Wikipedia:WikiProject R&B and Soul Music

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R&B and Soul Music Portal

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to R&B, soul music, and funk music singers, musicians, bands, songs, and record labels.

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 see the to-do list there.

[edit] Scope

A significant number of articles on important and influential R&B and soul-related persons or organizations, both past and contemporary, are small, underwritten stubs, fancruft, or non-existent. R&B and soul music, more so than any major music genres, have poor coverage in the Wikipedia. Hip-hop generally fare better; whether hip-hop will be included as part of this project is a subject open for vote. The purpose of this project is to expand, copyedit, and/or create these articles.

I understand that this is going to be a big task, one that not one person can handle by themselves. Also, I realize that there are a lot of articles to be made, which is why I will try and organize the project in steps and waves, so that we take care of everything, but don’t try to do too much at one time.

R&B can stand for either rhythm and base, or rhythm and blues.

[edit] Members

• B Touch (talk · contribs)
• BrothaTimothy (talk · contribs)
• Eduemoni (talk · contribs)
• Fanjimmy (talk · contribs)
• Funky-P (talk · contribs)
• FuriousFreddy (talk · contribs)
• Kenneth Hardeman (talk · contribs)
• Luedhup2 (talk · contribs)
• Lwalt (talk · contribs)
• Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs)
• Swilk (talk · contribs)
• Ta-ni-ni (talk · contribs)
• TUF-KAT (talk · contribs)
• VanTucky (talk · contribs)
• Wootking (talk · contribs)

[edit] Navigation

• Assessment
• Taskforces
• To-do list
• Collaboration
• Members

[edit] Parentage

• WikiProject Music
  • WikiProject Music genres
    • WikiProject on R&B and Soul Music

[edit] Similar Projects

• WikiProject Classical music
• WikiProject Computer music
• WikiProject Electronic music
• WikiProject Metal
• WikiProject Hip hop
• WikiProject Punk rock
• WikiProject Jazz

[edit] Related Projects

• WikiProject Musicians for guidelines and assistance on articles about musicians and musical groups
• WikiProject Albums for guidelines and assistance on articles about musical albums

[edit] Structure

In general, this project will follow the rules set up on the WikiProject Music page. Here are just a few added notes:

• Do not create links for articles for albums, songs, or persons that do not exist, unless an article is seriously needed and you can create that article. When you do create an article for a song, person, or album, be sure to run a search and link your article on any other Wikipedia pages where it should be linked.

• Try to be as consise as possible. The article should cover all phases of the group's career (even unpopular ones), but it should do so in as few words as possible. Try to include only important and major facts and group information; simplification and directness are important.

[edit] Specific to articles on solo performers/persons

• Follow the same basic Wiki biographic format for the person. Be sure to mention their ethnicity, exact repertoire, record label, and significance.

• The body of the article should focus on the performer’s career, including only significant personal information (marriages, offspring etc) and avoiding trivia (favorite food/color). If the person was in a major group, discussion of their participation in the group should be brief and focus on the person’s major contributions to the group.

[edit] Specific to articles on groups/bands/acts

Articles for performers should adhere to the following format:

• The header should contain the band name, any important abbreviations or aliases, nationality, genre repertoire, year and place of creation, year of disbanding, record label, significance, and all members of the group. If there were more than ten members, list all founding members and any important successor.

• The body of the article should focus on the group; how the members met, how they started the group, and the inner workings of the act itself. Personal details about individual members should be mentioned only if it affects the group or its members.

[edit] Template/Examples

The articles on The Jackson 5, TLC, Marvin Gaye, and The Supremes are in the direction we want to push the other articles towards.

Use this example page as a guide to creating and/or cleaning up articles for each act. It contains editing directions and a style guide: /Example Page

[edit] Hierarchy definition

[edit] Phase one: cleaning up present articles

• Three articles are close to ready for being featured. These three need to be slightly revised to follow the format similar to the other music articles and the template.

• The articles for R&B and soul music need formatting, link cleanup, and expansion. Other major genres in serious need of attention:
  • Doo wop
  • Funk

• The article for List of number 1 R&B hits (USA) should be divided up and edited to match List of number-one hits (United States). The basis for the re-write is at List of number 1 R&B hits (USA)/temp.

• Sound samples should be uploaded to both artist and genre pages.

[edit] In need of major improvement

• The following pages are those of acts who need their pages expanded and/or corrected to follow the template, as they stand now:
  • Al Green: NED
  • Curtis Mayfield: IRSNED
  • Mariah Carey: rewrite for NPOV
  • George Clinton: RSNED
  • The Delfonics: IRNED
  • Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes: IRSNED
  • Janet Jackson: SR + rewrite for NPOV
  • Junior Walker & the All Stars: IRSNED
  • New Edition: IRSED
  • Otis Redding: IRNED
  • P-Funk: IRSND
  • Sam Cooke: RSED
  • Smokey Robinson: IRSNED
  • Martha & the Vandellas: RSE
  • Destiny's Child: IRSNED
  • Keri Hilson: IRSNED
  • Danity Kane: IRSNED
  • FAME Studios" IRE
  • Barry White: IRSNE
  • The Spinners: IRSD
  • Philippé Wynne: IRSNED

I = needs image (photo in addition to album cover), R = needs references/fact-checking, S = needs sound samples, N = needs neutralizing/points-of-view attributing, E = needs major expansion, D needs full discography

(if you find more related articles that need cleanup, add them here).

[edit] In need of minor improvement

These articles only need a few minor fixes. No articles in this section should need major expansion or POV editing.

• • Beth Rowley: R
  • Boyz II Men: S
  • James Brown: S
  • Jodeci: S
  • The Marvelettes: RS
  • Mary Wells: RS
  • The Miracles: RS

I = needs image (photo in addition to album cover), R = needs references/fact-checking, S = needs sound samples, D needs full discography

[edit] Sufficiently improved

• • The Jackson 5
  • Marvin Gaye
  • The Supremes
  • The Isley Brothers
  • LeToya Luckett (now a good article)

[edit] Phase two: creation of new articles

This will be a listing for important acts or figures who do not presently have articles.

• • Shai - Y Done
  • Soul 4 Real - Y Done
  • Jimmy Liggins - Y Done

[edit] Project Templates

[edit] R&B and Soul Music related article

{{WikiProject R&B and Soul Music}} Place this tag on top of all R&B or Soul related article talk pages:

	This article is part of WikiProject R&B and Soul Music, an ongoing effort to improve articles related to rhythm and blues, soul music, and their related cultures. The goal of the project is to bring this article, along with all others to featured status. If you have any questions, concerns or wish to participate you can visit the main project page here.
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.

[edit] Member

You may wish to put this on your userpage after you join. You can add it by copying and pasting the following code {{User R&B and Soul Music wikiproject}}. This template also adds you to Category:WikiProject R&B and Soul Music members. If you don't wish to use this userbox but still wish to be on this category then just add [[Category:WikiProject R&B and Soul Music members|{{PAGENAME}}]] to your user page.

This user is a member of the R&B and Soul Music WikiProject.

[edit] R&B and Soul Music Award

If you notice an editor making excellent edits to a R&B or Soul related article, add this to his talk page using:

{{subst:R&bs-barnstar|reason}}

		The R&B and Soul Music Award
		I, ~~~, award the R&B and Soul Music Award to {{SUBST:PAGENAME}} for <reason>

[edit] Welcome

Welcome messages to be used for editors of hip hop related articles.

{{subst:R&bandsoulmusic WN}}~~~~

produces:

You may find useful to use this other template if the user is non-registered

{{subst:R&bandsoulmusic anon}}~~~~

produces:

[edit] Recruiting

We also need new members for this project, if you want to call your wiki-friends, go ahead, and use this template.

{{subst:User:Eduemoni/Inv}}

I'd like to invite you to join the WikiProject R&B and Soul Music. We are currently on demand for new members, the project was dying, but with your help we can revive it and make it one of the best WikiProjects. Make me sure that you'll think about this and remember cooperative works can do amazing things. Regards ~~~~

Would you like to tell many people in non-member talk area, so you can use.

{{subst:User:Eduemoni/Inv2}}

produces:

I'd like to invite everyone to join the WikiProject R&B and Soul Music. We are currently on demand for new members, the project was dying, but with your help we can revive it and make it one of the best WikiProjects. Make me sure that you'll think about this and remember cooperative works can do amazing things. Regards ~~~~

[edit] Portal Templates

[edit] Selected Article

{{R&B and Soul Music Selected article}}

produces on the article talk page:

PAGENAME is chosen to become one of the random selected articles on the R&B and Soul Music Portal. A selected article should be R&B and Soul Music-related, well-written and interesting. Featured, A-class and GA class are considered well-written. If you can update or improve this article, please do. If you support or oppose this nomination, please leave comments

[edit] Selected Biography

{{R&B and Soul Music Selected biography}}

produces on the biography article talk page:

PAGENAME is chosen to become one of the random selected biographies on the R&B and Soul Music Portal. A selected biography should be R&B and Soul Music-related, well-written and interesting. Featured, A-class and GA class are considered well-written. If you can update or improve PAGENAME, please do. If you support or oppose this nomination, please leave comments

[edit] Useful templates

Templates:

Infoboxes:

• {{Infobox Musical artist}} — Infobox for a band/musician. Syntax is on its main page.
• {{Infobox Album}} — Album infobox. Syntax found on its talk page or at WikiProject Albums.
• {{Infobox Single}} — Song infobox. Syntax found on its talk page or at WikiProject Songs.
• {{infobox record label}} — Record Label infobox. Syntax found on its talk page.

Stubs:

• Within the project
  • {{R&B-album-stub}} — Place on stub R&B/Soul music albuns articles.
  • {{R&Bsoul-band-stub}} — Place on stub R&B/Soul music bands, duo or group articles.
  • {{R&Bsoul-bio-stub}} — Place on stub R&B or Soul biography articles.
  • {{R&Bsoul-band-stub}} — Place on stub R&B/Soul music bands, duo or group articles.
  • {{RnB-song-stub}} — Place on stub R&B/Soul music song articles.
  • {{R&Bsoul-stub}} — Place on general articles about Rhythm and blues or soul music.
• General
  • {{musician-stub}} — Place on stub musician articles.
  • {{music-producer-stub}} — Place on stub producer articles.
  • {{record-label-stub}} — for record label stubs
  • {{Australia-record-label-stub}} for Australian record label stubs
  • {{Canada-record-label-stub}} for Canadian record label stubs
  • {{Euro-record-label-stub}} for European record label stubs
  • {{US-record-label-stub}} for United States record label stubs

Other useful templates:

• {{Future}} — for upcoming/future general events.
• {{Future album}} — for a upcoming/future album.
• {{Future book}} —for a upcoming/future book.
• {{Future channel}} — for a upcoming/future channel.
• {{Future film}} — for a upcoming/future film.
• {{Future single}} — for upcoming/future single.
• {{Future television series}} — for upcoming/future tv show.
• {{Future television episode}} — for upcoming/future tv episodes.
• {{Future television episode list}} — for lists with upcoming/future tv episodes.
• {{In-progress tvshow}} — for a current in-progress TV show.

[edit] Categories of Rhythym and Blues and Soul Music