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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.

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.

Music portal

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

• WikiProject Biography
• WikiProject Music

Related WikiProjects

Related Portals

• Portal:Music
  • Genres
    • Portal:Rock and Roll
    • Portal:Punk rock
    • Portal:Hip hop
    • Portal:Electronic music
    • Portal:Classical music
    • Portal:Alternative music
  • Instruments
    • Portal:Classical guitar
    • Portal:Guitar
  • Groups
    • Portal:The Beatles
    • Portal:Rush (band)
    • Portal:AC/DC
    • Portal:Aerosmith
  • 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.

Inactive

• Aguerriero (talk · contribs)
• Batman2005 (talk · contribs)
• Cgilbert76 (talk · contribs)
• DeathLoofah (talk · contribs)
• Dtobias (talk · contribs)
• Flaminglawyer (talk · contribs)
• Flowerparty (talk · contribs)
• Getcrunk (talk · contribs)
• Hatred King (talk · contribs)
• Lar (talk · contribs)
• liliavilladotcom (talk · contribs)
• Nlu (talk · contribs)
• OrinR (talk · contribs)
• Patman2648 (talk · contribs)
• Seth71 (talk · contribs)
• Shadow King (talk · contribs)
• Shadows Are Not Security (talk · contribs)
• Unionbay (talk · contribs)
• Wootking (talk · contribs)
• Patriot8790 (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

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

WikiProject Biography

General information ( · changes)

• Main Project Page
• Project category
• Members
• Portal

Announcements

• Attention needed
• New articles
• Articles up for deletion
• Requested pictures
• Requests for comment
• Suspected policy breaches

Departments

• Assessment
• Core biographies
• Maintenance
• Peer reviews

Work groups

• Arts and entertainment
  • Actors and Filmmakers
  • Musicians
• Living persons
• Military
  • Peers and Baronets
• Politics and government
• Royalty and nobility
• Science and academia
  • Aerospace
• Sports and games
• Persondata
• Philosophers

Things you can do ()

• Write
  • Expand stubs
    • People by nationality...
    • Academics
    • Artists
    • Actors
    • Engineers
    • Military personnel
    • Musicians
    • Politicians
    • Sportspeople
    • Writers
  • Create: Biographies requested
  • Add infoboxes
• Review
  • Peer Review: Rod Serling • Joseph Grinnell • Brian Fitzgerald (academic) • Killswitch Engage • Gillian Welch • Henry M. Tichenor • Early life of Pedro II of Brazil • Alboin • Richard Baker (UK businessman) • Tillson Harrison • Honório Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná • JoAnn E. Manson • I. M. Pei • Taeyang • William Stanley (Victorian inventor) • Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne • Jon Gettman • Nikita Khrushchev • John Rosenberger • The Dirtbombs • Nicholas U. Mayall • Jessica Lee Rose • Kiliaen van Rensselaer (Dutch merchant) • Per Ahlmark • William J. Jefferson • John Christie (murderer) • Janek Gwizdala • Mary C. Seward • Charlie Soong • Hussain Muhammad Ershad • Will to Power (band) • Military career of L. Ron Hubbard • David Robinson (horticulturist) • Joe Jackson • Richard Pace (Jamestown) • Harold Pinter • Wangari Maathai • Umar Israilov • Sarah Boyle • John Mitchell (football coach) • Colleen Howe •Florence Shapiro • Robert Ford (politician) • John Edward • Mario Ančić • Tess Gerritsen • Christa McAuliffe • Pope John Paul II • Jada Pinkett Smith • Pin Malakul • Dwight Lauderdale • Ramakrishna
  • Assess: Assessment requests • Assess an article

Biography article statistics

This list is generated automatically on alternate nights.
view full worklist

Biography articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	Other	Total
FA	22	682	704
FL		90	90
A		35	35
GA	22	1,752	1,774
B	63	15,843	15,906
C	93	9,696	9,789
Start		162,529	162,529
Stub		483,869	483,869
List		611	611
Book		37	37
Category		8,621	8,621
Disambig		4,743	4,743
Template		780	780
NA		259	259
Assessed	200	689,547	689,747
Unassessed		107,119	107,119
Total	200	796,666	796,866

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

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               = 
| musician-work-group = yes
| musician-priority   = 
| attention           = 
| needs-photo         = 
| needs-infobox       = 
| needs-persondata    = 
| needs-discography   = 
}}

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.

Not 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. Set attention equal to yes in {{WPBiography}} (see code below) in order to add it to Category:Musicians work group articles needing attention:

{{WPBiography
| living              = 
| class               = 
| musician-work-group = yes
| musician-priority   = 
| attention           = yes
| needs-photo         = 
| needs-infobox       = 
| needs-persondata    = 
| 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 persondata, set needs-persondata= 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

Infobox

• Template:Infobox Musical artist ( talk links history)

Navbox

• Template:Navbox Musical artist ( talk links history)

Project banner

Place on top of an article's talk page.

{{WPBiography | living = | class = | musician-work-group = yes | musician-priority = | attention = | needs-photo = | needs-infobox = | needs-persondata = | needs-discography = }} Remove unneeded fields. For more information, see: {{WPBiography/doc}}

WikiProject Biography / Musicians   BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WPBiographybiography articles Biography portal v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale. This article is supported by WikiProject Musicians.

Stub templates

See Stub sorting

Userboxes

Userboxes
{{User WP Musicians}} formerly {{User:Heaven's Wrath/Userboxes/WPMusicians}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Musicians.
{{User WP Musicians2}} formerly {{User:Thereen/WPMusiciansUserbox}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Musicians.

Other templates

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.

Categories

Subpages

• List of all subpages of this page

Lists

Project articles

Biography (musicians) articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	8	30	24	12		9	83
FL						4	4
A			1	1			2
GA	9	18	61	70		74	232
B	32	160	634	335	1	575	1,737
C	7	46	203	279		315	850
Start	1	83	1,063	4,702	2	8,765	14,616
Stub	2	26	376	5,357		30,308	36,069
List	2			1		18	21
Book					12		12
Category				1	50		51
Disambig					5		5
Template					54		54
NA				3	23		26
Other			1				1
Assessed	61	363	2,363	10,761	147	40,068	53,763
Unassessed		2	7	43		977	1,029
Total	61	365	2,370	10,804	147	41,045	54,792

New articles

• Arthur Adams (singer) - work in progress, blues guy.  Chzz  ►  17:38, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
• The Gregory Brothers—creators of the Auto-Tune the News series. —Notyourbroom (talk) 23:59, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
• Kári Streymoy is the drummer for Týr. [[  Demon Hunter Rules ]] (talk) 16:18, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
• Alan Walden manager of September Hase, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and The Outlaws iheartrockers85 14:15, 02 September 2008 (UTC)
• 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)
• August Wenzinger, Swiss viola da gamba performer, teacher, and pioneer of historically informed performance. -- ℜob C. alias ⒶⓁⒶⓇⓄⒷ 17:53, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
• Floyd Lloyd, a Jamaican reggae singer and musician, born in 1948. -- SoulBrotherNumberOne (talk) 23:24, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Recently added

• Jim Boggia, Philadelphia singer-songwriter --copana2002 (talk) 00:38, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
• 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)