Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians

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This WikiProject was originally intended for individual artists, but has since been expanded to include musical groups as well. This aspect of the project is currently in progress.

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Musicians and Musical ensembles/Bands. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians in writing/editing articles related to this subject. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page or check out the to-do list.

Any content on this page is open for discussion, but please avoid editing this page directly without first discussing the proposed changes on the talk page.

Contents 1 Project details 1.1 Title 1.2 Scope 1.3 Parentage 1.4 Related WikiProjects 1.5 Related Portals 2 Participants 2.1 Inactive 2.2 Former 3 Tasks 3.1 Assessment 3.2 Conversion 3.3 Categorization 3.4 Stub sorting 3.5 Current collaboration 4 Article structure 5 Contributing 5.1 Adding articles 5.1.1 What to add 5.1.2 Who to add 5.2 Editing project articles 5.2.1 Articles in need of attention 6 Related pages 6.1 Infobox 6.2 Navbox 6.3 Project banner 6.4 Stub templates 6.5 Userboxes 6.6 Other templates 6.7 Categories 6.8 Lists 7 Project articles 7.1 New articles 7.2 Recently added

[edit] Project details

[edit] Title

WikiProject on Musicians.

[edit] Scope

The purpose of this project is to provide guidelines for Wikipedia articles regarding musicians. This can cover everything from visual style and formatting to content and organization. All articles need not be identical, and there is obviously a wide variety of information which may be appropriate to some articles and not to others. The goal is to make it easier for Wikipedians to create high quality articles related to this subject matter, and also to make it easier for readers of these articles to find relevant information in consistent format and location.

This project will also participate in the categorization of related pages in order to make it even easier to find relevant related information.

[edit] Parentage

• WikiProject Biography
• WikiProject Music

[edit] Related WikiProjects

v • d • e WikiProject Music Hierarchy Wikipedia:WikiProject > Culture > Arts > Music Music Albums • Songs • Terminology • Record Charts Geographical Australian • Canadian • Eurovision • Irish Genres Art: Classical • Contemporary • Opera • Jazz Popular: Alternative • Christian Metal • Christian • Country • Electronic • Emo • Hip hop • Jam bands • Metal • Musical Theatre • Punk • Rave • R&B and Soul • Rock Traditional: Roots, folk, and traditional Composers Richard Wagner • Gilbert and Sullivan Musicians Popular: Aerosmith • The Beatles • The Clash • Buckethead • CKY • Crowded House • Evanescence • The Flaming Lips • G-Unit Records • Good Charlotte • Guns N' Roses • Green Day • GWAR • Hello! Project • HIM • Infernal • Janet Jackson • The KLF • Kylie Minogue • Lenny Kravitz • Led Zeppelin • Marillion • Michael Jackson • My Chemical Romance • Nickel Creek • Nine Inch Nails • The Offspring • Panic! at the Disco • Pink Floyd • Powderfinger • Queen • Red Hot Chili Peppers • Senses Fail • Slayer • The Smashing Pumpkins • Billy Talent • Trivium • U2 • The Who Traditional: Drum Corps • Marching band Instruments Guitarists • Pipe Organ

[edit] Related Portals

• Portal:Music
  • Genres
    • Portal:Rock and Roll
    • Portal:Punk rock
    • Portal:Hip hop
    • Portal:Electronic music
    • Portal:Classical music
    • Portal:Alternative music
    • Portal:Indie music
  • Instruments
    • Portal:Classical guitar
    • Portal:Guitar
  • Groups
    • Portal:The Beatles
    • Portal:Rush (band)
    • Portal:AC/DC
    • Portal:Aerosmith
  • Contests
    • Portal:Eurovision

[edit] Participants

This is a manually compiled list. If you have constructively participated in this project, please feel free to add your self to this list. You may also wish to list your specific interests or areas in which you would like to participate.

[edit] Inactive

• Aguerriero (talk · contribs)
• Batman2005 (talk · contribs)
• Cgilbert76 (talk · contribs)
• DeathLoofah (talk · contribs)
• Dtobias (talk · contribs)
• Flaminglawyer (talk · contribs)
• Flowerparty (talk · contribs)
• Getcrunk (talk · contribs)
• Hatred King (talk · contribs)
• Lar (talk · contribs)
• liliavilladotcom (talk · contribs)
• Nlu (talk · contribs)
• OrinR (talk · contribs)
• Patman2648 (talk · contribs)
• Seth71 (talk · contribs)
• Shadow King (talk · contribs)
• Shadows Are Not Security (talk · contribs)
• Unionbay (talk · contribs)
• Wootking (talk · contribs)

[edit] Former

• Bmearns (talk · contribs) — Project founder – left June 16, 2006
• TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) - My contributions are a bit infrequent and tangential. I moved membership to Music because my work is more

general.

[edit] Tasks

	To-do list for WikiProject Musicians:	edit - history - watch - refresh
	Goals We need your help!! We are currently in the process of defining the guidelines for style and content of related articles, and you can participate here. Assess musician/band pages according to 1.0 Assessment. See Category:Unassessed biography (musicians) articles for articles that need a rating. Categorize pages. Specific articles in need of... Please add articles to these lists. ...Conversion The Chieftains - Infobox now added - still needs more more substance (especially on former members) David Immerglück of Counting Crows, needs infobox, text and references. Counting Crows- at least two bandmembers' pages listed there in the infobox under "members" redirect right back to the Band page! Needs fixing. Divinyls - Infobox was added, more is needed? Heart - What should be done next? ...Expansion Junior Barnard - Needs just about everything for this hugely influential guitarist. Derek Trucks- needs cleanup, content, reference checks The Derek Trucks Band- all the members have no page, and the band page needs content, discography and references Patti Smith - needs biography, content Bianca Jagger - special request by me (Jimbo), Ms Jagger has contacted me very sweetly and very politely with concerns about some errors (which I corrected) but also supplied me with some additional info (see the talk page). It would be nice if the article could be improved, as I like to reward people who approach us in the right way (nicely!). Eddie Money - album pages need information, and the page itself should be expanded Nazareth - album pages need more substance as well as the article Pablo Cruise - need album pages and a lot more substance Sister Sledge - needs album pages, clean-up, and more substance Pat Benatar - finish making album pages and add singles pages, clean-up, and add more info Missing Persons - needs photos, clean-up Jimmy LaFave - needs photos, content The Burns Sisters - needs photos, content Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - needs photos, content David Knopfler- needs content, flow Joel Rafael - needs photos, content Emily Robison- needs photos, content Luis Villegas - needs photos, content Jerry Marotta - needs photos, content Heroes & Zeros - needs content This Is Me Smiling - needs content Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - needs content Mike Terrana Needs independent editing. Most has been written by Terrana himself. Tal Wilkenfeld- needs photos, content; after her performances with Jeff Beck in 2007's world tour, there isn't even a birthdate for her. Mac & Katie Kissoon - Special request. I have edited this page (again) as incorrect background information regarding the duo, is repeatedly put on this page. Information/research previously stated on this page was wrong and fictitious. Stevie Wonder needs cleanup; sounds too promotional (for both him and other performers), needs photographs. Could easily be made a GA article with attention. ...Assessment The Coors- needs peer review for FA. Mina (singer) - content recently replaced. needs assessment. Dusty Springfield - content recently replaced. needs assessment. Sylvie Vartan - content recently replaced. needs assessment. The Villebillies - recently added. needs assessment. Alvino Rey - Just added. Needs assessment. Erik Mongrain - Just added. Needs assessment. This Is Me Smiling - Recently updated. Needs assessment. Abderrahmane Abdelli - Rewrote and added lots more content James Brown - undergoing peer review No Doubt - undergoing peer review The Notorious B.I.G. - undergoing peer review Naomi Phoenix - Just added. Needs assessment The Uptones - Expanded. Needs assessment. See also Category:Musicians work group articles needing attention Category:Musicians work group articles needing discographies Category:Musicians work group articles needing infoboxes

Click the title of each section to go to the task's sub-page.

[edit] Assessment

Rate the articles according to the 1.0 Assessment guidelines. See Category:Unassessed biography (musicians) articles for articles that need a rating. You can also request an assessment.

[edit] Conversion

The purpose of this sub project is to find articles related to this subject and edit them so as to comply with the guidelines set forth by this project.

[edit] Categorization

This sub project is aimed at classifying related articles in a logical and consistent manner, the idea being to make it easier to find articles related to a certain subject matter.

[edit] Stub sorting

Help organize and label musician-related stubs with the correct stub template.

[edit] Current collaboration

This is similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale. Every so often, members of the project select a single article—existing or not—on which to focus some of our combined efforts. This involves not just fixing up the article to match the guidelines of the project, but also doing any necessary research and resource gathering for the article, including finding usable images or other media.
The Current collaboration is: non selected
This collaboration began:

[edit] Article structure

Main article: /Article guidelines

For the time being, the chief focus of this wikiproject is to establish itself by defining a solid set of guidelines for related articles to use. All are encouraged to participate in this endeavor by reviewing the existing guidelines and discussing them on the article guidelines page. Both positive and negative constructive criticism are highly welcomed, but please discuss changes prior to making them. This includes changes to existing guidelines, removal of existing guidelines, and addition of new guidelines.

[edit] Contributing

[edit] Adding articles

It only takes one very simple step to add an article to the project:

• Add the following code to the top of the talk page. This should not be underneath a section header.

{{WPBiography
| living              =
| class               =
| priority            =
| attention           = 
| needs-infobox       = 
| musician-work-group = yes
}}

This template includes articles in [[Category:Musicians work group articles]] allows us to track articles in the project so as to better gauge the progress of the project and to find articles that need work done (please use piped category links to sort articles by artist's last name). The {{WPBiography}} template informs others about the project to potentially inspire new contributors to the project, and also to hopefully prevent some unnecessary and inadvertent deviation from the project's guidelines which the editor may not even be aware of.

You can also feel free to add a link to the page under either "Recently added" or "New articles", which ever is appropriate. This will allow others to see what's new with the project and likely quicken the process of getting the article edited to meet guidelines.

[edit] What to add

The above method for adding articles to the project should only be used for articles that specifically pertain to the subject matter of this project, i.e., a specific musician. Articles that more generally relate to the project, for instance musician should not be added to [[Category:Musicians work group articles]] and should not have {{WPBiography}} added to their talk page. For articles such as these, please see the section entitled "Other related articles".

Articles need not comply exactly with the standards of the project in order to be added, in fact, they don't need to comply at all. Adding a non-compliant article will make it that much more likely that someone involved in the project will find it and fix it up. For more information on non-compliant articles, see "Articles in need of attention".

Pages that are involved more in the administrative aspect of this project, e.g. subprojects' pages, lists, templates, etc., also should not be added to [[Category:Musicians work group articles]] or include {{WPBiography}}. Instead, these pages should be added to [[Category:WikiProject Musicians]].

[edit] Who to add

This project aims to improve articles of all musical performers. This includes:

• Solo artists
• Bands
• Individual band members
• Composers
• Writers
• Instrumentalists
• Ensembles

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