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WikiProject Music aims to encourage the collaborative addition of accurate information to a wide variety of musical topics. The parent of this WikiProject is Arts. Related WikiProjectsTask forcesSub-projects
Music genre projects
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Participants for the full list. Click here to add yourself! The entire subject and Wikipedia's coverage of it is intended to be summarized in the Outline of music. It in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems. Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them. While analyzing the outline, please answer the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):
The overall purpose of the outline is to help readers comprehend the subject by showing what belongs to it, and within the subject what belongs to what. The outline is a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject. It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise music-related material. It is a hub from which to organize related topics. It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of an existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes. Please help improve it. It's our bird's eye view. Thank you. Discussion occurs on the WikiProject Music talk page. The noticeboard for music-related news and requests became inactive in 2017. Several guidelines have been adopted which are specific to music-related articles. According to WP:GUIDES, "Guidelines are sets of best practices that are supported by consensus. Editors should attempt to follow guidelines, though they are best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply." Various music projects have developed "guides" and "advice" which are relevant to their areas of interest; however, these may not have been vetted by the community and should be treated accordingly. The following have been identified as WP guidelines (main page followed by shortcut(s)):
Assessments are done by individual music projects, such as Albums, Opera, Composers etc., not by this Music Project, which is an umbrella project. The project categories are listed on the Categories sub page. Subpages
BarnstarThe Music Barnstar can be awarded to any Wikipedian that exhibits exceptional effort and dedication to music-related articles. Add it to their Talk page with {{subst:Music Barnstar|message ~~~~}}. PortalsThe
Music portal template StubsTo add an article to the music stubs category, use {{ music-stub}}. See Category:Music stubs for more stubs and info. UserboxThere is a userbox for members, which adds them to Category:WikiProject Music members. To add the userbox to your user page, use {{ User WP Music}}. It will produce this:
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