Help:Featured Song: Difference between revisions

The Featured Song section of Weezerpedia provides a short summary of a song page, and is changed every 2 to 3 weeks. It pulls its data from a template page that can be changed to showcase different songs that Weezerpedia has entries for. This page can be found at [[Weezerpedia:Featured song]].

==Instructions==

===1. Choose a song===

Choose a song that you would like to showcase on the Main Page of Weezerpedia. Be sure that the article describing the song is [[Weezerpedia:Style Guide|up to Weezerpedia's standards]]. If it isn't, edit it! If you feel like changing the Featured Song and can't think of one to use, see [[Weezerpedia:Featured content]] and choose a song from there.<br><br>

===2. Change the "Headline"===

There is a headline above every featured article and song on the [[Main Page]]. For songs, it reads ''Featured Song: <u>"SONG NAME"</u>'', and the song name is sometimes a playable MP3. This needs to be changed if you are changing the featured song.

Click "Edit" on the [[Weezerpedia:Featured song|Featured Song]] page. Look at the second line of the article. If it is an MP3 headline, it should look like this:

<pre>{{Featured song MP3 headline|OLD MP3 LINK|OLD SONG NAME}}</pre>

*If the song you are featuring has an MP3 link on Weezerpedia, follow the steps below.

**Go to [[Weezerpedia:List of MP3 links]]

**Click edit, find your new song's MP3 link, and copy '''''only''''' the link from within the brackets. Make sure '''''not''''' to include the brackets.

**Replace the current text between the first group of dividers (the little straight line thingys like this |) with your new MP3 link.

**Put in your new song's name between the second group of dividers.

Using "[[Say It Ain't So]]" as an example, the second line will look like this:

<pre>{{Featured song MP3 headline|http://play.last.fm/preview/118417348.mp3|Say It Ain't So}}</pre>

...which gives you:

{{Featured song MP3 headline|http://play.last.fm/preview/118417348.mp3|Say It Ain't So}}

*If it is not an MP3 headline, it should look like this:

<pre>{{Featured song headline|OLD SONG NAME}}</pre>

Delete the old song title and put your new one in its place.

Using "Say It Ain't So" as an example again, the second line will look like this:

<pre>{{Featured song headline|Say It Ain't So}}</pre>

...which gives you:

{{Featured song headline|Say It Ain't So}}

*Delete all the information from the previous Featured Song, but '''''DO NOT DELETE''''' any text within the formatting ''<nowiki><noinclude>    </noinclude></nowiki>''. Anything within that formatting is there to help people edit that page, or to place the page in a category.<br><br>

*As is required with all Weezerpedia articles, '''make sure the first words that you use on the Featured Song page are the following:''' <pre>"'''[[Song Title]]'''" is..."</pre> Be sure to make the song's name an [[Help:links|internal link]] by placing two brackets around it. For example, if "[[Say It Ain't So]]" was going to be used as the Featured Song, the first line of the Featured Song text that you should be able to read on the Main Page should be... <pre>"'''[[Say It Ain't So]]'''" is the third single and seventh track from ''[[Weezer (The Blue Album)|The Blue Album]]''.</pre>

::"'''[[Say It Ain't So]]'''" is the third single and seventh track from ''[[Weezer (The Blue Album)|The Blue Album]]''.

:Except for the brackets around the song's name, this formatting is probably already set up on the page. You will probably only need to copy it.<br><BR>

These edits should be made ''only to the Featured Song page'', and not the actual article. For example, if you were to copy the first few paragraphs from "Say It Ain't So", your article would '''incorrectly''' look like this:

{{Infobox song

| Name    = Say It Ain't So

| Released = [[May 10]], [[1994]]<br> [[July 13]], [[1995]] - as a single

| Recorded = August-September 1993 at Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY

| Length  = 4:18

| Label    = DGC

| Writer  = [[Rivers Cuomo]]

| RC#      = 143

| COR#    = N/A

| Producer = [[Ric Ocasek]]

| Status  = Officially released

| RC's last song  = "Why Are We?"<br>(RC# 142)

| This RC song    = "Say It Ain't So"<br>(RC# 143)

| RC's next song  = "[[Please Pick Up the Phone]]"<br>(RC# 144)

| Last single = "[[Buddy Holly]]"<br>(1994)

| This single = "Say It Ain't So"<br>(1995)

| Next single = "[[El Scorcho]]"<br>(1996)

::"'''Say It Ain't So'''" is the third single and seventh track from ''[[Weezer (The Blue Album)|The Blue Album]]''.

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<div style="font-family: Times New Roman sans-serif; font-size: 130%; padding:0px; background-color:#ffffff; border-bottom:1px solid #affffff; text-align: left;">'''Appearances'''

</div>

<div style="background:#ffffff; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 90%; padding:0.0em 0.0em 0.0em 0.0em;">

::* ''[[Weezer (The Blue Album)]]''

::* ''[[Weezer (Deluxe Edition)]]'' (Disc 2) (Original Mix)

::* ''[[Weezer's third demo]]'' (Demo)

::* ''[[The Kitchen Tape]]'' (Demo)

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::"Say It Ain't So" was also released on [[July 13]], [[1995]] as a radio single, making it the final single released from ''The Blue Album''. Originally, [[Weezer]] lead singer [[Rivers Cuomo]] had written all of the music and had only the line "Say it ain't so".  He made the connection between the line and an experience he had in high school where he came home to find a bottle of alcohol (belonging to his stepfather, [[Stephen Kitts]]) in the refrigerator.  Cuomo recalled that around the time his biological father left, he started drinking.  He began to fear that Stephen, his step father, would soon leave his mother much the way his father did.

::In the song, Cuomo draws parallels between his own drinking and his family falling apart, which is evident in the climax of the bridge section in which Cuomo states, "Like father, step father, the son is drowning in the flood."

::As noted in the Weezer DVD collection ''[[Video Capture Device]]'' and the slip cover of the re-released special edition of their debut album, the video was filmed at the old "[[Amherst House]]" where the band used to rehearse and record. The video also features a cameo by the band's webmaster/band photographer/archivist and close friend for many years, [[Karl Koch]]. It reached #23 on The New Zealand show ''U Choose 40 Sing-A-Long Classics''.

:'''Do not include''' the following things in Featured Songs in order to maintain appropriate style: song info boxes, appearances, section headlines, track listings, lyrics, music videos, personnel, hand-written lyric sheet images, external links, or "see also" sections.

:'''Omit for redundancy:''' Without those section headlines, the first two sentences of the article would begin with "Say It Ain't So" Using pronouns and the like, make minor rewrites to sentences and prevent this monotony. ''Only make these edits to the Featured Song page, not the actual article.''

:The article should look more like this:

::"'''Say It Ain't So'''" is the third single and seventh track from ''[[Weezer (The Blue Album)|The Blue Album]]''. This song was also released on [[July 13]], [[1995]] as a radio single, making it the final single released from ''The Blue Album''.

::Originally, [[Weezer]] lead singer [[Rivers Cuomo]] had written all of the music and had only the line "Say it ain't so".  He made the connection between the line and an experience he had in high school where he came home to find a bottle of alcohol (belonging to his stepfather, [[Stephen Kitts]]) in the refrigerator.  Cuomo recalled that around the time his biological father left, he started drinking.  He began to fear that Stephen, his step father, would soon leave his mother much the way his father did.

::In the song, Cuomo draws parallels between his own drinking and his family falling apart, which is evident in the climax of the bridge section in which Cuomo states, "Like father, step father, the son is drowning in the flood."

::As noted in the Weezer DVD collection ''[[Video Capture Device]]'' and the slip cover of the re-released special edition of their debut album, the video was filmed at the old "[[Amherst House]]" where the band used to rehearse and record. The video also features a cameo by the band's webmaster/band photographer/archivist and close friend for many years, [[Karl Koch]]. It reached #23 on The New Zealand show ''U Choose 40 Sing-A-Long Classics''.

*Try to keep article length '''between 200 and 300 words.''' This is not a strict guideline, but it is recommended.

===5. Add album artwork===

Add album artwork for the song. ''If the song does not have album artwork, it cannot be featured on Weezerpedia.'' If the song is a single, the artwork for the single release should be used. Images for featured songs are always 150px wide and aligned to the right, but this formatting is already set up for you!

The third line of the article currently reads:

<pre>{{Featured song artwork|IMAGE NAME}}</pre>

All you need to do is paste in the name of the image that you're using. You can find this in the [[Template:Infobox song|songbox]] under the space for "''cover''." Using "Say It Ain't So" as an example, the third line of the article would read:

<pre>{{Featured song artwork|Sias.jpg}}</pre>

this gives you (see right):

{{Featured song artwork|Sias.jpg}}

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===6. Place the necessary links===

Place the necessary links at the bottom the page. There should be links at the bottom that allow users to easily see the full article and edit the Featured Song section. It should follow this format:

<pre>{{Featured song links|OLD SONG NAME}}</pre>

Replace ''OLD SONG NAME'' with your new song name.

Using "Say It Ain't So" as an example page, this code...

*[[Help:Featured Article]]

*[[Help:Featured Image]]

*[[Help:Featured Video]]

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