Wikipedia:WikiProject The Clash

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This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process.
Please see the Guide to WikiProjects and the Directory of WikiProjects for more information.

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to The Clash (including individual members' work). 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.

The Clash
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Good article GA 2 2
B 5 2 7
Start 4 4 3 2 8 21
Stub 2 1 1 5 15 24
Assessed 13 5 4 7 25 54
Unassessed 14 7 1 12 34
Total 27 12 4 8 37 88
(See: The assessment department for more details.)

The Clash were one of the most successful and influential bands of the 1970s/80s. The Clash article itself is a good article and must be absolutely promoted to featured status, there are dozens of other articles about The Clash which still require a lot of work. In addition, there is a shortage of fair-use images, poor referencing, and a large number of redirects and stubs which need expansion. It is the goal of this project to unite the many Clash fans and Wikipedia editors to improve the myriad of Clash-related articles. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.

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[edit] Scope

The primary goal of the project is to improve all articles related to The Clash. The first major challenge is to improve the most important Clash-related articles - specifically The Clash, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon and The Clash discography - to a level where they can become featured articles on the Wikipedia. The secondary goal is to have enough quality Clash-related articles and copyright-free images to create a compelling The Clash portal.

[edit] Parentage

The father of this Wikiproject is WikiProject Music.


[edit] Participants

This is an alphabetical list of Wikipedians who are committed to the WikiProject. Feel free to add your name to the list by clicking "edit" in the upper right hand-corner, and adding #{{User|YOURUSERNAMEHERE}} {{Currentdate}} to the appropriate line.

In addition, participants and other Wikipedians who wish to show support for this project should feel free to add {{User WPClash}} or [[Category:WikiProject The Clash participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]] to their user pages.

Feel free to leave a message in the project talk page.

  1. 75pickup (talk · contribs) 19:04, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
  2. Chadwholovedme - "If Music Could Talk" Chadwholovedme (talk) 17:08, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
  3. Funeral (talk · contribs) 02:40, Wednesday June 11, 2008 (UTC)
  4. John "I'm So Bored (With the USA)" --John (talk) 19:18, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
  5. Piepie --Piepie (talk) 12:35, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
  6. Pjoef - "The Future Is Unwritten!" 08:32:52, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
  7. Poiuytre - "Complete Control", Poiuytre 19:15, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
  8. RepublicanJacobite (talk · contribs) "Rebel Waltz" 14:57, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
  9. Saint-Paddy --Saint-Paddy 20:19, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
  10. TheClashFan (talk) 04:20, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
  11. Underneath-it-All (talk) 15:23, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
  12. WWWhatsup - "The past just might get written!" Wwwhatsup (talk) 05:43, 28 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Goals

Please discuss on the talk page or be bold and add some!

  1. Unify and improve articles about the 4 main Clash
  2. Unify and improve articles about albums
  3. Unify and improve articles about songs
  4. Promote major Clash-related articles to featured status.
  5. Create articles for all Clash songs which currently don't have an article or simply consist of a redirect to the song's album. (all songs)
  6. Locate and upload images under free license (such as The Clash) for use in various articles.
  7. Acquire enough high-quality articles to populate a portal in the future.

[edit] Projects

  1. Major work on the 4 members of the band (Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon) is needed. Expansion where necessary, adding references (which are scant or absent in most of the articles) and copyediting is needed.
  2. Creation of stubs on all songs from their studio albums. Many song articles have been created as redirects to their album; these are probably easiest to find by using the "What links here" feature from each album's page. {{Infobox Song}} should be used, and occassionally {{Infobox Single}} where appropriate, and Category:The Clash songs should be added to each. Once it's established how many exist we can propose creating a The Clash song stub category to help organize them better.
  3. Compile a list of current and missing articles, and catalogue them by status - see Wikipedia:WikiProject The Clash/Assessment and Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Clash#Wikipedia_articles_on_The_Clash
  4. Create any missing articles necessary.
  5. Bring all articles considered "Top-Importance" to GA status or higher.
  6. Bring all articles considered "High-Importance" to B-Class status or higher.
  7. Expand any articles considered "Mid-Importance" to at least Start-Class status.
  8. Upgrade any articles considered "Stub" to Start, Start to B, B to A, and so on.
  9. insert other projects (big jobs) here from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Clash


[edit] Tasks

  1. Placing the {{WPClash}} template on all talk pages of any article even peripherally related to The Clash. If possible, assess the articles as well. Those that have already been assessed, and the guidelines for assessment, can be found on the assessment sub-page. Automatic logs on the sub-page are updated every 24 hours or so, although mention of assessments can also be placed in the log. If you don't feel comfortable with assessing the article, simply placing the template {{WPClash}} on the article's talk page is enough, someone else will assess it later.
  2. Make sure infoboxes for various band members are correct ({{Infobox Musical artist}} or {{Infobox Biography}} where appropriate) and correct accordingly. Individual articles include (but are not limited to; please expand, and remove those which have been confirmed or fixed):
    1. Joe Strummer
    2. Mick Jones
    3. Paul Simonon
    4. Topper Headon
  1. Buy a book about The Clash (for a list see: The Clash#Bibliography)
  2. Invite new members by contacting editors who have made substantial Clash-related edits in the past
  3. Fix templates to talk pages (use What Links Here for the Clash template, that'll locate every article which uses the template, and any not properly categorised articles can be dealt with at the same time).
  4. Construct Wikipedia:WikiProject The Clash/Assessment by following the category 'tree' (what that means is update this table: Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Clash/Categories as the automated code reads it and using what links here for the Clash template. Can do the talk page notices at the same time.
  5. Assess articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject The Clash/Assessment
  6. Add specific fair use rationales to Clash-related copyrighted images, especially album covers.
  7. Add the geographic coordinates of Clash significant places as: Pimlico, Tate Gallery, Wessex Studios, Highbury, etc. As already exist for the Shea Stadium.
  8. insert other tasks (smaller jobs) here from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Clash


To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject The Clash: edit · history · watch · refresh
Image:Evolution-tasks-old.png Open tasks for WikiProject The Clash.

Edit or discuss these tasks.

Highest priority

  • Expand all the articles related to The Clash

Fair use

  • Add fair use rationale to all images and sound samples (all except images already labeled free use).
  • Re-size large images to less than 300 pixels, @ 72dpi (all "fair use" images).

Articles

  • Try to expand all songs stubs if possible. Some song stubs cant be expanded.
  • Expand album articles (all).
  • Remove Trivia sections (or move it to the talk page).
  • Remove YouTube links.

Needing attention

Project building

  • Add WikiProject The Clash banner {{WPClash}} to all appropriate Talk pages of all Clash-related articles.
  • Add/update assessments for all project pages.
  • Personally invite quality editors working on The Clash articles to join the project.

If you complete one of these tasks, please remove it from the list and add your achievement to the project log.

... and on Wikipedia
Here are some tasks you can do:


    [edit] Adopt an article

    Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.


    [edit] Log

    In order to track our progress as a community, whenever you perform some notable work on the following goals and projects please add a note in the log letting us all know where we are on our goals.

    [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] Guidelines

    Following the guidelines already established by music, albums, and films for Wikiprojects for infoboxes and the like creates consistency across the Wikipedia. Please discuss any specific changes that you feel should be modified on the talk page.

    Use of the Cite.php system for references across all articles covered by the Wikiproject is recommended.

    As the band is from the United Kingdom, all articles should be written using UK English spelling and grammar, including treating the band name as a plural noun; ie. "The Clash were a band", not "The Clash was a band".

    The guidelines for achieving high quality in music-related articles, 'MUSTARD (MUsic STAndaRDs), are largely based on Wikipedia policies and guidelines, and common practice. WikiProject Music quality standards are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/MUSTARD, and include guidelines in the following areas:

    [edit] Citations

    In accordance with Wikipedia policy, facts and assertions should be attributed to verifiable, reliable sources wherever possible (see WP:V and WP:RS).

    The Project's preferred method for this is inline citations using the <ref> tag.

    Usage is very simple.

    Citing a book: <ref>Author (yyyy). ''Book'', City: Editor, page number. ISBN XXXXXXXXXX.</ref>[1]


    Citing a book multiple times: Author (yyyy). Book, City: Editor. ISBN XXXXXXXXXX.

    <ref>Author (yyyy). p.XX.</ref>[2]


    Reusing a reference in the same article: <ref name="somewebsite-Page_Title">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Clash#Citations Page Title]. SomeWebsite.xxx. Retrieved on [[March 14]], [[2008]]</ref>[3]

    Second use <ref name="somewebsite-Page_Title" />[3]

    You should use the {{cite book}}, {{cite journal}}, {{cite video}}, {{cite episode}} and {{cite web}} templates included in the <ref></ref> tags, and in References, Bibliography, Books or Further reading sections.

    Some examples:

    • Using a reference and a {{cite book}} template:
      <ref name="Best_of_the_Clash">{{cite book |last=Clash |first=The |authorlink=The Clash |coauthors=Steve Gorenberg, Jeff Perrin, David Whitehill |title=Best of the Clash |series=Hal Leonard guitar recorded versions |date=1999-05-01 |publisher=Hal Leonard |location=Milwaukee, WI |isbn=0793569966 |oclc=42574172| quote=Music transcriptions by Steve Gorenberg, Jeff Perrin, and Dave Whitehill; authentic transcriptions with notes and tablature. |ref=_note-Best_of_the_Clash}}</ref> [4];
      • reusing the same reference: <ref name="Best_of_the_Clash" />;[4]
    • using a wikilink to the template's ref value (_note-Best_of_the_Clash): [[#_note-Best_of_the_Clash]]. This method should be useful to link to a reference placed in another page, or to link to a section on the same page.


    [edit] References

    The citations are displayed by placing a <references /> TAG at the bottom of the article. To reduce the text size to 90%, use this code directly: <div class="references-small"><references /></div>.

    To create small footnotes in any number of columns, use {{reflist|number of columns}}.

    1. ^ Author (yyyy). Book, City: Editor, page number. ISBN XXXXXXXXXX.
    2. ^ Author (yyyy), p.XX.
    3. ^ a b WP Clash: Citations. WikiPedia.org. Retrieved on March 14, 2008
    4. ^ a b Clash, The; Steve Gorenberg, Jeff Perrin, David Whitehill (1999-05-01). Best of the Clash, Hal Leonard guitar recorded versions. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard. ISBN 0793569966. OCLC 42574172. “Music transcriptions by Steve Gorenberg, Jeff Perrin, and Dave Whitehill; authentic transcriptions with notes and tablature.” 

    [edit] Citations further reading

    [edit] Templates

    There are a lot of useful templates that may be relevant, infoboxes, notification boxes, and so forth. If you know of resources not listed here please add them!

    [edit] Infoboxes

    Following are useful infoboxes which should be used in a standard form across the project's articles, although some discussion may be required about which are most appropriate for a given subject.

    There are several useful infoboxes that are relevant to this project, as the project covers a large number of types of articles.

    [edit] Infobox Musical artist

    [edit] Infobox Person
    • Members of The Clash are people. So the {{Infobox Person}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. You can use it this way: {{Infobox Person}} Some examples:
      • none

    [edit] Infobox Album
    • The Clash produced albums, together and individually. So the {{Infobox Album}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. You can use it this way: {{Infobox Album }} Some examples:

    In addition to the writeup on the talk page of the infobox, the WikiProject Albums page has some discussion on how to effectively use these, color coding, and what some of the fields mean and so forth, as well as larger guidance on how Album pages ought to be done (how the track list is formatted, dates, usages, and so forth).

    Some important points copied from that page: When you create or find a new album page, please add {{Album}} to the top of the talk page. If the page has no infobox, you should use {{Album|needs-infobox=yes}} instead. If the page has an incomplete infobox, note the missing details at Incomplete infobox. If the page has an old style infobox, add {{newinfobox|type=album}} to the bottom of the talk page.

    [edit] Infobox Song and Infobox Single
    • The Clash produced songs and singles, together and individually. So the {{Infobox Song}} and {{Infobox Single}} templates are likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. Use:
      {{Infobox Song}}
      or
      {{Infobox Single}}
      Some examples:

    Note that the template supports ordering of singles by when they charted.

    [edit] Article template

    The template which should be placed on all Clash-related talk pages, with an assessment, is {{WPClash}}. See the template's talk page for proper formatting of the template.

    Place this template in the talk page of an article that you think belongs in the project:

    This article related to The Clash is within the scope of WikiProject The Clash, a collaborative effort to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to The Clash, their members, associates, albums and songs. You can help! Visit the project page, discuss an article at the project talk-page, or even join us!
    NA This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.
    The Clash To-do:

    by including this text at the very top of the page: {{WPClash}}

    This template is also used for article classification (usage instructions). Do not subst it!

    [edit] Stub templates

    Category:Stub-Class_The_Clash_articles lists articles considered as stubs. There are currently about nineteen articles listed.

    NOTE: stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on creating stub templates and categories. It is inadbisable to create new stub templates without consultation as these will probably be nominated for deletion.

    [edit] Navigation Templates

    [edit] The Clash

    {{The Clash}} template should appear on all major articles (if it doesn't already). It is unnecessary on articles about individual songs and should be removed from song articles, and is probably not necessary in articles about more peripheral subjects. Place it at the bottom of the article by including this text: {{The Clash}}. The result is:

    v • d • e
    The Clash
    Joe Strummer · Mick Jones · Paul Simonon · Topper Headon
    Nick Sheppard · Keith Levene · Pete Howard · Terry Chimes · Vince White · Rob Harper
    Studio albums
    Compilations and lives
    Related persons
    Related articles

    [edit] The Clash singles

    {{The Clash singles}} template should appear on all articles about single and b-side (if it doesn't already). It is unnecessary on articles about individual songs. Place it at the bottom of the song article by including this text: {{The Clash singles}}. The result is:

    v • d • e
    The Clash's singles discography
    Singles (UK)
    B-sides
    1977: 1977 · Listen · London's Burning (live) · City of the Dead · 1978: Jail Guitar Doors · The Prisoner · 1-2 Crush on You · 1979: Pressure Drop · Armagideon Time · 1980: Rockers Galore · Stop the World · 1981: Radio One · The Magnificent Dance · Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice) · One More Dub · Radio Clash · 1982: First Night Back in London · Long Time Jerk · 1985: Do It Now · 1988: City of the Dead · Brand New Cadillac / Rudie Can't Fail · 1990: Return to Brixton · 1991: Rush (dance mix; Big Audio Dynamite II) / Protex Blue · Mustapha Dance / The Magnificent Dance · Brand New Cadillac · The Right Profile
    Singles (US)
    B-sides
    1980: Clampdown · The Card Cheat · Lost in the Supermarket · 1981: Police on My Back · Stop the World · The Cool Out · Outside Broadcast / Radio Five · 1982: Inoculated City · Cool Confusion · Mustapha Dance · Long Time Jerk

    [edit] Membership template

    Members of the project may want to put the {{User WPClash}} infobox on their user page, which appears below:

    This user is a member of the The Clash WikiProject


    You can place this template on your userpage to show project membership.

    To identify yourself without using the userbox, add this to the bottom of your user page: [[Category:WikiProject The Clash participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

    Placing one of these on your pages is entirely optional but is a way to show your involvement to others... that's good for the project as we have lots of work to do!

    [edit] Invitation template

    If you see someone that might have an interest in the project, you can place this template on their userpage to invite them.

    Hi! I've seen you around on Clash articles... Would you consider becoming a member of WikiProject The Clash, a WikiProject which aims to expand and improve coverage of The Clash on Wikipedia? Please feel free to join us.
    "Know Your Rights"... Listen to this / Run ... to join us!
    Todo:


    by including this text: {{WikiProject The Clash Invite}}

    • DO put some commentary below it, explaining WHY they might be interested, and sign. Alternatively, you may leave a message and sign within the template by supplying an optional parameter: {{WikiProject The Clash Invite| – ~~~~}}
    • DO NOT spam people extensively, give it some thought first and don't invite too many people at once.

    It makes sense to grow the project participation slowly so use with care. But it's a fun template, a bit more attention grabbing than just a note.

    [edit] Welcome template

    Welcoming new members.

    Generated by {{subst:WikiProject The Clash Welcome|~~~~}}
    Welcome!
    Hey, welcome to WikiProject The Clash! We're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to The Clash (including individual members' work). If you haven't already, please add {{User WPClash}} to your user page.

    A few features that you might find helpful:

    • Most of our important discussions about the project itself and its related articles take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you watchlist it.

    There is a variety of interesting things to do within the project; you're free to participate however much—or little—you like:

    • Want to jump right into editing? The Goals, Projects, Tasks and Guidelines sections show things you should include.
    • Want to know how good our articles are? Our assessment department has rated the quality of every Clash related article in Wikipedia. Check it out!

    If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask another fellow member, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around!
    Todo:


    [edit] Categories

    [+] WikiProject The Clash
    [+] The Clash


    [edit] Wikimedia Commons and Wikiquote

    Wikimedia Commons and Wikiquote collections of media and quotations related to: The Clash, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, and Topper Headon.

    Media Quotes
    Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
    Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
    Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
    Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
    Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:

    [edit] Lists

    [edit] Articles

    [edit] Wikipedia articles on The Clash

    This is only a short list of the most important articles: look to Category:The Clash for a more extensive list.

    [edit] New Wikipedia articles related to The Clash

    Please feel free to list your new Clash-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] Article improvement drive

    [edit] Collaboration of the week

    [edit] Peer review

    None.

    [edit] Old Peer review

    [edit] Featured articles

    None.

    [edit] Featured article candidates

    None.


    [edit] Project pages and see also

    [edit] Related WikiProjects

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

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