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.

Music Portal

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.

Any content on this page is open for discussion, but please avoid editing this page directly without first discussing the proposed changes on the talk page.

1 Project details
2 Participants
- 2.1 Inactive
- 2.2 Former
3 Tasks
4 Article structure
5 Contributing
- 5.1 Adding articles
  - 5.1.1 What to add
  - 5.1.2 Who to add
- 5.2 Editing project articles
  - 5.2.1 Articles in need of attention
6 Related pages
7 Project articles
- 7.1 New articles
- 7.2 Recently added

Project details

Title

WikiProject on Musicians.

Scope

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

Related WikiProjects

v • d • eWikiProject Music Hierarchy Wikipedia:WikiProject> Culture> Arts> MusicMusic Albums• Compositions• Songs• MusicBrainz• Terminology• Tunings, Temperaments, and Scales Geographical Australian• Canadian• Chinese pop• Eurovision• Irish Instruments Classical guitar• Guitarists• PipeOrgan• Fender GenresArt: Classical• Contemporary• Opera• Jazz

Popular: Alternative • Christian Metal • Computer • Christian • Country • Electronic • Emo • Film • Hip hop • Jam bands • Metal • Musical Theatre • New Wave • Punk • Rave • R&B and Soul • Rock • Theme songs

Traditional: Roots, folk, and traditional• Electric folkMusicians Art: Composers• Richard Wagner• Gilbert and Sullivan

Popular: Aerosmith • Bad Religion • The Beatles • The Clash • Billy Talent • CKY • Crowded House • Evanescence • The Flaming Lips • G-Unit Records • Good Charlotte • Green Day • GWAR • Hello! Project • HIM • Infernal • The KLF • Kylie Minogue • Led Zeppelin • Marillion • My Chemical Romance • Nickel Creek • The Offspring • Panic! at the Disco • Pink Floyd • Powderfinger • Queen • Red Hot Chili Peppers • Senses Fail • Slayer • The Smashing Pumpkins • Tenacious D • Trivium • U2 • Van Halen • The Who

Traditional: Drum Corps• Pipe Bands• Marching band

Related Portals

Portal:Music
- Genres
  - Portal:Rock and Roll
  - Portal:Punk rock
  - Portal:Hip hop
  - Portal:Electronic music
  - Portal:Classical music
  - Portal:Alternative music
  - Portal:Indie music
- Instruments
  - Portal:Classical guitar
  - Portal:Guitar
- Groups
- Contests
  - Portal:Eurovision

Participants

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

Active Members Active (edit)

Xaremathras (talk · contribs) - Metal / Pop / Some Rap / K-Pop / The Betterment of all music articles
ADogNamedPhaedo (talk · contribs) - Mostly punk, indie rock, and their various derivatives.
Addionne (talk · contribs) - Jam Bands / Alt & Indie Rock / etc
AL2TB (talk · contribs) - Will edit articles about composers who published their compositions in the CL Barnhouse Company
Amina skywalker (talk · contribs) - mostly modern rock/pop bands (copyediting)
Anger22 (talk · contribs) - Carrying the torch for the WikiProject Guitarists.
AnthonyWalters (talk · contribs) — J-pop/J-rock (certain singles and groups); currently moderating DRM page and assisting on Nami Tamaki page.
Bearian (talk · contribs) - mostly classical, Blues, Jazz, and Indie rock; best so far IMHO is Grieg's music in popular culture
Bencherlite (talk · contribs) - classical music, esp choral/organ; categorization
Blondie16 (talk · contribs)
BNutzer (talk · contribs) adding articles to project, assessing articles
CA387 (talk · contribs) - mainly players of stringed instruments
Cgadavies (talk · contribs) - folk music, mostly the Mammals and members
Compuguy1088 (talk · contribs)
Cricket02 (talk · contribs) adding articles to project
Milliot (talk · contribs) - mainly players and makers of stringed instruments
Darknshadow (talk · contribs) – revisions and new info to some Japanese musicians, Chinese musicians, and Korean Musicians
Dethzone (talk · contribs)
Dexter_prog (talk · contribs)
Devious Viper (talk · contribs)
Douglasr007 (talk · contribs) - Probably most liking fixing things here and there. Electronic and alternative rock.
Endlessdan - Mostly Rock N Roll; 60-70s... but I dabble in other genres.
Eric Jack Nash (talk · contribs)
Esprit15d (talk · contribs)
GuyDoe (talk · contribs)- Mosty metal artists from the 80's,90's,and 00's.
HamatoKameko (talk · contribs) - Mostly limited the Finnish hard rock band Lordi and related articles.
Heaven's Wrath (talk · contribs) – Project leader – Organization, conversion, assessment
iceDevil (talk · contribs) - Mostly Mandarin-pop, Japanese-pop and Korean-pop.
IllaZilla (talk · contribs) - mostly punk rock/independent and San Diego-based groups
Moezzillas world (talk · contribs) - Mostley Uke til u puke related Articles

area groups, also album pages & member bios

Immunity (talk · contribs) - adding infoboxes to band and musician articles, created Infoboxes for Music Conferences and Music Venues.
Jacoplane (talk · contribs)
Jibbs fan (talk · contribs)
KamrynMatika (talk · contribs)
K. Kellogg-Smith (talk · contribs) - raising the level of awareness about the original Kingston Trio founder Dave Guard, and his many post-Trio folk/neo-folk/world music accomplishments.
Kevinbrowning (talk · contribs)
Kingboyk (talk · contribs)
Kmzundel (talk · contribs) - Mostly interested in helping with folk musicians; style; creating stubs
Kollision (talk · contribs) - Infobox creation/conversion, Article layout and formatting
Ksharpe126 (talk · contribs)
Ky Music Nerd (talk · contribs)
Leon Sword (talk · contribs) – Various work not limited to any group of musicians.
Luxurious.gaurav (talk · contribs) - Currently woking on Gwen Stefani articls.
Mdebets (talk · contribs) - Mostley German rock and World music
Mdhandley (talk · contribs)
Megamanic (talk · contribs) adding articles to project
Miltopia (talk · contribs) Joining in honor of my new izzlePod. 30 Seconds to Mars ftw.
Notjake13 (talk · contribs) – Editing and counter-vandalism on Japanese rock-related pages; recent projects Dir en grey, X Japan, and others listed here
Notmyhandle (talk · contribs) Articles/revisions - bands/musicians/albums
theorb (talk · contribs) - classical, indie musicians, modern rock, and electronica
Pjoef (talk · contribs)
Pustelnik (talk · contribs) folk and traditional, singer-songwriters, related trivia
Quywompka (talk · contribs)
Reechard (talk · contribs) – added Sarah Cahill. Piano; Spanish, French and 1900s music and musicians; composers; biographies.
Rodhullandemu (talk · contribs) - prog rock. The Enid, Robert John Godfrey
SColombo (talk · contribs)
ShadowHalo (talk · contribs)
Shiori (talk · contribs) - Crusader for the infobox
Sicamous (talk · contribs)
Soumyasch (talk · contribs)
Snowfreak91287 (talk · contribs)
*Spark* (talk · contribs)
Springeragh (talk · contribs)—classical
Strobilus (talk · contribs)
SteelersFan UK06 (talk · contribs) - i have been known to write, format, copyedit and wikify most pages on relitively unheard of Indie (mainly British and synth) bands
Suduser85 (talk · contribs)–Indie rock/indie pop and techno/elecronica (mainly house, i.e. Daft Punk) musicians
Tcasb (talk · contribs) - adding additional information to articles / revisions
Thereen (talk · contribs)
The Shins (talk · contribs) - mostly cello but i like all music
TigerK_69 (talk · contribs)
Tvccs (talk · contribs)
UD490 (talk · contribs)
Unint (talk · contribs)
Weatherman90 (talk · contribs)
Westofpch (talk · contribs)
Wickethewok (talk · contribs)
Willirennen (talk · contribs)
Wisekwai (talk · contribs)
Xtifr (talk · contribs)
Wisdom89 (talk · contribs) - Mostly concerned with fleshing out rock and metal oriented articles
Zytsef (talk · contribs) - Been working on Category:Oregon musical groups, also some punk related stuff
Nihilistic Misanthrope (talk · contribs) -Death Metal, Hip Hop, Audio recording technology.
Jazzfann (talk · contribs)
Gallagher2x2 (talk · contribs) Knows most everything about anthony green
Gluewhale (talk · contribs) Indian Musicians
Sepulwiki (talk · contribs) Mostly metal bands such as Sepultura and Job For A Cowboy
Hamuhamu (talk · contribs) mostly Asian-language bands & singers

Inactive

Getcrunk (talk · contribs)
Dtobias (talk · contribs)
Flowerparty (talk · contribs)
Batman2005 (talk · contribs)
Unionbay (talk · contribs)
DeathLoofah (talk · contribs)
Lar (talk · contribs)
Patman2648 (talk · contribs)
Wootking (talk · contribs)
OrinR (talk · contribs)
Aguerriero (talk · contribs)
liliavilladotcom (talk · contribs)
Cgilbert76 (talk · contribs)
Seth71 (talk · contribs)
Nlu (talk · contribs)
Shadow King (talk · contribs)
Hatred King (talk · contribs)
Shadows Are Not Security (talk · contribs)
Flaminglawyer (talk · contribs)

Former

Bmearns (talk · contribs) — Project founder – left June 16, 2006
TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) - My contributions are a bit infrequent and tangential. I moved membership to Music because my work is more

general.

Tasks

To-do list for WikiProject Musicians:

edit - history - watch - refresh

Goals

We need your help!! We are currently in the process of defining the guidelines for style and content of related articles, and you can participate here.
Assess musician/band pages according to 1.0 Assessment. See Category:Unassessed biography (musicians) articles for articles that need a rating.
Categorize pages.

Specific articles in need of...

Please add articles to these lists.

...Conversion

The Chieftains - Infobox now added - still needs more more substance (especially on former members)
Divinyls - Infobox was added, more is needed?
Heart - What should be done next?

...Expansion

Patti Smith - needs biography, content
Bianca Jagger - special request by me (Jimbo), Ms Jagger has contacted me very sweetly and very politely with concerns about some errors (which I corrected) but also supplied me with some additional info (see the talk page). It would be nice if the article could be improved, as I like to reward people who approach us in the right way (nicely!).
Eddie Money - album pages need information, and the page itself should be expanded
Nazareth - album pages need more substance as well as the article
Pablo Cruise - need album pages and alot more substance
Sister Sledge - needs album pages, clean-up, and more substance
Pat Benatar - finish making album pages and add singles pages, clean-up, and add more info
Missing Persons - needs photos, clean-up
Jimmy LaFave - needs photos, content
The Burns Sisters - needs photos, content
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - needs photos, content
Joel Rafael - needs photos, content
Luis Villegas - needs photos, content
Jerry Marotta - needs photos, content
Heroes & Zeros - needs content
This Is Me Smiling - needs content
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - needs content
Mike Terrana Needs independent editing. Most has been written by Terrana himself.

...Assessment

Mina (singer) - content recently replaced. needs assessment.
Dusty Springfield - content recently replaced. needs assessment.
Sylvie Vartan - content recently replaced. needs assessment.
The Villebillies - recently added. needs assessment.
Alvino Rey - Just added. Needs assessment.
Erik Mongrain - Just added. Needs assessment.
This Is Me Smiling - Recently updated. Needs assessment.
Abderrahmane Abdelli - Rewrote and added lots more content
James Brown - undergoing peer review
No Doubt - undergoing peer review
The Notorious B.I.G. - undergoing peer review
Naomi Phoenix - Just added. Needs assessment

Assessment

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

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

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

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

Current collaboration

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.
The Current collaboration is: non selected
This collaboration began:

Article structure

Main article: /Article guidelines

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

Adding articles

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.

{{WPBiography | living = | class = | priority = | attention = | needs-infobox = | musician-work-group = yes }}

This template includes articles in [[Category:Musicians work group articles]] 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

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 [[Category:Musicians work group articles]] 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 [[Category:Musicians work group articles]] or include {{WPBiography}}. Instead, these pages should be added to [[Category:WikiProject Musicians]].

Who to add

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

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.

Note sure what articles to edit? Keep reading...

Articles in need of attention

[[Category:Musicians work group articles needing attention]] has been created in order to better keep track of what articles need what work. Two templates are involved in marking an article as needing work:

{{WPBiography}} - A new parameter needs to be added to the project template. Set attention equal to yes (see code below) in order to add it to [[Category:Musicians work group articles needing attention]]

{{WPBiography | living = | class = | priority = | attention = yes | needs-infobox = | musician-work-group = yes }}

{{subst:Musician attn talk}} - This should be subst'd to the bottom of the article's talk page. It will create a section titled "Musician needs attention" which is where these issues should be discussed. This template also takes one parameter called "text" which should be a description of what specifically needs work. Also include your signature by placing ~~~~ at the end of this parameter's value.

If the article needs an infobox, set needs-infobox = yes.

If you have edited an article and believe that it no longer needs work, you should remove the {{Musician attn}} template from it. You should also make sure that it is no longer in the [[Category:Musicians work group articles needing attention]] (e.g. if that category was added separately from the template). 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.

Infobox

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Infobox

Template:Infobox Musical artist (edit talk links history)

Navbox

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Navbox

Template:Navbox Musical artist (edit talk links history)

Project banner

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

Remove unneeded fields.

For more information, see Template:WPBiography.

This page is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page. Biography Portal

NA This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale. This non-article page is supported by WikiProject Musicians, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed biographical guide to musicians and musical groups on Wikipedia.

Stub templates

See Stub sorting

Userboxes

Userboxes {{User:Heaven's Wrath/Userboxes/WPMusicians}} This user is a member of WikiProject Musicians.

{{User:Thereen/WPMusiciansUserbox}} This user is a member of WikiProject Musicians.

Other templates

View the template page (link in first column) for details about the template.

Discussion entries {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Templates/Invite contrib}} ==WikiProject Musicians==

Thanks for your contribution to the Musicians WikiProject. I hope you'll continue to be interested and participate in the project, we're always open to new participants. For ways you can help, please check the "Contributing" section of the main project page. Thanks again! ~~~~

{{Musician attn talk}} ==Musician article needs attention==

Use this template to add a section to a talk page to discuss something about an article that doesn't comply to project guidelines

{{subst:Musician attn std talk}} ==Musician article needs attention==

This article has been marked as a part of the Musicians WikiProject but does not meet the guidelines established by that project. It is suggested that the article be updated to better fit into the standards of the project. ~~~~

Other templates {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Templates/current collab}} The Current collaborationis: non selected
This collaboration began:

Lists

Project articles

Biography (musicians)
articles Importance Top High Mid Low NoneTotal Quality FA6 28 25 8 4 71 A2 2 GA10 23 69 39 38 179 B34 163 644 284 519 1644 Start73 860 3470 6950 11353 Stub12 289 4538 31633 36472 Assessed 50 299 1887 8341 39144 49721 Unassessed16 16 Total 50 299 1887 8341 39160 49737

New articles

Wolfgang Niedecken lead singer of the German rock band BAP Mdebets (talk) 11:16, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Pete King former drummer of the German rock band BAP Mdebets (talk) 13:51, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Jan Dix former drummer of the German rock band BAP Mdebets (talk) 09:52, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Klaus Heuser former guitarist of the German rock band BAP Mdebets (talk) 13:26, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Gerald Clayton, jazz pianist, son of John Clayton (bassist) and nephew of Jeff Clayton, reed/flute player. Binksternet (talk) 20:17, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Atsuko Hashimoto, Japanese Hammond B-3 jazz organist. Binksternet (talk) 01:27, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Kate Jacobs, American Singer/songwriter -- Nudve (talk) 09:08, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Mina (singer), Italian singer. --User:Erikupoeg (talk) 21:48, 26 January 2008 (GMT)
Cristal Marie, Dominican singer. --Zytsef (talk) 06:23, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Milt Herth jazz musician, Hammond organ
Andrée Watters, Quebec pop-rock singer with one Felix award & Marie-Élaine Thibert Quebec light-rock/pop singer, 2003 Star Académie finalist, one-time Juno Award winner and multi-Felix award winner.--JForget 01:13, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Dead Artist Syndrome, pioneering Christian goth rock band - Foetusized 23:58, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Georges Thurston, was a Quebec, Canada, R&B and reggae singer for 30 years. Was also known as Boule Noire. Deceased on June 18, 2007--JForget 02:41, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Trainwreck Riders, an alternative country band from San Francisco, California. Popular in the Bay Area, released their first album last year, and will be performing at the Treasure Island Music Festival this September. -- R'son-W (speak to me/breathe) 23:32, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
Alpinestars, a electronic rock band out of Manchester. They were somewhat popular in the early 2000s when they released their albums B.A.S.I.C. and White Noise, and have had several tracks featured in video games such as SSX 3, but have not been heard from since 2003. --Temporarily Insane (talk) 15:53, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Recently added

Six Hung Sprung, American ska band ~QuasiAbstract (talk/contrib) 14:18, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Sergey Ryabtsev, fiddler for Gogol Bordello --Zytsef (talk) 00:35, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Jerusalem (British band), 1970s rock band. --Zytsef (talk) 20:17, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Paul Dean (bass player, songwriter), bass player for Jerusalem (British band). --20:17, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

KEN (band), a band of some sort... --Zytsef (talk) 00:59, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Imperative Reaction, American electronic music band, or something. --Zytsef (talk) 00:55, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Dismantled, American industrial music artist. --Zytsef (talk) 00:38, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Delaware (band), Norwegian indie rock band. --Zytsef (talk) 00:34, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Bella Morte, American gothic rock band. --Zytsef (talk) 00:24, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

backandtotheleft, American Synthpop band. --Zytsef (talk) 00:17, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Assemblage 23, American Synthpop artist. --Zytsef (talk) 00:11, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

And One, German Synthpop band. --Zytsef (talk) 00:02, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

16 Volt, American Industrial music band. --Zytsef (talk) 23:58, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Longwave (band), American indie rock band. --Zytsef (talk) 02:49, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Blowtops, American garage rock band. --Zytsef (talk) 02:28, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Halfway to Gone, American Stoner Rock band -- Nudve (talk) 15:31, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

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.