Template talk:Infobox music genre

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Remove unused AKAs from the code?

Over the past year, I have completely updated all the uses of this template on wiki so next AKAs have became never used and redundant: background, image size, imagesize. I guess they worth removing from the code? "current_year_override" is also not used anywhere and looks redundant at the moment, the only adjusted current_year portal name used in Latin music, and it's handled by "current_year_title". See summary of the uses here. Solidest (talk) 15:06, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

 Done except removal of |current_year_override= which might need some discussion IMO. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 02:28, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Remove coloring per discussion

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It was decided to not use color here. And for anyone interested, here's a discussion on saving the information carried by the colours: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#RfC Adding new parameter "Direction" to replace the removal of colors in the Infobox music genre. Solidest (talk) 15:21, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Terasail^[✉️] 17:31, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Terasail, thanks! It also should be removed from unknown parameters module listings, as it was mass-removed yesterday from the templates. Btw, can you please also add to that module |showblankpositional=1 that will show unfilled invalid parameters? I've been removing them as well for a couple of years, so there's probably zero to very few left that I might have missed. Solidest (talk) 04:58, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Solidest  Done. Thanks, Terasail^[✉️] 12:24, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Request for clarification for "cultural roots" in the stylistic origins parameter

Hello! I’d like to request clarification on what “cultural roots” means in the stylistic origins parameter. In the article on Hindutva pop—an ideological right-wing music genre in which the songs largely revolve around hateful and Islamophobic rhetoric, and are often used as a tool for violence—could hate, violence, and Islamophobia be included in the stylistic origins field? These elements have a deep connection to the genre, and this connection is all highly reliably sourced.

I’m asking because the template page states that the stylistic origins field includes other genres, musical roots, as well as cultural roots that either contributed to the development of, or play a major role in, the given music genre—in this case, Hindutva pop. EarthDude (wanna talk?) 08:44, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]