Template talk:Title

Disambiguation &c

I notice the template can't easily be applied to, for example, Salve Regina a 6 1604a (Orlando di Lasso) without there being an awkward line break before the disambiguation note, which I think belongs in or next to the title field. Richard Mix (talk) 21:59, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

And again, at Beatus Laurentius 4vv (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) & Missa Clementina I (Alessandro Scarlatti)

Richard, your suggestion that "the disambiguation note … belongs in or next to the title field" bears on the discussion of overall structure of a work page. Based on your suggestion, I started to develop an improved Title template (Title2), to include comments, alternate titles (next topic below), and larger works. But I stopped when I realized that notes and comments (including such things as "Also see") have been put all over work pages – and this makes database management more difficult, especially in light of recent attempts to put all data in templates. It would be relatively easy to add a optional comment to the Title template, to incorporate items such as "disambiguation notes," but then we would have to add such a comment field to every other work-page template (Composer, Arranger, Lyricist, Pub, Voicing, Language, Description, External links, Original texts, Translations, etc.). I feel that such comments and notes would be easier to manage if they were in a general catch-all template – Description or its generalized successor (note that User:Claude T has already started putting these into a new template, Descr); there are several reasons for this. I will start a new forum thread on this topic soon, and link it here.

Anyway, I suspect that you would prefer having these comments strewn about the work page, wherever they need to be to facilitate notice by users. That doesn't sound bad, but it does make things more difficult for database management, and it could make things easier for users if comments and notes appear in the same place every time. So what would you prefer? An optional comment field attached to every template? Or all comments and notes in one generalized field? — Barry Johnston (talk) 02:06, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Alt titles & incipits

I notice we haven't made provision for what IMSLP calls "Alternative Title". Barry has fashioned a Template:FirstLine which could fit on the 2nd line of General Info, but there are still odd cases like Als die Geliebte sich trennen wollte, WoO 138, subtitled Empfindungen bei Lydias Untreue and with the incipit «Der Hoffnung letzter Schimmer sinkt dahin». Could one template do this with t= at= fl= lw= arguments? Comments/disambiguation links would be nice too! Richard Mix (talk) 06:16, 31 December 2020 (UTC)