Wikipedia:WikiProject Metal

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The aim of this project is to standardize and improve articles related to heavy metal music and its sub-genres, as well as to create missing articles. Please add tasks needing to be done in the appropriate section, and remove them accordingly when they are done.

Contents 1 General Strategy and Discussion Forums 2 Featured articles 2.1 Former featured articles 2.2 Music articles at Peer Review 2.3 Music articles at Featured article candidates 3 Assessment 4 Articles that need to be created 4.1 Band articles 4.2 Album articles 4.3 Song Articles 4.4 Artists 4.5 Discographies 5 Articles that need to be improved 5.1 Genre Articles 5.2 Band/Musician Articles 5.3 Album articles 5.4 Song articles 5.5 Discographies 6 Articles to improve 7 Articles that need to be revamped 7.1 Genre articles 7.2 Band articles 7.3 Other 8 Deletion 8.1 Undeletion 9 Mergers 9.1 Articles for protection 10 Other 11 Template 11.1 WikiProject Heavy Metal notice 11.2 Userbox 12 Parentage 13 Participants 13.1 Active participants 13.2 Inactive participants

[edit] General Strategy and Discussion Forums

• /To Do (Other things to do)
• /Created (Articles created by this project)
• /General
• /Strategy

[edit] Featured articles

• Angel of Death
• Christ Illusion
• Heavy metal music
• Megadeth
• Nightwish
• Slayer

[edit] Former featured articles

• Iron Maiden
• Dream Theater
• Marilyn Manson (band)

[edit] Music articles at Peer Review

[edit] Music articles at Featured article candidates

[edit] Assessment

One of the main tasks of the Metal WikiProject is to assess the quality of Wikipedia's Metal articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to help in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. They also play a role in the WP:1.0 program, which the WikiProject uses to help automate some of the assessing process.

It is easiest if you simply tag and assess articles as you come across or edit them. To find out more, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Metal/Assessment.

[edit] Articles that need to be created

[edit] Band articles

After creating a band article add them to their respective metal subgenre list (See: Category:Lists of metal bands). Also check the category Category:Heavy metal

• Darkspace (Ambient black / dark metal from Switzerland)
• English Dogs (Punk, Crossover, Power Metal from UK)
• Evermork (Blackened Melodic Death Metal from Sweden)
• Gravestone (Heavy Metal from Germany)
• Unlord (Black Metal from Netherlands)
• Umbra Nihil (Finnish doom metal band)
• Autumnblaze
• Unmoored, a progressive death metal from Sweden and one of the pioneers of the genre.
• Viral Load, death metal band form Dallas, Texas
• Krypt, (Black Metal form Norway)
• Dark Age (band) A melodic death metal band from Germany.

[edit] Album articles

• Tierras de Leyenda by Tierra Santa

[edit] Song Articles

[edit] Artists

• Abe Spear, of Burn the Priest
• Spiros Efthimiades, of Rage
• Chris Efthimiades, of Rage
• Sven Fischer (Artist), of Rage
• Peter Wagner (Artist), of Rage
• Jens Rydén, the new vocalist for Thyrfing, formerly of Naglfar

[edit] Discographies

• Saxon discography

[edit] Articles that need to be improved

[edit] Genre Articles

• New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (Needs to be expanded, giving more insights into the development of the genre)
• Folk metal (Torith is going to be working on this article.)
• Glam metal
• Heavy metal genealogic tree (Needs to include more genres without looking cluttered or disorganized)
• Neo-classical metal
• Oriental metal (Mike5193 is going to be working on this article.)
• Power metal (History of development, better examples of traits.)
• Symphonic metal (Articles sections on Power Metal/Black Metal and its history as a genre need expanding)
• Melodic Black Metal(Torith is going to be working on this article.)
• Proto-metal (The information from the Finnish article needs to be translated and imported into the English one)
• Shred metal ( I made this article; and need someone to add their info to it; with sources.)
• Doom metal (This is a confusing article full of original research, POV statments and lacks sources)

[edit] Band/Musician Articles

• Despised Icon (Needs a more extensive biography. I've done what little I can for album pages, though it needs a great deal of work.)
• Rob Halford (One of the most important artists of heavy metal, needs major expansion)
• Moi Dix Mois (Needing expansion and citations for genre)
• Nightfall
• American Head Charge (Needs NPOV and moderate expansion)
• Pharaoh
• Possessed
• Stargazer (Australian avant-garde blackened death metal band. In need of expansion)
• Amon Amarth
• Biolich (Expand)
• Scars of Life (I created it but the album and singles need doing)
• Sororicide (Seems impossible, but need more info)
• Thergothon
• Hermética (One of the best Argentine bands, needs NPOV and "specialist" checking.
• Warlord UK NEEDS BIG RENNOVATION (Need Infobox)
• Dark Moor
• Fuseboxx
• Bathtub Shitter (Deathgrind band from Japan. In need of expansion)
• Sex Machineguns created this a while ago, translated half the Japanese bio, never finished. needs bio completion and some consistency stuff between the band page and the musician pages
• Unearth, a metalcore band from Boston.
• I, a black metal supergroup from Norway
• Randy Blythe, Lamb of God's lead singer
• Burn the Priest
• Last Days of Humanity
• Scar Symmetry (Dexter_prog will be working in this one). Might need some more info, if there is...
• Nicke Andersson
• Death Breath
• Birdflesh

[edit] Album articles

• Slaughter in the Vatican by Exhorder
• Legendary Tales, album by Rhapsody
• The Blessed Hellride by Black Label Society
• Days of Rising Doom by Aina
• This Godless Endeavor by Nevermore, need much more text, and a picture of the album.
• Night on Earth by Dawn of Relic all the info is there (only enough for a stub like the rest of their albums) however, the picture does not work.

[edit] Song articles

• Hand of Doom by Black Sabbath (needs wikiformat)

[edit] Discographies

• Black Sabbath Discography
• Ozzy Osbourne Discography

[edit] Articles to improve

I created this template {{Bathory (band)}} Can somebody please help me copying it to all related albums?

• Metalhead, an article that probably concerns most people in this WikiProject, but has been in need of a cleanup since April 2006.

[edit] Articles that need to be revamped

[edit] Genre articles

• Black metal (yeah... why did it get nerfed and left with 2 madeup genres?)
• Death metal
• Doom metal (Article needs reorganising, expanding, and citations)
• Speed metal (needs discussion and then appropriate rewrite; poll also needs to finish)

[edit] Band articles

• Celtic Frost
• Dead Brain Cells
• Judas Priest
• Mastodon (Too bland, band has expanded, also personal bios need to be added)
• Quiet Riot
• Vader (has been tagged)
• Summoning (still shows signs of copy-and-paste work from the band's website, grammar issues)
• Beyond Dawn (need a more comprehensive biography - I've done the best I can with it so far)
• Saturnus (The current article is clearly no more than a press release for the latest album.)
• Visceral Bleeding (needs correct citations and to be expanded more, I've tried the best I could cleaning it up)

[edit] Other

• List of heavy metal bands
• Heavy metal in Islamic countries (a complete rewrite and expansion is needed; currently mostly a quick c+p job from other pages)

[edit] Deletion

(Please list heavy metal related topics which are being considered for deletion here. Results of recently closed debates can be left up.)

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Burning Point Keep
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Church of Misery Keep
• Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Arkona_(Russian_band) Keep
• Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Porn Metal Deleted
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Film Score Metal Deleted
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Latin metal (2nd nomination) Deleted
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evoken Keep
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Misery Index (band) keep
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brutal Prog Deleted

[edit] Undeletion

[edit] Mergers

• Death and Roll into Death metal to little distinction and too few bands for DnR - dnR was deleted
• Iranian metal Heavy metal music in Iran (renamed) into Heavy metal in Islamic countries or Rock and alternative music in Iran.

Note that there is currently a debate about whether this article should be kept, merged or re-nominated for deletion. All invited to check out the article and pass opinion in the talk page.

• Funk Metal and Funk rock. There is too much overlap and most articles are primitive stubs with little content.

[edit] Articles for protection

[edit] Other

• Black Label Society (needs cleaning and supervision of POV)

• Heavy metal music (needs cleaning and supervision of NPOV)
• Galactic Cowboys (needs citations and NPOV, already made major changes, just need some outside opinion)
• Genre Clean Up: Follow the list of Cross-Genre References on List of heavy metal genres, and merge them all into one article. When this chore is done, put them up for AFD. Please do not put an article connected to the List of heavy metal genres up for deletion. Ley Shade 23:15, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Orchetra of the Muted Candy, great band, but "the man" wants to delete their article. Metalheads unite! Help save the page!Ootmc 22:50, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

too late

[edit] Template

• Infoboxes (Use This article to go through each genre/cross-genre refernece and add an info box to those that dont have them)

[edit] WikiProject Heavy Metal notice

Place this WikiProject notice {{Wikiproject Metal}} or {{HMM}} at the top of an article's Talk page to direct editors to the Wikiproject Heavy Metal music for guidelines.

[edit] Userbox

Userbox enthusiasts can put {{User WikiProject Metal}} to show that you are a member of this project.

[edit] Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject are the WikiProject Music and WikiProject music genres.

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