Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Music genres task force

WikiProject Music/Music genres task force is a task force to better organize information in articles related to music genres. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions of the Wikipedians involved in this task force; it is hoped that it will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and check our goals.

This task force aims to gather together those who are interested in working on and cleaning up the various music genre articles that exist on Wikipedia.

• Maintain list of music genre articles
• Add {{Infobox music genre }}, relevant footer templates and categories to genre articles
• Add {{WikiProject Music/Music genres task force }} to genre article talk pages
• Add to and maintain surveillance of Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Music regarding deletion nominations
• Continue to work through genres adding {{Citation needed }} to all unsourced claims
• Continue discussion on the merger and cleaning up of overlapping genres and subgenres
• Prod/AFD any genre articles that can not be sourced
• To improve genre and related articles to Wikipedia:Content assessment standards

Please add your name to the bottom of this list using {{user|username}}

• Absolon (talk · contribs) — Interested in Gospel music and the related subgenres
• Andros 1337 (talk · contribs)
• Divex (talk · contribs)
• Dexter_prog (talk · contribs)
• Peter G Werner (talk · contribs) — I am fairly knowledgeable about ambient music, industrial music, jazz rock, and many of the subgenres therein. I have a fairly extensive music collection and can also contribute ogg samples.
• TimNelson (talk · contribs)
• Sabrebd (talk · contribs) — folk, blues, rock, classical and some others, especially those with a British or American element
• Allreet (talk · contribs) — folk, blues, rock, folk-rock, reggae
• 3family6 (talk · contribs) — Like pretty much every style of music on the planet. Though I'm not really knowledgeable, I'm pretty good at finding reliable sources.
• North8000 (talk · contribs) — (talk) 11:53, 20 May 2011 (UTC) Working on sorting out Folk/Roots/Traditional music[reply ]
• MilkMiruku (talk · contribs) — I've been more active in the past. Mainly interested in the musicology and culture of electronic dance/experimental music styles, and in general knowledge management (references, infoboxes and templates).
• Nostalgia of Iran (talk · contribs) — Familiar with metal genres, subject matter in lyrics, particularly Iron Maiden, Slayer, Dream Theater, and System of a Down, among others
• WikiWinters (talk · contribs)
• Binksternet (talk · contribs) — Pushing for verifiable genres supported by reliable sources, not shoot-from-the-hip assessments
• Mashaunix (talk · contribs) — Interested in independent, rock, experimental, psychedelic, extreme music... Check out my rework of the post-metal article.
• Sixty Minute Limit (talk · contribs) — I’m interested in heavy metal music, especially extreme metal, though I sometimes edit other rock-related articles and I may may edit other stuff, but rarely.
• Acousmana (talk · contribs) — various, particularity electronic/electroacoustic
• Garagepunk66 (talk · contribs) — Work in various music genres and subgenres, such as garage rock, British Invasion, psychedelic rock, reggae, soul music, etc.
• QuickClown (talk · contribs) — Knowledgeable about indie music, folk music, grime music, electronic/ambient music, and emergent genres such as Vapourwave. I have a special interest in the history, culture, geography and biographies of music and musicians with a view to de-orphaning finding reliable sources for these (see my contributions to Dave Tyack).
• Missbellanash (talk · contribs) — Knowledgeable in rock, pop, blues, some jazz and classical.
• Aleeza2018 (talk · contribs) — just a random wikipedia user with a lot of knowledge about pop
• Lightshinesondark (talk · contribs) - Knowledgeable in americana, blues, southern, roots-rock, soul, country, early rock n roll
• ‪EleniXDD (talk · contribs) - Hope to improve standards and fix the overlapping genres issues
• Sergecross73 (talk · contribs) - primarily participating/mediating disputes, and taking Administrative action against editors who refuse to follow policy.
• TheUsualHuman (talk · contribs) - The Music Theory, Percussion, Ambience.
• Worldish2024 (talk · contribs) - I am interested in instruments and percussion.

Good article nominees

• 06 Jan 2025 – Visayan pop (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Bloomagiliw (t · c); start discussion

Requests for comments

• 02 Mar 2025 – Trip hop (talk · edit · hist) RfC by Spinmeisters (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 15 Dec 2024 – Hip-hop galsen (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Senegalese hip-hop by Fayenatic london (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 08 Feb 2024 – Manila sound (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Sanglahi86 (t · c); see discussion
• 29 Mar 2023 – Fight song (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by MagentaCat1 (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Nov 2020 – Hip-hop production (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by CommonSentiments (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 09 Mar 2025 – Draft:PRMD Music (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Leewilliam236 (t · c)
• 09 Mar 2025 – Draft:Tave (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Lordruger (t · c)
• 08 Mar 2025 – Draft:Fingerpistol (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ChronicleLuvdoc (t · c)
• 08 Mar 2025 – Draft:James Worthy (record producer) (talk · edit · hist) (initially Draft:James Worthy) has been submitted for AfC by Frannygarrett22 (t · c)
• 08 Mar 2025 – Draft:Kidz Bop 3 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by UnregisteredBiohazard (t · c)
• 07 Mar 2025 – Draft:Marko Matijević Sekul (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by DarkKholi (t · c)
• 07 Mar 2025 – Draft:Luigi Bordèse (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by TheBordeseProject (t · c)
• 07 Mar 2025 – Draft:A Projection (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
• 06 Mar 2025 – Draft:Elliot M. Zimmerman (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mjkr234 (t · c)
• 04 Mar 2025 – Draft:Pearl and the Oysters (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Issac I Navarro (t · c)

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