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Infobox for a composition: who wrote it, what it is indexed as, what else it is called (via create-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)

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Infobox for a composition — a song or a tune — on a page in the
<code>Song:</code> namespace. See [[PickiPedia:Compositions]].

'''Deliberately small''', like {{tl|Record}}. It holds what other pages need to
query and what a reader needs to get from here to whoever knows more. It grows
parameters when pages demand them, not before.

=== Usage ===
<pre>
{{Song
|composer = Justin Myles Holmes
|also = Barlow's, Barlows Jig
}}

{{Song
|traditional = yes
|roud = 3339
|also = Garfield's Blackberry Blossom
}}
</pre>

=== Parameters ===
* '''composer''' – who wrote it, linked. Leave it out rather than guessing.
* '''traditional''' – <code>yes</code> when the composition is carried by a tradition rather than credited to somebody. Recorded as [[Property:Is traditional|Is traditional]], not written into the page's title.
* '''roud''' – its [[wikipedia:Roud Folk Song Index|Roud]] number, where the index covers it. An index number is a claim somebody else already checked, and it is what a reader follows to a fuller account than this wiki will carry for a while.
* '''also''' – other names it goes by, comma-separated. Each is recorded as [[Property:Has alternate name|Has alternate name]], which is how an importer resolves a setlist that calls this tune something else. '''Make redirects too''': a property is for machines, a redirect is for the reader who typed the other name.
* '''display''' – shown name, if it should differ from the page title.

=== What a song page records beyond this ===
Its recordings, one {{tl|Studio version}} per studio cut. Those are written by
the import pipeline into a marked block; everything above is written by people.

=== Naming ===
The plain common name. Not the tradition, not the composer, not the year — see
[[PickiPedia:Compositions#Naming]]. Where two unrelated compositions share a
name, the plain title becomes a disambiguation page.

[[Category:Templates]]
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Magent: Infobox for a composition: who wrote it, what it is indexed as, what else it is called (via create-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)