Wikipedia:WikiProject Contemporary Christian music
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Contemporary Christian music. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.
This project is aimed to improve articles and lists relating to Contemporary Christian music, its sub-genres, and its artists and bands. See the scope to learn more.
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[edit] Title
WikiProject Contemporary Christian music
Wikipedia:WikiProject CCM redirects to this page. This project may also be referred to as WikiProject CCM.
[edit] Scope
WikiProject CCM is designed to improve:
- Articles and lists about Christian Contemporary music, Christian pop, etc.
- Biographies of artists and bands.
- The "standard" of CCM articles.
[edit] Parentage
WikiProject CCM has a number of parents. Here there are from the most specific to the broadest.
[edit] Similar WikiProjects
Similar WikiProjects of WikiProject CCM are:
- WikiProject Alternative music
- WikiProject Classical music
- WikiProject Electronic music
- WikiProject Indie music
- WikiProject Punk music
- WikiProject Metal music
- WikiProject R&B and Soul Music
- WikiProject hip hop
- WikiProject Music of wrestling
[edit] Searches
You may find more information about CCM by searching the following sites.
[edit] Participants
If you are interested in joining, please add {{user WikiProject CCM}} to your user page. If you dislike userboxes, use {{user WikiProject CCM-2}} instead. The second template is invisible.
To see all the participants of WikiProject CCM, click here.
[edit] Structure
For the latest on the structure of an article about an artist, see Wikipedia:Featured Music Project (and this).
Most articles about CCM artists have poor structure. As of now, most of the pages have hardly any info about the artist's personal life. If it does, it is simply mixed along with all the other information.
The proposed structure guideline is the following:
'''CCM artist''' is ... (preferably per [[WP:LEAD]]) ==Musical career== Some info about how he or she started, major relevent events, and general artist bio, related to the music (personal bio is included below). If there is enough information, sub-headings should be considered: ===Early years=== This is an OPTIONAL section. If there is not enough info to make a section, it should be included under ==Musical career==. ===Music=== The style of music, important albums, etc should be expressed here. This is also OPTIONAL with the same condition as above. ===Influences=== The effect the subject has had on the music industry (specifically CCM or as a whole), other music styles, popular culture, or other noteworthy contributions. ==Personal life== Here you should write info about the artists' personal life. For bands of more than one person, keep this section limited or nonexistant, keeping details on the respective band member's article. ==References== <references/> <!-- References and notes belong here. --> ==See also== *[[Article A]] *[[Band B]] *[[Music genre C]] ==External links== *[http://www.CCMArtistSite.com Official site] *[http://www.RecordLabelSite.com Site to artist's record label.] [[Category:Christian musical groups]] <!-- Put more categories here. -->
[edit] Goals
To see a complete list of WikiProject CCM goals, click here. Some goals for WikiProject CCM are the following:
- Make a standard for articles relating to Contemporary Christian music.
- Integrate {{infobox musical artist 2}} into pages on artists and bands.
You can suggest more goals at the talk page under the heading, Goals.
[edit] Tasks
You can suggest trivial, less important tasks that anything that individuals can work on under Tasks in the talk page.
[edit] Adopt an article
Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.
- Example article: We don't have an example article yet.
[edit] Adopted articles
To adopt an article, list it below. Notice this example:
*'''[[Article Name]]''': [[User:Your Username]]
- Square Peg Alliance (and associated pages): User:Pepsi2786
- dc Talk: User:Chili14
[edit] General strategy and discussion forums
- General General discussion on improving various articles related to CCM.
- Strategy Discuss specific strategies and ideas to improve CCM-related articles.
[edit] Templates & stub types
| What to type | What it makes | What it's for | ||
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| {{WikiProject CCM}} | The official banner for the talk page of CCM-related articles. It advertises the project. | |||
| {{user WikiProject CCM}} |
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The official user page template for members of the project. | ||
| {{User WikiProject CCM-2}} | An invisible user page template. | |||
| General Templates | ||||
| Template:Infobox musical artist | Template:Infobox musical artist | Basic information about an artist or band. | ||
| Stub Types Do not create new stub types without consulting WikiProject Stub sorting first |
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| {{Christian-music-stub}} |
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General stub type for articles relating to Christian music. | ||
| {{christian-album-stub}} |
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Stub type for albums of Christian artists. | ||
[edit] Discussion Page Template
I have made a template that should go on every disussion page(of articles) related to CCM. Please put {{WikiProject Contemporary Christian Music}} on the discussion pages. You can find the template at Template:WikiProject Contemporary Christian Music. A picture still needs to be added. It is important to add these so articles can be connected with the project and new members can be recruited to help. Casey14 00:28, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
- What is an appropriate image for the WikiProject that would be acceptable to all Christians? A picture of a cross? Crucifixion? Jesus carrying the cross? Would it be sacreligious/offensive to include musical notes on any of these? Royalbroil 04:06, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
- I think perhaps we need someone to make a picture from scratch. The idea of using a cross sounds good, too, though. I'm willing to work on an image if the need arises, of course. Hannah 17:43, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Categories
- Category:Contemporary Christian music
[edit] Lists
- See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Contemporary Christian music/Pages#Lists|]] for a complete list of "Lists" relating to CCM. If you find any lists pertaining to CCM, please add it there.
[edit] Articles
- To see the the "Articles" pertaining to CCM, see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Contemporary Christian music/Pages#Articles|]]. To add more articles to the list, click here.
