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.

Inyandikorugero:WikiProject progression rainbow 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. Inyandikorugero:Portal Umukoresha:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription

Scope[hindura inkomoko]

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.

Parentage[hindura inkomoko]

Related WikiProjects[hindura inkomoko]

Inyandikorugero:WikiProject Music/Related WikiProjects

Related Portals[hindura inkomoko]

Participants[hindura inkomoko]

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

Active members
  1. Inyandikorugero:User – I work on some well-known bands and artists.
  2. Inyandikorugero:User – The Ukulele Guy! I've added 6 articles on ukulele players and contributed to many others.
  3. Inyandikorugero:User – Public musicologist. Working on Asian American women composers. 19th-C Opera. Pianist.
  4. Inyandikorugero:User
  5. Inyandikorugero:User – The articles I edit will most likely be included here, at my Last.fm page
  6. Inyandikorugero:User – Primarily Def Leppard and related - adding new info, fixing typos, adding links, sources, and photos.
  7. Inyandikorugero:User – singer-songwriter, folk, rock, blues, indie
  8. Inyandikorugero:User – mostly classical, Blues, Jazz, and Indie rock; best so far IMHO is Grieg's music in popular culture
  9. Inyandikorugero:User – classical music, esp choral/organ; categorization
  10. Inyandikorugero:User – adding articles to project, assessing articles
  11. Inyandikorugero:User – mostly cleaning up formatting: adding infoboxes and fixing references
  12. Inyandikorugero:User - Eng-Sp-Eng or Fre-Eng-Fre translation; mainly classical and Mexican music.
  13. Inyandikorugero:User - mainly working on indian artists.
  14. Inyandikorugero:User – adding articles to project
  15. Inyandikorugero:User
  16. Inyandikorugero:User – Adding or correcting music genres. Small scale additions or corrections.
  17. Inyandikorugero:User – Primarily Missing Persons (band), musicians associated with that band and with Frank Zappa, certain drummers/percussionists, and musicians from New England, U.S.A.
  18. Inyandikorugero:User – singers, old mostly, and new
  19. Inyandikorugero:User For several years the majority of my edits have been to musician/band biography articles, which I usually locate via the Albums Project.
  20. Inyandikorugero:User —country music, biographies, producers, songwriters, Jazz, big-band, bluegrass, pedal steel, Nashville
  21. Inyandikorugero:User – Caribbean music (Calyspo, Dancehall, Reggae, Punta, & Soca)
  22. Inyandikorugero:User – Ensure comfort in reading articles (aerate big paragraphs, add links & 1rst letter MAJ), revise contents for all musician's articles.
  23. Inyandikorugero:User – Mostly Rock N Roll; 60-70s... but I dabble in other genres.
  24. Inyandikorugero:User
  25. Inyandikorugero:User
  26. Inyandikorugero:User
  27. Inyandikorugero:User – Biographies of film composers and crossover musician/sound designers
  28. Inyandikorugero:User
  29. Inyandikorugero:User 
  30. Inyandikorugero:User – Mostly limited the Finnish hard rock band Lordi and related articles.
  31. Inyandikorugero:User – Project leader
  32. Inyandikorugero:User – Mainly punk and alternative rock; also musicians and bands associated with emo.
  33. Inyandikorugero:User – Mostly classical but also some rock
  34. Inyandikorugero:User  - Main focus is Africa and most importantly is Zambia.
  35. Inyandikorugero:User – mostly punk rock/independent and San Diego-area based groups, also album pages & member bios
  36. Inyandikorugero:User – As a Heavy Metal musician myself, I try my best to contribute to the Musicians section for Wikipedia.
  37. Inyandikorugero:User – currently contribute to early hard rock/heavy metal bands: Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Kiss and early punk bands: Ramones, the Clash. Interested in helping save bands/musicians from WP:AFD.
  38. Inyandikorugero:User
  39. Inyandikorugero:User – mostly just improving articles about EDM DJs and producers and keeping discographies up-to-date
  40. Inyandikorugero:User
  41. Inyandikorugero:User – I'm interested in many kinds of music.
  42. Inyandikorugero:User – raising the level of awareness about the original Kingston Trio founder Dave Guard, and his many post-Trio folk/neo-folk/world music accomplishments.
  43. Inyandikorugero:User – I like to work on BLP's of musicians and singer-songwriters.
  44. Inyandikorugero:User
  45. Inyandikorugero:User
  46. Inyandikorugero:User – I work with Indian Bands and other Artists based out of India and I have trusted sources and information regarding these bands and artists as I work with them.
  47. Inyandikorugero:User – Mostly interested in helping with folk musicians; style; creating stubs
  48. Inyandikorugero:User – Article layout and formatting
  49. Inyandikorugero:User – Biographer of musicians- favoring rock, blues, R&B and slide guitar artists. Specialty in finding and placing photos for those articles.
  50. Inyandikorugero:User – Currently working on a new page for singer-songwriter John Garrison.
  51. Inyandikorugero:User – currently working on Big Big Train articles.
  52. Inyandikorugero:User  - Rock music, particularly hard rock and blues rock.
  53. Maxim Stoyalov
  54. Inyandikorugero:User – Mostly German rock and World music
  55. Inyandikorugero:User – mainly players and makers of stringed instruments
  56. Inyandikorugero:User – My very first article edit (8 years ago) was a musical group, and have continued since (better late than never).
  57. Inyandikorugero:User – mainly orchestral instruments and pieces.
  58. Inyandikorugero:User
  59. Inyandikorugero:User – Demi Lovato articles
  60. Inyandikorugero:User – Editing and counter-vandalism on Japanese rock-related pages; recent projects Dir en grey, X Japan, and others listed here
  61. Inyandikorugero:User – Currently working and expanding Christina Aguilera articles
  62. Inyandikorugero:User - I write about mostly musicians from Ghana.
  63. Inyandikorugero:User – Currently working and expanding Shakira articles
  64. Inyandikorugero:User
  65. Inyandikorugero:User – folk and traditional, singer-songwriters, related trivia
  66. Inyandikorugero:User
  67. Inyandikorugero:User – Christian Rock, Brazilian Rock Bands.
  68. Inyandikorugero:User -Elephant 6 collective and related bands and musicians,also bands from Athens,Georgia
  69. Inyandikorugero:User
  70. Inyandikorugero:User – building, maintaining and fixing BLPs. Singer-songwriters mostly.
  71. Inyandikorugero:User – Mostly metal bands such as Sepultura and Job For A Cowboy
  72. Inyandikorugero:User – Crusader for the infobox
  73. Inyandikorugero:User – Have written the article on Jim Neversink (indie/americana); best at the biographical stuff, could do with help on the music bit.
  74. Inyandikorugero:User
  75. Inyandikorugero:User – Alternative and Idie, especially acoustic. Asbury Park music scene. Contributions include Billy Hector, Eryn Shewell, George Wirth, Asbury Park Music Awards, Wave Gathering, The Saint (music venue), and helping with The Stone Pony. Also add photos via Wikimedia Commons, such as those for Airborne Toxic Event, Scars on 45, The Damnwells, Elephant Revival.
  76. Inyandikorugero:User
  77. Inyandikorugero:User
  78. Inyandikorugero:User
  79. Inyandikorugero:User – South African music related articles
  80. Inyandikorugero:User – classical
  81. Inyandikorugero:User – Mostly rock, but like various genres of music.
  82. Inyandikorugero:User
  83. Inyandikorugero:User – Mainly Irish Indie/Rock Bands as well as Welsh and Scottish Bands, including The Coronas, General Fiasco, Two Door Cinema Club, Kids In Glass Houses, The Automatic & Twin Atlantic.
  84. Inyandikorugero:User - Bachelor's in percussion performance and currently playing with the Henderson Symphony Orchestra
  85. Inyandikorugero:User – Indie rock/indie pop and techno/elecronica (mainly house, i.e. Daft Punk) musicians
  86. Inyandikorugero:User – Infoboxes. I love infoboxes.
  87. Inyandikorugero:User - My main focuses are The Wallflowers and Jakob Dylan pages. I'll help wherever else I can though!
  88. Inyandikorugero:User
  89. Inyandikorugero:User
  90. Inyandikorugero:User I focus on Upcoming Notable Artists
  91. Inyandikorugero:User
  92. Inyandikorugero:User – classical, indie musicians, modern rock, and electronica
  93. Inyandikorugero:User I mostly listen to hip hop and rock
  94. Inyandikorugero:User
  95. Inyandikorugero:User – Let's start tidying up these articles! I love pop music!
  96. Inyandikorugero:User – expanding the pre and post bands of the mainstream; creating articles about forgotten groups. For example, pre-Nirvana band Dain Bramage (authoured by myself).
  97. Inyandikorugero:User – Been working on Shyne article with updates relating to his upcoming release as well as upgrading from stub article. General upgrading of notable articles.
  98. Inyandikorugero:User
  99. Inyandikorugero:User
  100. Inyandikorugero:User – Primarily interested in experimental/underground rock
  101. Inyandikorugero:User
  102. Inyandikorugero:User
  103. Inyandikorugero:User
  104. Inyandikorugero:User – Will be working on K-POP groups.
  105. Inyandikorugero:User – Been working on Category:Oregon musical groups, also some punk related stuff
  106. Inyandikorugero:User Mainly into Latin Music artists, specially Ricky Martin related articles.
Inactive members

Article alerts[hindura inkomoko]

To-do list for WikiProject Musicians:

edit - history - watch - refresh

Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/To Do/to do

Click the title of each section to go to the task's sub-page.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Sidebar

Assessment guidelines[hindura inkomoko]

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.

Conversion[hindura inkomoko]

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.

Categorization[hindura inkomoko]

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.

Stub sorting[hindura inkomoko]

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

Current collaboration[hindura inkomoko]

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.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Templates/current collab

Article structure[hindura inkomoko]

Inyandikorugero:Main article

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.

Contributing[hindura inkomoko]

Adding articles[hindura inkomoko]

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.
{{WikiProject Biography
| living              = 
| class               = 
| listas              = 
| musician-work-group = yes
| musician-priority   = 
| attention           = 
| needs-photo         = 
| needs-infobox       = 
| needs-discography   = 
}}

This template includes articles in Inyandikorugero:Ccl 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.

What to add[hindura inkomoko]

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 Inyandikorugero:Ccl 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 Inyandikorugero:Ccl or include {{WPBiography}}. Instead, these pages should be added to Inyandikorugero:Ccl.

Who to add[hindura inkomoko]

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

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

Editing project articles[hindura inkomoko]

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.

Not sure what articles to edit? Keep reading...

Articles in need of attention[hindura inkomoko]

Inyandikorugero:Ccl has been created in order to better keep track of what articles need what work. Set attention equal to yes in {{WPBiography}} (see code below) in order to add it to Inyandikorugero:Ccl:

{{WikiProject Biography
| living              = 
| class               = 
| listas              = 
| musician-work-group = yes
| musician-priority   = 
| attention           = yes
| needs-photo         = 
| needs-infobox       = 
| needs-discography   = 
}}
  • If the article needs a photo, set needs-photo= yes.
  • If the article needs an infobox, set needs-infobox = yes.
  • If the article needs a discography, set needs-discography= yes.

If you have edited an article and believe that it no longer needs work, you should remove the |attention=yes parameter from the banner. 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.

Related pages[hindura inkomoko]

Infobox[hindura inkomoko]

Inyandikorugero:Main article

Navbox[hindura inkomoko]

Inyandikorugero:Main article

Project banner[hindura inkomoko]

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

Remove unneeded fields.

For more information, see: {{WikiProject Biography/doc}}
Inyandikorugero:WikiProject Biography

Stub templates[hindura inkomoko]

See Stub sorting

Userboxes[hindura inkomoko]

Userboxes
{{User WP Musicians}}
formerly {{User:Heaven's Wrath/Userboxes/WPMusicians}}
Inyandikorugero:User WP Musicians
{{User WP Musicians2}}
formerly {{User:Thereen/WPMusiciansUserbox}}
Inyandikorugero:User WP Musicians2

Other templates[hindura inkomoko]

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}} Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Templates/Invite contrib

Categories[hindura inkomoko]

Inyandikorugero:See also2 Inyandikorugero:Category tree

Subpages[hindura inkomoko]

Lists[hindura inkomoko]

Project articles[hindura inkomoko]

New articles[hindura inkomoko]

Recently added[hindura inkomoko]

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)

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

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