Talk:Camelot songs

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Created
The article "Camelot songs" was created on 28 January 2008 by User:Wikid77 as a collection of 18 songs, for detailed expansion, rather than create 18 separate song articles propagating a hypothetical 50-link "Camelot navbox" connecting the related articles. -Wikid77 (talk) 10:09, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Format
29-Jan-2008: The format of article "Camelot songs" uses some advanced formatting techniques, only used in a limited number of other articles:


 * Song subheaders: Individual subheaders for each song have the prefix word "Song:" to distinguish each song title and avoid quote-marks in song subheaders. Technically, song titles should be enclosed within quotation marks; however, in section subheader titles, using embedded quote-marks would complicate links to quoted titles, so the prefix "Song:" is used instead as a meta-word to designate that the subheader is a song title (unquoted). The concept is similar to using "aka" to designate an also-name without quote-marks, such as: Jonkin Vern Poltram aka JVP.


 * Song inner-links: Internal links, to those various song subheaders, use the pound symbol "#" as in linking to the song "Camelot" by using: Camelot . Although the MediaWiki software seems to change every few months, and wiki-formatting stops working sometimes, the pound-symbol links are not expected to break because they are used in thousands of articles.


 * [The right-click menu option for PNG or SVG images stopped working in December 2007 (formerly allowed "Open link in new window"), but still worked in Wikimedia Commons. For news of some other wiki-format changes, see: MediaWiki.]


 * TOC text wrap: The Table-of-Contents (TOC) box is allowing righthand text wrapping, to condense the top text. Due to wiki-format restrictions with images or infoboxes eclipsing text, the TOC box usually forbids text wrapping alongside. However, template "{ {LeftTOCwrap}}" is being used to wrap righthand text beside the TOC.  Future righthand images or infoboxes can eclipse text at a TOC, so a trick is to add a small left-side image after/below the TOC to wake-up margin boundaries of future right-side boxes.

As always, put source-reference footnotes on new text. -Wikid77 (talk) 10:48, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

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