Wikipedia:WikiProject Musical Theatre/Templates

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[edit] Tags

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Stub for all Musical Theatre Articles	This musical theatre related article is a stub. You can help by expanding it.	{{musical-theat-stub}}
Stub for all Show Tune Articles	This show tune-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.	{{Show-tune-stub}}
Tag for articles about planned theatre events	This article contains information about an upcoming play or musical. The content may change as more information becomes available and/or it has its official opening night.	{{Future play article}}
Tag for sections about planned theatre events	This section contains information about an upcoming play or musical. The content is expected to change as more information becomes available and/or it has its official opening night.	{{Future play section}}

[edit] Infoboxes

{{Infobox Musical
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|productions  = 
<!-- Please do not include production-specific (acting, directing, etc.) awards -->
|awards       = 
}}

{{Infobox Theatre
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}}

[edit] Project Specific

What it is	What it looks like	What to type
Template to be placed on talk pages of pages included in WP:WPMT	Musical Theatre Portal WikiProject Musical Theatre/Templates is part of WikiProject Musical Theatre, organized to improve and complete musical theatre articles and coverage on Wikipedia. You can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. NA This is not an article and does not require an assessment. WikiProject Musical Theatre tasks: Help out with one of the WikiProject Musical Theatre tasks below. You may add your name to the Participants list to the right. edit this Open Tasks template Collaborate and work on the Collaboration of the Month Articles needing a content fork Mainly, these are articles on films and either their source or subsequent musicals. There are a couple where the musical needs to be "forked" from the source material. Feel free to add or remove as necessary. Important: If you split an article, please make sure that you move all the relevant links from the first article to the new one. To find which links to move, click on "What links here" at the old article and look through the list to see which links should be pointed to the film related link (for example, articles on actors in the film). Then, click on those links and update them to point to the film article. Thanks! Don't Play Us Cheap Roberta How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying I Married an Angel Lady in the Dark The Band Wagon - musical adaptation will to be forked after it opens in April.	{{Musicals-project}}
A welcome tag for new members of WPMT	==Welcome!== Hello, and welcome to WikiProject Musical Theatre! Thank you for adding your name to our project membership list! Our goal is to make Wikipedia the foremost compendium of musical theatre to be found on the internet: hope you're up to the challenge! As a project member, you might like to introduce yourself on our talk page and maybe add the project membership userbox to your user page. If you haven't done so already, please add our main project page to your watchlist and browse our page of useful templates. When you have a moment, please take some time to review our article structure guidelines for musicals, which, after months of collaboration, we developed through consensus as our recommended structure for articles on musicals. If you would like suggestions about where to start, we've gathered a few suggestions in the Project to do list and in our tasklist. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask on the project talk page or on my talk page. Again, welcome and happy editing! ~~~~	{{subst:MTWelcome}}
Template with to-do items of WP:WPMT	Help out with one of the WikiProject Musical Theatre tasks below. You may add your name to the Participants list to the right. edit this Open Tasks template Collaborate and work on the Collaboration of the Month Articles needing a content fork Mainly, these are articles on films and either their source or subsequent musicals. There are a couple where the musical needs to be "forked" from the source material. Feel free to add or remove as necessary. Important: If you split an article, please make sure that you move all the relevant links from the first article to the new one. To find which links to move, click on "What links here" at the old article and look through the list to see which links should be pointed to the film related link (for example, articles on actors in the film). Then, click on those links and update them to point to the film article. Thanks! Don't Play Us Cheap Roberta How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying I Married an Angel Lady in the Dark The Band Wagon - musical adaptation will to be forked after it opens in April.	{{Musicals-tasks}}

[edit] Other Templates

Templates not specifically created by WP:WPMT but related and useful anyway.

[edit] Navigation boxes

[edit] Tony Award Templates

[edit] Ibdb Templates

[edit] {{Ibdb name}}

[edit] Instructions

1. Go to ibdb.com and search for the person you want
2. Click on the correct link to go to the person's page. Be sure you're getting the right person
3. The page URL should look like www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=#####, where "#####" indicates a number.
4. Add to the external links section the text:

{{ibdb name|id=#####|name=Name}}

where "#####" is the number you've copied, and "Name" is the person's name

[edit] Example

1. Searching for "Jerry Orbach", you'll reach this page: http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=55157
2. Copy "55157" and then write:

{{ibdb name|id=55157|name=Jerry Orbach}}

The result is Jerry Orbach at the Internet Broadway Database

[edit] {{Ibdb title}}

[edit] Instructions

1. Go to IBDB.com and search for the show you want.
2. Click on the correct link to go to the show's page. Be sure you're getting the right show.
3. The page URL should look like http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=#####, where "#####" indicates a number.
4. Copy ONLY that number (be sure to remove "ID=")
5. Add to the external links section the text:
   

{{ibdb title|id=#####|title=Title}}

where "#####" is the number you have copied, and "Title" is the show's title.

[edit] Example

1. Searching for "The Producers", you'll get to this page: http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=12826
2. Copy "12826" and then write:

{{ibdb title|id=12826|title=The Producers}}

The result is: The Producers at the Internet Broadway Database

Note that, since this will almost certainly go on the external link section, you should add a * before the template text to include it as a list item.

[edit] {{Ibdb show}}

[edit] Instructions

1. Go to IBDB.com and search for the show you want.
2. Click on the correct link to go to the show's page. Be sure you're getting the right show.
3. The page URL should look like http://www.ibdb.com/show.asp?ID=#####, where "#####" indicates a number.
4. Copy ONLY that number (be sure to remove "ID=")
5. Add to the external links section the text:
   

{{ibdb show|id=#####|title=Title}}

where "#####" is the number you have copied, and "Title" is the show's title.

[edit] Example

1. Searching for "The Producers", you'll get to this page: http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=10610
2. Copy "10510" and then write:

{{ibdb title|id=10510|title=The Producers}}

The result is: The Producers at the Internet Broadway Database

Note that, since this will almost certainly go on the external link section, you should add a * before the template text to include it as a list item.

[edit] Userbox

Adding the following code in your userspace will create the indicated userbox:

• {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Musical Theatre/Userbox/member}}
  

This user is a member of WikiProject Musical Theatre.

[edit] Sidebar

The main page sidebar can be found at {{WPMT Sidebar}}.