Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian music



Some Wikipedians have formed this project to expand and improve Wikipedia's coverage of Music of Australia. It is hoped that the project will provide an editors' centralised discussion forum and a place for developing collaborations.

If you feel that you can make a positive contribution to the project, become a member by adding your name below. If you don't know what to write or where to begin, or if you have doubts or ideas on how to improve an article, please address the project's discussion forum.

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Members

 * 1) prog rock, jazz rock fusion, jazz, jazz/classical fusion usually before 1983; you know ... really popular stuff(?). Username based on prog rock song title by U.K.
 * 2) hard rock, rock, punk, blues, roots, folk
 * 3) would like to help with Australian electronic / dance music, hip hop, experimental / sound art / noise (particularly 1987-current)
 * 4) love music, know the industry, plants trees
 * 5) would enjoy helping with traditional indigenous Australian music, and indigenous Australian rock. Started wangga article and updated various other pages dealing with traditional indigenous Australian music.
 * 1) hard rock, rock, punk, blues, roots, folk
 * 2) would like to help with Australian electronic / dance music, hip hop, experimental / sound art / noise (particularly 1987-current)
 * 3) love music, know the industry, plants trees
 * 4) would enjoy helping with traditional indigenous Australian music, and indigenous Australian rock. Started wangga article and updated various other pages dealing with traditional indigenous Australian music.
 * 1) hard rock, rock, punk, blues, roots, folk
 * 2) would like to help with Australian electronic / dance music, hip hop, experimental / sound art / noise (particularly 1987-current)
 * 3) love music, know the industry, plants trees
 * 4) would enjoy helping with traditional indigenous Australian music, and indigenous Australian rock. Started wangga article and updated various other pages dealing with traditional indigenous Australian music.
 * 1) love music, know the industry, plants trees
 * 2) would enjoy helping with traditional indigenous Australian music, and indigenous Australian rock. Started wangga article and updated various other pages dealing with traditional indigenous Australian music.
 * 1) love music, know the industry, plants trees
 * 2) would enjoy helping with traditional indigenous Australian music, and indigenous Australian rock. Started wangga article and updated various other pages dealing with traditional indigenous Australian music.
 * 1) love music, know the industry, plants trees
 * 2) would enjoy helping with traditional indigenous Australian music, and indigenous Australian rock. Started wangga article and updated various other pages dealing with traditional indigenous Australian music.
 * 1) love music, know the industry, plants trees
 * 2) would enjoy helping with traditional indigenous Australian music, and indigenous Australian rock. Started wangga article and updated various other pages dealing with traditional indigenous Australian music.
 * 1) love music, know the industry, plants trees
 * 2) would enjoy helping with traditional indigenous Australian music, and indigenous Australian rock. Started wangga article and updated various other pages dealing with traditional indigenous Australian music.
 * 1) love music, know the industry, plants trees
 * 2) would enjoy helping with traditional indigenous Australian music, and indigenous Australian rock. Started wangga article and updated various other pages dealing with traditional indigenous Australian music.
 * 1) would enjoy helping with traditional indigenous Australian music, and indigenous Australian rock. Started wangga article and updated various other pages dealing with traditional indigenous Australian music.
 * 1) would enjoy helping with traditional indigenous Australian music, and indigenous Australian rock. Started wangga article and updated various other pages dealing with traditional indigenous Australian music.
 * 1) would enjoy helping with traditional indigenous Australian music, and indigenous Australian rock. Started wangga article and updated various other pages dealing with traditional indigenous Australian music.
 * 1) would enjoy helping with traditional indigenous Australian music, and indigenous Australian rock. Started wangga article and updated various other pages dealing with traditional indigenous Australian music.




 * 1) Specifically Tasmanian music.
 * 2) Australian charts up to 1990s.
 * 1) Specifically Tasmanian music.
 * 2) Australian charts up to 1990s.


 * 1) I am interested primarily in Australian Hip Hop as this is my area of expertise, but I'm also very into Australian music in general and would be happy to help with anything, particularly independent


 * 1) Involved in the Adelaide Metal Community
 * 2) Just uploaded 100 pics from NZ and AUS musicians, ARIA, Festivals Flacco, people without photos.. more coming! Can someone here contact me re: all the pics & help place em?
 * 3) I upkeep dozens of Aussie indie bands' pages, so if I'm not editing one that needs some work, let me know. I'm happy to help.
 * 4) Created articles for songs by Motor Ace. Hope to do a few more. Looking to do Taxiride and  Philadelphia Grand Jury
 * 5) Started the I Want That You Are Always Happy article.
 * 6) Did Perth fanzine Party Fears in the 1980s-90s and have far too large a record collection (though, annoyingly, none of my old zine or music paper collection)
 * 7) Especially on hip-hop; I've created articles for DJ Bonez, Plutonic Lab, Briggs, Nine High, Flying Colours, And Then Tomorrow Came, and worked on many others including, more recently, Hunter.
 * 8) really only interested in the underground, dislike popular music with a passion :P
 * 9) Particularly 70's rock
 * 10) Melbourne music fan
 * 11) Brisbane music fan and photograpger, particularly fan of Jazz
 * 12) Perth Hip hop
 * 13) Not interested in non-Australian composers or anything post war.
 * 03:49:56, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) – Interested in all genres of Australian music. I've frequently noticed a large majority of Australian music articles have just the bare minimum and I hope to change that.
 * 2) Interested in Melbourne Label Flightless Records
 * 3) – Interested in Australian indie/modern rock bands and albums
 * 4) - Australian Music Education
 * 1) Brisbane music fan and photograpger, particularly fan of Jazz
 * 2) Perth Hip hop
 * 3) Not interested in non-Australian composers or anything post war.
 * 03:49:56, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) – Interested in all genres of Australian music. I've frequently noticed a large majority of Australian music articles have just the bare minimum and I hope to change that.
 * 2) Interested in Melbourne Label Flightless Records
 * 3) – Interested in Australian indie/modern rock bands and albums
 * 4) - Australian Music Education
 * 1) – Interested in Australian indie/modern rock bands and albums
 * 2) - Australian Music Education
 * 1) – Interested in Australian indie/modern rock bands and albums
 * 2) - Australian Music Education
 * 1) - Australian Music Education
 * 1) - Australian Music Education
 * 1) - Australian Music Education


 * Userbox

Project banner
The first field (music=yes) is compulsory. Please also rate the class and importance to this project, and to the Australia WikiProject. See WikiProject Australia/Assessment for more information.

Standards
As a subordinate project of WikiProject Music, the project will use the WP:MUSTARD guidelines and standards. Notability standards are at WP:MUSIC.

Project scope
WikiProject Australian music covers any Wikipedia article which relates to music in Australia. These include singers, musicians, ensembles, bands, orchestras, songs, albums and venues. Any article under Category:Music of Australia and its subcategories is considered part of the project.

Articles
GA and FA quality as well as High importance articles that fall under the WikiProject should be listed here.


 * Suggestions for collaboration
 * ARIA Music Awards
 * ARIA Hall of Fame inductees
 * Australian rock - Requires a complete overhaul, rewrite, verification, references
 * Australian jazz Close to being GA?
 * Australian indie rock
 * Australian country music


 * B-class - may be ready for WP:GAC (see also Category:B-Class Australian music articles)
 * Brian Cadd
 * Daddy Cool
 * Didgeridoo
 * Divinyls
 * Dragon
 * John Farnham
 * Hoodoo Gurus discography
 * INXS
 * Guy Sebastian
 * Johnny O'Keefe
 * The Living End
 * The Loved Ones
 * Models
 * Ross Wilson
 * Johnny Young

See the articles by quality to assess articles to improve their class:


 * [[Image:Nuvola apps kedit.png|20px]] Peer reviews
 * none at present


 * [[Image:Cscr-featured.svg|20px]] Featured articles


 * [[Image:Cscr-featured.svg|20px]] Featured lists


 * [[Image:Cscr-star piece.png|15px]] Featured Article Review
 * none at present


 * [[Image:Cscr-candidate.png|20px]] Open FAC/FLC
 * List of awards and nominations received by Wolfmother


 * [[Image:Cscr-former.png|20px]] Failed FAC/FLC/FAR
 * Hoodoo Gurus discography
 * The Living End discography
 * Paul Kelly
 * Midnight Oil discography


 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Good articles


 * [[Image:GA candidate.svg|20px]] Good article nominees
 * none at present


 * [[Image:Symbol unsupport vote.svg|20px]] Former/Failed GA
 * Music of Australia (failed)
 * Operator Please (failed)
 * Crowded House (former & failed)
 * Danii Minogue (former)
 * Bon Scott (former)
 * X (failed)
 * Howling Bells (failed)
 * Radio Wars (failed)

Stub tags

 * Australia-singer-stub
 * Australia-band-stub
 * Australia-musician-stub
 * Australia-record-label-stub

Templates
See /Templates

Wikipedia categories
The main category is Category:Music of Australia. The category tree is as follows:

Subordinate projects

 * WikiProject Powderfinger (Shortcuts: WP:FING; WP:Finger)
 * WikiProject Crowded House (for Crowded House, Split Enz, Finn Brothers, Neil Finn & Tim Finn articles. Shortcuts: WP:HOUSE; WP:CROWDIES; WP:ENZ)
 * WikiProject Kylie Minogue (Shortcut: WP:Kylie)

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.