Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music

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WikiProject Classical Music aims to improve, expand, cleanup, and maintain all articles related to classical music, that aren't covered by other classical music related projects. Its participants help sort stubs and source statements made throughout the world of classical music to provide a comprehensive documentation of classical music — including historical and musicological analysis.

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[edit] Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Music.

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects are:

[edit] Task forces

Currently there is one task force of this WikiProject:

[edit] About the Wikiproject

[edit] Participation

To join, add your name to the list of participants.

Identify yourself as a participant by adding the following to your user page: {{User WPClassical}}

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This user is a member of WikiProject Classical music.




To identify yourself without using the userbox, add this to the bottom of your user page: [[Category:WikiProject Classical music members|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

[edit] To-do lists

There is also a handy list of open tasks, which are articles requiring verification, cleanup, expansion etc. If you want to find an article to improve, this is a good place to start.

[edit] Project banner

Any article which falls under the scope of WikiProject Classical music should be tagged as such by adding the following on the talk page: {{Classical}}

This banner should appear:

WikiProject Classical music is within the scope of WikiProject Classical music, which aims to improve, expand, cleanup, and maintain all articles related to classical music, that aren't covered by other classical music related projects. Please read the guidelines for writing and maintaining articles. To participate, you can edit this article or visit the project page for more details.

A category containing all articles with this banner on its talk page can be found here. However, this is not an exhaustive list of all articles within the scope of WikiProject Classical music as there may be articles which have not yet been tagged. If you feel the article requires urgent attention, please instead tag the talk page with {{Classical|attention=yes}}. A list of all articles that have been tagged as requiring urgent attention is here.

[edit] Stub template

Any article that qualifies as a stub as per WP:STUB should be tagged as such by adding one the following at the end of the article as appropriate:

{{classical-composition-stub}}

This tag should appear:

 This article about classical composition is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.


{{classical-musician-stub}}

This tag should appear:

 This article about a classical musician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

{{classical-ensemble-stub}}

This tag should appear:

 This article about a classical ensemble is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

{{classical-music-stub}} (only use if previous categories do not apply)

This tag should appear:

 This article related to classical music is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Please note that the tag should be removed once the article has been expanded. In addition, please consider rating the article in the project banner on the talk page (see below).

[edit] Rating articles

There is no internal WikiProject rating system for articles at the moment, so articles should only rated with a class on the assessment scale if they are listed as a stub or have been selected as a good article or a featured article. Only in these three cases should the talk page be tagged with {{Classical|class=stub}}, {{Classical|class=GA}} or {{Classical|class=FA}} respectively.

[edit] Article guidelines

For guidelines on articles about works of classical music, please see the relevant section of the Compositions task force.

[edit] Biographical infoboxes

Current consensus among project participants holds that the use of biographical infoboxes is often counterproductive on biographies of classical musicians, including conductors and instrumentalists. They should not be used without first obtaining consensus on the article's talk page. This position is in line with that reached by the participants at the Composers Project and the Opera Project.

The following archives document the various infobox discussions:

[edit] See also