Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/Music/Proficiency

message: It would be appreciated if someone could make a set of templates for the Kazoo. It's an instrument that practically anyone can play. kallemax 20:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Done - Rooivalk 02:38, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

text: I know this is pathetically pedantic, but the kazoo is technically a membranophone; Rather than create another category, I've moved it to "woodwind" as it's more like a woodwind instrument than a brass one :) -- Djbb2 02:29, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

text: I've created .  Feel free to use it or improve it. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 12:43, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Template Requests

message: This template survived a debate at TfD. The discussion can be found here. -Splashtalk 17:37, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  TfD debate 

message: Is there a template if someone is doing composition?
:Composition is not itself a playable instrument, and does not really belong within the instruments category.  Perhaps in another category or on its own. --TheKMan 06:03, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I just saw on the main userbox page that there is one for composition. Look here Wikipedia:Userboxes#Musical_Instruments — TheKMantalk 02:23, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Composition 

message: Viol needs to have the categories changed from the viol prefix to vdg, if it is to be compatible with the instrument template. (or change the template names. changing the categories may have less of an impact.) — TheKMantalk 07:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Viol

message: Why not have a category on the instrument Triangle? J.J.Sagnella 20:28, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, why not? Done. Ddawson 11:07, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion

message: I have noticed in the past year or so since I have become one that bass trombonists usually seperate themselves from tenor trombonists. Since there are different templates for bass guitar and guitar, why not bass trombone and trombone? That would be so awesome.schyler 06:43, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bass Trombone 

message: In my absence from Wikipedia (enforced by the demands of an airliner design project in uni which has taken over my life) there seem to have been some fairly drastic developments on the userboxes front. I'm grateful to User:Ddawson to taking on my fledgling Instruments project and both improving the template system and increasing its momentum. 
It seems, however, that somewhere along the way a whole Userbox movement has evolved and has even attracted several comments from Jimbo Wales. A lot of people seem to have jumped on the Userboxes-as-bumper-stickers bandwagon, a development which I'm not convinced is healthy. 
The reason I stopped displaying my own instrument templates on my user page was that I was discouraged by the comments I received from others about templates for instruments and other skills not being encyclopaedic. I argued to the contrary and it is interesting to read the eventual TfD entry for this page where there seems to have been unanimous agreement to Keep. I sort of wish I'd been around to join in :)
Anyway, my point is basically that I'm glad the Babel-spinoff Instruments template system has taken off and that people seem to think it's A Good Idea. I just hope I'm not indirectly responsible for the political/religious/POV/advocacy/etc. craziness that seems to have happened when I was away! Hopefully the project is helping to make a better encyclopaedia, as was my intention from the start. - Yummifruitbat 00:59, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that instrument templates should be kept, and don't even agree that they are useless for encyclopedic content. For example, I've played guitar for more than a year, and have no idea about what a bohdrán is, therefore I'm much more likely, and capable, to edit an article related to guitars than one related to bohdráns. --Army1987 09:18, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Also agree that user instrument templates should be kept to back up encyclopedic content.  If I edit a page on Ancient Chalumeaux, my contribution may have a different weight with readers & editors if I am a professional clarinetist. D A Patriarche (talk) 02:08, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interesting developments 

message: I was wondering if there was a policy on whether the ID boxes of the userboxes should or should not have pictures of the actual instrument instead of the code (i.e., having a picture of a piano instead of pno-2). Thanks.--Methegreat 22:49, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree - it would be quite easy to make an ID box made up of a picture of the instrument with the relevant number in front of it. The only problem would be finding pictures for all the instruments in the list! Any volunteers? -- Djbb2 02:18, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

text: I checked them all and the only instruments without an image to go with them are Fortepiano, Tangent Piano, Front Ensemble, Keyboard Percussion, Vibraphone, Psaltery, and Air Guitar. One other problem this idea presents is that most of the woodwind instruments are much longer than they are wide and would not fit in a square unless they were cropped, or made very small.--Methegreat 19:51, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Air guitar=Empty hands. Morganfitzp 00:26, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Policy on ID boxes 

message: There are people who play musical instruments in ways that have nothing to do with the rigid hierarcy imposed by the the skill level system. Can userboxes be added to each of these categories that do not impose a number rating to how accomplished one is or is not at playing an instrument? Morganfitzp 00:26, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Skill level?

message: At Wikipedia:User categories for discussion#Instrument debabelization,  has proposed "Instrument debabelization", which would involve removing the skill level categories (keeping the larger instrumentation supercategories, and keeping the skill level userboxes).  If you have an opinion on this topic, please contribute to the discussion at the link above.  Powers T 16:09, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion discussion

message: At Template_talk:User_instrument#Confused, I raise the question of why some of the skill-level categories have been deleted.  Not much response.  Anyone available to explain?  Powers T 14:38, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion of skill-level categories? 

message: There´s surprisingly no userbox for people playing E-guitar. So could someone create a userbox for people playing this instrument? Dagadt (talk) 16:35, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Electric guitar 

message: As with Electric guitar, there should be a separate box for Classical Guitar vs. folk & other steel-string acoustic guitars - both the instruments and techniques are quite different. D A Patriarche (talk) 01:32, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classical Guitar 

message: I would expect Wikipedia:Instruments to contain something other than userboxes - an instrument notability guideline, perhaps, or a description of a set of instruments to be used for performing an action.
Would anyone object to moving this to a subpage of Wikipedia:Userboxes, userfying it, or merging it somewhere else? My first thought was to set up an MFD but I now see that this was the wrong course of action. Brilliantine (talk) 04:34, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving this page 

message: Kabardian and keyboardists use the same acronym kbd; at first I thought it was a joke. "This user is a native speaker of keyboardian", but no, since kabardian is using an ISO code, I suggest you move keyboards from kbd to key or something else.--DasRakel (talk) 17:51, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kabardian 

message: Further to my proposal of more than a year ago, I have gone ahead and done this. Anyone disagree? Brilliantine (talk) 04:33, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  moved 

message: I agree with DasRakel, keyboard (kbd) says kabardian Palamut (talk) 07:35, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kabardian 

message: I see that trumpeters have their own set of userboxes, though I will pass on any rude comments about such favoritism. I'd like to propose something for those of us who play cornet, such as:

Cornet

Trilobitealive (talk) 03:08, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is there no cornet userbox? 

message: Should we include certain hybrids, such as the flumpet in their own userboxes? I'm not sure, as the flumpet doesn't seem to be very widespread in usage. I'm also making a set of userboxes for flugelhorn players, as well as cornet players. Supertoastfairy(Talk) 16:29, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Flumpet

message: Hi, I've created Template:User kalimba but I have no idea how to properly make a category page for those who have it on their userpage. Where is the so-called "instrument-code" list that I can add "Kal" to? Wikipedia:Userboxes/Music/Instruments/Adding is a redlink, so I have no idea what I'm supposed to do. Esn (talk) 03:19, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Help with creating userbox

message: This gallery page is overcrowded. Catfurball (talk) 19:54, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep. They need a second page.  Buaidh  talk e-mail 03:57, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overcrowded 

message: I'm considering adding userboxes for vocal ranges. Angelsmells (talk) 16:55, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vocal range 

message: Oud player here. Can someone either add a box for oud players or show me how to make one? I'm not entirely sure how. Jo Dusepo (talk) 11:09, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oud