User:Ido50/WikiProject Punk music proposal

Welcome to the main page of the Punk music WikiProject. The aim of this project is to standardize and improve articles related to punk rock, its sub-genres and the punk subculture, as well as to create missing articles. Please add tasks needing to be done in the appropriate section, and remove them accordingly when they are done.

If you wish to join this project, please add your name to the members list.

Navigation

 * Taskforces
 * To-do list
 * Collaboration
 * Grade school
 * Members list

Parentage

 * WikiProject Music
 * WikiProject Music genres
 * WikiProject Punk music

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Current activity
Below are some things the project is currently most active in: Discussion | Collaboration | To-do list | Project Expansion

Featured articles
The following articles have been featured on English Wikipedia's main page. It is the project's goal that every important punk related article achieve a featured article status. Join the project's collaboration to improve the current collaboration article up to a featured article status.
 * Punk rock
 * Sex Pistols

Scope
Here are the very general steps this project plans to take to achieve its purpose:
 * Step 1: Identify all Punk music and Punk culture related articles.
 * Step 2: Tag all articles properly and organize them in proper categories.
 * Step 3: Expand stub articles.
 * Step 4: Do minor edits and improvements to all articles.
 * Step 5: Try to get all articles to Featured status.

Policy
''Here are some very broad project policy we should try to maintain:
 * Everyone is welcome to voice their opinion without being put down.
 * Everyone is welcome to edit any of the WikiProjects pages. This is Wikipedia afterall.
 * If you are viewing/editing an article regarding a subject that's dear to you please maintain a neutral point of view and do not get upset if the article provides popular criticism of the subject.
 * Similar as above, please try to follow wikipedian policy. Wikipedian Help has many pages to help you understand rights from wrongs.

Categories

 * Category:Punk

For genres (and perhaps bands/musicians):
 * Category:Punk genres
 * Category:Hardcore punk genres
 * Category:Post-punk
 * Category:Anarcho-punk

For bands/musicians:
 * Category:Punk rock groups
 * Category:Punk rock musicians
 * Category:American punk rock groups
 * Category:Canadian punk rock groups
 * Category:Punk rock groups
 * Category:Early punk groups
 * Category:Hardcore punk groups
 * Category:Later punk groups
 * Category:Canadian hardcore punk bands

For albums:
 * Category:Hardcore punk albums
 * Category:Pop punk albums

Band specific categories:
 * Category:Bad Religion
 * Category:Black Flag
 * Category:Black Flag associated bands
 * Category:Black Flag albums
 * Category:The Misfits
 * Category:The Misfits albums
 * Category:The Ramones

Stub Categories
Here are some categories listing all tagged stubs. You are encouraged to expand the articles in these categories so they can lose their stub specifications.

Punk related article
Wikiproject Punk music Place this tag on top of all punk related article talk pages:

Member
You may wish to put this on your userpage after you join. You can add it by copying and pasting the following code User WikiProject Punk music. This template also adds you to Category:WikiProject Punk Members. If you don't wish to use this userbox but still wish to be on this category then just add to your user page.

Punk rock templates
There are 2 general punk rock templates to be used on punk related articles. Place them where you think is appropriate:
 * Punkbox - Use at the top of the page
 * punk - Use at the bottom of the page

Since punk rock is a subgenre of rock, this template can also be used:
 * rock - Use at the bottom of the page

Stubs
See Stub for more information on stubs.

Infoboxes
Note: If you are designing a table or template and are having trouble, you're welcome to ask us.

Upcoming
Here are templates to add to the top of pages about things yet to happen: