Help:Tour history

The tour history section lists all the shows by The Smashing Pumpkins and related acts. This page attempts to explain how everything works from a technical perspective.

Templates used

 * infobox live show – infobox for the show itself
 * full live video – for displaying YouTube videos of full performances
 * live song – indicate which live songs are played
 * banter – enter banter for the show
 * live show gallery – used to display photos for the show (the photos must be uploaded to SPCodex directly)
 * youtube – to embed YouTube videos

Layout
The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-12-02 is a good example. The layout should generally look like:
 * infobox live show containing info about the show itself
 * Intro and/or general information about the show. Use the same manual of style we use for other pages, where the first sentence should generally indicate the date of the show in bold.
 * If there is a decent quality full (or mostly full) video on YouTube, it is often placed here below the intro and above the Setlist. Use the full live video template for this.
 * "Setlist" section – if unknown, just put (unknown) in this section and add the Category:Live performances with missing setlists category. Song entries should be made using the live song template, prefixed with a pound sign  which generates the numbering. To continue the numbering across different sections ("Encore", for instance), wrap the live song template in an  tag, for instance   to make the numbering start at 10.
 * "Soundcheck" section (ensuring 1 is set for each live song entry)
 * "Pre-set" section, if applicable
 * "Set one" section, following "Set two", etc.
 * "Encore" section
 * "Notes" section – bullet pointed list of notes specific to the setlist, such as First performance of "Rocket" since February 5, 1997
 * "Banter" section – use the banter template. If no banter is know, do not use the template and simply put (unknown)
 * "Videos" section – For YouTube videos. Here we prefer full or very long videos, not just clips of certain songs. Use the youtube template.
 * "Photos and memorabilia" section – use the live show gallery template.

Index pages
Index pages refer to the pages that list shows, such as The Smashing Pumpkins 2000 tour history. You do not need to update them; they will update automatically whenever the pages on the individual shows are created or modified. There can sometimes be a lag however. You can force a refresh by purging the cache of the outdated page.

Adding a new show
The best way (currently) is to simply go off of the wikitext used for another show, and change accordingly. The page title should match the responsible artist within SPCodex scope; see the list at Tour history. This is followed by the date in ISO-8601 format. For example,  is the title for the December 2, 2000 show by The Smashing Pumpkins.

Note that for live shows, you may prefer to edit in wikitext mode rather than with VisualEditor due to the heavy use of templates.

Shows featuring SP personnel
Page titles still use the responsible featuring artist, not necessarily the band that played the show. For example, Billy Corgan 1996-01-17 represents a Pink Floyd show that Corgan guested at. The infobox live show template should have Pink Floyd and Billy Corgan.