Wikipedia:WikiProject Roots music/Chicago folk task force

Welcome to the Chicago folk task force of WikiProject Roots music and Wikiproject Chicago.

The Chicago folk task force covers the American folk music types covered in this List of North American folk music traditions from the point of view of Chicago-centric folk artists. Currently we have an emphasis on Artists and Teachers who have been associated with Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. We will also address folk and roots flavored festivals in the Chicago area.

Participants
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 * 1) Dannygutters 18:06, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) North8000 (talk) 23:21, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

News

 * Win Stracke promoted to B class article. This is the first B class article from this group. Good work!

Todo items for members of Chicago folk task force

 * Tag and assess related articles.
 * Especially tag articles that need to go in Category:Old Town School Of Folk Musicians and Category:Chicago folk musicians
 * Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here.
 * Make a template like Template:Folk music for Chicago Folk Artists
 * Follow the "Quick article improvements" information below for:
 * All groups in Category:Chicago folk musicians
 * All albums associated with groups in Category:Chicago folk musicians and Category:Old Town School Of Folk Musicians
 * All musicians/artists associated with groups in Category:Chicago folk musicians and Category:Old Town School Of Folk Musicians
 * Create infoboxes for articles in Category:Chicago folk musicians and Category:Old Town School Of Folk Musicians that need them

Tagging and assessment
Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with the project banners of WikiProject Roots music and Category:Chicago folk musicians and Category:Old Town School Of Folk Musicians. You may also find WikiProject banner shell useful. To each of these banners, you should add  as this will automatically put the page in the appropriate categories., such as Category:Chicago folk task force articles.

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The importance levels in the tagging scheme work as follows:
 * Top: Topics related to the scene in general or The Old Town School OF Folk Music
 * High: Festivals, Nationally Known Artists from Chicago, Wiedly folk songs regularly played in Chicago (these don't need to be tagged with the Chicago Folk Category, only if they are Chicago related.
 * Mid: Artists and Teachers well known in the Chicago folk scene.
 * Low: Other Individual musicians, Songs written by Chicago folk songwriters. Albums released by Chicago based folk musicians

Categories

 * Category:Chicago folk task force articles

Templates
For main project templates, see the main project page for WikiProject Roots music.

Infobox template
The following infoboxen may be useful:
 * Template:Infobox Musical artist (for individual musicians and bands)

Bands, Individuals, and Albums

 * Ensure that the article is tagged and assessed (see tagging and assessment, above)
 * Add some more headings
 * Create an Infobox if one is needed
 * For song origins cite references used
 * If the related band has a template, include it on the page
 * Song names can often be turned into links (if there's already an article on the song)
 * Create a timeline using EasyTimeline
 * Consider making a template somewhat like Template:Steeleye Span