Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Regional and national music

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Regional and national music is within the scope of the WikiProject Regional and national music, an attempt at building a resource on the music of all the peoples and places of the world. Please visit the project's listing to see the article's assessment and to help us improve the article as we push to 1.0.

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[edit] Active?

Is there any chance this project will become active again? - AKeen 18:33, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

There's always a chance. I'm still interested and still work in this area, and User:Smmurphy recently expressed an interest in it. Tuf-Kat 03:51, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm interested, especially in the realm of South American music - AKeen 23:02, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
ok, so two people is a quorum, right. TUF-KAT is a third, do we really need five, or can we call the project "open" and have some fun with it? Smmurphy
I'd also be interested in this project. I've been working on some of the Zimbabwean music-related pages, becacuse that's what I'm most interested in and know the most about, but I'd be happy to help with other articles as much as I can. Alex Weeks 15:18, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
What sorts of project would everyone be interested. I don't think there's enough people for a CotW. I've made some goals that we could all work towards, if anyone's interested. Other suggestions? Tuf-Kat 17:32, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
I agree that a COTW would be untenable. But I do have some suggestions. A lot of the work done in the past has been poorly referenced. One easier project would be to update the reference formats in the FAs, and then in the "Music of *"s. Another, more pressing project is improving the article on world music. Could it be a FA someday? Also, that article should have no redlinks, we could make stubs and articles for those bands.Smmurphy 18:06, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
We could also try to implement something similar to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chemicals/Assessment. Updating references would be useful, though I suspect it may not work as well as we want (all of us here are into world music, we probably could pretty easily find refs for music of Cuba, music of Ireland, etc, but once we're done tripping over each other in those articles, we'll be stuck scrounging around for sources for music of Belarus and music of Djibouti -- not that that would be an altogether terrible thing, but it might not be the most productive use of our time). Tuf-Kat 05:39, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] redirect template:WikiProject World music

The default category for template:Worldmusic assessed is the same as the one used by template:WikiProject World music, redirecting the template would make editing the page slightly simpler (no need to change template). Circeus 04:54, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Membership list

There are two criteria basically used to determine if a project qualifies for deletion. These are no activity on the project page for 3 months and no listed members. Right now, this project has no listed members, as it has no list. This could potentially prompt someone else to list it for deletion. Please remedy this situation. Badbilltucker 23:36, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project Directory

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Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now put the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 00:25, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stablepedia

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See Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team#Stablepedia. If you wish to comment, please comment there. ★MESSEDROCKER★ 23:44, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

End cross-post. Please do not comment more in this section.

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:59, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project page update

I've expanded on the project page a little more; I stole a few bits and pieces from Wikipedia:WikiProject Calvinism, which has gone from 0-20+ members in about 2 months. If there are no objections, I will also at some point:

-- TimNelson 10:25, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi Tim - I've added my name to the project page. Not sure how active I can be but I'll help out when I can. Today, I updated the project page further - fixed some formatting problems with the layout, and added some goals to the list.

I invite others to please review the goals and scope I added to make sure I didn't add anything you don't want there. If you feel I made it too wide, then maybe a separate project would be needed for some of the fusion and preservation concerns I listed. I think it can be good here, but if you don't want it, go ahead and remove or change it. Maybe it's too ambitious and a separate project would be better for that, though I notice that some of the people here like fusion forms like Celtic fusion and Electric folk, so maybe it's a good fit.

Either way, no worries... --Parzival418 Hello 02:18, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

I guess I see the main goal of the project itself as being to help other groups organise, either as sub-projects or task forces. But between this project and the subprojects, we should be able to cover all these goals. I don't think it's too broad, as long as those musics relate to the region somehow. I guess I don't want people to confuse this project with Wikipedia:WikiProject Roots music (which I don't think you're doing). -- TimNelson 06:52, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scale problems and task forces

Hi all. I think that one of the problems with the World music project is that the scope is so broad that people aren't interested. For exapmle, I'm interested in Electric Folk (ie. British folk rock; think Steeleye Span and the like), and a little interested in eg. Celtic folk, and a few other folk musics of the Western European world (Flamenco, Finnish folk, some American folk, etc), but the term "World music" is so broad that it covers lots of stuff that I don't want to work on, so I didn't sign up for a long time.

My thought as to how to resolve this problem is that we could form task forces; for example, I think a "Celtic folk music" task force would attract a fair number of people who wouldn't be attracted to a "World music" project by itself.

Thoughts?

-- TimNelson 10:31, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requests for expertise

Original comment: TimNelson 01:47, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

There were a number of requests for expertise on this page that no-one appears to have responded to. As well as archiving them, I thought I'd summarise them here too:

If you feel you've done any of these, mark your name next to them.

[edit] completed requests

I have just finished a complete rewrite of the Music of Israel. For user msh210: it includes a section on Hassidic rock, which I think is what you mean by Shiny Shoe Music. Everyone is invited to review, correct, add salient info, and in general behave in the wiki spirit.

--Ravpapa 16:38, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for this -- very timely as someone was about to delete the redirect from "Shiny Shoe Music". -- TimNelson 01:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Splitting the project

Hi all. I'm suggesting (see Wikipedia:WikiProject_World_music/Definitions) that this project be split into a "Geographically-based Music" project, and a "Roots music" project. Please discuss on the page that I linked.

-- TimNelson 00:21, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Incidentally, this has been done. -- TimNelson 02:00, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Music of Albania

This article is currently under good article review. See the talk page for details. T Rex | talk 23:50, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Any experts on Kazakh music competitions?

[edit] My Kind of Town (Sinatra song)

This weeks WP:CHICOTW is My Kind of Town (Sinatra song). Does that count as Regional and national music? If so, come by help with the article and slap your tag on our talk page if you have one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by TonyTheTiger (talk • contribs) 00:12, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Music of Israel

I wonder if there is anyone out there? If so, take a look at Music of Israel. It is rated as start class. I personally think it is worthy of FA, but then, I wrote it (with a lot of help from my friends). If there is anyone following this project, I would appreciate a reassessment.

Tnx, --Ravpapa 14:43, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Music of Karnataka

There is a proposal to merge a new article, Karnataka/Carnatic music, into Music of Karnataka. There is no consensus at this point and input from people knowledgeable in the subject area and Wikipedia policy would be helpful. See the discussion at Talk:Music of Karnataka#Merge proposal. ✤ JonHarder talk 13:53, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Music of Athens, Georgia

The article is going under FAR here because I believe it no longer meets the criteria. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 03:08, 5 February 2008 (UTC)