Wiki143:WikiProject Guitarists

Template:WikiProject status {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Guitarists/Navigation}} WikiProject Guitarists is a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to guitarists. If you would like to help, please see the To-do list below, or inquire on the talk page.

Our goals

• Improve Wikipedia's coverage of guitarists by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles.
• Provide guidelines and recommendations for articles about guitarists.
• Serve as the central point of guitarist article discussion.

Our scope

The project focuses on articles about guitarists, minding the notability standards laid out at WP:MUSIC.

What can you do?

Add your name to the list of Participants and get started on anything below!

Project organization

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Departments

Assessment

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's guitarist articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work, and are also expected to play a role in the WP:1.0 program. The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the Template:Tl project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

Task forces

Task forces are informal groups of editors gathered for collaborative work on a particular topic within the guitarist project; all project members are encouraged to participate in any that interest them.

Current task forces

• Guitar equipment
• Infobox
• Buckethead

Guidelines

The guidelines presented in this section are intended to be guidelines only; while they are well-suited for the vast majority of guitarist articles, there exist a number of peculiar cases where, for lack of a better solution, alternate approaches can been taken. Please discuss individual cases on the Project talk page before deviating from guidelines.

Article naming conventions

• Since the vast majority of guitarist articles are biographical articles about people, simply use the guitarist's name as the article name.
• If the guitarist uses a stage or professional name, use the most common name of the person and refer to their real name in the article. For an example of this, see Sting.
• If you must disambiguate, use Guitarist name (musician). "Musician" is preferable to "guitarist" since they may play other instruments.

See also: Naming conventions (people)

Article structure

The guidelines in this section are intended to serve as a starting point for writing a good article; they are not meant to enforce a single structure on all articles, nor to limit the topics an article will discuss. Remember to cite your sources!

Opening paragraph

The opening paragraph (or lead section) should concisely convey:

• The real name and stage name (if applicable) of the guitarist
• The birth and death dates (if applicable), place of birth, and nationality of the guitarist
• The musical groups the guitarist is best known for working with
• The techniques or styles the guitarist is best known for

For an example of a good opening paragraph, see Mark Knopfler. See also WP:LEAD.

Article body

The article can be structured along these lines:

• Biography
• Style and techniques (for example, fingerpicking, unique tuning, etc.)
• Innovations and inventions (for example, tapping)
• Equipment (guitars, amplifiers, effects, etc.) - can include endorsements
• Involvement in musical groups
• Influence and legacy
• Discography, if appropriate (if the guitarist is a member of one or more musical groups, defer the discographies to those articles.)

Infobox templates

Guitarist infobox

The guitarist infobox has been deprecated in favor of the more general-purpose Template:Tl. Please use that infobox for biographical articles about guitarists. {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Guitarists/Equipment infobox}}

Categories

Articles should be placed in appropriate categories. At a minimum, use the following categories:

• One or more subcategories of Category:Guitarists by genre
• A subcategory of Category:Guitarists by nationality

You may locate other appropriate categories, such as Category:Bass guitarists or Category:Women guitarists.

• List of all subpages of this page

WikiProject templates

Usage

The Template:Tl project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the project. While the template does not require any additional parameters, it has a number of optional ones that add various extra features to the banner. The full syntax is as follows:

{{WikiProject Guitarists
|class=  
|attention=
<!-- Task force tags -->
|Guitarist-equipment-task-force=
}}

General parameters:

• class – a rating of the article's quality; see the assessment department for more details.
• attention – "yes" if the article requires immediate attention; this should be used sparingly. If you do use it, make sure to note the reason on the article Talk page.

Task force parameters

• Guitarist-equipment-task-force – "yes" if the article is supported by the Guitar equipment task force

Participant userbox

You can add this userbox to your user page, signifying your participation in the project. Adding this to your user page automatically adds your username to Category:WikiProject Guitarists participants.

Code	Result	Usage
Template:Tl	Template:Template other	Userbox to denote your participation in the project.

Project awards

File:Guitaristbarnstar.png

The Guitarist Barnstar can be awarded to any project member you want to recognize for service to the project. Add it to their Talk page with {{subst:The Guitarist Barnstar|message ~~~~}}.

File:Music barstar.png

The Music Barnstar can be awarded to any wikpedian that exhibits exceptional effort and dedication to music-related articles. Add it to their Talk page with {{subst:Music Barnstar|message ~~~~}}.

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks – Edits bare references – adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.