Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles

 WikiProject The Beatles 

Several Wikipedians have formed a WikiProject to better organize information in articles related to the Beatles (including Apple Records). 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 and/or see the to-do list.

The Beatles are the quintessential pop/rock group, indisputably the most celebrated and influential in history and, arguably, the most popular (as measured by several metrics: number of #1 hits, total sales, Beatlemania, etc.). There are already a considerable number of articles about the Beatles on Wikipedia, of varying levels of quality and depth. These range from featured articles, such as John Lennon, down to stubs of the lowest quality. This project seeks to marshall the efforts of interested editors to improve and unify these articles and to raise the overall standard of the Beatles' coverage on Wikipedia.

Scope
The scope of the project is articles about the Beatles and their work, and people and things directly related to—or who have achieved a significant part of their notability through their connection to—the Beatles as a group and individually.

Goals
Please discuss on the talk page or be bold and add some!


 * 1) Unify and improve articles about albums
 * 2) Unify and improve articles about the Fab Four
 * 3) Unify and improve song articles
 * 4) Unify and improve articles about post-Beatles bands (i.e. Traveling Wilburys)

Book references
In accordance with Wikipedia policy, facts and assertions should be attributed to verifiable, reliable sources wherever possible (see WP:V and WP:RS).

The Project's preferred method for this is inline citations using the tag.

Usage is very simple:

Put the book in the "references" section:

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Citing the book in the article:

Parentage
The father of this WikiProject is WikiProject Music.

Log
The achievements of the WikiProject so far are recorded at WikiProject The Beatles/Log. If you create a new article, perform a merge or achieve some other goal on behalf of the project please record it in the log. It's helpful and motivating for us all to see how we've progressed as a team.

Projects

 * 1) Compile a list of current and missing articles, and catalogue them by status – see WikiProject The Beatles/Assessment and WikiProject_The_Beatles
 * 2) Restore The Beatles to, and upgrade History of The Beatles to, featured article status. Alternative approaches (see WikiProject The Beatles/The Beatles history):
 * 3) *Seek peer review, and 'tweak'
 * 4) *Plan the article structure anew and major edit. Maybe History can be merged back in, and less substantial stuff forked out.
 * 5) Insert other projects (big jobs) here from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles

Tasks

 * 1) Buy a book about the Beatles
 * 2) Invite new members by contacting editors who have made substantial Beatles-related edits in the past
 * 3) Fix templates to talk pages
 * 4) *To do this, does anyone have a suggestion as to how to develop a list of the articles to do this to? There are so many different partial sets (the categories help). Or should an article only get the tagging as it is reviewed by one of us and improved? + +Lar: t/c 21:12, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yep, use What Links Here for the Beatles' template, as discussed elsewhere on this (ever growing) page. That'll locate every article which uses the template, and any not properly categorised articles can be dealt with at the same time. But please don't mess up the lovely cat tree I spent a lot of time tidying :)
 * If you're gonna do it, and if you're gonna do it in a web browser, might be best to reset your link cache first? Then you can see where you've been and where you haven't. With the cats, subcats and the template usage you'll find most articles more than once. --kingboyk 21:48, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Construct WikiProject The Beatles/Assessment by following the category 'tree'(what that means is update this table: WikiProject_The_Beatles/Categories as the automated code reads it and using what links here for The Beatles template. Can do the talk page notices at the same time.
 * 2) Assess articles at WikiProject The Beatles/Assessment
 * 3) Apple Records discography – Needs British LPs and singles, and US LPs. Needs restructuring. I'd propose using the Brit catalog as the basis, and having only those releases which are different in the US section. This might not be practical, however, if the cat. no.s are different (they are for the singles, not sure for the albums). Blue links need to be checked for and, if they aren't already, added to Category:Apple Records singles or Category:Apple Records albums, and the same for The Beatles/solo members singles/albums categories.
 * 4) Add specific fair use rationales to Beatles-related copyrighted images, especially album covers (see Image:LetItBe.jpg for example).
 * 5) Add the geographic coordinates of The Beatles significant places as : Tittenhurst Park, Savile Row, St. Peter's Church, etc. As already exist for the Shea Stadium, Abbey Road or Friar Park. Completed by User:Billy.
 * 6) insert other tasks (smaller jobs) here from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles

Adopt an article
Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

Good Article/Featured Article
Periodically, project members collaborate on an article to bring it up to Good Article/Featured Article status.

, GAR collaboration is: Please Please Me album

Nominations
We are assembling a "task force" to get every album to at least GA status (see discussion). Below is the proposed schedule for future collaborations :

Wikipedia articles on the Beatles

 * Articles using The Beatles template (indicated by "(inclusion)" after the article's name).

Featured articles

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Assessment
Please see the Assessment department for further info.

Unsourced personnel, track listing sections etc.
Like genre churn, an ongoing problem on Wikipedia is constant change to who played what instrument, who sang which vocals etc. In a proportion of Beatles articles, the relevant sections have been checked by editors against reliable sources and hence are supported by inline citations. This makes it a straightforward matter to revert any unexplained changes to the content of those sections. Please add articles where this has not yet been done to the list below. Include a diff if you want to provide an example of the churn that prompted the addition here.

For examples of sourced articles, see personnel sourced from Lewisohn and track listings sourced from Calkin and from Allmusic.

To take on one of the articles in this list, append Taken ~ to the line, review and source the section in question, and then change "Taken" to "Done" here.
 * You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
 * Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
 * Rubber Soul (track listing only part sourced, and source doesn't support stated vocalists)
 * Please Please Me (includes vocalists)

Red links
See WikiProject The Beatles/Red links for a full list

Articles for deletion

 * WikiProject Deletion sorting/Bands and musicians

Categories

 * Per current Wikipedia convention, articles on Beatles singles which are also the sole article for the song in question should belong to the following categories:
 * Category:The Beatles songs
 * Category:The Beatles singles
 * Category:Year singles
 * Category:Year songs
 * Category:Parlophone singles or Category:Apple Records singles (if appropriate; and note that no Capitol Records single category exists at the time of writing)

Subpages

 * List of

Quiz
Please go to WikiProject The Beatles/Quiz for a quiz about The Beatles in general.

Shortcuts
It is recommended that Project members add each of the above Project pages to their watchlists.

Templates
There are a lot of useful templates that may be relevant, infoboxes, notification boxes and so forth. If you know of any resources not listed here, please add them!

Infoboxes
There are several useful infoboxes that are relevant to this project, as the project covers a large number of types of articles.

Infobox album

 * The Beatles produced albums, together and individually. So the template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. Some examples:
 * Help! (album)
 * Band on the Run
 * Dark Horse (George Harrison album)

In addition to the writeup on the talk page of the infobox, the WikiProject Albums page has some discussion on how to effectively use these, color coding, and what some of the fields mean and so forth, as well as larger guidance on how Album pages ought to be done (how the track list is formatted, dates, usages, and so forth).

Some important points copied from that page: When you create or find a new album page, please add WikiProject Albums to the top of the talk page. If the page has no infobox, you should use instead. If the page has an incomplete infobox, note the missing details at Incomplete infobox. If the page has an old style infobox, add to the bottom of the talk page.

Infobox musical artist

 * The Beatles are a band. Offshoots and side projects of members are also bands. So the template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. Some examples:
 * The Beatles
 * Wings (band)
 * Traveling Wilburys

Infobox person

 * Members of The Beatles are people. So the template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. Some examples:
 * George Harrison
 * George Martin
 * Linda McCartney
 * Mimi Smith
 * Julia Lennon
 * Alfred Lennon

Infobox song
Note that the template supports ordering of singles by when they charted.
 * The Beatles produced singles, together and individually. So the Infobox song template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. Some examples:
 * Please Please Me (song) (first single, chronology starts here)
 * Help! (song)
 * Say Say Say (note, uses a custom subst'd variant of the infobox since this is not a Beatles' single per se, it's a collaboration between Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson and it has two covers... use your judgement)

Invite user
If you see someone that might have an interest in the project, you can place on their userpage to invite them:

It makes sense to grow the project participation slowly so use with care. But it's a fun template, a bit more attention grabbing than just a note.
 * DO put some commentary below it, explaining WHY they might be interested, and sign. Alternatively, you may leave a message and sign within the template by supplying an optional parameter
 * DO NOT spam people extensively, give it some thought first and don't invite too many people at once.

Navboxes

 * Use for major articles. Place it at the bottom of the article. The result is:


 * Use on articles about albums:


 * Use on articles about singles and b-side releases:


 * Use on articles about compilation albums:


 * Use on articles about films and videos:


 * Use for articles about the company:

Project banner
Place on the talk page of an article that you think belongs in the project:


 * This template is used for article classification. See also: usage instructions. Do not subst it!

Stubs

 * lists articles in . There are currently about 95 songs listed, though some of these are songs recorded by the members of the band as soloists after 1970.


 * NOTE: stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Stub for general guidelines on creating stub templates and categories. It is inadbisable to create new stub templates without consultation as these will probably be nominated for deletion.

Userboxes
You can place on your userpage to show project membership:

Alternatively or in addition, you can place on your userpage to show project membership:

Placing one of these on your pages is entirely optional, but it is a way to show your involvement to others... That's good for the project, as we have lots of work to do!

Barnstar
The Beatles barnstar may be awarded by any editor to another editor who has made a significant contribution to the WikiProject and/or to articles about the Beatles and related topics. Neither editor need be a registered member of the WikiProject.

To award the template, add the following to the recipient's talk page:

Resources
This should be a list of useful resources to the project that will aid in research, article creation, or that may be a source of images that are freely usable by the project. Please add to this list as you find items. Assume that project members know about common things, like IMDB.
 * Soundscapes.
 * Musicologist Allan W. Pollack has taken an in-depth look at each of the Beatles' songs from a musicological point of view. Wordy, but with a lot of meat, and definitely helpful in adding length to articles on songs – also useful to add as an external link to song articles.