Help:Style Manual

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Songs, lyrics, and album pages should be formatted as follows, starting after the title bar, ending before the next title bar. The sample pages below are formatted for a song named "Sample Song" off of the album "Sample Album".

• Sample Song
• Lyrics:Sample Song
• Album:Sample Album

There should be several redirects to these pages, listed here:

• Sample Song (song) should redirect to Sample Song
• Lyrics:Song:Sample Song should redirect to Lyrics:Sample Song
• Lyrics:Sample Song (song) should redirect to Lyrics:Sample Song
• Sample Song (album) should redirect to Sample Song

To make a redirect, put the following text onto the page, "Sample Song" with whatever you want the page to redirect to:

#REDIRECT [[Sample Song]]

Contents 1 Song:Title 2 Lyrics:Title 3 Album 4 End Samples 4.1 Other Notes

[edit] Song:Title

Song: Title

Running Time: 3:14

Parody of: Song by Artist

Lyrics: Lyrics

Video: Yes or No

Download/Listen: Mp3 or None

Trivia:

• This song is an example song page.
• Lists should be bulletted.

[[Category:Songs|First letter in song]]

Lyrics should be formatted as follows, starting after the title bar, ending before the next title bar.

[edit] Lyrics:Title

Lyrics:

<pre>

A Long Long Time Ago
There was a sample page,
The Lyrics were indented
Using single colons!!

For two verses
Without a chorus in between
A single line
should break them


For a chorus
Break twice before proceeding
It's only natural
For a song page


Oh, Sample song
What do you think?
Oh, Sample song
You're turning pink


Also break twice
When starting a new
Verse or something
  (Verse or something)
Verse or something
  (Verse or something)

{Fade out}
<nowiki>

</nowiki>

</pre>

[[Song:Title|Back]] [[Category:Lyrics|First letter in song]]

[edit] Album

Album: Album Title

Total Running Time: 31:41

Tracks:

• Let's Roll (3:14)
• What A Song (1:59)
• Kick the Squirrel (3:05)
• Thoughts on a Bird (4:22)
• List Rest of Songs (1:19)

Credits:

• Drums:
  • Person's Name
• Drums:
  • Other Person
• Cymbals:
  • Third Person
• Drums
  • Person Four

[edit] End Samples

[edit] Other Notes

• If it's a song, it should be located at Title. Pages that redirect to "Title" should be at Song:Title and Title (song)
• Lyrics for the song should be located at Lyrics:Title. Lyrics:Song:Title and Lyrics:Title (song) should redirect there.
• Albums should be located at Album:Title, redirects at Title and Title (album)
  • To make a redirect, put "#REDIRECT [[Song:Title]]" replacing "Title" with the title of the song.