Template:Record

Record

Infobox for a record — an album, EP, single, double, soundtrack; the encyclopedic entity, as distinct from the Release: namespace, which holds bytes delivery-kid pins.

This is v0.1, deliberately small. It exists so the first hand-written record pages share a shape; it grows parameters as those pages demand them, not before. Notably absent: a year parameter — release years arrive with sources ({{Src}}), not from memory.

Usage

{{Record
|artist  = Flatt and Scruggs
|art     = Foggy Mountain Banjo album art.jpg
|listen  = https://example.org/...
|via     = bandcamp
|license = CC BY-SA 4.0
}}

Parameters

• artist – credited artist, linked. Recorded as Has record artist, so that a musician's page can say whose session they played on.
• display – shown name; defaults to the page name with any trailing parenthetical stripped.
• art – filename of the record's art (no File: prefix). The file should carry {{Album art}}. Recorded as Album art, which is how listening lists find it.
• listen / via – where the record can be heard, and who hosts that. Recorded as Listen URL; lists and (eventually) the Rabbithole player read it from here.
• license – the licence the record is released under, written as its own name: CC BY-SA 4.0, CC0, all rights reserved. Recorded as Has license.
• license_url – where that licence is stated, if there is a page saying so.

Why the licence matters here

A record under a Creative Commons or public-domain licence is listed, and named as such, in the Creative Commons Studio Work section of every musician who played on it — see {{In the studio}}. Everything else appears under {{Other studio work}} instead. A recording a reader can pass to somebody else is worth more on this wiki than one they can only point at.

Leave it out when nobody has checked. Absent means unknown, and unknown is treated as "not known to be free", which is the safe way round.

What it does unasked

Every record page shows who recommends it — a query over listening-list subobjects. A record recommended by nobody shows nothing; the section appears with its first recommendation.