Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums

Album article collaboration From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

WikiProject Albums is an organization of Wikipedians dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of all kinds of audio recording albums. We seek ways of simplifying album pages so users can get the basic information fast, creating high-quality new pages, ensuring a standardized format and making articles as informative as possible.

ShortcutsWP:ALBUM, WP:ALBUMS
CategoriesWikiProject Albums, Albums
Portal Music
Wikimedia CommonsCommons:Category:Music albums Music albums
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WikiProject Albums
ShortcutsWP:ALBUM, WP:ALBUMS
CategoriesWikiProject Albums, Albums
Portal Music
Wikimedia CommonsCommons:Category:Music albums Music albums
Parent
project(s)		Music
Project banner template{{WikiProject Albums}}
Userbox{{User WikiProject Albums}}
AssessmentWikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Assessment
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Feel free to ask questions on the talk page. Below is a basic guide to writing an article on a specific album; this is only a guide and you should feel free to personalize an article as you see fit, though others may change it to fit our standards.

Departments

Album article style advice

All editors are encouraged to consult the style guide, which has many guidelines, suggestions, and tips for creating and improving album articles.

Project templates

Participate

Everyone is welcome to join the project and contribute. Lists of members can be found in Category:WikiProject Albums participants and this list.

To join the project, please add: {{User WikiProject Albums}} to your user page. After you save (publish) that userbox to your user page, you will automatically be added to the members category.

Welcome new member

If you'd like to welcome new users with a message that is tailored to the project, please use the code {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Welcome}} which will leave this message on their talk page.

Album articles

When you create or find a new album article, please use the {{WikiProject Albums}} template to include the article in the scope of this project by adding at the top of the talk page:

{{WikiProject Albums
| class = 
| attention = 
| needs-infobox = 
}}
{{WikiProject Albums |class= |attention= |needs-infobox= }}

Either form is acceptable.

The parameters are used as follows:

  • The parameter class adds the article to categories based on its quality assessment. Use ratings stub, start, C, B, GA or FA according to the quality scale. If you are unsure about which rating applies, please leave the parameter without a value.
  • If the page does not have an infobox, set needs-infobox to yes. Otherwise remove this parameter.
  • If the page needs immediate attention, set it to yes. Otherwise remove this parameter.

Note that for several years, there was an importance parameter, but this was removed per consensus in 2023.

Barnstar

To recognize a fellow editor for their work on album articles, feel free to use the Project's barnstar. Add the following code to their talk page. Type your own personal message in place of "message".

{{subst:WikiProject Albums Barnstar|message ~~~~}}

The WikiProject Albums Barnstar
{{{1}}}

Notability

While members of this project like to see new articles about albums, not all albums should have articles at Wikipedia. Many consider any original studio album by a notable artist to be important enough to deserve an article; other editors follow stricter guidelines. See the following policies and policy proposals:

Discography

There are no explicit guidelines on how to incorporate an album article in a discography. Of course, there are several ways it can be done. In all cases, please keep the following hints in mind:

  • sort the albums, e.g. ascending by date (since a discography is in some sense a chronology),
  • if you use tables, use wikicode, to make the list easier to maintain.

A simple way to list albums could be:

  • first album (year of release)
  • second album (year of release)

Note that album titles should be in italics and only albums, not release years, should be linked.

A different way using a table could be:

More information Title, Release date ...
Albums by artist
Title Release date Notes Label
Firstname 1999-01-01 first studio album Label name
Secondname 2000-01-01 another note Label name
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Most album covers are non-free images, and are not permitted in discographies (or any other gallery or list). See Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria #8 and Wikipedia:Non-free content#Acceptable_images for clarification of this policy.

For further examples, see Category:Discographies.
For current discussion about discography format, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musicians/Article guidelines § Discography section.

500 greatest albums

One of our project goals is to bring as many albums as possible that are listed in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time to at least GA (Good Article) status.

Numbers of articles that reached at least GA-status:

The full list is located here.

Open tasks

Are you looking for Project-related work to do? Here is a list of work that may need to be done:

Articles

Article alerts

Did you know

Articles for deletion

(21 more...)

Proposed deletions

Categories for discussion

  • 23 Apr 2026 – Category:Works by Malcolm Todd (musician) (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (t · c); see discussion
  • 19 Apr 2026 – Category:Albums named after a year (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Files for discussion

Featured article candidates

Good article nominees

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Good topic candidates

Featured article reviews

Good article reassessments

Requests for comments

Peer reviews

Requested moves

Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

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New articles

For a list of new articles found by AlexNewArtBot, see User:AlexNewArtBot/AlbumSearchResult.

Review and assessment

Statistics

More information Album pages by quality, Quality ...
Album pages by quality
Quality
Total
FA 180
FL 90
GA 1,755
B 2,189
C 10,967
Start 65,318
Stub 73,137
List 1,658
Category 49,382
Disambig 284
File 165,332
Project 214
Redirect 32,900
Template 729
Assessed 404,135
Unassessed 2
Total 404,137
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 819,357 Ω = 5.34
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Resources

Chart listings

Check the reliability of the chart for a specific country through WP:CHARTS. Some sources include:

  • For a reliable source on Billboard charts of all genres dating back to 1944, refer to Joel Whitburn's books published by Billboard Publications.
  • top40-charts.com has been listed in WP:BADCHARTS and should not be used as a source.
  • ARIA has end-of-year Australian charts from 1989 onwards and a list of certifications at the end of each year for singles and albums (platinum and gold).
  • Randy Price has compiled the Cash Box magazine Best Selling Record charts from 1950 on.
  • aCharts.us is an unlicensed archive compiled by an anonymous source, and contains several charts listed on WP:BADCHARTS. WP:GOODCHARTS recommends against its use in featured or good articles. Archive from 2003.

Track listings

Tools

See also

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