Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Music genres task force
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WikiProject Music/Music genres task force is a task force to better organize information in articles related to music genres. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions of the Wikipedians involved in this task force; it is hoped that it will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and check our goals.
Scope
[edit]This task force aims to gather together those who are interested in working on and cleaning up the various music genre articles that exist on Wikipedia.
Goals
[edit]- Maintain list of music genre articles
- Add {{Infobox music genre}}, relevant footer templates and categories to genre articles
- Add {{WikiProject Music/Music genres task force}} to genre article talk pages
- Add to and maintain surveillance of Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Music regarding deletion nominations
- Continue to work through genres adding {{Citation needed}} to all unsourced claims
- Continue discussion on the merger and cleaning up of overlapping genres and subgenres
- Prod/AFD any genre articles that can not be sourced
- To improve genre and related articles to Wikipedia:Content assessment standards
Assessment
[edit]| Music genre pages by quality | |||||||
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| Quality | |||||||
| Total | |||||||
 FA
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4 | ||||||
 GA
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41 | ||||||
| B | 235 | ||||||
| C | 588 | ||||||
| Start | 1,534 | ||||||
| Stub | 876 | ||||||
| List | 61 | ||||||
| Category | 878 | ||||||
| Disambig | 7 | ||||||
| Portal | 1 | ||||||
| Project | 2 | ||||||
| Redirect | 265 | ||||||
| Template | 137 | ||||||
| NA | 1 | ||||||
| Assessed | 4,630 | ||||||
| Total | 4,630 | ||||||
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 16,065 | Ω = 4.90 | |||||
Participants
[edit]Please add your name to the bottom of this list using {{user|username}}
- Absolon (talk · contribs) — Interested in Gospel music and the related subgenres
- Andros 1337 (talk · contribs)
- Divex (talk · contribs)
- Dexter_prog (talk · contribs)
- Peter G Werner (talk · contribs) — I am fairly knowledgeable about ambient music, industrial music, jazz rock, and many of the subgenres therein. I have a fairly extensive music collection and can also contribute ogg samples.
- TimNelson (talk · contribs)
- Sabrebd (talk · contribs) — folk, blues, rock, classical and some others, especially those with a British or American element
- Allreet (talk · contribs) — folk, blues, rock, folk-rock, reggae
- 3family6 (talk · contribs) — Like pretty much every style of music on the planet. Though I'm not really knowledgeable, I'm pretty good at finding reliable sources.
- North8000 (talk · contribs) — (talk) 11:53, 20 May 2011 (UTC) Working on sorting out Folk/Roots/Traditional music
- MilkMiruku (talk · contribs) — I've been more active in the past. Mainly interested in the musicology and culture of electronic dance/experimental music styles, and in general knowledge management (references, infoboxes and templates).
- Nostalgia of Iran (talk · contribs) — Familiar with metal genres, subject matter in lyrics, particularly Iron Maiden, Slayer, Dream Theater, and System of a Down, among others
- WikiWinters (talk · contribs)
- Binksternet (talk · contribs) — Pushing for verifiable genres supported by reliable sources, not shoot-from-the-hip assessments
- Mashaunix (talk · contribs) — Interested in independent, rock, experimental, psychedelic, extreme music... Check out my rework of the post-metal article.
- Sixty Minute Limit (talk · contribs) — I’m interested in heavy metal music, especially extreme metal, though I sometimes edit other rock-related articles and I may may edit other stuff, but rarely.
- Acousmana (talk · contribs) — various, particularity electronic/electroacoustic
- Garagepunk66 (talk · contribs) — Work in various music genres and subgenres, such as garage rock, British Invasion, psychedelic rock, reggae, soul music, etc.
- QuickClown (talk · contribs) — Knowledgeable about indie music, folk music, grime music, electronic/ambient music, and emergent genres such as Vapourwave. I have a special interest in the history, culture, geography and biographies of music and musicians with a view to de-orphaning finding reliable sources for these (see my contributions to Dave Tyack).
- Missbellanash (talk · contribs) — Knowledgeable in rock, pop, blues, some jazz and classical.
- Aleeza2018 (talk · contribs) — just a random wikipedia user with a lot of knowledge about pop
- Lightshinesondark (talk · contribs) - Knowledgeable in americana, blues, southern, roots-rock, soul, country, early rock n roll
- EleniXDD (talk · contribs) - Hope to improve standards and fix the overlapping genres issues
- Sergecross73 (talk · contribs) - primarily participating/mediating disputes, and taking Administrative action against editors who refuse to follow policy.
- TheUsualHuman (talk · contribs) - The Music Theory, Percussion, Ambience.
Articles
[edit]Article alerts
[edit]Good article nominees
Articles to be split
- 08 Feb 2024 – Manila sound (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Sanglahi86 (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Mar 2023 – Fight song (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by MagentaCat1 (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Nov 2020 – Hip hop production (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by CommonSentiments (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 30 Oct 2024 – Draft:Wrack My Brain (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Newtatoryd222 (t · c)
- 30 Oct 2024 – Draft:Ambassade Orchestra Vienna (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 84.113.160.128 (t · c)
- 29 Oct 2024 – Draft:Razia Sultanova (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by TranslationJoy (t · c)
- 29 Oct 2024 – Draft:FabFilter (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Twistedhack (t · c)
- 27 Oct 2024 – Draft:Morse Moose and the Grey Goose (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Newtatoryd222 (t · c)
- 26 Oct 2024 – Draft:Neshe (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by GlobalMusicFan (t · c)
- 26 Oct 2024 – Draft:Daniel Donato (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 97.118.199.242 (t · c)
- 25 Oct 2024 – Draft:Carlo Minuta (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Carlomin (t · c)
- 25 Oct 2024 – Draft:Angry Blackmen (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Boudrege (t · c)
- 24 Oct 2024 – Draft:Arctic Dreams (band) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Nauhodonosr (t · c)
- (35 more...)
Templates
[edit]Music genre related articles
[edit]{{WikiProject Music/Music genres task force}} (redirects are {{WikiProject Music genres}} or {{Genre}})
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Place this Project template at the top of all music genre related article talk pages, using: {{Genre|class = |importance = }}
Userboxes
[edit]Place one these userboxes to your user page, they also add you to the Category:WikiProject Music genres participants. This userbox template has two parameters for two different userbox icons.
The default icon is set by omitting the "icon" parameter.
{{User WikiProject Music genres}}
| This user is a participant in WikiProject Music genres task force. |
For an alternative icon, add the "icon" parameter, then set the value to "genres".
{{User WikiProject Music genres}}
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Music genres task force. |
If you don't wish to use userboxes, but still wish to be in listed in the project category, then just add to your user page:[[Category:WikiProject Music genres Members|{{PAGENAME}}]]
