WikiPortallus: Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians.html

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

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

Related WikiProjects

Related Portals

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 Members

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A Knight Who Says Ni (talk · contribs)
AceFrye (talk · contribs) - I'll probably work with bands local to the Des Moines or Chicago area, since I know quite a few bands personally in these areas. But, I'll work anywhere & have many sources for information/photos if needed, just hit me up on the talk page. :-)
ADogNamedPhaedo (talk · contribs) - Mostly punk, indie rock, and their various derivatives.
Addionne (talk · contribs) - Jam Bands / Alt & Indie Rock / etc
AL2TB (talk · contribs) - Will edit articles about composers who published their compositions in the CL Barnhouse Company
Amina skywalker (talk · contribs) - mostly modern rock/pop bands (copyediting)
Anger22 (talk · contribs) - Carrying the torch for the WikiProject Guitarists.
AnthonyWalters (talk · contribs) — J-pop/J-rock (certain singles and groups); currently moderating DRM page and assisting on Nami Tamaki page.
Arbocalaviv (talk · contribs) - Powerpop and Pop-Punk... also some Post-Hardcore/Screamo
Badwolftv (talk · contribs)
Bearian (talk · contribs) - mostly classical, Blues, Jazz, and Indie rock; best so far IMHO is Grieg's music in popular culture
Bencherlite (talk · contribs) - classical music, esp choral/organ; categorization
Blondie16 (talk · contribs)
BNutzer (talk · contribs) adding articles to project, assessing articles
CA387 (talk · contribs) - mainly players of stringed instruments
Cgadavies (talk · contribs) - folk music, mostly the Mammals and members
Compuguy1088 (talk · contribs)
Cricket02 (talk · contribs) adding articles to project
Darknshadow (talk · contribs) – revisions and new info to some Japanese musicians, Chinese musicians, and Korean Musicians
Dethzone (talk · contribs)
Devious Viper (talk · contribs)
Dexter_prog (talk · contribs)
Douglasr007 (talk · contribs) - Probably most liking fixing things here and there. Electronic and alternative rock.
Endlessdan - Mostly Rock N Roll; 60-70s... but I dabble in other genres.
Eric Jack Nash (talk · contribs)
Erikupoeg (talk · contribs) - European soul music of the Sixties, Estonian pop
Esprit15d (talk · contribs)
Gallagher2x2 (talk · contribs) Knows most everything about anthony green
Gluewhale (talk · contribs) Indian Musicians
GuyDoe (talk · contribs)- Mosty metal artists from the 80's,90's,and 00's.
HamatoKameko (talk · contribs) - Mostly limited the Finnish hard rock band Lordi and related articles.
Hamuhamu (talk · contribs) mostly Asian-language bands & singers
Harmanicus (talk · contribs) Mostly 'classic rock' and metal.
Heaven's Wrath (talk · contribs) – Project leader – Organization, conversion, assessment
HexaChord (talk · contribs) - for the Buckethead task force
iceDevil (talk · contribs) - Mostly Mandarin-pop, Japanese-pop and Korean-pop.
IllaZilla (talk · contribs) - mostly punk rock/independent and San Diego-area based groups, also album pages & member bios
Immunity (talk · contribs) - adding infoboxes to band and musician articles, created Infoboxes for Music Conferences and Music Venues.
Jacobshuf (talk · contribs)
Jacoplane (talk · contribs)
Jazzfann (talk · contribs)
Jibbs fan (talk · contribs)
Joe5150 (talk · contribs) - I'll be working on improving pages for pretty much anyone obscure that I like—I do it enough as it is, might as well collaborate.
KamrynMatika (talk · contribs)
K. Kellogg-Smith (talk · contribs) - raising the level of awareness about the original Kingston Trio founder Dave Guard, and his many post-Trio folk/neo-folk/world music accomplishments.
Kevinbrowning (talk · contribs)
Kingboyk (talk · contribs)
Kivar2 (talk · contribs)
Kmzundel (talk · contribs) - Mostly interested in helping with folk musicians; style; creating stubs
Kollision (talk · contribs) - Infobox creation/conversion, Article layout and formatting
Ksharpe126 (talk · contribs)
Ky Music Nerd (talk · contribs)
Leon Sword (talk · contribs) – Various work not limited to any group of musicians.
Luxurious.gaurav (talk · contribs) - Currently woking on Gwen Stefani articls.
Mdebets (talk · contribs) - Mostley German rock and World music
Mdhandley (talk · contribs)
Megamanic (talk · contribs) adding articles to project
Milliot (talk · contribs) - mainly players and makers of stringed instruments
Miltopia (talk · contribs) Joining in honor of my new izzlePod. 30 Seconds to Mars ftw.
Moezzillas world (talk · contribs) - Mostley Uke til u puke related Articles
Nihilistic Misanthrope (talk · contribs) -Death Metal, Hip Hop, Audio recording technology.
Notjake13 (talk · contribs) – Editing and counter-vandalism on Japanese rock-related pages; recent projects Dir en grey, X Japan, and others listed here
Notmyhandle (talk · contribs) Articles/revisions - bands/musicians/albums
Olliyeah (talk · contribs) - Currently working and expanding Christina Aguilera articles
Pishaww (talk · contribs)
Pjoef (talk · contribs)
Pustelnik (talk · contribs) folk and traditional, singer-songwriters, related trivia
Quywompka (talk · contribs)
Reechard (talk · contribs) – added Sarah Cahill. Piano; Spanish, French and 1900s music and musicians; composers; biographies.
Rodhullandemu (talk · contribs) - prog rock. The Enid, Robert John Godfrey
SColombo (talk · contribs)
Sepulwiki (talk · contribs) Mostly metal bands such as Sepultura and Job For A Cowboy
ShadowHalo (talk · contribs)
Shiori (talk · contribs) - Crusader for the infobox
Sicamous (talk · contribs)
Snowfreak91287 (talk · contribs)
Soumyasch (talk · contribs)
*Spark* (talk · contribs)
Springeragh (talk · contribs)—classical
SteelersFan UK06 (talk · contribs) - i have been known to write, format, copyedit and wikify most pages on relitively unheard of Indie (mainly British and synth) bands
Strobilus (talk · contribs)
Suduser85 (talk · contribs)–Indie rock/indie pop and techno/elecronica (mainly house, i.e. Daft Punk) musicians
Tcasb (talk · contribs) - adding additional information to articles / revisions
Tdogg241 (talk · contribs) - Focus on ska, punk, indie, and smaller Seattle-based bands
The Shins (talk · contribs) - mostly cello but i like all music
theorb (talk · contribs) - classical, indie musicians, modern rock, and electronica
Thereen (talk · contribs)
TigerK_69 (talk · contribs)
Trap The Drum Wonder (talk · contribs) - expanding the pre and post bands of the mainstream; creating articles about forgotten groups. For example, pre-Nirvana band Dain Bramage (authoured by myself).
Tvccs (talk · contribs)
UD490 (talk · contribs)
Unint (talk · contribs)
Weatherman90 (talk · contribs)
Westofpch (talk · contribs)
Wether B (talk · contribs) - Familiar with many sorts of music especially many local acts hailing from Northern England.
Wickethewok (talk · contribs)
Wiki libs (talk · contribs)
Willirennen (talk · contribs)
Wisdom89 (talk · contribs) - Mostly concerned with fleshing out rock and metal oriented articles
Wisekwai (talk · contribs)
Xaremathras (talk · contribs) - Metal / Pop / Some Rap / K-Pop / The Betterment of all music articles
Xtifr (talk · contribs)
Zytsef (talk · contribs) - Been working on Category:Oregon musical groups, also some punk related stuff

Inactive

Former

Tasks

Assessment

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.

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.

Stub sorting

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:

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

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".

Who to add

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.

Articles in need of attention

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.

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