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Template:WikiProject Musicians header

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.

Project details

Title

WikiProject on Musicians.

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.

Parentage

Descendant WikiProjects


Specific musicians/musical groups

Related WikiProjects

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.

Active

Inactive

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.

Tasks

To-do list for WikiProject Musicians:

edit - history - watch - refresh

Goals



Specific articles in need of...


Please add articles to these lists.

...Conversion

  • B5 (group) - Article's only sources are an outdated MTV link and a Tripod fan page (of all things). I cleaned up the talk page because it looked like a forum, but much of the article page looks like it was written by a twelve-year-old, especially everything after this section.
  • Bill Berry - former drummer for R.E.M. needs more context, refs, discography. (The band page is an FA!)
  • The Cowsills – need content, references, discography.
  • The Chieftains - more substance (especially on former members)
  • David Immerglück of Counting Crows – content, discography, references.
  • Counting Crows- Needs cleanup, content, references, some discography cleanup of album pages and song pages.
  • Divinyls - Infobox was added, more is needed?
  • Sonny Emory - No sources; and to say that the article is non-neutral would be an understatement.
  • Jim Ford - Few sources, needs major cleanup and infobox
  • Heart (band) - What should be done next?
  • Strawbs - needs additional refs and/or treatment for unintentional POV/weasel words. (see talk page for examples).
  • Vanessa Carlton - The "2013–present: Liberman" section needs to be reorganized using prose.
  • Marshmallow Coast - Needs major cleanup,References,This article contradicts itself and is very confusing and does not provide the necessary information and the timeline of information is hard to read,To be honest this article looks like someone wrote this over 20 years without changing anything else.
  • Anita Carter and Maybelle Carter - currently some problems with fan-POV editing, help is requested to improve these articles in an encyclopedic way.
  • The United Travel Service - unsourced content and promotion added in 2021; reverting triggers blog filter.

Expansion (Keep alphabetized, please!)

Assessment

Needs photos

See Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of musicians for more.

See also

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

Template:WPBiography Sidebar

Rate the articles according to the 1.0 Assessment guidelines. See Category:Unassessed biography (musicians) articles for articles that need a rating.

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.

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.

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

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:

Article Structure

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.

Contributing

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.

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.

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

Editing project articles

Articles already part of this project are still open to editing, and there's no special procedure for doing so. Remember, a lot of articles are added to the project without any compliance to the project guidelines. Don't feel like you need to completely fix up an article when you edit it; even a small edit that follows the project is better than none. If you have completely fixed a page to meet the guidelines, go ahead and add it as a candidate for the Showcase, or even as a Featured candidate.

Note sure what articles to edit? Keep reading...

Articles in need of attention

Category:Musicians work group articles needing attention has been created in order to better keep track of what articles need what work. Two templates are involved in marking an article as needing work:

{{WPBiography
| living              =
| class               =
| priority            =
| attention           = yes
| needs-infobox       = 
| musician-work-group = yes
}}
  • {{subst:Musician attn talk}} - This should be subst'd to the bottom of the article's talk page. It will create a section titled "Musician needs attention" which is where these issues should be discussed. This template also takes one parameter called "text" which should be a description of what specifically needs work. Also include your signature by placing ~~~~ at the end of this parameter's value.

If the article needs an infobox, set needs-infobox = yes.

If you have edited an article and believe that it no longer needs work, you should remove the {{Musician attn}} template from it. You should also make sure that it is no longer in the Category:Musicians work group articles needing attention (e.g. if that category was added separately from the template). Do not delete any of the entries on the talk page related to the work (or any, for that matter), and make sure it has the two items listed under "Adding articles". In addition, fixed articles should be added to the list of Recently fixed articles along with your date-stamped signature (four tildes, ~~~~). This will allow others to review the work (no one's perfect) and make sure all the original issues have been resolves.

Related pages

Infoboxes

Project banner

Place on top of an article's talk page.
{{WPBiography
| living              =
| class               =
| priority            =
| attention           = 
| needs-infobox       = 
| musician-work-group = yes
}}

Remove unneeded fields.

For more information, see Template:WPBiography.
WikiProject iconBiography: Musicians NA‑class
WikiProject iconThis page is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.
NAThis page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Taskforce icon
This page is supported by WikiProject Musicians.

Stub templates

See

Userboxes

Userboxes
{{User:Heaven's Wrath/Userboxes/WPMusicians}}
This user is a member of WikiProject Musicians.
{{User:Thereen/WPMusiciansUserbox}}
This user is a member of WikiProject Musicians.


Other templates

See also: Category:WikiProject Musicians templates & Special:Prefixindex/Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Templates

View the template page (link in first column) for details about the template.

Discussion entries
{{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Templates/Invite contrib}} ==WikiProject Musicians==

Thanks for your contribution to the Musicians WikiProject. I hope you'll continue to be interested and participate in the project, we're always open to new participants. For ways you can help, please check the "Contributing" section of the main project page. Thanks again! ~~~~

{{Musician attn talk}} Template:Musician attn talk
{{subst:Musician attn std talk}} ==Musician article needs attention==

This article has been marked as a part of the Musicians WikiProject but does not meet the guidelines established by that project. It is suggested that the article be updated to better fit into the standards of the project. ~~~~

Other templates
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Templates/current collab}} The Current collaboration is: non selected
This collaboration began:

Categories

See also: sub-project

Category:WikiProject Musicians is the top level category for this project. It has the following sub categories:

Lists

Project articles

New articles

Recently added

  • Milton Preves - Violist, was principle violist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Would like some help with the article, because there seems to be limited information about him, though he is considered to be a notable violist of the 20th century, including William Primrose. Compuguy1088 19:45, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Crouch End Festival Chorus - symphony chorus based in North London, England. Would appreciate help as this is the first wiki article I've ever created. Steve James 16:14, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Catapilla - progressive rock band of 70's, very influencive but not very famous. I'm searching info about them right now. --GolerGkA 19:37, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Van Morrison - another fairly major musical figure, which I also just tagged. It's also claimed by some Irish history WikiProjects, so it's not in bad shape, although it needs a lot more cites. It actually has cites, they're just plain external links, and there's no references section. Xtifr tälk 00:13, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Gregg Allman - co-founder of a fairly major band, article needs lots of work. Xtifr tälk 00:52, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Semisonic
—Added band and members. All stubs and need infoboxes.  Heaven's Wrath   Talk  04:01, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Notes

References

See also

External Links