Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Music genres task force
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This is a task force, an open group of Wikipedia editors. New participants are welcome; feel free to talk to us!
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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.
Scope
[edit ]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.
Goals
[edit ]- 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
Assessment
[edit ]| Music genre pages by quality | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | |||||||
| Total | |||||||
| FA | 4 | ||||||
| GA | 42 | ||||||
| B | 277 | ||||||
| C | 763 | ||||||
| Start | 1,608 | ||||||
| Stub | 808 | ||||||
| List | 71 | ||||||
| Category | 897 | ||||||
| Disambig | 129 | ||||||
| Portal | 1 | ||||||
| Project | 2 | ||||||
| Redirect | 292 | ||||||
| Template | 143 | ||||||
| Assessed | 5,037 | ||||||
| Unassessed | 3 | ||||||
| Total | 5,040 | ||||||
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 16,855 | Ω = 4.81 | |||||
Participants
[edit ]Please add your name to the bottom of this list using {{user|username}}
- Absolon (talk ·contribs ) — Interested in Gospel music and the related subgenres
- Andros1337 (talk ·contribs )
- Divex (talk ·contribs )
- Dexter_prog (talk ·contribs )
- PeterGWerner (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 musicreply
- 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).
- NostalgiaofIran (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.
- SixtyMinuteLimit (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.
Articles
[edit ]Article alerts
[edit ]Proposed deletions
- 28 Jul 2026 – Kōshiki (talk·edit·hist) PRODed by Kowal2701 (t·c) was deproded by Erynamrod (t·c) on 31 Jul 2026
Good article nominees
- 22 Jun 2026 – Southern hip-hop (talk·edit·hist) was GA nominated by ModernDayTrilobite (t·c); start discussion
- 09 Feb 2026 – Pontic Greek music (talk·edit·hist) was GA nominated by Kravk (t·c); start discussion
- 22 Jan 2026 – Post-noise (talk·edit·hist) was GA nominated by Aradicus (t·c); start discussion
Articles to be split
- 10 Jun 2026 – Revue (talk·edit·hist) is proposed for splitting by Stifle (t·c); see discussion
- 16 Oct 2025 – Traditional music of Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias (talk·edit·hist) is proposed for splitting by Miiversal (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
- 02 Aug 2026 – Draft:Qendresa (talk·edit·hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mmemaigret (t·c)
- 31 Jul 2026 – Draft:Detty December Festival (talk·edit·hist) has been submitted for AfC by ArticleAuthor1991 (t·c)
- 31 Jul 2026 – Draft:VAMP (company) (talk·edit·hist) has been submitted for AfC by ~2026-42307-07 (t·c)
- 24 Jul 2026 – Draft:Adrian Benegas (talk·edit·hist) has been submitted for AfC by QuantumAtlasEditor (t·c)
- 24 Jul 2026 – Draft:Shankar Sahney (talk·edit·hist) has been submitted for AfC by MindOfDerby (t·c)
- 24 Jul 2026 – Draft:End It (talk·edit·hist) has been submitted for AfC by TheLostPariah (t·c)
- 23 Jul 2026 – Draft:Nikon Zhila (talk·edit·hist) has been submitted for AfC by Likewriter2 (t·c)
- 23 Jul 2026 – Draft:Peter Duggal (talk·edit·hist) has been submitted for AfC by Pd2026 (t·c)
- 21 Jul 2026 – Draft:Pop Myx (talk·edit·hist) has been submitted for AfC by Eegnetwork (t·c)
- 14 Jul 2026 – Draft:Janam Raj (talk·edit·hist) has been submitted for AfC by Someoneyoumayknow2010 (t·c)
- (77 more...)
Templates
[edit ]Music genre related articles
[edit ]{{WikiProject Music/Music genres task force }}
WikiProject icon Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Music genres task force is within the scope of the Music genres task force of the Music project , a user driven attempt to clean up and standardize music genre articles on Wikipedia. Please visit the task force guidelines page for ideas on how to structure a genre article and help us assess and improve genre articles to good article status.Music/Music genres task forceWikipedia:WikiProject Music/Music genres task forceTemplate:WikiProject Music/Music genres task forcemusic genre
Place this Project template at the top of all music genre related article talk pages, using: {{Genre|class = |importance = }}
Userboxes
[edit ]Place one these userboxes to your user page, they also add you to the Category:WikiProject Music genres participants. This userbox template has two parameters for two different userbox icons.
The default icon is set by omitting the "icon" parameter.
{{User WikiProject Music genres}}
For an alternative icon, add the "icon" parameter, then set the value to "genres".
{{User WikiProject Music genres}}
If you don't wish to use userboxes, but still wish to be in listed in the project category, then just add to your user page:[[Category:WikiProject Music genres Members|{{PAGENAME}}]]
