Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to document the notable activities of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty (The KLF) in a high-quality, encyclopedic fashion. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians.

Please note that this is a very small, highly focused WikiProject (a "micro Project"). This should be considered a central meeting point for discussing how to proceed on articles relating to The KLF. If you've helped with KLF articles in the past, want to help in the future, or just want to keep an eye us, please sign up below. If you would like to help or require more information you may also inquire on the talk page. Please also note that this isn't an attempt to inflate the importance of The KLF, it's simply that they're a band we love - for their antics as much as the music - and we enjoy making high quality articles about them.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see WikiProjects and WikiProject best practices.

Visitor? Contributed to KLF articles but don't want to sign up? Have read one of our articles and wish say hi or leave a comment? Then please sign our guestbook.

Articles:

Scope
The Project is concerned with all notable activities of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, better known as The KLF, and related articles.

Goals

 * Bring The KLF from B-Class to Featured Article
 * Produce articles of at least Good Article standard for The KLF's albums and notable songs
 * Avoid fancruft, report published opinion
 * Do we want to aim for the discography and K Foundation to be featured too? - Yes! --Vinoir 02:43, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Current projects

 * Bring The KLF back to FA status (probably via GA)
 * Bring The K Foundation burn a million quid to FA
 * Ensure existing FAs retain their status (4 at the time of writing, March 2020, including The Orb which is an important topic to the WikiProject - the Cauty years at least - but not our work)

Participants

 * Guilty as charged. --kingboyk (Founder) 11:53, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Drstuey 23:22, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Inactive

 * Hello there. --Evil1987 21:38, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Officially retired from Wikipedia

 * Oh yes. --Vinoir 21:24, 21 May 2006 (UTC) [Member number 2 and the project's star editor, acc. ]
 * Me too! (©dork@aol.com) Rodhullandemu 03:01, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Moratorium
It has not been disclosed whether this WikiProject will be inactive for 23 years, but the founder will not discuss whether or not a moratorium was or was not in place until 23 May 2009. Not to be taken seriously; the project may be revived at any time by anyone.

Wikimania 2006 awards
The KLF was named best article in the Humanities & Culture class at Wikimania 2006 I (User:Kingboyk) found out that my hard work (along with the hard work of User:Vinoir) had won a prize by finding a mention of it in Google (that is, won a prize for the nominator). Thanks for letting me know folks!

Guestbook
Please sign here!
 * Mate, those KLF articles are simply stunning. kudos. W guice 14:07, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep up the good work! ItsGrimUpNorth 23:46, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi, been a big fan of the KLF, but I don't know enough about them to contribute. Great Job you're doing! Monoblonde 16:14, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 * LuciferMorgan, a rock/metal music interviewer for www.lucemfero.com, left the following comment at Featured article candidates/All You Need Is Love (The JAMs song) which he has agreed may be placed here: This is the best song article I've seen on Wikipedia so far, and wipes the floor with the other FA song articles. Comments like this make the hard work worthwhile, so thank you very much.

Essential reading
Too bad we didn't think of this before, but from now on if I find a really captivating piece about The KLF it will be added here.

These are the "wow" articles:

Of course, WP:KLF's articles are all anyone needs to read ;), but if you want to take your reading further check these out:


 * Ignore the silly title, and behold this first hand account of the BRITs award show rehearsals/live show/aftermath/Trancentral, and a Drummond interview the next day


 * Essential career round-up and reaction to the retirement.


 * Detailed, analytical piece.


 * This article is a first-hand account by freelance journalist Jim Reid, the only independent witness to the burning.

Fun:


 * Harrison, A., The White Room review, Splendid Magazine. Enthusiastic review of the stadium house tracks and Justified & Ancient. "Couldn't give a shit" about the other tracks though, which is a shame, as I think there's a great deal of beauty in "Build A Fire", "The Church of The KLF" and "Make It Rain".

To-do list
The plan was to tackle the duo's singles and albums in chronological order. Depending on length and the availability of sources, the goal may be Featured Article status (FA).

February 2020 update: The JAMs articles are mostly very good or excellent. The KLF article is no longer even a GA. At the time of writing, only JAMs and K Foundation articles are GAs and The Orb, Fuck the Millennium and 2 JAMs articles are FAs. Therefore any future focus ought to be on The KLF and their recordings.

Our old todo list is archived here. Please feel free to restoreit to this main project page and update it if you wish to reactive the project.

Other subpages

 * Project Log
 * Additional Communicators - An article on the people who worked and collaborated with The KLF. This text has been part of The KLF, KLF Communications, and a standalone article. It's living here until we decide once and for all what - if anything - to do with it!

Article infoboxes
The KLF infobox should be placed at the bottom of all articles where Drummond and Cauty and/or their works are the primary topic:

The KLF

User pages
User:UBX/KLF



Categories

 * Category:The KLF
 * Category:WikiProject The KLF

Archived Peer reviews and Featured article candidacies

 * WikiProject Biography/Peer review/K Foundation
 * Peer review/Whitney Joins The JAMs/archive1
 * The KLF was peer reviewed at Peer review/The KLF/archive1.
 * The KLF was a Featured Article candidate (now archived; article promoted).
 * Fuck the Millennium - Peer review
 * 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) - Peer review
 * The KLF discography - Peer review
 * Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/The KLF discography - Failed
 * Featured article candidates/Fuck the Millennium (promoted)
 * Featured article candidates/All You Need Is Love (The JAMs song) (promoted)
 * Featured article candidates/1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) (promoted)
 * Featured article candidates/K Foundation/archive1 (article) - Failed

Requested articles
Bad Wisdom Notable book (easily meets WP:GNG per a quick Google search which comes up with several reviews from reputable journals) by Bill Drummond and Mark Manning --kingboyk (talk) 23:51, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Resources

 * Library of Mu - online library of KLF-related press clippings etc.
 * The KLF discography - fan-maintained for 10 years and subject to much peer review.

Parentage
The father of this WikiProject is WikiProject Music. This Project is a friend of WikiProject Electronic music.