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(album) Template READ FIRST!

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I'm posting a generic template if anyone needs a quick cut & paste for a new album listing. Remember, you need to click on the Edit this pagebefore you can cut & paste. I'll be coming back and forth adding(or deleting) components on it as they become relevant, and likewise, you can delete what's not relevant(but, please don't do it here on my page), though it might be preferred if you just left it blank as someone else may have this information that your not privy to...

You can see how I used the template to create this page: Fastway's All Fired Up

Enjoy!

Generic (album) Template *PLEASE DO NOT EDIT HERE-just cut & paste to your page

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<----Cut & Paste starting below this line----> {{Infobox Album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums --> | Name = | Type = | Artist = | Cover = | Released = | Recorded = | Genre = | Length = | Label = | Producer = | Reviews = | Last album = | This album = | Next album = }} ==Track listing== # # # # # # # # # # ==Video Version== ==Personnel== * * * * * ==Sound samples== {{multi-listen start}} {{multi-listen item | filename = | title = | description = }} {{multi-listen end}} {{sample box end}} ==External links== *[http:// [[Category:]] [[Category: albums]] [[Category: 19xx]] [[de:]] [[es:]] [[fr:]] [[it:]] [[no:]] [[pl:]] [[fi:]] [[sv:]] <----End of (album) Cut & Paste---->

Don't Forget The Article's Talk Page

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If you create a new album, click on the "discussion" tab for it and add this tag:

<----Cut & Paste this tag starting below this line----> {{Album |class= |importance= |attention= |needs-infobox= |auto= }} <----End of Cut & Paste---->

The class is a grading scale. Look here for more detail[|Assessment]. Suffice it to say, If you have a bare bones minimum like Track Listing and Pic and can fill in a few items in the INFOBOX, it will be a "STUB" class. If you have more like Line Up or External Links + maybe a few tidbits of info on the actual album itself, it would be a good "START" class.
Importance is ironically, not that important. Obscure albums might be "LOW". Use your best judgment.

--ZapperZippy 16:41, 11 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Child of the Stone

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OK, I did some research and cleaned it up a bit, I'd ideally like to see if anyone else can add to it besides me. I *am* doing a heavy metal compendium(Lite) just for songs, but I don't know every one ever produced. I do have a guy sending me info on the albums though, maybe not the band, but at least the albums...--ZapperZippy 03:47, 14 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Connendum?

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Can I please ask what the Heavy Metal conndendum is? I know I'm spelling it wrong...but yea.

Oh, and as far as the wiki that I'm trying to make, do you thikn you could help? Just putting up skeletons of bands and album is fine right now, I just want to get more on it and get the news out more. Trying to get google to crawl it....is a pain...lol. If you want to help, it's Forte. Thanks! -Violask81976 20:37, 17 June 2007 (UTC) So your doing song pages or the albums that they are on? It sounds pretty cool..I only recognized like 5 songs on there though...haha -Violask81976 01:27, 20 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

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