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330: 312: 281: 200: 398: 380: 485:, 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? 872: 170: 929: 810:
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. ―
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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,
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parameter is left blank, the first letter of the artist name is automatically capitalized in the chronology header, so that artists whose names start with the word "the" have proper capitalization throughout the infobox. However, this does not appear to be working properly. I've added the parameter
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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
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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:
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Sorry I missed that - I was sure I had a good look through the documentation and the source code before requesting that edit. I will be more thorough about this in the future.
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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.
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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.
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as none of the other instances of the artist name being displayed force an uppercase letter, causing artists with lower-case initial letters such as
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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
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italicized when I compare them visually to the album titles as italicized in the first word of the first paragraph. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯   —
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Agreed, but two short lines may not look all slanty. When I look at multiplication's title, it seems slanty to me.
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with no value, and in my edit preview, I still see the chronology header using the exact same value as the
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I think they're all valid and could be informative to readers. If the text is going to appear anyway, why
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parameter for unusual artist names. I think that the above edit should be reverted; I could be wrong. –
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to make the title of the page itself italicized. Seems like it's italicized where it should be. ―
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parameter, without the first letter being capitalized. Does anyone know why this is occurring?
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to lc the first letter of an artist's or group's name, see the "chronology" subsection in the
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Looking at the first example, I see (among a lot of other code) when I look at the source:
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is? I think a lot of us don't have very good personal definitions of a term like that. ―
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Okay, hard to argue with the code being there, but the titles just very much do not
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section of the documentation. Also, you can see the difference in the infobox at
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to be rendered correctly in all of the template except in the chronology header.
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Chronology parameter not properly capitalizing first letter of artist name
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only title out of the 5 I highlighted that was italicizing properly.   —
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may have missed the bit in the documentation about using the
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In the chronology header parameter, header13, please replace
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