WikiChristian talk:Song styleguide

Current ideas on style for songs and lyrics

I'm currently moving the current song pages to conform to some type of uniform arrangement.

Currently I am changing the titles from '<song title>' to '<song title> (song)'. I am also doing the something similar with the song lyrics pages ie '<words/lyrics to <song title>>' is being changed to '<song title> (lyrics)'.

I'm also changing the style of the song titles to a widely accepted capitalisation style, which is capital letters for all the 'principle words', and capitals for smaller words of four character or more as well.

I'm hopeful that someone will assist me in writing a formal styleguide for song titles on the WikiChristian:Song styleguide page. --Mustaphile 08:18, 8 May 2005 (PDT)

Conversion process

The process of converting all the old song/lyric page titles is done. All that really needs to be done now is to look out for new additions and edit accordingly. --Mustaphile 11:03, 8 May 2005 (PDT)

Some more comments

I agree that all of the above ideas sound good. Adding (song) at the end makes sense. As for capitalizations, I'm happy whichever way. I would like to keep a main page for each song, with further links lyrics, song reviews, information about the song etc... That way, for a song like Amazing Grace, instead of trying to cram everything about the song into one page, there could be sublinks for Amazing Grace (words), Amazing Grace (sheet music) [it isn't copyright as far as I am aware], About Amazing Grace, Reviews and opinions of Amazing Grace etc...

Name changes

Hi Mustaphile

I like what you've done with the nomenclature for the songs. This is certainly making WikiChristian better organized. Thanks for the changes.

Graham

I like that word, 'nomenclature'. I wish I had thought of that. :) --Mustaphile 15:09, 10 May 2005 (PDT)