Wikipedia:WikiProject Van Halen

Welcome to WikiProject Van Halen, a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the rock band Van Halen. If you would like to help, please see the open tasks below, or inquire on the talk page.


 * Our goals:
 * Improve Wikipedia's coverage of Van Halen by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles.
 * Provide guidelines and recommendations for articles about and related to Van Halen.
 * Serve as the central point Van Halen article discussion.


 * Our scope:
 * The project focuses on articles about everything related to Van Halen, including but not limited to: current and former members, albums and songs, and notable musical instruments associated with the band.

Add your name to the list of Participants and get started on anything below!
 * What can you do?

Van Halen Concert Tours
The 07/08 article is fine, the 04 article is fine. The rest need a LOT of fleshing out. (The Elfoid (talk) 23:46, 27 March 2008 (UTC))

Assessment
The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of project-supported articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the WPVANHALEN project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

Guidelines
The guidelines presented in this section are intended to be guidelines only; while they are well-suited for the vast majority of Van Halen articles, there exist a number of peculiar cases where, for lack of a better solution, alternate approaches can been taken. Please discuss individual cases on the Project talk page when deviating from guidelines.

Article structure
The guidelines in this section are intended to serve as a starting point for writing a good article; they are not meant to enforce a single structure on all articles, nor to limit the topics an article will discuss. Remember to cite your sources!


 * For personnel, follow the article guidelines at WikiProject Musicians/Article guidelines.
 * For albums, follow the article guidelines at WikiProject Albums.
 * For songs, follow the article guidelines at WikiProject Songs.

Images
Include educational images in article whenever possible. Free images are always preferred. However, in some cases, it may be necessary to use copyrighted images with valid fair use rationales, especially to illustrate album and song articles. See Image use policy for the overall policy; see Non-free content for details on what copyrighted images are acceptable fair use. If in doubt, ask on the project talk page before uploading a copyrighted image.

To request photos for an article, use, where xxx is what you what a photo of and yyy is the geographic location where you think a Wikipedian could take such a photograph.

Infobox templates
Use the following infoboxes depending on the subject of the article:
 * Infobox musical artist for band members and associated personnel.
 * Infobox album for Van Halen albums and music DVD's.
 * Infobox song for Van Halen singles, album tracks and B-sides.
 * Infobox artist discography for discography.
 * Infobox concert for concert tours.
 * Audio sample for audio clips.

Categories
Articles should be placed in the most specific applicable categories, and should not be placed directly in a "parent" category if they are already present in one of its sub-categories. In other words, if an article is placed in Category:Van Halen members, there is no need to place it in Category:Van Halen as well.


 * Category:Van Halen : Root category for all Van Halen articles.
 * Category:Van Halen members
 * Category:Van Halen albums
 * Category:Van Halen songs

Stubs
There are a wide variety of stub templates that might apply to Van Halen articles.

For Van Halen songs, you may use one of the following:
 * 1970s rock song stubs 1970s-rock-song-stub
 * 1980s rock song stubs 1980s-rock-song-stub
 * 1990s rock song stubs 1990s-rock-song-stub
 * 2000s rock song stubs 2000s-rock-song-stub

For Van Halen albums, you may use one of the following:
 * 1970s rock album stubs 1970s-rock-album-stub
 * 1980s rock album stubs 1980s-rock-album-stub
 * 1990s rock album stubs 1990s-rock-album-stub
 * 2000s rock album stubs 2000s-rock-album-stub

For other Van Halen related music, you may use one of the following:
 * Category:Single stubs Single-stub
 * Category:Soundtrack stubs soundtrack-stub
 * Category:Music video stubs Music-video-stub

For Van Halen musicians, you may use one of the following:
 * Category:American rock musician stubs US-rock-musician-stub
 * Category:American rock singer stubs US-rock-singer-stub
 * Category:American drummer stubs US-drummer-stub
 * Category:American bass guitarist stubs US-bass-guitarist-stub
 * Category:American guitarist stubs US-guitarist-stub
 * Category:American keyboardist stubs US-keyboardist-stub

Member userbox
You can add this userbox to your user page, signifying your participation in the project.

Also add yourself to WikiProject_Van_Halen/Members.

Van Halen Newsdesk
http://www.vhnd.com/

Best place for all information sources needed to confirm/cite facts.