Naming

The article name should be the title of the record label name, generally followed by "Records", disambiguated if necessary. Do not pre-emptively disambiguate! When there is no other encyclopedic use of the label, the article should reside at the normal name, e.g. London Records, not London (record label). In cases where disambiguation is needed, an era (Apollo Records (1944)) or location (Ace of Hearts Records (Boston)) parameter may be used.

If the label uses the Latin alphabet, the article name should be at that title. Translations of labels in languages other than English should not be used as titles unless an English language version of the name was used. If the label's name does not use the Latin alphabet, the article name should be the transliterated form of the title using Latin characters. The original language title should appear in parentheses (brackets) in the opening line of the article following the transliteration.

See also: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English).

Formatting

Songs and singles are placed in "quotation marks", album titles are italicized and artists are left alone, with punctuation outside quotation marks, for example,

The Beatles' songs "Taxman", "Eleanor Rigby" and "Love You To" are from their album Revolver.

Links should only be created to albums or song articles that don't exist if you believe that the album or song most certainly deserve an article.

Capitalization

As a general rule, the name of the company and "Records" should be capitalized (i.e. Republic Records, not Republic records). Otherwise, Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music)#Capitalization applies.

Disambiguating links

When linking genres and other terms in the article, be sure it points to the appropriate music-related article and not a disambiguation page. For example, rock should point to rock music and not rock; alternative should point to alternative rock and not alternative, a disambiguation page. Use piped links if necessary. Other terms to look out for are: pop music, band (musical ensemble), LP (gramophone record) and several more.

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Project tag

Record Labels NA‑class

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Record Labels, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of record labels on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Record LabelsWikipedia:WikiProject Record LabelsTemplate:WikiProject Record Labelsrecord labels articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

Please add {{WikiProject Record Labels}} along with the quality of the article. You can do this by specifying |class=X, where X is Stub, Start, C, B, A, GA or FA (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment for explanation of terms). Note that the parameter and values are case sensitive. Not all record label related articles have been tagged with {{WikiProject Record Labels}}. Many articles still need to be graded based on quality.

Infobox

See: Template:Infobox record label

Stubs

To add an article to the record label stubs category, use {{record-label-stub}}. See Category:Record label stubs for more stubs and info.

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Record labels articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA			1	4			5
B		5	10	11		1	27
C	7	18	29	89		43	186
Start	6	30	96	573		760	1,465
Stub		9	30	1,276		978	2,293
List		5	1	22		54	82
Category				2	2,765		2,767
Disambig					15		15
File			1	1	1,542		1,544
Project					4		4
Template					56		56
NA				76	345		421
Other	1			1	62		64
Assessed	14	67	168	2,055	4,789	1,836	8,929
Unassessed				3		1,129	1,132
Total	14	67	168	2,058	4,789	2,965	10,061
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 21,918			Ω = 5.51

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