Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music/Music genres task force

message: There is a discussion taking place about whether or not to keep, delete or retarget  at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2018_April_28#Template:WikiProject_Music. --Jax 0677 (talk) 13:40, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion about "Template:WikiProject Music"  

message: There is a discussion taking place about whether templates (primarily infoboxes) for funk and closely related genres should use a different color than the orange currently used for soul music, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music/Music genres task force/Colours#Should Funk be a different colour than Soul? LifeofTau 20:49, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Music genres task force/Colours 

message: There is an RFC on removing genres from infoboxes at WT:Manual of Style/Infoboxes#Request for comment on removing genres from musician, album, and song infoboxes  — BillHPike (talk, contribs) 22:25, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  RFC on Genre Infoboxes 

message: I have been perusing the discussions on this page, and also this one, about colors for the music genre infobox. Someone please help me out here because I can find no actual rules to follow and it all seems a matter of opinion about what genres sound similar to each other. I am working on a new genre article, which will be about rock n' roll in a non-Western country in the 1960s-70s. Is there an appropriate color group for my infobox? ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 15:53, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The relevant guide is WP:GENRECOLOUR. In your case, crimson would appear to be the most appropriate choice. LifeofTau 22:26, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  - Thanks, somehow I did  not see the various links around the project pages to that colour guide. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 00:45, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  General Infobox Color Rules 

message: There is a RfC about the scope of the hip house term at Talk:Hip house#RfC: Is hip house a present day trend? RoseCherry64 (talk) 21:19, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC on hip house 

message: Hello, I recently created this new music genre article: Cambodian rock (1960s-70). Everyone here is welcome to check it out and make contributions. I am not concerned about the current state of the text, but I have been forced to create an article that is almost a giant wall of text with no photos of the people being discussed. My early versions of the article had photos of many of the relevant musicians, but they were mostly non-free/copyrighted images, and Wikipedia's non-free police subjected me to a highly inflexible and disheartening tirade about how such images should (key word: should) only be used once in Wikipedia, and typically at a musician's main page. This makes most non-free musician images ineligible for genre articles where the exact same person is prominently discussed. So if anyone can help out, please throw in some ideas on how best to illustrate this article. Thanks in advance. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 19:41, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: If anyone actually watches this page, I would like to point out that my message above raises some serious issues about the viability of this project's articles (ANY of them) due to the rules for using non-free photos of the musicians discussed. The lack of response is rather odd for what seems like a well-populated project. Just to entice some more discussion, while I was arguing with the non-free police about the use of photos in my article Cambodian rock (1960s-70), one of the "experts" on that team specifically said that music genre articles should not be using photos repeated from a musician's personal article, and from my casual reading of genre articles this seems like a rather common practice. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 16:40, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Musician Photos in Genre Article 

message: At Talk:Sophisti-pop, a major theme of the various threads is the significance that this was not regarded as a genre at the time, that the disparate acts were not regarded as connected and that the term for and concept of this genre was not coined until a couple of decades or so later. Understandably, it proved difficult to find references to verify this negative and the article had settled without these details being expressed therein. Ironically, a user that had never engaged in the talk discussions but was diligent in removing the notion from the article, fixed a dead link to a WP:RS, citing unrelated material in the article, that also made a point of noting the retrospective nature of the term. The issue of sourcing resolved, I added it back but, though the veracity seems now to have been accepted, it is still being removed, with new and questionable edit summary rationales and still without engagement at talk. Mutt Lunker (talk) 20:09, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Retrospective nature of Sophisti-pop 

message: I've submitted an RfC re: the categorization of all works (albums, songs) by artists by genre.
Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Music#RfC_on_categorizing_all_works_by_an_artist_by_genre.
Thanks! ---Another Believer (Talk) 18:30, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC re: Categorizing all works (albums, songs) by an artist by genre 

message: A discussion is taking place as to whether :Portal:Rock music is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Rock music until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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thread_title:  Nomination of [[:Portal:Rock music]] for deletion 

message: A discussion is taking place as to whether :Portal:Country music is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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thread_title:  Nomination of [[:Portal:Country music]] for deletion 

message: A discussion is taking place as to whether :Portal:Electronic music is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Electronic music until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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thread_title:  Nomination of [[:Portal:Electronic music]] for deletion 

message: A discussion is taking place as to whether :Portal:Soft Rock is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Soft Rock until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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thread_title:  Nomination of [[:Portal:Soft Rock]] for deletion 

message: A discussion is taking place as to whether :Portal:Punk rock is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Punk rock until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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thread_title:  Nomination of [[:Portal:Punk rock]] for deletion 

message: I have done most of the work needed to realise a formatting and standardisation template for short genre descriptions and would like other interested editor's feedback regarding its possible use before creating a proper template (it's currently in my sandbox).
* invokes Module:User:Fred Gandt/sgd which in-turn seeks available descriptions from User:Fred Gandt/sandbox/Sgd/list – an easily editable description list
*Some examples of it's use and output can be seen at User:Fred Gandt/sandbox#Short genre description
Questions I'd like to hear other's answers to are:
*Should the description be in a small font?
*Should the description have a length limit?
*Should the description be parenthesised?
Feel free to provide any other feedback that comes to mind. I have cross-posted this request for feedback at Talk:List of popular music genres#Template in development - request for feedback. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 15:00, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template in development - request for feedback 

message: A discussion is taking place as to whether :Portal:Alternative rock is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Alternative rock until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 20:20, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomination of [[:Portal:Alternative rock]] for deletion 

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Canadian Country Music group.  Charted, but sources and sourcing is thin. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:58, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: [[The Spurs]] up for deletion

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thread_title:  Request for information on WP1.0 web tool 

message: There are comments at Talk:Acid house#Assessment and tags which may be of interest to members.  Otr500 (talk) 15:01, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article issues 

message: What is the current view on citing genre based material published by Bandcamp, personally I think WP:COISOURCE applies, it's not an independent source because of its commercial nature; what it publishes is essentially promotional content for the music it hosts. Views on this? Can discuss here also.Acousmana (talk) 16:11, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It depends entirely what is being sourced. If it's something uncontroversial, such as the "reissue" of an album, that would be acceptable. If it's attempting to support notability, no. There is a lot of latitude between those two poles. Walter Görlitz (talk) 18:41, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  And it's not a COI source, it's a :WP:PRIMARY one. Walter Görlitz (talk) 18:41, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content published by Bandcamp as RS? 

message: As the originator of the Nouvelle Chanson page, I'd like to thank all those contributors who have redesigned my page and made it proper.
When originally looking at the music of the Swedish artist Ane Brun, Who had spent years busking in France to develop her music, I became aware of the genre.  As  I could find no article on it, I created the page.  There was very little material available for research.  The main source was an article from the French Embassy in Canberra, which actually said that for the first time the French were creating decent pop music!
I wrote to Carla Bruni suggesting that France promoted the genre and received a polite reply from her secretary that she was 'aware of the situation', something like that.
Thank you all again.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Indigocat (talk • contribs) 06:09, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thank You 

message: We are discussing whether or not a genre should be interpreted on the article for a Kanye West song. If anyone could jump in to discuss, that would be great. The discussion is here. Andrzejbanas (talk) 17:18, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Genre discussion on song

message: For more notice, a discussion that may result in the removal of  from the infobox has been started at :WT:WPMU#Typical instruments parameter in Template:Infobox music genre. Please add your comments there. —Ojorojo (talk) 17:00, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of typical instruments parameter from Template:Infobox music genre 

message: The article Comedy music has been significantly expanded and should be considered for reassessment. Thank you. AnggotheManggo (talk) 04:24, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Done! Bibeyjj (talk) 15:12, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Article reassessment

message: A tag has been placed on :Category:Turbo-folk compilation albums requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. 
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thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion|Speedy deletion]] nomination of [[:Category:Turbo-folk compilation albums]]

message: A tag has been placed on :Category:Chalga compilation albums requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. 
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thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion|Speedy deletion]] nomination of [[:Category:Chalga compilation albums]]

message: Hi this page Draft:Shadab_Siddiqui is not yet reviewed, so can any editors/reviewer can look into this?
--111.88.207.50 (talk) 11:12, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Review 

message: I would like to hear your opinion on removing colors for small regional genres and assigning new colors (reassigning old ones) for larger categories. Discussion. Solidest (talk) 18:41, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Join the discussion on updating colors for music genres 

message: Hello, would anyone be able to assess the new article 'Afro-Caribbean Music'? I wrote it for my university class and would love some feedback and assistance if possible? 
Thank you, 
Ddra5202 (talk) 00:32, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for assessment of article's class rating 

message: There is a discussion on the talk page about including genres in the infobox of the article on Quique. Any contributions would be helpful. Andrzejbanas (talk) 18:58, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Quique genre

message: I created the 2nd FA review on heavy metal music. Please your contributions to the article are welcome. --George Ho (talk) 06:07, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Heavy metal music]] under 2nd FAR 

message: Draft:Boyz on Block Draft:Time (Five album) Can someone approve or reject these please.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Basil4517 (talk • contribs) 05:02, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Draft:Boyz on Block and Draft:Time (Five album) 

message: I suggested adding a project template for all articles tagged with music genres (and other related classes) on Wikidata. The details are here: Wikipedia:Bot requests#Adding WikiProject Music genres template to 1.6k genre articles. Feel free to discuss the request there. 
P.S. Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Music genres task force/Assessment is now tagged historical, but the template itself is actively used. Shouldn't we remove this tag and update this page a bit, leaving it as a policy summary only? Solidest (talk) 15:05, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding project template to more music genre articles based on Wikidata 

message: Is fuzz faced a reputable site which I can cite aka are they independent and respected enough for me to be able to use in a article Goldsoldier75 (talk) 18:53, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hi site question 

message: Hi. I created a draft article for music executive Elliot Grainge in my sandbox here: . I’m a new Wikipedia user, and work for Elliot, which I understand is a conflict of interest according to Wikipedia policy, so I need feedback on how to improve the draft from independent editors and make sure it’s following the proper structure and guidelines. Is someone from this project available to take a look and provide feedback/comments? Thanks. Musicfan100 (talk) 14:31, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Looking for feedback: Elliot Grainge draft 

message: There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Compas#Requested move 26 November 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —usernamekiran (talk) 17:13, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move at [[Talk:Compas#Requested move 26 November 2022]] 

message: An article that you have been involved in editing—Electronic dance music—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 17:59, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger discussion for [[Electronic dance music]]

message: Could you help to disambiguate links to Maqam? It is generally better for the reader to link to specific articles rather than disambiguation pages but I do not have the expertise to know which articles the links should be going to. There are currently 71 articles (shown at Disambig fix list for Maqam) which link to this dab page. Any help appreciated.— Rod talk 11:57, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation of links to Maqam 

message: There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Nasheed#Requested move 11 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 01:06, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move at [[Talk:Nasheed#Requested move 11 January 2024]] 

message: I would be happy to have help with:
*Draft:T. Mayo Geary
*Draft:Jack Mills (music publisher) FloridaArmy (talk) 21:56, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Help requested

message: There is a discussion here about whether to move Kritika (disambiguation) to Kritika. --Jax 0677 (talk) 22:32, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move Kritika (disambiguation) to Kritika