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This is, hopefully, an adequate temporary box to put on all the song articles.  I wrote this in about 5 minutes, and I know nothing about making templates other than 5 minutes reading Wikipedia's tutorials, so anyone who can make it look nicer or thinks of anything to add to it please do, I think some feature for international chart positions would be nice... :-)
This is, hopefully, an adequate box to put on all the song articles.  Thanks to some template wizardry, this template automatically adds articles it is added to to <nowiki>[[Category:Songs]]</nowiki>.
 
Thanks to some template wizardry, this template now automatically adds articles it is added to <nowiki>[[Category:Songs]]</nowiki>


== Usage ==
== Usage ==
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| Length = mm:ss (The length of the track, duh!)
| Length = mm:ss (The length of the track, duh!)
| AltTitles = (Unofficial, pre-release titles of the song)
| AltTitles = (Unofficial, pre-release titles of the song)
| First = (First known gig the song was performed live, eg 'Crying Shame' would be '19th December 2004'  
| First = (First known gig the song was performed live, eg 'Crying Shame' would be '19{{supo|th}} December 2004'  
| Latest = (Latest known performance if greater than one month ago)
| Latest = (Latest known performance if greater than one month ago)
| Recorded = (Year of the first and subsequent recordings)
| Recorded = (Year of the first and subsequent recordings)
| Writer = (The songwriter, in most cases Sir Bellamy)
| Writer = (The songwriter, in most cases Sir Bellamy)
| Producer = (The producer)
| Producer = (The producer)
| Chart position = (The highest UK chart position, other countries may be added to the template later)
| Chart position = (The highest UK chart position)
}}
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Revision as of 21:52, 1 September 2011

Muse song
Name Unknown
Album/single Unknown
Length Unknown
Alternative titles Unknown
First live performance Unknown
Latest live performance Unknown
Recorded Unknown
Writer/composer Unknown
Producer Unknown
Chart position Unknown

This is, hopefully, an adequate box to put on all the song articles. Thanks to some template wizardry, this template automatically adds articles it is added to to [[Category:Songs]].

Usage

{{Songbox
| Name = 
| Album = 
| Length = mm:ss
| AltTitles = 
| First =
| Recorded =
| Writer = 
| Producer = 
| Chart position = 
}}


Which means...

{{Songbox
| Name = (The name of the song)
| Album = (The album, single or EP the track is taken from)
| Length = mm:ss (The length of the track, duh!)
| AltTitles = (Unofficial, pre-release titles of the song)
| First = (First known gig the song was performed live, eg 'Crying Shame' would be '19{{supo|th}} December 2004' 
| Latest = (Latest known performance if greater than one month ago)
| Recorded = (Year of the first and subsequent recordings)
| Writer = (The songwriter, in most cases Sir Bellamy)
| Producer = (The producer)
| Chart position = (The highest UK chart position)
}}

Happy editing!