Template:AMG ref

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Usage

An easy and optional method to make inline citation references to

italics

for album titles:

the AllMusic album id, for instance "mw0000647618"
the name of the album, for instance "New Adventures in Hi-Fi"
the name of the recording artist, for instance "R.E.M."
the personal name of the reviewer of the album, for instance "Stephen Thomas"
the surname of the reviewer of the album, for instance "Erlewine"

To use this example elaborated above, insert:

{{subst:AMG ref|mw0000647618|New Adventures in Hi-Fi|R.E.M.|Stephen Thomas|Erlewine}}>

to get the following reference:

<ref name="amg">{{Cite web |url=https://allmusic.com/album/mwmw0000647618 |title=New Adventures in Hi-Fi – R.E.M. |language=en-US |website=[[AllMusic]] |publisher=[[RhythmOne]] |accessdate=2023-06-14 |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |date=n.d.}}</ref>

Note that for several years, AllMusic's web pages were titled "[Artist] – [Album Title]", but this switched in late February 2024.

Known issues and to-do

You cannot actually substitute inside of
Cite-web
}} recommends using "date=n.d." for undated web pages, but only a very small fraction of AllMusic references actually use this.
You cannot include further optional parameters, such as author-link. In the example above, the author has a biography on Wikipedia, so it is best to link to
if-then
statements in the future. Alternately, users can just substitute the existing template and then manually edit fields such as this one.
The access-date defaults to
ISO dates. This will likely be resolved on individual pages that have tags such as {{use dmy dates}} and {{use mdy dates
}}. If not, a bot can fix these.

In the future, this should be able to draw AllMusic album ids from Wikidata.

TemplateData

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
AllMusic ID	`1`	The AllMusic album id Example mw0000647618	String	required
Album name	`2`	The name of the album Example New Adventures in Hi-Fi	String	required
Recording artist	`3`	The name of the recording artist Example R.E.M.	String	required
Reviewer first name	`4`	The personal name of the reviewer of the album Example Stephen Thomas	String	required
Reviewer last name	`5`	The surname of the reviewer of the album Example Erlewine	String	required

Usage

Known issues and to-do

TemplateData

See also