Wikipedia:WikiProject Irish Music

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Welcome to the Irish Music WikiProject!

Goals
  • Improve Wikipedia's coverage of Irish music (from traditional to folk, from rock to electronic and everything in between), as well as the bands/musicians who play it.
  • Create guidelines for articles about Irish music.
Scope
  • The project covers all articles about Irish music, musicians, singles, albums, related publications and broadcasts and the scene in general.

Progress can be viewed and recorded at the Project Log. Try and record everything you do regarding the project, just so we can keep track of how things are going.

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  1. NaLaochra (founder) - Into the modern scene, thought the coverage of some Irish artists on here was fairly weak so decided to give this a go.
  2. Kaini - this ought to be interesting, my first time working with a wikiproject. i think a small infobox for user pages is in order too. i'll get to it...
  3. Philbo84 16:50, 15 September 2006 (UTC) - Interested in the modern Irish music scene from international bands right down to local city bands.
  4. Craig Stuntz I only tend to work on traditional music; I have little interest in pop, rock, etc.
  5. TheDecline I'll add things from time to time when ive had a good think about them.
  6. Gramscis cousin I've only had time to add some stuff but will try to add more. Interests all music.
  7. Downunda Mostly interested in 70s, 80s and 90s rock. Will try to contribute where I can
  8. Airwave Hi, I have worked in Irish music (every type but mostly 'rock') for many years. This is a good idea. I will try to help out when I can.
  9. ReverendG I've made a few album pages and plan to continue.
  10. Irish rover I have made changes to a lot of the traditional, rock and others. I want to help more.
  11. Candlewicke - updated and improved a lot of articles to do with Irish music: bands such as Humanzi, The Blizzards, The Revs, Boss Volenti and Royseven but also other music articles including Electric Picnic, 2fm and Meteors; most regular are Oxegen and Hot Press.
  12. DoktorDec - Mainly interested in the Irish rock music scene from the 1990's to present. I recently authored the article Juniper (band).
  13. Seankieran - I love Irish rock music. My favorite bands are: The Saw Doctors, The Pogues, and Black 47.
  14. Joe Byrne - I've done quite a lot of work on The Frames and created many of their album pages as well as creating Mark Geary and generally watching Irish music-related articles.
  15. Cckkab I am interested in all aspects, and have been for many years. I am new however to the Irish music Wikipedia pages. I am astounded by the poor organisation and linking. "Music of Ireland" is far below the quality of some other countries. Dec 2007
  16. Ogg I have created a few biographies of Irish folk musicians Ogg (talk) 20:45, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Open tasks

  • The Coronas
    • There's a few editors who are constantly removing referenced material, merely because it's criticising the band... then replacing it with positive comments about the band. This isn't a fansite, so we should probably keep an eye on the page.
  • Foggy Notions
    • develop beyond a stub
  • Whipping Boy (Irish band)
    • Improve the article.
  • General page about Music of Ireland.
    • The existing one is all about trad and sean-nós, and even the 'modern' section seems more focussed on Enya than anything else - just have a look at the section, "Late 20th century: Rock and More..." - it's rather misdirected and doesn't give any impression whatsoever of what the scene is actually like.
    • Perhaps a separate page for the Irish music scene as it is today and has been over the past few years, and leave the Music of Ireland page to deal with traditional music and the history of music here. I've begun a topic on the talk page to discuss this.
    • At present Music of England specifically deals with English traditional music, whilst Music of France is a much more general article. Achieving some degree of consistency between 'Music of...' articles is not exactly within the scope of this WikiProject, but it would be desirable. See Talk:Music of Ireland#contemporary vs traditional irish music.
    • Within a couple of days I will probably attempt to create Folk music of Ireland using existing paragraphs of Music of Ireland. I will then radically re-write the folk parts of Music of Ireland in order to make them more concise and readable. Feel free to undo my work or rewrite it. It's such a mess that it would be hard to make it worse. Ogg (talk) 20:51, 10 January 2008 (UTC). OK I have done it now. Ogg (talk) 12:23, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Toasted Heretic
    • Improve the article.
  • Warlords of Pez
    • Improve The Article.
  • The Hitchers
    • General improvement needed. Specifically, there is a question of neutrality and various sources are missing.
  • Vyvienne Long
    • all contributions appreciated.
  • Juniper (band)
    • Revisions welcome.
  • Delorentos
    • Some tidying up required.
  • Royseven
    • Could do with some TLC.
  • The Flaws
    • Improved a lot but still needs some maintenance.
  • The Blizzards
    • Keep an eye on this one since it seems to periodically be vandalised and/or feature badly-written additions.
  • David Geraghty
    • Bit of a stub- updates needed.

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