Template talk:Infobox song contest entry

Lyric and Vie clips fields..
Linking to You Tube is NOT automaticaly acceptable, particularly given that a lot of clips on it have ambiguous (C) status. Sfan00 IMG 18:25, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Indeed, actually I would guess that all ESC songs in Youtube are copyright infringements and they should perhaps not be linked to. You may wish to read Copyrights. › mys id (☎∆) 17:36, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Its been removed with the new version. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 15:52, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Flag, and semi finals
First, I suggest to put the flag somewhere in the infobox. The flag is always important in the presentation of the songs in the contest, and should be visible. Secondly, it should be noted in the infobox whether the song was voted through to the final, or if it was only in the semi finals.Bib (talk) 20:38, 23 May 2008 (UTC)


 * How about adding the flag to the headline of the infobox, such as in the example below. Bib (talk) 22:56, 23 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm adding flags. If people don't approve, I'll remove it.Bib (talk) 23:55, 23 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Haven't received complaints. Thanks. Bib (talk) 19:46, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

New parameters
I've added two new parameters - prev_year and next_year. In the case where the country does not participate in the ESC, like Ireland in 2002, if the prev_year parameter is filled in, it takes the value for the previous year from this parameter. If the prev_year parameter is not present or empty, it subtracts 1 from the present year. The next_year parameter works the same way for the following year/contest.

See We've Got The World and Without Your Love for the new parameters in action. Snappy56 (talk) 09:32, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Something's wrong
Half of the box doesn't seem to be showing when I put it on Austrian entries. It's fine for all other countries, it's just Austria. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 21:18, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Missing Fields
Since the new template's been added, the "as=" and "with=" fields have been removed. Can we put them back in please. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 15:42, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * oops, I forgot those, I'll add them now. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 15:47, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm adding "as", but what is "with" for? Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 15:48, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't realy know. there's Luxembourg 1992 (Sou Fräi), I guess that's an example. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 16:58, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll add it, but I really don't think its necessary so I won't describe its use on the instructions. It'll be one of those tricks that you'll have to "know" to use. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 17:03, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again, but the conductor field missing as well. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 19:03, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, I think I left out the "older" fields since there aren't conductors anymore. I'll add it. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 19:11, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Why is there no longer a lyrics link? Mike H. Fierce! 09:13, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Lyrics and music videos are out because of copyright restrictions. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 13:34, 12 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Music videos can be OK. For example the Norwegian broadcaster NRK usually have the Norwegian music video on their site, which would be OK to link to. Bib (talk) 15:56, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * If there's a copyright notice on the website you're linking to, I don't see why it's bad to link to lyrics. Mike H. Fierce! 07:18, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

I don't think the notice would matter since they still wouldn't have the right to post it, but imo they both don't really belong in an infobox. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 13:36, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

admins, please fix layout
Please move from end of first line to the beginning of second line to avoid an additional carriage return at the begin of the article this template is used in! a x p de Hello!  12:01, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Edit Request
Is there a chance of adding quotation markss " " to the 'prev' and 'next' labels used for song titles? --  [[ axg  ◉  talk   ]] 16:23, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * This is in line with Manual of Style/Music, so Yes check.svg Done -- Red rose64 (talk) 19:38, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Turkvision Song Contest
Many Eurovision templates have been updated to allow for the Turkvision Song Contest and other similar contests within the WikiProject Eurovision scope. Should this particular template also be updated? This would mean that the field "junior" would be removed and "contest" be introduced. I propose the following contest variables: I understand that this would need to be thoroughly tested and AWB would be essential to ensuring the necessary changes were made, but is there anybody who would be willing to do this? If not, another template will need to be made, which would probably inefficient. —  Tuxipεdia ( talk ) 02:43, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
 * NA (default) — Eurovision Song Contest
 * junior — Junior Eurovision Song Contest
 * turkvision — Turkvision Song Contest
 * bala — Bala Turkvision Song Contest
 * abu tv — ABU TV Song Festival
 * abu radio — ABU Radio Song Festival

Template-protected edit request on 17 May 2019
Removal of double bold in "song" parameter. Eurohunter (talk) 19:45, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I may have just done this. However, you need to tell us what was wrong and where it was wrong to verify. Izno (talk) 20:20, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Image from wikidata
Could you possibly undo this edit? It is forcing the image from wikidata into the infobox. Typically the photos should be placed in the prose where they can be explained. The image field is typically only used when there is no Infobox Song (and cover) present. Grk1011 (talk) 14:18, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , could you point me to one or multiple articles where this is causing problems? I'd to look into a fix (such as disabling images when in embedded mode) rather than removing all Wikidata functionality and other changes made. IceWelder  &#91; &#9993; &#93; 15:28, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * On Move (The Mamas song) I had to delete the image from the wikidata because I need to have the photo in the Melodifestivalen section (which will look better once I further expand the page). The image field should not be pulling from wikidata as we do not want images in these infoboxes automatically. Grk1011 (talk) 15:42, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , thanks for the heads up. I made a minor change that disables images whole when the infobox is embedded, as this rarely produces a good result. What was already possible before that but not documented is that retrieval from Wikidata can be disabled using none. This would have also worked in your specific case. I reverted your change to Move's Wikidata entry for testing, and the article appears as it should now, so I will probably leave the entry as it is. Please let me know if you are not happy with this solution. IceWelder  &#91; &#9993; &#93; 15:59, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * As long as it's optional that should be fine. Thanks! Grk1011 (talk) 16:01, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Appearance chronology
or, would you be willing to update the "appearance chronology" to be "entry chronology" (or something else?)? The existing wording is creating some issues with how we present the 2020 entries. Grk1011 (talk) 15:23, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Makes sense. I'm not home right now, but I can handle this later if there is no opposition. IceWelder  &#91; &#9993; &#93; 15:37, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Done. IceWelder  &#91; &#9993; &#93; 18:53, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Use of parameters that are also in the song infobox
The template contains several parameters that are also used in, such as:


 * image
 * caption
 * genre
 * composer
 * lyricist
 * language

On most articles, this template is embedded in so all of that information will already be in there. Is there any use in repeating all of that information in this infobox? We could just not use them when the embed flag is set. &horbar;JochemvanHees (talk) 16:12, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
 * It's set up that way because many of the older entries were not singles and only have this entry infobox. It was also done before Infobox Single and Infobox Song were combined into one, so you historically had an infobox for every type. Open to revisiting if maybe every use of this should be embeded within Infobox Song? Grk1011 (talk) 16:52, 20 April 2021 (UTC)


 * It's not only old pages; also pages like Kazakhstan in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 only have this entry infobox. I think that in those cases, there's nothing wrong with using those parameters. My proposal is to stop using them if this infobox is used as embed. &horbar;JochemvanHees (talk) 17:25, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not saying people are using them properly, I was just providing the background of the template's creation and intended use. Grk1011 (talk) 17:33, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

I restarted this discussion on. &horbar;Jochem van Hees (talk) 21:35, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Optional prev_link and next_link parameters
I made an edit to the sandbox that makes the parameters optional, so that if the article title is the same as the song title you don't need to specify it twice (in both the prev and prev_link params). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jochem van Hees (talk • contribs) 11:50, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ * Pppery * it has begun... 14:46, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Remove trailing non-breaking spaces
These ones. As far as I can tell they serve no purpose, and they actually can in rare cases cause a trailing new line (like on Du hast mich so fasziniert). &horbar;Jochem van Hees (talk) 15:09, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ Removed. Those spaces were apparently added in 2007 when the template did not yet use the infobox template. I can't see a reason why they would be needed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:56, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Remove English wikilink
There is consensus at WikiProject Eurovision to not wikilink the English langauge in accordance with MOS:OVERLINK. This infobox still wikilinks English though in the language field, so I think this should be fixed (as I did in ). &horbar;Jochem van Hees (talk) 14:03, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Am I missing something? Don't see this discussed at the link you gave. Is there a better link?  P.I. Ellsworth &numsp;- ed.  put'r there 14:21, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Whoops sorry, I meant to link to the archived discussion. (My initial proposal there was to not wikilink any languages, but eventually we settled on only not linking English.) &horbar;Jochem van Hees (talk) 17:00, 13 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Okay, and ✅.  P.I. Ellsworth &numsp;- ed.  put'r there 18:07, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 8 April 2022
This template automatically links the country which is contrary to MOS:OVERLINKING, which says do not link major countries likely to be known to most readers. To comply with this, individual articles could link "minor" countries, but the template should not link all by default which produces United Kingdom in Love Will Set You Free, for example. MB 22:43, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: am I missing something? Take another look at that UK link. It does not link to United Kingdom, it links instead to United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest. Don't see anything wrong with that.  P.I. Ellsworth &numsp;- ed.  put'r there 01:21, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
 * , please look again. The country is used a second time after the "Country" label, where it is directly linked to the input value. MB 22:43, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
 * did look again and sorry, don't see it. The only links to a country in this template are coded to link to either Country in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest or Country in the Eurovision Song Contest. There doesn't seem to be any way that this template can link directly to a country. The documentation clearly explains that any name of a country that is placed in the country parameter will link to Country in the Eurovision Song Contest. If you can show me the code to change, or if you place the template code in the sandbox with your proposed change(s), then we can see if this template needs to be altered.  P.I. Ellsworth &numsp;- ed.  put'r there 15:50, 10 April 2022 (UTC)