Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians

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This WikiProject was originally intended for individual artists, but has since been expanded to include musical groups as well. This aspect of the project is currently in progress.

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Musicians and Musical ensembles/Bands. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians in writing/editing articles related to this subject. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page or check out the to-do list.

Any content on this page is open for discussion, but please avoid editing this page directly without first discussing the proposed changes on the talk page.

Contents

[edit] Project details

[edit] Title

WikiProject on Musicians.

[edit] Scope

The purpose of this project is to provide guidelines for Wikipedia articles regarding musicians. This can cover everything from visual style and formatting to content and organization. All articles need not be identical, and there is obviously a wide variety of information which may be appropriate to some articles and not to others. The goal is to make it easier for Wikipedians to create high quality articles related to this subject matter, and also to make it easier for readers of these articles to find relevant information in consistent format and location.

This project will also participate in the categorization of related pages in order to make it even easier to find relevant related information.

[edit] Parentage

[edit] Related WikiProjects

v • d • e
WikiProject Music
Hierarchy
Music
Geographical
Instruments
Genres
Musicians

[edit] Related Portals

[edit] Participants

This is a manually compiled list. If you have constructively participated in this project, please feel free to add your self to this list. You may also wish to list your specific interests or areas in which you would like to participate.

Active Members

[edit] Inactive

[edit] Former

  • Bmearns (talk · contribs) — Project founder – left June 16, 2006
  • TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) - My contributions are a bit infrequent and tangential. I moved membership to Music because my work is more

general.

[edit] Tasks

To-do list for WikiProject Musicians:

 edit - history - watch - refresh

Goals


Specific articles in need of...

Please add articles to these lists.

...Conversion

  • The Chieftains - Infobox now added - still needs more more substance (especially on former members)
  • Divinyls - Infobox was added, more is needed?
  • Heart - What should be done next?


...Expansion


...Assessment


See also
Click the title of each section to go to the task's sub-page.
WikiProject Biography
General information (edit · changes)
Departments
Infoboxes
More biography infoboxes...
Biography work groups
Things you can do (edit)
Biography article statistics

This list is generated automatically on alternate nights.
view full worklist

Biography
articles		 Importance
Top None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 21 480 501
A 2 19 21
Good article GA 24 970 994
B 151 14437 14588
Start 2 110997 110999
Stub 337848 337848
List 111 111
Assessed 200 464862 465062
Unassessed 55108 55108
Total 200 519970 520170

[edit] Assessment

Rate the articles according to the 1.0 Assessment guidelines. See Category:Unassessed biography (musicians) articles for articles that need a rating. You can also request an assessment.

[edit] Conversion

The purpose of this sub project is to find articles related to this subject and edit them so as to comply with the guidelines set forth by this project.

[edit] Categorization

This sub project is aimed at classifying related articles in a logical and consistent manner, the idea being to make it easier to find articles related to a certain subject matter.

[edit] Stub sorting

Help organize and label musician-related stubs with the correct stub template.

[edit] Current collaboration

This is similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale. Every so often, members of the project select a single article—existing or not—on which to focus some of our combined efforts. This involves not just fixing up the article to match the guidelines of the project, but also doing any necessary research and resource gathering for the article, including finding usable images or other media.
The Current collaboration is: non selected
This collaboration began:

[edit] Article structure

Main article: /Article guidelines

For the time being, the chief focus of this wikiproject is to establish itself by defining a solid set of guidelines for related articles to use. All are encouraged to participate in this endeavor by reviewing the existing guidelines and discussing them on the article guidelines page. Both positive and negative constructive criticism are highly welcomed, but please discuss changes prior to making them. This includes changes to existing guidelines, removal of existing guidelines, and addition of new guidelines.

[edit] Contributing

[edit] Adding articles

It only takes one very simple step to add an article to the project:

  • Add the following code to the top of the talk page. This should not be underneath a section header.
{{WPBiography
| living              =
| class               =
| priority            =
| attention           = 
| needs-infobox       = 
| musician-work-group = yes
}}

This template includes articles in [[Category:Musicians work group articles]] allows us to track articles in the project so as to better gauge the progress of the project and to find articles that need work done (please use piped category links to sort articles by artist's last name). The {{WPBiography}} template informs others about the project to potentially inspire new contributors to the project, and also to hopefully prevent some unnecessary and inadvertent deviation from the project's guidelines which the editor may not even be aware of.

You can also feel free to add a link to the page under either "Recently added" or "New articles", which ever is appropriate. This will allow others to see what's new with the project and likely quicken the process of getting the article edited to meet guidelines.

[edit] What to add

The above method for adding articles to the project should only be used for articles that specifically pertain to the subject matter of this project, i.e., a specific musician. Articles that more generally relate to the project, for instance musician should not be added to [[Category:Musicians work group articles]] and should not have {{WPBiography}} added to their talk page. For articles such as these, please see the section entitled "Other related articles".

Articles need not comply exactly with the standards of the project in order to be added, in fact, they don't need to comply at all. Adding a non-compliant article will make it that much more likely that someone involved in the project will find it and fix it up. For more information on non-compliant articles, see "Articles in need of attention".

Pages that are involved more in the administrative aspect of this project, e.g. subprojects' pages, lists, templates, etc., also should not be added to [[Category:Musicians work group articles]] or include {{WPBiography}}. Instead, these pages should be added to [[Category:WikiProject Musicians]].

[edit] Who to add

This project aims to improve articles of all musical performers. This includes:

  • Solo artists
  • Bands
  • Individual band members
  • Composers
  • Writers
  • Instrumentalists
  • Ensembles

[edit] Editing project articles

Articles already part of this project are still open to editing, and there's no special procedure for doing so. Remember, a lot of articles are added to the project without any compliance to the project guidelines. Don't feel like you need to completely fix up an article when you edit it; even a small edit that follows the project is better than none. If you have completely fixed a page to meet the guidelines, go ahead and add it as a candidate for the Showcase, or even as a Featured candidate.

Note sure what articles to edit? Keep reading...

[edit] Articles in need of attention

[[Category:Musicians work group articles needing attention]] has been created in order to better keep track of what articles need what work. Two templates are involved in marking an article as needing work:

{{WPBiography
| living              =
| class               =
| priority            =
| attention           = yes
| needs-infobox       = 
| musician-work-group = yes
}}
  • {{subst:Musician attn talk}} - This should be subst'd to the bottom of the article's talk page. It will create a section titled "Musician needs attention" which is where these issues should be discussed. This template also takes one parameter called "text" which should be a description of what specifically needs work. Also include your signature by placing ~~~~ at the end of this parameter's value.

If the article needs an infobox, set needs-infobox = yes.

If you have edited an article and believe that it no longer needs work, you should remove the {{Musician attn}} template from it. You should also make sure that it is no longer in the [[Category:Musicians work group articles needing attention]] (e.g. if that category was added separately from the template). Do not delete any of the entries on the talk page related to the work (or any, for that matter), and make sure it has the two items listed under "Adding articles". In addition, fixed articles should be added to the list of Recently fixed articles along with your date-stamped signature (four tildes, ~~~~). This will allow others to review the work (no one's perfect) and make sure all the original issues have been resolves.

[edit] Related pages

[edit] Infobox

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Infobox

[edit] Navbox

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Navbox

[edit] Project banner

Place on top of an article's talk page. 
{{WPBiography
| living              =
| class               =
| priority            =
| attention           = 
| needs-infobox       = 
| musician-work-group = yes
}}

Remove unneeded fields.

For more information, see Template:WPBiography.
This page is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.
Biography Portal
NA This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.
This non-article page is supported by WikiProject Musicians, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed biographical guide to musicians and musical groups on Wikipedia.

[edit] Stub templates

See Stub sorting

[edit] Userboxes

Userboxes
{{User:Heaven's Wrath/Userboxes/WPMusicians}}
This user is a member of WikiProject Musicians.
{{User:Thereen/WPMusiciansUserbox}}
This user is a member of WikiProject Musicians.

[edit] Other templates

See also: Category:WikiProject Musicians templates & Special:Prefixindex/Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Templates

View the template page (link in first column) for details about the template.

Discussion entries
{{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Templates/Invite contrib}} ==WikiProject Musicians==

Thanks for your contribution to the Musicians WikiProject. I hope you'll continue to be interested and participate in the project, we're always open to new participants. For ways you can help, please check the "Contributing" section of the main project page. Thanks again! ~~~~
{{Musician attn talk}} ==Musician article needs attention==

Use this template to add a section to a talk page to discuss something about an article that doesn't comply to project guidelines
{{subst:Musician attn std talk}} ==Musician article needs attention==

This article has been marked as a part of the Musicians WikiProject but does not meet the guidelines established by that project. It is suggested that the article be updated to better fit into the standards of the project. ~~~~
Other templates
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Templates/current collab}} The Current collaboration is: non selected
This collaboration began:

[edit] Categories

See also: Categorization sub-project

[[Category:WikiProject Musicians]] is the top level category for this project. It has the following sub categories:

[edit] Lists

[edit] Project articles

Biography (musicians)
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 6 28 25 8 4 71
A 2 2
Good article GA 10 23 69 39 38 179
B 34 163 644 284 519 1644
Start 73 860 3470 6950 11353
Stub 12 289 4538 31633 36472
Assessed 50 299 1887 8341 39144 49721
Unassessed 16 16
Total 50 299 1887 8341 39160 49737

[edit] New articles

[edit] Recently added

Arts and Entertainment Work Group - Musicians

The Arts and Entertainment Work Group - Musicians is a working group of members of the Biography WikiProject dedicated to ensuring quality and coverage of biography articles.

Related Projects

Since biographies are potentially under the purview of almost all WikiProjects, it is important that we work in tandem with these projects. Also, when seeking collaboration on articles, don't neglect to approach WikiProjects that are part of the geographical region your subject is/was in. Some musicians have WikiProjects dedicated to them and these WikiProjects generally consider themselves responsible for the biographical articles within their scope.

Related Portals

Increase the exposure of our work group by nominating our articles for their Portal FA and DYKs. Of course, don't forget the main portal, Portal:Arts

Articles
Announcements/To do (edit)
  • FAR:
  • FARC:
    • none
  • GA Noms:
    • • add yours here when you nominate on candidate page
  • Article requests::

Add this to-do list to your User page! {{Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Arts and entertainment/Musicians announcements}}

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