Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Music genres task force
This is a task force, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
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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 | 4 | ||||||
GA | 41 | ||||||
B | 235 | ||||||
C | 589 | ||||||
Start | 1,532 | ||||||
Stub | 878 | ||||||
List | 61 | ||||||
Category | 877 | ||||||
Disambig | 7 | ||||||
Portal | 1 | ||||||
Project | 2 | ||||||
Redirect | 265 | ||||||
Template | 137 | ||||||
Assessed | 4,629 | ||||||
Total | 4,629 | ||||||
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 16,071 | 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.
Articles
[edit]Article alerts
[edit]Proposed deletions
- 18 Oct 2024 – Nordik beat (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Revirvlkodlaku (t · c): This article introduces the concept of a unified musical movement that is poorly attested, certainly under the moniker "Nordik beat", and attempts to flesh it out with mostly OR that links together record labels, studios, and musicians that ...
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
- 22 Oct 2024 – Draft:Tallinn trams named after musicians (talk · edit · hist) (initially Draft:Tallinn Trams Named After Musicians) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
- 22 Oct 2024 – Draft:Timi Phoenix (gospel musician) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Alexzigo (t · c)
- 21 Oct 2024 – Draft:Playzone (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Andrea shn87 (t · c)
- 19 Oct 2024 – Draft:Abdo Mousa (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Eyas (t · c)
- 18 Oct 2024 – Draft:Night Palace (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Pylonshadow (t · c)
- 15 Oct 2024 – Draft:Hel:slowed (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by DaniDWrite (t · c)
- 15 Oct 2024 – Draft:Nerd Connection (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by TheAnnaBanana (t · c)
- 14 Oct 2024 – Draft:Hwang Hyun-jin (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by RDWolfgang (t · c)
- 11 Oct 2024 – Draft:Isaac Hong (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by TheAnnaBanana (t · c)
- 11 Oct 2024 – Draft:Jolynn J. Chin (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SilentJourneyX9 (t · c)
- (30 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}}]]