Wikipedia:WikiProject Music

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It has been suggested that WikiProject Music genres be merged into this page or section. (Discuss)

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to 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 or on those of the project subpages. (See links below).

WikiProject Music aims to encourage the collaborative addition of accurate information to a wide variety of musical topics. There are, however, topics which may not be of sufficient importance for inclusion in Wikipedia.

Contents 1 Quality guidelines: MUSTARD 2 Noticeboard 3 Template 4 Userbox and participants list 4.1 Participants 4.2 Userbox 5 Project awards 6 Categories 7 See also 8 References

[edit] Quality guidelines: MUSTARD

WikiProject Music quality standards are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/MUSTARD, and include guidelines in the following areas:

• Capitalization
• Categorization
• Disambiguation
• Discography
• External linking
• Format
• Images
• Internal linking
• Lists
• Lyrics
• NPOV
• Notability
• Punctuation
• References
• See also
• Sounds and multimedia
• Titles and sections
• Trivia
• Usage

[edit] Noticeboard

There is a noticeboard for music-related news and requests at Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Noticeboard.

[edit] Template

• Add this to the talk page of music articles: {{WikiProject Music}}
• Add this to the bottom of music-related WikiProjects: {{WikiProject Music/Related WikiProjects}}

[edit] Userbox and participants list

[edit] Participants

See Category:WikiProject Music members.

[edit] Userbox

There is a userbox for members, which adds them to Category:WikiProject Music members. To add the userbox to your user page, use {{User WP Music}}. It will produce this:

[edit] Project awards

The Guitarist Barnstar can be awarded to any project member you want to recognize for service to the project. Add it to their Talk page with {{subst:The Guitarist Barnstar|message ~~~~}}.

The Music Barnstar can be awarded to any Wikipedian that exhibits exceptional effort and dedication to music-related articles. Add it to their Talk page with {{subst:Music Barnstar|message ~~~~}}.

[edit] Categories

Articles

WikiProject

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music)
• Wikipedia:Lyrics
• Wikipedia:Music encyclopedia topics
• Wikipedia:Record charts
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions

[edit] References

• American Musicological Society's WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists
• Society for Music Theory's Online Resources
• College Music Society's Music Resource Center
• Indiana University School of Music and William and Gayle Cook Music Library's Worldwide Internet Music Resources

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