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Currently, there are no officially adopted guidelines for musician articles. This page is for proposing guidelines, until a structure is decided upon. Please see the proposals below. Input is always appreciated.
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[edit] Model page
There is not currently a model page established for this project. Please make and discuss proposals for a model page at Model page. Proposals for a model page should wait until article guidelines are created.
[edit] Proposals
[edit] WP:FMP
We should make sure that article guidelines here are compliant with anything defined in Wikipedia:Featured Music Project. B.Mearns*, KSC 21:21, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Infobox
- Please see #Second infobox proposal
[edit] Salary, RIAA cert
Would there be any objections or disadvantages of including the artist's salary, the number of records sold, and/or RIAA certification of albums? Once again, it will be optional. It's not included right now, so I guess I'm making a suggestion. Unionbay 17:41, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Second infobox proposal
| Stevie Wonder | |
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| Birth name | Steveland Hardaway Judkins |
| Also known as | Steveland Morris, Eivets Rednow |
| Born | May 13, 1950 |
| Origin | Saginaw, Michigan, USA |
| Genre(s) | R&B/pop/soul |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer |
| Instrument(s) | Singing, piano/keyboard, synthesizer, harmonica, congas, drums, guitar |
| Years active | 1961 - present |
| Label(s) | Motown |
| Associated acts | Syreeta Wright |
| Website | www.steviewonder.net |
I did a revised infobox template design, {{Infobox musical artist 2}}, which uses its own color scheme and a smoother visual appearance. I had to throw out entirely the idea of color-coding by genre , because of the fact that it is impossible to make sure each genre color can potentially match each band color (unless neutrals are used entirely for one or the other). I wanted to have the color-coding be something like Template:Superherobox, where you have one strip for the type of act and anthoer for the type of genre. Oh well. I have more examples at User:FuriousFreddy/notes2.
The color scheme would be as follows:
| khaki (#f0e68c) | All vocal solo artists (includes singer-songwriters and singer-instrumentalists) |
| lightcoral (#f08080) | All non-vocal instrumentalists |
| lightgreen (#90ee90) | All producers, songwriters, arrangers, engineers, and other non-performing personnel |
| lightskyblue (#87cefa) | All groups, bands, crews, or other non-classical music ensembles |
| paleturquoise (#afeeee) | All orchestras and other classical music ensembles |
| plum (#dda0dd) | Cover and tribute bands (same as Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums' color for covers/tribute albums) |
| darkgray (#a9a9a9) | Temporary collaborative projects |
Tell me what you think. --FuriousFreddy 22:05, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Page layout
This maps out a typical artist page from start to finish. A template based on the hundreds of articles I've worked on.--Esprit15d 19:57, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Discography section
- Please see #Discography section second proposal
[edit] Rock family tree
Would there be any objections or disadvantages of including the artist's rock family tree? Once again, it will be optional. There are other much less diagrammatical ways that this information is in various musician's and band's articles at this time, so I guess I'm making a suggestion. --luckymustard 21:36, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Style guidelines
Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Style.
[edit] Discography section second proposal
Since the original discography section proposal failed to reach consensus and is now hopelessly outdated anyway (it predates the arrival of WikiProject Discographies by two years), I have created a new proposal based on the practices that seem to be most common on recent musician Featured Articles. Kaldari (talk) 18:11, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Archive
Below is a list of which talk archive you can find a previous proposal's discussion.
