Template talk:Infobox album/color

message: The light steel blue took a little getting used to, but I was quite happy with it.  For some reason, the color scheme has been reverted back to orange, which is quite jarring.  What was wrong with the new colors?  Was there a technical issue that could only be resolved by reverting, or was it reverted out of one user's personal preference?  I thought the new color scheme was based on consensus.  --Alcuin 22:27, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently, it was to bring more attention to the color discussion at the WikiProject Album. The lightsteelblue color was accepted due consensus, so it should be back soon. -- ReyBrujo 22:51, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, he got mine.  I didn't bother voting before, but I prefer the blue.  Where's the place to comment/express opinions on this, anyway?  Surely I'm not the first to notice the switch back.  --Alcuin 23:03, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: At Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums →AzaToth 23:16, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yee-hah! Banish garish colors! :-) Fantailfan 23:26, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is orange back? 

message: There are now few (if any) infoboxes that use this piped link.  I'd go ahead and remove it from the template, but I'm afraid of breaking the template.  So I'll let someone more skilled do it.  Thanks.  --Alcuin 18:30, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Next time try it out yourself. At worst, you can always revert back :-) -- ReyBrujo 18:49, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks  --Alcuin 19:04, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  album (music)|album 

message: Am I crazy, or did the types automatically get linked before? Like right now, if I just set type=Album, I get Album in the infobox, but I'm sure it was Album before. Am I crazy? Joltman 12:37, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: should be updated whenever this template is updated. -- ReyBrujo 12:42, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Automatically linked types? 

message: Since there already are a number of articles on gospel albums (country or otherwise), do you think it's a good idea to create a special album/color denoter for gospel albums? Your thoughts are appreciated. [[Briguy52748 03:44, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please contact Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums, where you will get a better feedback. -- ReyBrujo 05:39, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thought I'd try here first, but Roger that and 10-4. [[Briguy52748 20:42, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Gospel albums

message: Proposed change, per discussion at Template talk:Infobox Album#Demo type, for future  if accepted:
*Add the line: "  |demo=lightsteelblue" before the line: "  |double album|double album= lightsteelblue"
*Move the documentation to an unprotected subarticle /doc
*Perform the change request at Template talk:Infobox Album/link in tandem.
--PEJL 11:49, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, let's do this. --PEJL 13:45, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done Nihiltres(t.l) 02:04, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed change: add type "demo" 

message: Requested change, needed to merge Template:Infobox Album and Template:Infobox music DVD as discussed at WT:ALBUM. While no final decision to merge has been made, I'm prototyping how such a change would work, and this is needed for such a prototype. It can be reverted if we later decide not to merge. Requested changes:
*Add the line   |video=#99CCFF before the line   |single|single|singles|singles=khaki.
*Perform the change request at Template talk:Infobox Album/link in tandem.
--PEJL 11:02, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Jogers (talk) 12:38, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Jogers. Unfortunately it didn't work quite as intended. See the breakage at Template:Infobox Album/color/doc#Unit test and Template:Infobox Album/testcases#Video parameters. I think the problem is that the hash sign needs to be escaped. Let's try changing # to #. --PEJL 12:55, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems to work now despite what test unit says... Jogers (talk) 13:10, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, and I've already fixed the test. Thanks! --PEJL 13:11, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested change: Add type "video" 

message: The unit tests return a false negative for the "video" color. Thanks to the assistance of User:Csernica at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Ifeq help we can avoid this problem by making a minor adjustment to the color value for "video". Please change #99CCFF to  #99CCFF. (This alone won't make the test pass, we'll need to update the test as well.) --PEJL 21:23, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That worked, nice! I had been trying to come with a solution to fix that false positive, glad to see others solved it! -- ReyBrujo 01:25, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Req: Minor adjustment to avoid false negative in unit tests 

message: Please change |video= to |video|DVD=, per WT:ALBUM#Video infobox. --PEJL 10:57, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Req: Support "DVD" as alias for "video" 

message: Missing on this album type list is "DJ mix". Please note that this is not the same as a compilation album or a remix album, which are presently supported in this template. Here are example articles that could benefit from this addition: Funky Skunk, Uproot, et al. (see also this list.) I'm not sure what colour to associate this with, so an editor familiar with this template should ideally add it. Thanks for your consideration. +mt 05:21, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done for now: You should probably place this request at Template talk:Infobox Album, since editors there will be able to formulate a more specific request, including deciding what color to make it, etc..--Aervanath (talk) 16:28, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, discussion now at Template talk:Infobox Album#DJ mix album type. +mt 19:05, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Req: Add DJ mix 

message: Please add the following color to the template's switch statement after the similar statement for "single".
:|song|song|Song|Song=#E6E8FA
Note that  and  should be part of the template (as shown) in order to avoid issues with the "#" character.
Rationale: Other templates used via the  parameter of , , and  use this template to create the proper color for heading rows. This template supports all the type values for  (for which it was designed) and it also supports. It currently does not support  and that negatively affects the use of those templates with the  template. Adding the line above to the switch statement will fix that, and will help to keep the colors associated with the  parameters all in one place. — John Cardinal (talk) 04:48, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:08, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add song color 

message: I'd like to request an addition to the "Remix Album" portion of the colour coding to allow a darkseagreen shade for a "Remix EP". Examples of articles that need Remix EP templates are Remixes (Coldplay album) and It's Time Remixes.  RazorEye ⡭ ₪ ·o' ⍦ ࿂ 05:22, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: There's already a remix category and an extended play category.  Creating a "remix ep" category is a question that should probably be brought up to more members.  This template doesn't get much traffic and the top of the page suggests that non-technical questions about the template should probably be brought up at WikiProject Albums.  So, I brought that question up for you on the Wikiproject Albums talk page.  I've also marked your edit request as answered, so that further discussion is focused over there.  If you'd like any further help, contact me on my user talk page.  You might instead want to put a  template up on your own user talk, or put the  template back up on this page and either way someone will be along to help you. :) Banaticus (talk) 01:50, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Req: Remix EP 

message: As it seems they are going to be common in the future, can the terms "visual" and "visual album" be added together with "video" (|video|dvd|visual|visual album=). Thanks. © Tbhotch™ (en-2.5). 03:01, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Have you had prior discussions about aliasing "visual" and "visual album"? (i.e. is WikiProject Albums aware?) In what situations (or pages) will this param be used? — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 05:56, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: , it was just a quick question. FYI,  or  is unknown to the sister template Template:Infobox album/link, which would also need to be updated to generate the appropriate link. Re-open this request if you still want the change for more visibility. — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 15:13, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Visual albums

message: Is it possible to make a Category for with missing or invalid type field? Is it necessary to make tracking subpage like in Infobox musical artist? — SimplyFreddie (talk) 13:07, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category 

message: I've reworked the code with few improvements:
* it includes the changes from the request above (replacing non-accessible color variants for ep/compilation and so on)
* replaced wikilinked values with the use of 
* excluded unusual variants, such as "gh", "movie soundtrack", "vid", etc. I've checked the number of uses of every aka from this template and  (must be synchronised, but were not) via the search, and removed poorly used or unused values. This will result about 30-50 articles to be added to  that I'm going to fix manually. 
* also formatted the code to the prettier view and removed duplicated colors thereby.
So the whole template can be replaced with the following code:
 code:


The paired code for :


There shouldn't be any problems, as I've tested and used such code in a linked template of the same functionality on the Russian Wikipedia. Solidest (talk) 20:39, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @Paine Ellsworth, I've just replaced the capitalisation of the hex codes for one view (so that it also conforms to the  format), and you've already inserted the previous version. So another change is needed here :) Solidest (talk) 15:39, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Or maybe we should make them lowercase instead? I'm not sure about the policy on writing templates about this. Solidest (talk) 15:40, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: We'll wait for awhile, so as not to overload the servers with too many changes. This template is used on 184K pages. So you have time to figure out just what is needed. (I've never seen a hexcode usage where case made a difference – both uc and lc work equally well.) P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'r there 15:43, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @Paine Ellsworth, I guess uppercase is correct per Help:Using colours, , Web colors#Hex triplet (although a lowercase also occurs in documentation – ). Solidest (talk) 16:40, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @Paine Ellsworth, so what's about the final change of the hex-codes case? so that the tests worked correctly. Based on the manuals, it's recommended to 1) use a single formatting within the code, and then 2) not change the previous formatting style within the whole code. So it was correct to add uppercase initially. Solidest (talk) 12:04, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: . P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'r there 18:12, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improving the code