Wikipedia:WikiProject Guitarists/Guitarist infobox
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[edit] Guitarist infobox
| Eddie Van Halen | |
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| Born | January 26, 1955 Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| Genre(s) | Rock |
| Affiliation(s) | Van Halen |
| Label(s) | Warner Bros. |
| Notable guitars | Super Strat "Frankenstrat" Ernie Ball Music Man Peavey Wolfgang |
| Years active | 1976 – Present |
| Official site | www.van-halen.com |
The guitarist infobox should be used to summarize information about the guitarist in a standard manner. Many of the parameters can be omitted if desired; the choice of which parameters are appropriate for a particular guitarist is left to the discretion of the article editors.
The infobox should be added using the {{Guitarist infobox}} template, as shown below:
{{Infobox Guitarist
| name =
| image =
| caption =
| born =
| died =
| aliases =
| genre =
| affiliation =
| label =
| notable guitars =
| years =
| website =
| audio sample =
}}
- name – full name or stage name
- image – an image of the guitarist. The image must be given in the form [[Image:Example.jpg|200px]]; in particular, the thumb attribute must not be selected.
- born – the birth date and birthplace, formatted as January 1, 2000. <br /> Place of birth.Do not wikilink dates.
- died optional – date of death, formatted as above.
- aliases optional – any known aliases of the guitarist, formatted as Alias 1<br />Alias 2<br /> ...
- genre – one or more genres of music played, formatted as Genre 1<br />Genre 2<br /> ...
- affiliation optional – one or more musical groups or musicians who the guitarist is known to perform with, formatted as Affiliation 1<br />Affiliation 2<br /> ...
- label optional – label(s) the guitarist is known to record with, formatted as Label 1<br />Label 2<br /> ...
- notable guitars; list notable guitars used by the individual, i.e. for Eric Clapton use Fender Stratocaster"Blackie",
- years – years actively playing professionally, formatted as 1949 - 1992 or 1984 - present.
- website optional – web site of the guitarist, formatted as http://www.example.org.
- audio sample optional – a sample soundbyte of the guitarists "signature" solo/style. Standard ogg format(not to exceed 30 seconds)
