Wikipedia:WikiProject Guitarists

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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!

[edit] Candidates for deletion

Do not comment on these articles here.

• Ahmed Faseeh
• AfD on SRV guitars

[edit] Proposed deletions

If you agree with the proposed deletion, you don't have to do anything. If you think the article merits keeping, the remove the {{prod}} template and make an effort to improve the article so that it clearly meets the notability and verifiability criteria.

[edit] Articles for deletion

You may visit the respective discussion pages and comment. These are discussions, not votes; if you have nothing constructive to add, do not simply show up and write "keep" or "delete".

[edit] Project Organization

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join the project; you are also encouraged to participate in any of our task forces that might interest you.

1. 75pickup (talk · contribs)
2. Andrew Spinner (talk · contribs) - primarily concerned with Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits, but also the blues as a genre
3. Anger22 (talk · contribs)
4. AVM (talk · contribs) - Interests: Classical Guitar, Brazilian Violão, performers & compositions & sheet music & technique
5. Bridies (talk · contribs) interests: EVH-school modern rock guitar (satch, vai, gilbert etc), post-80s instrumental rock (govan, buckethead etc), progressive blues playing
6. Cesarm (talk · contribs) - interested in "sad" guitarists
7. Darrell Wheeler (talk · contribs) - Guitarist and full time profesional luthier.
8. F.Caswell (talk · contribs) - I play in my free time and at one point was in an AC/DC tribute band. I play a 2003 American Strat through a Peavey Special 212.
9. Grinder0-0 (talk · contribs) - Guitarists of bands that play heavy, speed, thrash, progressive, death or black metal.
10. guitardude3600 (talk · contribs) - metal/emo guitarist........a7x rocks and i hate panic at the disco and other happy music
11. Izzy007 (talk · contribs) - Love the Strat and a good Marshall amp. Also love Fender amps.
12. Jo Weber (talk · contribs) - acoustic fingerstyle guitar
13. JSC_ltd (talk · contribs)
14. Sdegner (talk · contribs) - Just got an electric Guitar learning how to play.
15. Lexo (talk · contribs) - guitar player: rock, jazz, blues, traditional music and free improvisation; also enthusiast for classical and world music (but not expert on either)
16. L0W3R1D3R (talk · contribs) - I love the Fender Stratocaster and a Squier Bullet acoustics as well
17. MaulYoda (talk · contribs) - Specializes in Classic Rock Guitarists but not in anything new. Some knowledge of amps, Guitar companies, but does know quiet a few Guitars. Rock freak (not completely obsessed yet) plays Electric Guitar and air guitar.
18. Mdebets (talk · contribs) - mostly German Rock music and World music
19. MegX (talk · contribs) - I am a guitar player who enjoys all styles of guitar music.
20. Moeron (talk · contribs)
21. Ollie-sas-d123 (talk · contribs) - Love rock, metal and favourite guitarists are Slash and Matt Tuck
22. Peter Fleet (talk · contribs)
23. ProgressiveAeternus (talk · contribs) - Progressive world
24. QelDroma06 (talk · contribs)
25. Rguitphil (talk · contribs)
26. SamBlob (talk · contribs) - Dislike most hip-hop, most dancehall, and most modern soca, otherwise like most of Western civilization's music.
27. Sjones23 (talk · contribs)
28. Spike Wilbury (talk · contribs)
29. Stratman (talk · contribs): Specializes in Beatles-related stuff. Also thoroughly enjoys; Pink Floyd; Led Zeppelin; Frank Zappa; The Doors; Stevie Ray Vaughan and pretty much all the serious stuff from 1960s/1970s.
30. Thisisborin9^{talk|contribs} 04:08, 24 January 2008 (UTC) - love anything related to guitar
31. Sphefx (talk · contribs) - Guitarist, huge AC/DC fan, lover of rock music
32. Stevenbostick94 (talk · contribs) - Enjoys playing guitar for hours at a time favorite guitarist is Randy Rhoads. Loves Rock music
33. Straight Edge PXK (talk · contribs) - Metal/Grunge Bassist interested in Thrash, Emo and Grungeassociated articles
34. tremspeed (talk · contribs) - interested in electric guitars, amps, effects
35. TallGuitarist (talk · contribs) - Guitarist interested in guitars and guitarists

[edit] Inactive participants

Members are moved here if they have not been active on Wikipedia or have not worked on guitarist articles for two months or longer. If you move someone here, notify them on their Talk page using {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Guitarists/Members/Inactivenotice|~~~~}}. If you are listed here and become active, please move your name back to the main list.

[edit] Departments

[edit] 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 {{WikiProjectGuitarists}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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!

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.)

[edit] Infobox templates

[edit] Guitarist infobox

The guitarist infobox has been deprecated in favor of the more general-purpose {{Infobox Musical artist}}. Please use that infobox for biographical articles about guitarists.

[edit] Equipment infobox

This infobox is in work - please discuss changes and refinement at the infobox discussion page.

The infobox should be added using the {{Infobox Guitar model}} template, as shown below:

{{Infobox Guitar model
|title=
|image=
|bgcolor=
|manufacturer=
|period=
|bodytype=
|necktype=
|woodbody=
|woodneck=
|woodfingerboard=
|bridge=
|pickups=
|colors=
}}

• title – guitar brand and model name
• image – an image of the guitar.
• bgcolor – the color of the background, make sure it is the same with the image's background color
• manufacturer – the manufacturer of the guitar, often it is the guitar company.
• period – the year when it was first created, formatted as year1 - year 2, (or) year 3 - Present
• bodytype – between solid, semi-hollow and hollow
• necktype – between Set-in neck, Bolt-on neck, and Neck-thru, if there are too many variations, type (varies with sub-model)
• woodbody – type of wood used for the body, if there are too many variations, type (varies with sub-model)
• woodneck – type of wood used for the neck, if there are too many variations, type (varies with sub-model)
• woodfingerboard – years type of wood used for the fingerboard, if there are too many variations, type (varies with sub-model)
• bridge – type of the bridge, fixed, locking tremolo or non-locking tremolo, if there are too many variations, type (varies with sub-model)
• pickup – the formation of the pickups, formatted as H-S-H or S-S-S or H-H or any other relevant formations, if there are too many variations, type (varies with sub-model)
• colors – Name all the available colors, if there are too many variations, type (varies with sub-model)

Note: If varies with sub-model is used, please explain the variations on the article.

[edit] 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:Female guitarists

[edit] WikiProject templates

[edit] Project banner

The {{WikiProject Guitarists}} 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.

Task force parameters

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

[edit] 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
{{User WPGUITAR}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Guitarists.	Userbox to denote your participation in the project.

[edit] Project awards

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 ~~~~}}.

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 ~~~~}}.