Template talk:Infobox album

Labels from countries

@Zmbro, can you explain for these?([1][2]) Also there's another discussions at Talk:The_Storm_Before_the_Calm#Euro_label, you can make any comment below. ​​​​ 2402:1980:82B1:74F9:0:0:0:1 (talk) 06:11, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

As QuietHere said over there, per Template:Infobox_album#label "it says "Only the record label that the album was originally released on should be specified." "Originally" in this case is referring to release date, not nationality, and from everything I've seen the release was day-and-date simultaneous in all territories." There were more than four labels in the linked cases, and they were all released simultaneously, therefore they all belong there. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 15:31, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

But also says "record label should be mentioned in the article, for example in a Release history section (in different countries in this case)." For example: Ellie Goulding albums were released by Polydor in the UK and Interscope in the U.S., then @SnapSnap prefers Polydor as the main label. ([3][4][5]) 2001:D08:2950:669B:17B0:DC3A:526A:7BAF (talk) 04:47, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Removing links

I noticed that this album infobox seems to be the only one to have some parameters be linked, compared to the person infobox, film infobox, TV infobox, or even something like ship career infobox. The links are:

• "Genre" linking to music genre
• "Label" linking to record label
• "Producer" linking to record producer

Looking at the article Nirvana (band), the above links never appear in the article body, so I wonder if the linked parameters are vestigial and a little unnecessary if they aren't used in articles. I would like to suggest that we do not need to have these links for the parameters since they are instances of too much generalistic linking. The other infoboxes do not have such links for their parameters. Any objection to removal? Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 21:18, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Weak keep I think they're all valid and could be informative to readers. If the text is going to appear anyway, why not give a link to what exactly a record producer is? I think a lot of us don't have very good personal definitions of a term like that. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:07, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

• I also think that the links are useful, since the terms are specific to the business. I see them as similar to the area-specific links in {{Infobox train}}. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:06, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

television season articles and this template, a new error

Since television season articles have now been moved and they've lost their disambiguation, there are now possible display title clashes between {{Infobox television season}} and this template. To fix this, editors should use |italic_title=no on this template. Another possible more general fix is to place the italic code inside Module:Is infobox in lead so only when this template is the lead template it should handle italicization of the article title. Gonnym (talk) 12:42, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Album article titles not italicizing

Re: the Ed Sheeran albums named for math symbols (+, ×, ÷, =, and −), the article titles are not auto-italicizing. Some technical limitation, perhaps? Just thought I should bring it to your attention.   — TARDIS builder^✉     ★       20:21, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Looking at the first example, I see (among a lot of other code) when I look at the source:

style="font-style: italic; color: inherit; background-color: lightsteelblue; font-size: 125%;">+</th>

to make the title italicized in the infobox and:

<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><i>+</i> (album)</h1>

to make the title of the page itself italicized. Seems like it's italicized where it should be. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:27, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Okay, hard to argue with the code being there, but the titles just very much do not appear italicized when I compare them visually to the album titles as italicized in the first word of the first paragraph. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯   — TARDIS builder^✉     ★       10:36, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Agreed, but two short lines may not look all slanty. When I look at multiplication's title, it seems slanty to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 14:31, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

The only reason Multiply's title looks slanty is because it's actually a lowercase X. That article's name is contentious, and there has been discussion about renaming it multiple times over the years, according to the history. I only discovered that because I thought it was weird that that was the only title out of the 5 I highlighted that was italicizing properly.   — TARDIS builder^✉     ★       16:38, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Remove all content and leave just {{Italic title}} and preview the page. Open another tab and remove all content and preview the page. You will see the very small difference. It's probably a font issue. Gonnym (talk) 18:40, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Artwork parameter

The cover artist would be appreciated Lettres (talk) 00:40, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

This is a tricky thing about infoboxes: they can really spiral out of control quickly (e.g. look at most cricket players that have wildly detailed statistics). If we include the cover artist, what about conductors, arrangers, engineers, mixers, masterers? Slippery slope arguments are generally weak, so I won't rely just on that, but rest assured that lots of pretty tertiary parameters would be added. Ultimately, I think that if you're looking for an overview of the most basic facts about an album, the cover artist is rarely one of them and is something that would be covered in the text of the article. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:46, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

The cover artist is probably the most missed parameter, see "search archive" on top. It is equal to that of the director and also groundbreaking for an era. Lettres (talk) 13:29, 2 June 2024 (UTC)