Wikipedia:WikiProject Music

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The parent of this WikiProject is Arts.

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See Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Participants for the full list. Click here to add yourself!

Improve the bird's eye view edit

The entire subject and Wikipedia's coverage of it is intended to be summarized in the Outline of music. It in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems.

Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.

While analyzing the outline, please answer the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):

What's missing?
Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject?
Does the outline help understand the relationships between the topics presented in the best way possible?

The overall purpose of the outline is to help readers comprehend the subject by showing what belongs to it, and within the subject what belongs to what.

The outline is a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject.

It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise music-related material. It is a hub from which to organize related topics.

It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of an existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.

Please help improve it.

It's our bird's eye view.

Thank you.

Noticeboard edit

Discussion occurs on the WikiProject Music talk page.

The noticeboard for music-related news and requests became inactive in 2017.

Guidelines edit

Several guidelines have been adopted which are specific to music-related articles. According to WP:GUIDES, "Guidelines are sets of best practices that are supported by consensus. Editors should attempt to follow guidelines, though they are best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply." Various music projects have developed "guides" and "advice" which are relevant to their areas of interest; however, these may not have been vetted by the community and should be treated accordingly.

The following have been identified as WP guidelines (main page followed by shortcut(s)):

Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Music (MOS:MUSIC)

Assessments edit

Assessments are done by individual music projects, such as Albums, Opera, Composers etc., not by this Music Project, which is an umbrella project.

Categories edit

The project categories are listed on the Categories sub page.

Subpages edit

List of all subpages of this page

Templates edit

Music-related WikiProjects template edit

Add this to the bottom of music-related WikiProjects: {{WikiProject Music/Related WikiProjects}}.
This template should be kept up-to-date with Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Music

Barnstar edit

The Music Barnstar can be awarded to any Wikipedian that exhibits exceptional effort and dedication to music-related articles. Add it to their Talk page with {{subst:Music Barnstar|message ~~~~}}.

Portals edit

The Music portal template {{Portal|Music}} may be placed in the See also or another appropriate section of a music article, however there are other, more specific pages available. See Category:Music portals for a list of music portals.

Stubs edit

To add an article to the music stubs category, use {{music-stub}}. See Category:Music stubs for more stubs and info.

Userbox edit

There is a userbox for members, which adds them to Category:WikiProject Music participants. To add the userbox to your user page, use {{User WP Music}}. It will produce this:

This user is a participant in WikiProject Music.