Wikipedia:WikiProject American music

Welcome to the American music WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to music of the United States.

Goals

 * Standardize coverage of American music, songs and musicians.
 * Improve lower-quality articles to Good or Featured status.
 * Maintain and further improve articles already of high-quality.

Scope

 * This purpose of this project is to standardize the coverage of American music, songs and musicians within Wikipedia. This includes deciding how pages should be formatted, which pages should and should not be created, designing templates, etc. This project is not yet completely defined, so feel free to make suggestions on the talk page.

Guidelines

 * All articles related to American music should follow the notability guideline for music. See WP:Music
 * Capitalization should follow the rules of the English Wikipedia, NOT the rules by academic sources. See WP:CAPITALIZATION

Acceptable charts
The following are acceptable charts and may be used in articles:
 * Billboard charts - for albums, sales, singles and certifications only
 * RIAA - for certifications only

* These sites do not archive the charts. You must manually archive the charts in order to source them. A website like WebCite is acceptable.

For more information, see WP:GOODCHARTS and WP:USCHARTS

Unacceptable charts
The following are unacceptable and should not be used in articles:


 * Amazon
 * ARC Weekly Top 40
 * iTunes
 * Radio Disney
 * Viacom/MTV Networks Countdowns (VH1 VSpot and CMT Top 20 Countdowns)
 * World Albums Top 40/World Singles Top 40

For more information, see WP:BADCHARTS

Participants
If you want to get involved in this project, please add your name with  #  to the Participants list, and to indicate any areas of particular interest in alphabetical order.

There is a userbox available for members of this project. Please feel free to put this on your userpage by adding User WikiProject American music. Alternatively, if you do not wish to use the userbox, you may add to the end of your user page.

Tagging and Assessment
Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with  banner. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to help in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. They also play a role in the WP:1.0 program, which the WikiProject uses to help automate some of the assessing process.


 * The template should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar. It looks like this:

The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the WikiProject United States project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:American music articles by quality. WP:1.0 also produces a statistics page, and a log of articles assessed.

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.