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The standard infobox for album articles is the Infobox Album template. The box to the right is an example.

The infobox code should be placed at the top of the article.

Code
Most articles should only need the following fields (for the full list of fields see advanced usage). Do not remove fields from this list when the value is unknown; in that case the values should be left blank. Please note that the field names are case-sensitive.



Name
The album's title should be specified using text (not a logo), which will be automatically italicized.

Type
The Type field refers to the general type of album. Enter a code from the following chart. The type will appear with the appropriate color and wikilink. If the type is unknown, leave the field blank.

Cover
An image of the official front cover of the original version of the album (or a reissue, if no original cover can be found) should be included at Cover. Album cover artwork may be scanned, or downloaded from another site such as All Music Guide or Amazon.com. Note that whether you scan one yourself or copy it from another site, when uploading an image, you must tag it properly and follow fair use guidelines. If you cannot find a cover image, just leave this field blank.


 * Upload a copy of the album cover (under fair use). The image should ideally be 200px wide as this is the default display size. However, it should be under 300px wide to satisfy the fair use criteria.
 * On the image description page, use the Non-free album cover image copyright tag. Selecting "Album or single cover" from the pulldown list on the image upload page will accomplish this.
 * Add detailed fair use rationale for each use of the image. For example of good rationale see Image:As Nasty As They Wanna Be cover.jpg. You can also use the Album cover article rationale template (see the usage guide for an explanation on how to use it) or the Album cover fur template.
 * Fill the template's Cover field with the name of your file (the full image syntax is not required here – just the file name with the extension).

Chronology
The chronology section should link to the previous album on the left (using the Last album field) and the next album on the right (using the Next album field). The current album should be in the middle (using the This album field). Only studio albums, usually excluding live albums, compilations, singles and EPs should be included in the chronology.

The current album should always be in boldface. All album titles should be italicized. The year of release of the albums should be listed in parentheses, separated from the album title by  or. Wikipedia's date style guidelines recommend that years should not be linked within the chronology section. Cover images should not be included in the chronology, as that would not be fair use. For first albums the left box should be left blank. For latest albums the right box should be left blank. At least one of the two fields, previous or next, must have a value filled in, for the chronology to display.

No more than one album should be included in any of the three slots in the chronology. Additional chronologies may be used if necessary (see below). Albums released on the same day should be listed separately, ordered using the standard ordering of those albums, or alphabetically if no such standard exists.

Cover size
This field should be used if the image being used is less than 200px (and you cannot locate a larger image). Fill in this field with the width of the image, using only a numeric value (i.e. "150", not "150px"). If set to "0", this hides the cover image, whether one is specified in "Cover" or the default cover image is used.

Caption
If the album has been issued with different front covers, which version the image refers to should be noted here.

Director
This field is only applicable to video albums. The name of the director should be linked to the corresponding article. If there is more than one director, the names should be delimited by commas.

Compiler
This field is only applicable to compilation albums of any kind where the person or entity responsible for selecting the album's track listing is known.