Wikipedia:WikiProject Music

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to music. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page or on those of the project subpages. (See links below).

WikiProject Music aims to encourage the collaborative addition of accurate information to a wide variety of musical topics.

Project listing
The parent of this WikiProject is Arts.

Related WikiProjects

 * Literature, Theatre, Visual arts
 * Directory of Wikiprojects that deal with music

Task forces

 * Music genres task force
 * Regional and national music taskforce

Sub-projects

 * WikiProject Music terminology (semi-active)
 * WikiProject Music theory
 * WikiProject Musical Instruments
 * WikiProject Percussion
 * WikiProject Musicians
 * WikiProject Guitarists
 * WikiProject Bands (currently deleted)
 * WikiProject The Beatles
 * WikiProject Björk
 * WikiProject HIM
 * WikiProject The KLF
 * WikiProject Led Zeppelin
 * WikiProject Pink Floyd
 * WikiProject The Rolling Stones (semi-active)
 * WikiProject Green Day (inactive)
 * WikiProject Albums
 * WikiProject Songs
 * WikiProject Theme songs (defunct)
 * WikiProject Tunings, Temperaments, and Scales (defunct)
 * WikiProject New Zealand/Music task force
 * WikiProject Women in music

Music genre projects

 * WikiProject Alternative music
 * WikiProject Australian music
 * WikiProject Canadian music
 * WikiProject Christian music
 * WikiProject Classical music
 * WikiProject Computer music
 * WikiProject Country Music
 * WikiProject Electronic music
 * WikiProject Hip Hop
 * WikiProject Indian music
 * WikiProject Jazz
 * WikiProject Latin music
 * WikiProject Metal
 * WikiProject New Wave music
 * WikiProject Opera
 * WikiProject Pop music
 * WikiProject Punk music
 * WikiProject R&B and Soul Music
 * WikiProject Rave
 * WikiProject Reggae
 * WikiProject Rock music
 * WikiProject Roots music

Participants
See WikiProject Music/Participants for the full list. Click here to add yourself!

Improve the bird's eye view
The entire subject and Wikipedia's coverage of it is intended to be summarized in the Outline of music. It in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems.

Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.

While analyzing the outline, please answer the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):


 * 1) What's missing?
 * 2) Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject?
 * 3) Does the outline help understand the relationships between the topics presented in the best way possible?

The overall purpose of the outline is to help readers comprehend the subject by showing what belongs to it, and within the subject what belongs to what.

The outline is a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject.

It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise music-related material. It is a hub from which to organize related topics.

It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of an existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.

Please help improve it.

It's our bird's eye view.

Thank you.

Noticeboard
Discussion occurs on the WikiProject Music talk page.

The noticeboard for music-related news and requests became inactive in 2017.

Guidelines
Several guidelines have been adopted which are specific to music-related articles. According to WP:GUIDES, "Guidelines are sets of best practices that are supported by consensus. Editors should attempt to follow guidelines, though they are best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply." Various music projects have developed "guides" and "advice" which are relevant to their areas of interest; however, these may not have been vetted by the community and should be treated accordingly.

The following have been identified as WP guidelines (main page followed by shortcut(s)):
 * Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Music (MOS:MUSIC)
 * MOS:MUSICCAPS
 * MOS:LYRICS
 * MOS:THEMUSIC
 * WP:MUSORG
 * MOS:POPMUSIC


 * WP:NOTLYRICS
 * Wikipedia:Naming conventions (music) (WP:NCM)
 * WP:MUSICSERIES
 * WP:BANDNAME
 * WP:NCMDAB
 * WP:SINGERDAB
 * WP:ALBUMDAB
 * WP:SONGDAB


 * Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Record charts (MOS:CHARTS)
 * Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Music samples (WP:SAMPLE)
 * Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Stringed instrument tunings (MOS:TUNINGS)
 * Wikipedia:Notability (music) (WP:NM)
 * WP:MUSICBIO
 * WP:COMPOSER
 * WP:NALBUM
 * WP:FUTUREALBUM
 * WP:NSONG
 * WP:NTOUR
 * WP:SUBNOT

Assessments
Assessments are done by individual music projects, such as Albums, Opera, Composers etc., not by this Music Project, which is an umbrella project.

Categories
The project categories are listed on the Categories sub page.

Subpages

 * List of

Music-related WikiProjects template

 * Add this to the bottom of music-related WikiProjects: WikiProject Music/Related WikiProjects. This template should be kept up-to-date with WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Music

Barnstar
The Music Barnstar can be awarded to any Wikipedian that exhibits exceptional effort and dedication to music-related articles. Add it to their Talk page with message ~.

Portals
The Music portal template  may be placed in the See also or another appropriate section of a music article, however there are other, more specific pages available. See Category:Music portals for a list of music portals.

Stubs
To add an article to the music stubs category, use music-stub. See Category:Music stubs for more stubs and info.

Userbox
There is a userbox for members, which adds them to Category:WikiProject Music participants. To add the userbox to your user page, use User WP Music. It will produce this: