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WikiProject MARILLION


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[edit] Scope and Motivation

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organise information in articles related to the band Marillion. This page and its subpages contain their ideas; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, feel free to dive right in. If there are aspects of the project you don't understand, feel free to ask any question on the talk page. Every editor can help, no matter if you're an expert on the subject or not, and no matter if you understand the whole 'article tagging' thing or not.

The vast majority of this project was unashamedly ripped from Kingboyk's The KLF WikiProject, and other parts have been taken from the deliberance of many other Wikipedia editors. To all of these people our gratitude is extended for making tools available by which projects such as this can be built up and developed.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

[edit] Participants

[edit] Major pending tasks

[edit] Manual of Style (conventions)

Being a British band, all articles within the scope of the project should be written in English, as opposed to variations thereof, such as American English or Canadian English. This is often referred to as "British English".

[edit] Capitalisation

  1. The vast majority of music genres are not proper nouns, and thus should not be capitalised.
  2. The first letter in the first and last words in song, album and other titles is capitalised, except for short conjunctions, prepositions and articles. More specifically
    1. Capitalise the first and last word.
    2. Capitalise every noun, verb and adverb. This includes all forms of the verb to be (e.g., Be, Been, Am, Is, Was, Were).
    3. Capitalise only those prepositions that are five or more letters long (e.g., Through), are the first or last word of the title, or are part of a two-word phrasal verb (e.g., "Walk On").
    4. With compound hyphenated terms, capitalise each word-part separately, according to the applicable rule.
    5. Titles that include parentheses should be capitalised as though both the part inside and outside the parentheses are separate titles (e.g., "(Don't Fear) The Reaper")
  3. If possible, check with an authoritative source to determine whether the word the is part of a band's name. For example, The Beatles is correct, as is the Pixies. In either case, the opposite should always redirect (or be disambiguated) to avoid multiple articles.
    1. If the, a or an is the first word in a band's name, it should always be capitalised, as in "It is my opinion that The Beatles rock, as does the Dave Matthews Band."

[edit] Categorisation

  1. Top-level categories, such as Category:Songs and Category:Guitarists, should not be populated. Use sub-categories such as Category:Jazz guitarists.
  2. Articles should not be in both a category and a subcategory of it. For example, do not put someone in both Category:Canadian musicians and Category:Canadian music, because the first is a sub-category of the latter.

[edit] Discographies

  1. Pages on performers should have discography sections. These should be subdivided into albums and singles, or other simple systems as needed. If a simple system cannot accommodate an artist's entire discography, a subpage should be created using summary style.
  2. Album covers will probably be displayed in the Marillion discography due to the relative importance of the designs and the collaboration of Fish with Mark Wilkinson
  3. The discography for the main Marillion article will probably be quite simple, but a separate discography article should be developed.

[edit] Formatting

  1. Songs and singles should be in quotes. Albums and EPs in italics. The names of tours are not formatted beyond ordinary capitalisation.
    1. True titles are specific to a work, and are always italicised; e.g., From me flows what you call time or Pelleas et Melisande
    2. Titles of songs, albums and other media that are not in English, or are in a non-standard variety of English, should follow ordinary rules of capitalisation and punctuation for that variety. This guideline does not supersede other Wikipedia:Naming conventions, and only applies to whatever instances foreign language titles appear.
  2. The title of an article should be bolded on first appearance. Important redirects should be bolded on their first appearance, preferably in the lead section.
  3. Regarding the use-mention distinction, words should be italicised when they are referred to; e.g. "They chose the name The Supremes" or "They called their style jelly rock" rather than "They became The Supremes" or "They play jelly rock")
  4. Unless a word meets one of these criteria, or another standard English usage, it should not be italicised or bolded.

[edit] Neutrality

  1. Opinions are desirable. However, they must be cited.
  2. If you want to mention whom a band or album sounds similar to, do so in a prose format (as in Operation Ivy has a ska punk sound similar to The Specials), not in a list. Making a list of "related bands" constitutes using your ideas and opinions, which violates both WP:NPOV and WP:OR.
    1. Do not link to 'similar performers' or 'related genres' in a see also section.
  3. Claims such as popular, critically acclaimed and well-received should be cited to a reputable source.

[edit] Punctuation

  1. When putting titles in quotes or italics, put the punctuation outside the quotemark or italicisation. For example, "I listened to "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", one of my favourite songs, from Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of my favourite albums."
  2. Sentences should in end in full stops. Exclamation marks are an example of unencyclopedic tone outside direct, cited and described quotations. Question marks are also rarely appropriate in encyclopedic writing (e.g. don't do: What was grunge music? It was a youth subculture...). This also applies to section headings.
  3. Things that are not sentences should not end in full stops. If you make a list and it includes descriptions that are not complete sentences, do not use a full stop. If the list does use complete sentences, use full stops. Be consistent.

[edit] Templates

  • {{WPMAR}} — article tagging template, for use on article talk pages.
This page is part of WikiProject Marillion, an attempt to improve and expand coverage of Marillion and related topics.

Talk to us. Marillion-related Articles in need of attention.


  • {{Marillion singles}} — for a table of Marillion singles to include in Marillion articles.
  • {{Marillionlp}}
  • {{Marillionsgl}}

[edit] Creation of articles

[edit] Done

[edit] To do

[edit] Categories

[edit] Done

[edit] To do

[edit] Articles that have been tagged with templates

List individual Marillion-related articles that have been tagged (with, for example, reqphoto) here.

[edit] Reqphoto

In order to create a gallery from which Wikipedians can source pictures of Marillion for use in articles, please list GFDL-licensed or fair use pictures here.

If you require pictures, or would like to help with sourcing them, then take a look a this page.

[edit] Article assessment

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

  • /General
  • /Strategy

[edit] Other subpages

  • /Article Classification
  • /Log
  • /To do
  • /Missing articles (and article requests)

[edit] Red links

See /Red links for a full list.

[edit] Missing articles

[edit] Categories

[edit] Lists

[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Marillion

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Marillion articles

Please feel free to list your new Marillion articles-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). 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. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

[edit] Did you know?

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Featured article candidates

[edit] Requests

[edit] Parentage

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