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About us
Welcome to the main page of the Punk music WikiProject. The project launched on April 2, 2006. Currently, we have  active members. Please see the discussion page for information on various project-related collaborations.

WikiProject Punk music was formed to foster the creation and encyclopedic improvement of punk rock-related articles, and to establish guidelines for those articles. Its members endeavor to produce a succinct, comprehensive, general, and authoritative reference on punk rock-related topics. The ultimate goal of the project is to have every article within its scope be at featured status. To participate, simply add your name to the participants section.

Recent changes in punk-related articles

Parentage
Since punk music covers multiple branches of topics, the WikiProject is therefore a sub-project of numerous collaborations:
 * WikiProject Biography
 * WikiProject Music
 * WikiProject Music genres
 * WikiProject Musicians
 * WikiProject Albums
 * WikiProject Songs
 * WikiProject Punk music

Sister projects
There are also a number of similar genre-oriented projects which we consider our "sister" projects:
 * WikiProject Alternative music
 * WikiProject Electronic music
 * WikiProject Post-hardcore
 * WikiProject Hip hop
 * WikiProject Metal
 * WikiProject Reggae (also covers ska, rocksteady, dancehall, and dub)
 * WikiProject Rock music

Task forces
These are task forces dedicated to specific aspects of punk music such as individual artists, subgenres, etc. Some of these are WikiProjects in and of themselves, but their scope is so finely limited that we consider them child projects of WikiProject Punk music and work closely with them in much the same way that we do with task forces. If you would like to propose a new task force or work group, make your suggestion on the project talk page to see if other editors are interested.
 * Good Charlotte task force
 * WikiProject The Clash
 * WikiProject Green Day

If interested, please sign our participants section.

Mission statement
The goal of the Punk music Wikiproject is to organize, clean, and improve punk rock-related information within a format that fits Wikipedia's policies and guidelines to, ultimately, the level of quality stressed in the Featured Article and Featured List guidelines.

Scope
Currently, this WikiProject covers the following items:
 * 1) Anyone and anything affiliated with the genre of punk rock, including musicians, albums, songs, artists, record labels, subgenres, etc.
 * 2) Anything featured on the Punk rock portal.
 * 3) Anything located within a punk or punk-affiliated category, sub-category, list, article, stub, or template.

Goals and duties
Our goals and duties are as follows:
 * 1) Discussions and debates relating to the above items, including merges, citations, other references, image issues, splits, cleanup, formatting, and expansion.
 * 2) Reduce trivial information, speculation, point of view, and anything else that violates Wikipedia's core article policies.
 * 3) Monitoring all articles for violations of anything listed in the above two parts.
 * 4) Work toward making all punk rock-related articles and lists clean, organized, well-written, and accessible.
 * 5) Bring numerous articles to Good Article, Featured Article, and/or Featured List status.

Your role
We need the participation of Wikipedians and punk music fans alike. Here are some general guidelines to follow.

How to help

 * 1) Please sign your name below and introduce yourself in the monthly roll call section of the talk page.
 * 2) Take a look at recent discussions and the things to do page to see if your ideas have already been or need to be addressed.
 * 3) Get to know other users so that you can get a sense of the Project's attitude and each member's opinions on what should be merged, expanded, and so on. This will allow you to work better with the team, especially on major projects.
 * 4) Make sure you cite your sources, follow the project's guidelines in addition to style guidelines, and follow the discussions and agreements for the project.
 * 5) Look for text that seems biased (see WP:NPOV) and fix it.
 * 6) Be bold, but do not be reckless. See the above items and the section below for further information on what to do and what not to do.

How not to help
Do not:
 * 1) Insert un-cited and trivial information (see: WP:V and WP:TRIV).
 * 2) Revert war (adherence to the One Revert Rule is encouraged)
 * 3) Add original research, unsourced claims, speculation, point of view, excessive external links, vandalism, and patent nonsense.

Things to remember

 * 1) This is a general interest encyclopedia. Articles should be understandable and appeal to both casual readers and dedicated punk fans alike.
 * 2) Not every person, band, album, record label, etc. in existence deserves their/its own article. Article topics must demonstrate independent notability using citations to reliable third-party sources. Primary sources are important too, but they are not enough to support an encyclopedia article on their own.
 * See: What Wikipedia is Not.
 * 1) Again, we stress: this project is mainly for cleanup, organization, enhancement, factual fixes, and so on. Trivial information is frowned upon.

If some of these items seem redundant, it only underscores what we all believe in as a group.

Open/major tasks
The following is a chart of our largest tasks. For a complete list, please see the things to do subpage, in addition to our talk page. See the opentask template at the top of the page for the priority tasks. Project members, this chart should feature "priority one" tasks!

Punk rock Portal
Make sure to visit the Punk rock Portal. Also you can vote for the selected article of the week at Portal:Punk rock/Vote.

Other

 * See the WikiProject Punk music/index for a list of Punk music-related articles that do not require significant attention. Chances are, if an item doesn't belong on that list or isn't on there, it needs to be fixed (make a note on the things to do page and/or the discussion page).


 * Also remember that there is a Punk music barnstar that you can give out to deserving editors (and a userbox for those who are awarded the barnstar).


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