use the Project's barnstar. Add the following code to their talk page. Type your own personal message in place of "message".
{{subst:WikiProject Albums Barnstar|message ~~~~}}
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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 notable artist to be important enough to deserve an article; other editors follow stricter guidelines. See the following policies and policy proposals:
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:
A simple way to list albums could be:
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 |
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| 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 Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria #8 and Wikipedia:Non-free content#Acceptable_images for clarification of this policy.
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.
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| FL
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 GA
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1,544 | ||||||
| B | 1,621 | ||||||
| C | 9,414 | ||||||
| Start | 60,072 | ||||||
| Stub | 77,558 | ||||||
| List | 1,558 | ||||||
| Category | 47,963 | ||||||
| Disambig | 257 | ||||||
| File | 183,812 | ||||||
| Project | 195 | ||||||
| Redirect | 28,710 | ||||||
| Template | 712 | ||||||
| NA | 1 | ||||||
| Draft | 180 | ||||||
| Assessed | 413,840 | ||||||
| Unassessed | 14 | ||||||
| Total | 413,854 | ||||||
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 811,315 | Ω = 5.40 | |||||
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