Wikipedia:WikiProject Guitarists

WikiProject Guitarists is a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to guitarists. If you would like to help, please see the To-do list below, or inquire on the talk page.


 * Our goals:
 * Improve Wikipedia's coverage of guitarists by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles.
 * Provide guidelines and recommendations for articles about guitarists.
 * Serve as the central point of guitarist article discussion.


 * Our scope:
 * The project focuses on articles about guitarists, minding the notability standards laid out at WP:MUSIC.

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 * What can you do?

Assessment
The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's guitarist articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work, and are also expected to play a role in the WP:1.0 program. The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the WikiProjectGuitarists project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

Task forces
Task forces are informal groups of editors gathered for collaborative work on a particular topic within the guitarist project; all project members are encouraged to participate in any that interest them.


 * Current task forces
 * Guitar equipment
 * Infobox
 * Buckethead

Guidelines
The guidelines presented in this section are intended to be guidelines only; while they are well-suited for the vast majority of guitarist articles, there exist a number of peculiar cases where, for lack of a better solution, alternate approaches can been taken. Please discuss individual cases on the Project talk page before deviating from guidelines.

Article naming conventions

 * Since the vast majority of guitarist articles are biographical articles about people, simply use the guitarist's name as the article name.
 * If the guitarist uses a stage or professional name, use the most common name of the person and refer to their real name in the article. For an example of this, see Sting.
 * If you must disambiguate, use Guitarist name (musician). "Musician" is preferable to "guitarist" since they may play other instruments.
 * See also: Naming conventions (people)

Article structure
The guidelines in this section are intended to serve as a starting point for writing a good article; they are not meant to enforce a single structure on all articles, nor to limit the topics an article will discuss. Remember to cite your sources!

Opening paragraph
The opening paragraph (or lead section) should concisely convey: For an example of a good opening paragraph, see Mark Knopfler. See also WP:LEAD.
 * The real name and stage name (if applicable) of the guitarist
 * The birth and death dates (if applicable), place of birth, and nationality of the guitarist
 * The musical groups the guitarist is best known for working with
 * The techniques or styles the guitarist is best known for

Article body
The article can be structured along these lines:
 * Biography
 * Style and techniques (for example, fingerpicking, unique tuning, etc.)
 * Innovations and inventions (for example, tapping)
 * Equipment (guitars, amplifiers, effects, etc.) - can include endorsements
 * Involvement in musical groups
 * Influence and legacy
 * Discography, if appropriate (if the guitarist is a member of one or more musical groups, defer the discographies to those articles.)

Guitarist infobox
The guitarist infobox has been deprecated in favor of the more general-purpose Infobox Musical artist. Please use that infobox for biographical articles about guitarists.

Categories
Articles should be placed in appropriate categories. At a minimum, use the following categories: You may locate other appropriate categories, such as Category:Bass guitarists or Category:Women guitarists
 * One or more subcategories of Category:Guitarists by genre
 * A subcategory of Category:Guitarists by nationality

Participant userbox
You can add this userbox to your user page, signifying your participation in the project. Adding this to your user page automatically adds your username to Category:WikiProject Guitarists participants.

Project awards
The Guitarist Barnstar can be awarded to any project member you want to recognize for service to the project. Add it to their Talk page with message ~. The Music Barnstar can be awarded to any wikpedian that exhibits exceptional effort and dedication to music-related articles. Add it to their Talk page with message ~.

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.