View source for Policy:Quality standards/Musics and songs

Before you create a music/song article, you must always begin with the <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Infobox Song|Infobox Song]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> template. If you don't start with either templates on the top of the articles, the article will be removed from the wiki. After adding the template in their respective articles, you then start with a short summary of the article which has to starts with '''"(Insert music and song name here)"'''.

Here is how the layout must be on the articles:
* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Infobox Song|Infobox Song]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> - As explained above, the article must always starts with the either of those templates that must be placed above of every article. 
** The front cover image(s) placed into those templates must be set on 241 pixels wide (or 240 pixels if the tabber was used) and they has to be from the singles/albums/original soundtracks that the music/song was first included. 
** There are exceptions where the song/music was never included in any singles/albums/original soundtracks. In that case, the cover art from other media (''Sychronica'' for example) will be used.
The main design for the articles goes as followed:
* '''About the song''' / '''About the music''' - This header contains information about the song/music in question, including what media work(s) that features the song/music, the single CD and album where the song/music was included as well as when and where the song/music was first included in ''Taiko no Tatsujin'' series. This header is ''optional'' for Vocaloid, Game Music and Namco Original genre songs/musics. Contributors should keep the information simple.
** '''How to unlock the song''' - This sub-header is for song that has to be unlocked before it can be played
*** '''(Insert game name's subtitle here)''' - Place information about how to unlock it in various games here. 

* '''List of games''' - This header contains the list where the music/song was featured. For the game that was featured the song for the first time in the series, the subtitle '(Debut)' will be added.
** '''Arcade''' - This sub-header contains the list of arcade games where the music/song was featured. For the current 3rd-generation ''Taiko no Tatsujin'' games on arcade platform, contributor should lists on which firmware or update that has the song added into the game, unless the game was featured on launch.
** '''Console''' - This sub-header contains the list of console games where the music/song was featured.
* '''Data''' - This header contains info on the music/song's notechart data from various ''Taiko no Tatsujin'' games. The use of <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Notechart data|Notechart data]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> is recommended. Note that some musics and songs have diverged notecharts that splits into three charts: Normal, Professional and Master. The diverged notecharts may or may not change to other chart depends on how well the player play the musics and songs. 
** '''(Insert game name's subtitle here)''' - Those sub-headers contains information about the music/song's notechart data in those game. If there are two or more games that has the same notechart data, contributor should merge them into one sub-header (for example, [[Taiko no Tatsujin: V Version|''V Version'']]/[[Taiko no Tatsujin: White Version|''White Version'']] for the song "[[crossing field]]"). It should be noted that on the current arcade platform, the songs may remains in the game for many version upgrades and as such, contributor should link them to the arcade platform version where the song was first featured (''White Version'' of the song "crossing field", and ''[[Taiko no Tatsujin: Red Version|Red Version]]'' for the song "[[EXCITE]]"). If the song has the Extra track, contributor should separate them into their own sub-headers as follow:
*** '''Regular''' - This sub-header contains the notechart data for the regular track.
**** '''1P''' - This sub-header contains the notechart data for the single-player regular track.
**** '''2P''' - This sub-header contains the notechart data for the two-player regular track.
*** '''Extra''' - This sub-header contains the notechart data for the Extra track.
**** '''1P''' - This sub-header contains the notechart data for the single-player Extra track.
**** '''2P''' - This sub-header contains the notechart data for the two-player Extra track.

* '''Lyrics''' - This header contains the lyrics of the song. It is only limited to songs that has lyrics. Do note that with the exception of Namco Original songs, do not post the full length version's lyrics. The use of <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Lyrics|Lyrics]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> is recommended.
** If the song used in the game was the already existed cut that was originally featured on anime, TV show, movie and video game, insert the line in italic format as follow above the Lyrics template:
***:''Please be aware that the following is for the TV-size version of the song as it was originally featured in the anime/video game series.''
** If the song used in the game was the cut made specifically for ''Taiko no Tatsujin'' series, insert the line in italic format as follow above the Lyrics template:
***:''Please be aware that the following is for the short version that was made for Taiko no Tatsujin games.''
* '''Trivia''' - Information that are proven to be useless to input under any of those headers above. Those are very important info that are not really known in the music/song, as they are coming from official interviews from the company and even from its creator.
* '''External link(s)''' - This header contains the external links to the music and song page on the other Fandom wiki(s) or the [http://Taikotime.blogspot.com Taikotime] website.
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