Wikipedia:WikiProject Led Zeppelin

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Led Zeppelin (including Swan Song Records). 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/or see the to-do list.

Over 25 years after disbanding following John Bonham's death in 1980, Led Zeppelin continue to be held in high regard for their artistic achievements, commercial success, and broad influence. The band have sold more than 300 million albums worldwide, including 109.5 million sales in the United States, and they are the only band to have had all their albums reach the U.S. Billboard Top 10. Led Zeppelin are ranked No. 1 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. There is already a considerable number of articles about Led Zeppelin on Wikipedia, of varying levels of quality and depth. These range from former featured article candidates such as "Stairway to Heaven" down to stubs of the lowest quality. This project seeks to marshall the efforts of interested editors to improve and unify these articles and to raise the overall standard of Led Zeppelin coverage on Wikipedia. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

WikiProject
Led Zeppelin
General information
Main project page talk
Project log talk
Policy talk
Led Zeppelin portal talk
Tasks
To do list talk
Red links talk
Missing articles talk
Article assessments talk
Tools and info
Categories talk
Newsletter talk
Handy infoboxes
Infobox Musical artist talk
Infobox Biography talk
Infobox Album talk
Infobox Single talk
Misc templates
Article talk page talk
Invite user talk
Userbox talk
User page talk
Article navbox talk
Singles navbox talk
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Contents

[edit] Project scope

The scope of the project is articles about Led Zeppelin and their work, and people and things directly related to - or who have achieved a significant part of their notability through their connection to - Led Zeppelin as a group and individually.

[edit] Good Article/Featured Article

Periodically project members collaborate on an article to bring it up to Good Article/Featured Article status.

The current GAR collaboration is:

[edit] Nominations

Nominations for future collaborations can be made here:

[edit] Log

The achievements of the WikiProject so far are recorded at Wikipedia:WikiProject Led Zeppelin/Log. If you create a new article, perform a merge or achieve some other goal on behalf of the project please record it in the log. It's helpful and motivating for us all to see how we've progressed as a team.

[edit] Parentage

The progenator of this WikiProject is WikiProject Music.

[edit] Related Wikiportals

WikiProject Led Zeppelin also manages the Led Zeppelin Portal: Portal:Led Zeppelin.

[edit] Participants

From time to time, the participants list may be trimmed and seemingly inactive members moved to "Inactive". Please don't be offended: if you're here and editing Led Zeppelin articles or working on administration of the WikiProject, just put yourself back on the main list.

[edit] Inactive, or have just popped out for a cup of tea...

If your name has been moved here but you disagree, please feel free to move it back.


This is the bottom of the Inactive list. Please add your name to the Active list up above...

[edit] Goals

Please discuss on the talk page or be bold and add some!

  1. Unify and improve articles about Led Zeppelin albums
  2. Unify and improve articles about the four members of Led Zeppelin
  3. Unify and improve articles about Led Zeppelin songs
  4. Unify and improve articles about Led Zeppelin concert tours

[edit] Citations

In accordance with Wikipedia policy, facts and assertions should be attributed to verifiable, reliable sources wherever possible (see WP:V and WP:RS).

The Project's preferred method for this is inline citations using the <ref> tag.

Usage is very simple. Examples:

Citing a book: <ref>Author, Book, ISBN, page number</ref>[1]

Citing a book multiple times: Lewis, Dave, "Led Zeppelin: A Celebration", ISBN 0-7119-9651-2 (2003), Ominbus, London

<ref>Lewis 2003 p23</ref>[2]

Reusing a reference:

<ref name="somewebsite">[http://www.web.com/ Some Website]</ref>[3] Second use<ref name="somewebsite"/>[3]

[edit] References

The citations are displayed by placing a <references/> tag at the bottom of the article.

  1. ^ Author, Book, ISBN, page number
  2. ^ Lewis, p23
  3. ^ a b Some Website

[edit] Further reading

[edit] Projects

  1. Compile a list of current and missing articles, and catalogue them by status - see Wikipedia:WikiProject Led Zeppelin/Article Classification and Wikipedia:WikiProject Led Zeppelin#Wikipedia_articles_on_Led Zeppelin
  2. Restore Led Zeppelin to featured article status.
    • Seek peer review, and 'tweak'
    • Plan the article stucture anew and major edit. Maybe History can be merged back in, and less substantial stuff forked out.
  3. insert other projects (big jobs) here from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Led Zeppelin

[edit] Tasks

  1. Buy a reference book about Led Zeppelin
  2. Invite new members by contacting editors who have made substantial Led Zeppelin-related edits in the past
  3. Fix templates to talk pages
  4. Construct Wikipedia:WikiProject Led Zeppelin/Article Classification by following the category 'tree'(what that means is update this table: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Led Zeppelin/Categories as the automated code reads it and using what links here for the Led Zeppelin template. Can do the talk page notices at the same time.
  5. Assess articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Led Zeppelin/Article Classification
  6. Swan Song Records - Needs restructuring and expanding.
  7. Add specific fair use rationales to Led Zeppelin-related copyrighted images, especially album covers (see Image:LedZeppelinLedZeppelinalbumcover.jpg for example).
  8. Add the geographic coordinates of Led Zeppelin significant places.
  9. insert other tasks (smaller jobs) here from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Led Zeppelin

[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.

  • I have adopted this article about the led zeppelin biography, Stairway to heaven. [[1]] DangerTM (talk) 07:32, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Other subpages

[edit] Shortcuts

Pagename Redirects to page
WP:Led Zeppelin, WP:LZ This page (Wikipedia:WikiProject Led Zeppelin)
WT:Led Zeppelin, WT:LZ This page's talk page (Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Led Zeppelin)
P:LZ Portal:Led Zeppelin
WP:LZA Wikipedia:WikiProject Led Zeppelin/Article Classification
WP:LZC Wikipedia:WikiProject Led Zeppelin/Categories
WP:LZD Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Led Zeppelin
WP:LZL Wikipedia:WikiProject Led Zeppelin/Log
WP:LZM Wikipedia:WikiProject Led Zeppelin/Missing articles
WP:LZR Wikipedia:WikiProject Led Zeppelin/Red links
WP:LZT Wikipedia:WikiProject Led Zeppelin/To do

It is recommended that Project members add each of the above Project pages to their watchlists.

[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Led Zeppelin

[edit] Status board

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Former featured article candidates

[edit] Featured article review

[edit] Featured pictures

[edit] Featured picture candidates

[edit] Featured lists

[edit] Featured list candidates

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Good article nominations

[edit] Good article reassessment

[edit] Red links

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Led Zeppelin/Red links for a full list

[edit] Missing Articles

Redlinks which need to be turned blue at the earliest opportunity need to be listed here. If you can help by creating a stub (or better!) please be bold and go right ahead (In brackets: number of incoming links from main space, excluding redirects and dab pages):

  • Swan Song Record artists:

[edit] Article suggestions/requests

[edit] Article creation instructions

You're starting a new article? Great! Please follow these instructions:

  • Articles about Led Zeppelin are generally considered to be articles with a "strong tie" to the dialect of the United Kingdom and should be written in British English.
  • Add the new article to the appropriate subcategory of Category:Led Zeppelin, or to the parent category if most appropriate
  • Add any appropriate template to the article, such as an album or single infobox
  • Place a {{WP Led Zeppelin}} template on the new article's Talk page
  • If the article is listed as a redlink on the to-do list please remove it from that list
  • If the article needs a photo and you don't have one, place a {{Reqphoto}} template on the talk page and add the article to "Wanted Pics/Graphics" on the the to-do list
  • List the article in the appropriate category on the Article Classification list. Don't classify it yourself, it's best if we classify each other's articles not our own
  • Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a 120 hour time limit (from the creation of the article, not the nomination).
  • Finally (hooray!) record your wonderful achievement on the Project Log

[edit] Quiz

Please go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Led Zeppelin/Quiz for a quiz about Led Zeppelin in general.

[edit] Templates

There are a lot of useful templates that may be relevant, infoboxes, notification boxes, and so forth. If you know of resources not listed here please add them.!

[edit] Infoboxes

There are several useful infoboxes that are relevant to this project, as the project covers a large number of types of articles.

[edit] Infobox Musical artist

[edit] Infobox Biography

[edit] Infobox Album

In addition to the writeup on the talk page of the infobox, the WikiProject Albums page has some discussion on how to effectively use these, color coding, and what some of the fields mean and so forth, as well as larger guidance on how Album pages ought to be done (how the track list is formatted, dates, usages, and so forth).

Some important points copied from that page: When you create or find a new album page, please add {{Album}} to the top of the talk page. If the page has no infobox, you should use {{Album|needs-infobox=yes}} instead. If the page has an incomplete infobox, note the missing details at Incomplete infobox. If the page has an old style infobox, add {{newinfobox|type=album}} to the bottom of the talk page.

[edit] Infobox Single

  • Led Zeppelin produced singles, together and individually. So the {{Infobox Single}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. You can use it this way: {{Infobox Single}} Some examples:

Note that the template supports ordering of singles by when they charted.


[edit] Stub templates

NOTE: stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on creating stub templates and categories. It is inadbisable to create new stub templates without consultation as these will probably be nominated for deletion.

[edit] Membership template

You can place this template on your userpage to show project membership

This user is a member of WikiProject Led Zeppelin, a WikiProject which aims to expand and improve coverage of Led Zeppelin on Wikipedia. Please feel free to join us.

by including this text: {{WikiProject Led Zeppelin}}

Alternatively, (or in addition), you can place this userbox on your userpage to show project membership

LZ This user is a member of
Wikiproject: Led Zeppelin.




by including this text: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Led Zeppelin/Userbox}}

Placing one of these on your pages is entirely optional but is a way to show your involvement to others... that's good for the project as we have lots of work to do!

[edit] Invitation template

If you see someone that might have an interest in the project, you can place this template on their userpage to invite them.

Hi! I've seen you around on Led Zeppelin related articles... Would you consider becoming a member of WikiProject Led Zeppelin, a WikiProject which aims to expand and improve coverage of Led Zeppelin on Wikipedia? Please feel free to join us.
Led Zeppelin... You're not in this picture... yet!
Todo:

by including this text: {{WikiProject Led Zeppelin Invite}}

  • DO put some commentary below it, explaining WHY they might be interested, and sign. Alternatively, you may leave a message and sign within the template by supplying an optional parameter
  • DO NOT spam people extensively, give it some thought first and don't invite too many people at once.

It makes sense to grow the project participation slowly so use with care. But it's a fun template, a bit more attention grabbing than just a note.

[edit] Article Template

Place this template in the talk page of an article that you think belongs in the project:

This article is part of the Led Zeppelin WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Led Zeppelin. If you would like to participate please visit the project page. Any questions pertaining to Led Zeppelin-related articles should be directed to the project's talk page.
NA This article has been rated as NA-Class on the assessment scale.
??? This article has not yet received an importance rating on the assessment scale.



by including this text at the very top of the page: {{WP Led Zeppelin}}

This template is also used for article classification (usage instructions). Do not subst it!

[edit] Navigation Templates

Major articles should use {{Led Zeppelin}}. Place it at the bottom of the article by including this text: {{Led Zeppelin}}. The result is:

v • d • e
Led Zeppelin
John Bonham · John Paul Jones · Jimmy Page · Robert Plant
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilations
Singles
Films
Concerts
Related


[edit] Fan Templates

Fans of the band can also add this template on their user page if they so choose:

ZOSO This user takes the stairway to heaven.




[edit] Categories

  • Per current Wikipedia convention, articles on Led Zeppelin singles which are also the sole article for the song in question should belong to the following categories:
Category:Led Zeppelin songs
Category:Led Zeppelin singles
Category:Year singles
Category:Year songs
Category:Atlantic Records singles or Category:Swan Song Records singles (if appropriate)

[edit] Articles for deletion

[edit] Policies

The Project has several "policies" with the aim of standardising language and style across Led Zeppelin related articles. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Led Zeppelin/Policy.

[edit] Log

[edit] Online resources

This should be a list of useful resources to the project that will aid in research, article creation, or that may be a source of images that are freely usable by the project. Please add to this list as you find items. Assume that project members know about common things like IMDB.

Jeff Lybarger has taken an in-depth look at each of the Led Zeppelin songs.