Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musicians/Archive 1

message: No offense, but isn't this largely redundant and overlapping with Wikipedia:Featured Music Project?--Urthogie 20:08, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess, but this is more general. This project isn't solely concerned with making articles featured, it's much more about organization. However, we should probably just use the guidelines of that project for our own article guidelines. B. Mearns *, KSC 21:06, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd suggest making sure it doesn't overlap, and make sure that both projects link to one another.--Urthogie 08:28, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: redundant?

message: While I have seen a few infoboxes added to bands' articles recently, I haven't been able to find a definitive infobox template to be used for bands or performance musicians. Is there one yet? If not, work should probably begin on one. --Switch 12:43, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well the current standard is generally , but there is currently some discussion going on in the Article guidelines sub project for a new infobox to use for both musical groups and individual musical artists. B. Mearns *, KSC 13:38, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Band/Performance Musician infobox?

message: I noticed :Category:WikiProject Musicians articles on an article. Isn't this a self reference of the type cautioned against by Wikipedia:Avoid self-references? I suggest talk pages be added to this category, rather than articles. -- Rick Block (talk) 14:21, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing that out. I had a question about whether or not this category was appropriate back when the project was just a pre project, and no-one said anything so I just left it as is, but you make a good point. I'll wait a few days to see if anyone else has thoughts, than make the changes to the guidelines, as well as to the pages currently in the category. B. Mearns *, KSC 15:58, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Although since this project has such a widely defined scope I imagine the category could grow very large if added to all relevant talk pages. Surely it's already possible to find the articles that are within the scope of this project by browsing cat: Music? Flower party? 16:05, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I suppose the original reason for the category was more so that Project participants could beeter keep track of progress and what articles had already been reviewed or at least acknowledged, not so much for people to find articles about musicians. B. Mearns *, KSC 16:56, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If "The purpose of this project is to provide guidelines for wikipedia articles about individual musicians" then why do you need to tag articles anyway? There must be thousands and thousands of them. It's way beyond the capabilities of a small group of people to write, maintain, classify, catalogue such a large number of articles. --kingboyk 15:53, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: self reference

message: I'm still new to wikipedia, and not sure where this belongs, but there are several redundant lists categorizing musicians by state. For example
* The list of bands from Massachusetts format represents all 50 states and appears to be the most complete list set, with linked "see also" sections.
* The list of musicians from Massachusetts format represents 11 states. I think the term "musicians" is probably more applicable.
* Music of Massachusetts all 50 states are represented in this format and the template seems very useful. However most entries have degraded to lists within paragraphs.
Is it useful to distinguish "bands" from "musicians" from "music (in general)"? Or would it be better to combine the best qualities of these lists into one entry format? I'm not sure where to build a concensus because most of the talk pages for these lists are empty. Hoof Hearted 18:33, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Groups by state

message: WikiProject Arts
Announcing the creation of WikiProject Arts, an effort to create a collaboration between all arts projects and artistically-minded Wikipedians in order to improve arts coverage. If you think you can help, please join us!
HAM  18:06, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: An invitation to all members of this project

message: I proposed a new guideline concerning Music and Song samples in Wikipedia:Music samples. It stills a draft. Your input is appreciated. CG 20:10, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Music samples guideline

message: I've nominated this article for a minor featured article review because requests for references and expansion of stub sections have gone unacted upon. Hopefully someone from this project can help. savidan(talk) (e@) 22:59, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Prince (musician)]]

message: Hi all -- we've got a bunch of lingering musician names over at Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year. Anyone want to take a shot at (a) writing an article, (b) redirecting if it's covered elsewhere, or (c) delete if it doesn't warrant a full-fledged article? Help is appreciated! Bookgrrl 23:34, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Expert help needed!

message: I've never been part of any "project" or "portal" or however it works, but I think I'd like to be able to communicate in a central place about a particular idea that I have, as well as help out in various ways concerning this subject of musicians and music. Off and on over the past week or so I've been trying to find examples for "Rock Family Trees" here on Wikipedia. I've commented in a couple different talk pages about what I've found and I've even created a "line-ups" listing in one band's article, which was based on another band's "line-ups" listing. So, please help me to become involved. You see, I don't quite understand the process to join and how/where we are supposed to communicate effectively. Thank you. --luckymustard 13:20, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Want to join

message: I think this Wikiproject could be really good, but it needs major updates and reorganization. I propose that this project adopts a similar navigation system to WikiProject Music genres. Also, all the talk page templates need to be updated to show that this project is not only for individual musicians, but also for musical groups. -- Heaven's Wrath   Talk  00:39, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems that this project does not really have any active participants. I think that I will update and reorganize this project gradually. Active participation would be great. -- Heaven's Wrath   Talk  01:46, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Project needs updating