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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to The Beatles (including Apple Records). This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and/or see the to-do list.

The Beatles are the quintessential pop/rock group, indisputably the most celebrated and influential in history and arguably the most popular (as measured by several metrics: number of #1 hits, total sales, Beatlemania, etc). There is already a considerable number of articles about The Beatles on Wikipedia, of varying levels of quality and depth. These range from featured articles such as Real Love (The Beatles song) down to stubs of the lowest quality. This project seeks to marshall the efforts of interested editors to improve and unify these articles and to raise the overall standard of Beatles' coverage on Wikipedia. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

WikiProject The Beatles

General information Main project page talk Project log talk Policy talk The Beatles portal talk Tasks To do list talk Red links talk Missing articles talk Article assessments talk Tools and info Categories talk Newsletter talk Handy infoboxes Infobox Musical artist talk Infobox Biography talk Infobox Album talk Infobox Single talk Misc templates Article talk page talk Invite user talk Userbox talk User page talk Article navbox talk Singles navbox talk edit · changes

Contents 1 Project scope 2 Good Article/Featured Article 2.1 Nominations 3 Log 4 Parentage 5 Related Wikiportals 6 Active participants 6.1 Inactive, or have just popped out for a cup of tea... 7 Goals 8 Citations 8.1 References 8.2 Further reading 9 Projects 10 Tasks 11 Adopt an article 12 Other subpages 13 Shortcuts 14 Articles 14.1 Wikipedia articles on The Beatles 14.2 Status board 14.3 Featured articles 14.3.1 Featured article candidates 14.3.2 Featured article review 14.4 Featured pictures 14.4.1 Featured picture candidates 14.5 Featured lists 14.5.1 Featured list candidates 14.6 Good articles 14.6.1 Good article nominations 14.6.2 Good article reassessment 14.6.3 Articles close to GA 15 Red links 15.1 Missing Articles 16 Article suggestions/requests 17 Article creation instructions 18 Quiz 19 Templates 19.1 Infoboxes 19.1.1 Infobox Musical artist 19.1.2 Infobox Biography 19.1.3 Infobox Album 19.1.4 Infobox Single 19.2 Stub templates 19.3 Membership template 19.4 Invitation template 19.5 Article Template 19.6 Navigation Templates 20 Categories 21 Articles for deletion 22 Policies 23 Log 24 Online resources

[edit] Project scope

The scope of the project is articles about The Beatles and their work, and people and things directly related to - or who have achieved a significant part of their notability through their connection to - The Beatles as a group and individually.

[edit] Good Article/Featured Article

Periodically project members collaborate on an article to bring it up to Good Article/Featured Article status.

The current GAR collaboration is:

[edit] Nominations

Nominations for future collaborations can be made here:

1. George Harrison. --kingboyk 11:46, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
2. Apple Corps. --kingboyk 11:46, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
3. The Beatles, of course. I think that whilst there's a reasonably solid article lurking there, we need to be bold and rebuild the article in line with current practices. I will start making some notes on this at Talk:The Beatles/to do#Returning this to FA status. --kingboyk 18:03, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
   • I concur with this. - ElbridgeGerry t c block 18:47, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
4. The Beatles (album) - I feel this is one of the key points of Beatles' history. 01kkk 20:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
5. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - This has to be collaborated because of its focality in Beatles' history. This is where they truly changed. 01kkk 20:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
   • Agree with Sgt. Pepper. Basketball110 21:43, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Log

The achievements of the WikiProject so far are recorded at Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Log. If you create a new article, perform a merge or achieve some other goal on behalf of the project please record it in the log. It's helpful and motivating for us all to see how we've progressed as a team.

[edit] Parentage

The father of this WikiProject is WikiProject Music.

[edit] Related Wikiportals

WikiProject Beatles also manages The Beatles Portal: Portal:The Beatles.

[edit] Active participants

From time to time, the participants list may be trimmed and seemingly inactive members moved to "Inactive". Please don't be offended: if you're here and editing Beatles articles or working on administration of the WikiProject, just put yourself back on the main list.

• Kingboyk (talk · contribs) "Shanghai Surprise"
• ++Lar: t/c (Co-founder) "I'm back... back... back in the US ... back in the US... back in the USSR!" 4 March 2006
• Steelbeard1 01:26, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Grutness...wha? 00:57, 6 March 2006 (UTC) (Cranberry sauce when I get time :)
• Mr. Manu 12:19, 28 March 2006 (UTC) Los Beatles son terrible bakanes!!!!!!!!!!! XD
• Count me in! —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 19:43, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
• --Crestville 15:06, 21 May 2006 (UTC) For some reason I know a fair bit about them.
• "I Am the Eggman", 23, November, 2006, long time Beatles fan and Dale Earnhardt Sr. worshiper. "Goo, goo, ga-joob."
• Tvoz | talk 05:31, 11 February 2007 (UTC) (not really all that scary)
• andreasegde 22:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC) Do you know that Lennon has three half-sisters, two half-brothers, and McCartney has a brother and a step-sister? Do you care? I do.
• paulisdead 09:35, 16 May 2007
• BrianO 01:37, 27 August 2007 (UTC) Have begun work on All Those Years Ago
• faithless (^speak) 04:52, 27 August 2007 (UTC) Cookie!
• Bektour Iskender 15:15, 28 August 2007 (Bishkek time)
• apepper, created Influence on Recording Music article and enjoy reading all the Beatle stuff.
• User:75pickup 19:56, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
• ZincOrbie Just helping out in some areas - mainly those which have missing (or pertinent) Badfinger information.
• Hotcop2^{The Beatles Wikiproject}
• zone46 – nothing's gonna change my world
• Liverpool Scouse from Liverpool UK
• Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 21:34, 29 October 2007 (UTC) (am most definitely not the Fifth Beatle)
• Vint (talk) 02:36, 29 November 2007 (UTC) I still check in frequently, just not a whole lot of edits, sorry. If that means I count as inactive, I guess someone can move me back...
• Alexcalamaro 20:58, 17 October 2006 (UTC) There's nothing you can do it can't be done.
• Tobi4242 (talk) 02:13, 8 December 2007 (UTC) We're sgt. peppers lonly hearts club band!
• MagnoliaFen
• Basketball110
• Billy-talk 21:50, 22 December 2007 (UTC) And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.
• Chaz 19:06, 14 July 2007 (UTC) I love Wikipedia. I love the Beatles R.I.P. John and George!
• Paul Italiano I am the eggman, They are the eggman, I am the Walrus, Goo Goo G'joob!
• Pawnkingthree Looking at songs, Paul McCartney ones in particular.
• ClonedPickle I hope I can lend a hand and help out! 11:04, January 13, 2008 (UTC)
• Beggarsbanquet, massive Beatles fan. I have a lot I could contribute.
• Kodster "I'm a mocker."
• Moreno Valley User (talk · contribs) "I love the Beatles and am a huge Beatles fan, despite me being 13. I have all the albums (albeit burnt on my computer by me) and know a bunch of little facts about almost every one of their songs. I might not be able to constant ly contribute, but I can occasionally when I have time (weekly or monthly or so) or when I see something wrong with something I'm reading. I'm not too good with editing, either. I just copy and paste things from something similar to what I want done, delete the actual words, and fill in the blanks. This is a bit too long, isn't it? "
• Tj999, I am the Walrus who plays in the Strawberry Fields Forever with lovely Rita!
• faulmacca, the biggest surlaw of our time.
• DizFreak Another big Beatles and Wings fan
• ...... Dendodge .. Talk^Help 11:08, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Inactive, or have just popped out for a cup of tea...

If your name has been moved here in error, please feel free to move it back.

• Johnleemk | Talk 19:39, 4 March 2006 (UTC) I guess so, since I've been a one-man Beatles WikiProject until lately. :p
• RENTA^{FOR LET?} 18:55, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• rogerd "If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow" 01:19, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Joining and adopting My Sweet Lord (have the cover).--Dakota ~ ° 02:36, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Estrose 03:32, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Banez 09:16, 6 March 2006 (UTC) (As the time allows).
• Vanky 13:03, 7 March 2006 (UTC) You may be a lover, but you ain't no dancer...
• Danthemankhan^(talk) 05:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC) "MISTERRRRRRR MOOOOONLIGHT!!!" Hey, somebody has to like it.
• El Slameron 00:01, 9 March 2006 (UTC) I've got a feeling...
• Jerry Bakewell Here's the original My Sweet Lord cover! Happy to fill in any gaps or tidy up in the Apple/late Beatles/early solo areas. More soon.
• --IAMTHEEGGMAN (talk) need I say more, Choo Choo Cha Choob.
• warpozio 07:54, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Steiger 03:37, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
• TheImpossibleMan 13:15, 31 March 2006 (UTC) - Happy to lend a hand. Currently working on I Am the Walrus.
• FranksValli 17:44, 5 April 2006 (UTC) Wooo finally a project I can really get into :).
• Simonthebold "Because the wind is high, it blows my mind!" Count me in. Recording session stuff is my speciality. simonthebold 10:20, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
• Analogdemon (talk) The US albums are my area of expertise so I'll be more than happy to contribute wherever my knowledge might be needed.
• You know you should be glad - Highway ^{Rainbow Sneakers} 16:48, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
• Wootking 'Tom 00:29, 21 May 2006 (UTC)'
• JaymzSpyhunter 01:35, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
• Brian.D 01:58, 29 May 2006 (UTC) "move over baby, I'm travelling on that line..."
• User:DslSWF 5:17, 31 May 2006 I'll try to help as much as I can. I've read a lot and just created my 1st article on This Guitar (Can't Keep Me From Crying)!
• Goldom ‽‽‽ ⁂ 22:55, 31 May 2006 (UTC) I figure after making those templates, I might as well stick around and see what else there is to do.
• Afghan Historian 07:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• bl4d3 03:42, 19 June 2006 (UTC) - It's The Beatles, man!
• Doctorfreedom 12:13, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• Red Alien 19:36, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• PhattyFatt
• Caesar 04:16, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
• luckymustard 13:45, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
• The4sword Heyy! Just got You'll Be Mine done; sorry, it's a stub.
• I Am The Walrus 03:02, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
• NaLaochra 03:43, 13 September 2006 (UTC) Just a generally obsessive fan and trivia junkie who knows his Beatles... hope I can help
• NauticaShades^(talk) 13:03, 9 October 2006 (UTC) Sitting in an English Garden, waiting for the Sun..
• Raymond Arritt 03:51, 13 October 2006 (UTC) Have lots of reference books, and pics of Beatles sites in Liverpool and London (that I took myself so no copyright concerns). "You can talk to me."
• Willie the Walrein 12:39, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• Peanut33Tillman "Keepin an eye on the World goin' by my window" 19:57, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Samboha 01:35, 31 October 2006 (UTC)number nine...number nine...number nine...
• Keithmall, pleased to help in any way I can
• Sturgeonman 02:10, 2 January 2007 (UTC), I'm in, and ready to help.
• SUIT⁴² 07:14, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
• Darrenhusted
• Eruption257 5:33 PM, 6 February 2007 (PST) Adopted A Spaniard in the Works
• Rbb l181 21:35, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
• Mezlo
• Hey jude, don't let me down
• Eschoir 12:41, 14 March 2007
• Beatlesmaniac
• Takedashingen620
• McTavidge 06:12, 6 January 2007 (UTC)I like editing. I like the Beatles.

• Fhqwgads 02:00, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
• Sixstring1965^{The Beatles Wikiproject}
• mrmaroon25 Blackbird singin' in the dead of night ... take these sunken eyes and learn to see ...
• DiscordantNote^Cntrbtns 01:37, 14 January 2007 (UTC) I do what I can, even if it's just updating a minor article in the project. Every bit helps! :-D
• Cbing01 14:35, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
• Juan de Dios | talk 13:21, 13 February 2007 (UTC) All you need is love!
• Freshacconci 18:44, 11 February 2007 (UTC) Second-gen Beatle fan since '79
• Shrub_of_power 19:36, 11 February 2007 (UTC) "Clutching forks and knives, to eat their bacon"
• FMAFan1990 06:55, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
• Cyktoo 15:46, 5 May 2007 (UTC) Long signatures are kind of silly, don't you think?
• Politics rule 12:47, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
• Snowfreak91287♣ 06:07 19 May 2007 (UTC)
• Psdubow 21:07, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
• Wikimaniac3651 22:45, 7 August 2007 (UTC) "In my life...I loved them all."
• Lighthead ^þ 22:30, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
• Bluegoblin7 17:44, 1 September 2007 (UTC) I LOVE The Beatles, and will help out with anything!
• thesailerman Beginning work on the "Across the Universe" film page. I love the Beatles, and I am currently living on the NYU campus, so I should be able to get many of the references.
• Butseriouslyfolks Happy to lend a velvet hand like a lizard on a window pane . . .
• Longestpants (talk) 01:51, 28 December 2007 (UTC) Ringo, Paul, George and John/Played a trick and put us on/Dropped hints Paul was dead as nails/And rocketed their record sales! -MAD
• WilliamMThompson (talk) 10:30, 21 March 2008 (UTC) We can probably work it out, we can probably work it out
• Vera, Chuck & Dave 08:40, 24 May 2006 (UTC) Dear Prudence won't you open up your eyes?
• --Mal 03:41, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
• → jacĸrм ( talk | sign ) 11:30, 1 September 2007 (UTC) I have several related Beatles images in my images page. I've added them to some articles, but feel free to add them elsewhere if you feel it's appropriate!
• Rocket000 (talk) 06:13, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

This is the bottom of the Inactive list. Please add your name to the Active list up above...

[edit] Goals

Please discuss on the talk page or be bold and add some!

1. Unify and improve articles about albums
2. Unify and improve articles about the 4 main Beatles
3. Unify and improve song articles

• Placeholder comment: I'm looking at consolidation, improvement, cruft removal (i.e. minutae, fan gush, non verifiable speculation innuendo and rumour). Some good sense re songs, with a nod to the fact that song notability is being discussed elsewhere (and perhaps the WikiProject should have its own guidelines) --kingboyk 07:53, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citations

In accordance with Wikipedia policy, facts and assertions should be attributed to verifiable, reliable sources wherever possible (see WP:V and WP:RS).

The Project's preferred method for this is inline citations using the <ref> tag.

Usage is very simple. Examples:

Citing a book: <ref>Author, Book, ISBN, page number</ref>^[1]

Citing a book multiple times: Lewisohn, Mark, "Beatles Book", ISBN 73737373 (2000), Hamyln, London

<ref>Lewisohn 2003 p23</ref>^[2]

Reusing a reference:

<ref name="somewebsite">[http://www.web.com/ Some Website]</ref>^[3] Second use<ref name="somewebsite"/>^[3]

[edit] References

The citations are displayed by placing a <references/> tag at the bottom of the article.

1. ^ Author, Book, ISBN, page number
2. ^ Lewisohn, p23
3. ^ ^{a b} Some Website

[edit] Further reading

• Wikipedia:Footnotes - More details about the ref tag and footnotes
• Wikipedia:Citing sources - A more general overview

[edit] Projects

1. Compile a list of current and missing articles, and catalogue them by status - see Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification and Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Beatles#Wikipedia_articles_on_The_Beatles
2. Restore The Beatles to, and upgrade History of The Beatles to, featured article status. Alternative approaches (see Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/The Beatles history):
   • Seek peer review, and 'tweak'
   • Plan the article stucture anew and major edit. Maybe History can be merged back in, and less substantial stuff forked out.
3. insert other projects (big jobs) here from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles

[edit] Tasks

• To Do List

1. Buy a book about The Beatles
2. Invite new members by contacting editors who have made substantial Beatles-related edits in the past
3. Fix templates to talk pages
   • To do this, does anyone have a suggestion as to how to develop a list of the articles to do this to? There are so many different partial sets (the categories help). Or should an article only get the tagging as it is reviewed by one of us and improved? ++Lar: t/c 21:12, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

   • Yep, use What Links Here for the Beatles' template, as discussed elsewhere on this (ever growing) page. That'll locate every article which uses the template, and any not properly categorised articles can be dealt with at the same time. But please don't mess up the lovely cat tree I spent a lot of time tidying :)

   If you're gonna do it, and if you're gonna do it in a web browser, might be best to reset your link cache first? Then you can see where you've been and where you haven't. With the cats, subcats and the template usage you'll find most articles more than once. --kingboyk 21:48, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

4. Construct Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification by following the category 'tree'(what that means is update this table: Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Beatles/Categories as the automated code reads it and using what links here for The Beatles template. Can do the talk page notices at the same time.
5. Assess articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification
6. Apple Records discography - Needs British LPs and singles, and US LPs. Needs restructuring. I'd propose using the Brit catalog as the basis, and having only those releases which are different in the US section. This might not be practical, however, if the cat. no.s are different (they are for the singles, not sure for the albums).
   Blue links need to be checked for and, if they aren't already, added to Category:Apple Records singles or Category:Apple Records albums, and the same for The Beatles/solo members singles/albums categories.
7. Add specific fair use rationales to Beatles-related copyrighted images, especially album covers (see Image:LetItBe.jpg for example).
8. Add the geographic coordinates of The Beatles significant places as : Tittenhurst Park, Savile Row, St. Peter's Church, etc. As already exist for the Shea Stadium, Abbey Road or Friar Park. Completed by User:Billy.
9. insert other tasks (smaller jobs) here from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

• The Beatles 1962-1966 adopted by PhattyFatt
• The Beatles 1967-1970 adopted by Mr. Manu
• Apple Records and Apple Corps adopted by kingboyk
• The Beatles' Christmas Album Adopted by Danthemankhan^(talk)
• Flying (song) adopted by Grutness...wha?
• It Don't Come Easy adopted by ZincOrbie & simonthebold
• My Sweet Lord Adopted by Dakota
• Alistair Taylor Adopted by Alexcalamaro
• Klaus Voorman adopted by Mr. Manu
• Woman Is the Nigger of the World
• No one's gonna change our world adopted by simonthebold
• A Spaniard in the Works adopted by Èŗüρтîöṇ257
• Tony Barrow abopted by Basketball110
• The Beatles bootlegs adopted by paulisdead This has been something I've been working on for a while now. I'd love to get this one up to Wikipedia standards.
• Mike McCartney

[edit] Other subpages

• Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification
• Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Log
• Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/To do
• Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Missing articles (and article requests)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/The Beatles' miscellanea (moved from article space, feel free to edit and recycle)

[edit] Shortcuts

Pagename	Redirects to page
WP:Beatles, WP:TB	This page (Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles)
WT:Beatles, WT:TB	This page's talk page (Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles)
P:TB	Portal:The Beatles
WP:TBA	Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification
WP:TBC	Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Categories
WP:TBD	Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Beatles
WP:TBL	Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Log
WP:TBM	Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Missing articles
WP:TBR	Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Red links
WP:TBT	Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/To do

It is recommended that Project members add each of the above Project pages to their watchlists.

[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on The Beatles

• Articles using The Beatles template (indicated by "(inclusion)" after the article's name).

[edit] Status board

Article	Rating
Core articles
The Beatles	Good Article
John Lennon	Good Article
Paul McCartney	Good Article
George Harrison	B-class
Ringo Starr	B-class
Important personalities
Brian Epstein	Good Article
George Martin	Good Article
Neil Aspinall	Good Article
Mal Evans	Good Article
Stuart Sutcliffe	Good Article
Pete Best	Good Article
Family and friends
Jim and Mary McCartney	Good Article
Mike McCartney	Start-class
Julia Lennon	Good Article
Alfred Lennon	Good Article
Mimi Smith	Good Article
George Toogood Smith	Good Article
The Quarrymen	Start-class
Cynthia Lennon	Good Article
Pattie Boyd	Good Article
Linda McCartney	Good Article
Yoko Ono	B-class
Heather Mills	B-class
May Pang	Good Article
Julia Baird	Good Article
Mona Best	Good Article
Rory Storm	Good Article
Klaus Voormann	B-class
Astrid Kirchherr	Good Article

[edit] Featured articles

1. Yesterday (song) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (FAC)
2. Something (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (FAC)
3. Hey Jude (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (FAC)
4. The Long and Winding Road (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (FAC)
5. Real Love (The Beatles song) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (FAC)

[edit] Featured article candidates

[edit] Featured article review

[edit] Featured pictures

[edit] Featured picture candidates

[edit] Featured lists

[edit] Featured list candidates

[edit] Good articles

1. The Beatles (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
2. John Lennon (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
3. Paul McCartney (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
4. Brian Epstein (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
5. George Martin (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
6. Neil Aspinall (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
7. Mal Evans (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
8. Stuart Sutcliffe (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
9. Astrid Kirchherr (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
10. Mona Best (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
11. Pete Best (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
12. The Casbah Coffee Club (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
13. Jim and Mary McCartney (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
14. Julia Lennon (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
15. Alfred Lennon (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
16. Mimi Smith (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
17. George Toogood Smith (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
18. Julia Baird (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
19. Cynthia Lennon (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
20. Linda McCartney (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
21. Pattie Boyd (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
22. Rory Storm (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
23. May Pang (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
24. Let It Be (song) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
25. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (song) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
26. Tomorrow Never Knows (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
27. Free as a Bird (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
28. Rain (The Beatles song) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
29. A Hard Day's Night (film) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
30. Kenwood, St. George's Hill (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
31. A Day in the Life (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
32. Death of John Lennon (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

[edit] Good article nominations

[edit] Good article reassessment

[edit] Articles close to GA

• The Quarrymen
• Paul McCartney (solo)

[edit] Red links

See Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Red links for a full list

[edit] Missing Articles

Redlinks which need to be turned blue at the earliest opportunity need to be listed here. If you can help by creating a stub (or better!) please be bold and go right ahead (In brackets: number of incoming links from main space, excluding redirects and dab pages):

• Apple Records artists:

• Chris Hodge (1 link)
  
• Lon and Derek Van Eaton (1 link)

Created stubs with tracklists and infoboxes and ext links on all Julian Lennon albums... if someone would please have a look to see if they could add anything, that would be appreciated!NaLaochra 15:13, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article suggestions/requests

• Beatle tours/dates (see e.g. Pink Floyd live performances) --kingboyk 15:21, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Actually, I think this would be best as one article per tour, with press reports, cities played etc. --kingboyk 22:49, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• List of Beatles concerts chronological list (dates, places) with links to tour articles where they exist. -R. S. Shaw 09:01, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
• Liverpool Legends [1], a Beatles cover band hand-picked by Louise Harrison, George's sister —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 06:41, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
• Beatle firsts Atricle discusssing the ground-breaking stuff the Beatles did. eg. First hidden track - Her Majesty; first group to occupy top 5 places in U.S. chart etc. The are loads of these, certainly enough for an article. simonthebold 17:04, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article creation instructions

You're starting a new article? Great! Please follow these instructions:

• Articles about The Beatles are generally considered to be articles with a "strong tie" to the dialect of the United Kingdom and should be written in British English.
• Add the new article to the appropriate subcategory of Category:The Beatles, or to the parent category if most appropriate
• Add any appropriate template to the article, such as an album or single infobox
• Place a {{WPBeatles}} template on the new article's Talk page
• If the article is listed as a redlink on the to-do list please remove it from that list
• If the article needs a photo and you don't have one, place a {{Reqphoto}} template on the talk page and add the article to "Wanted Pics/Graphics" on the the to-do list
• List the article in the appropriate category on the Article Classification list. Don't classify it yourself, it's best if we classify each other's articles not our own
• Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a 120 hour time limit (from the creation of the article, not the nomination).
• Finally (hooray!) record your wonderful achievement on the Project Log

[edit] Quiz

Please go to Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Quiz for a quiz about The Beatles in general.

[edit] Templates

There are a lot of useful templates that may be relevant, infoboxes, notification boxes, and so forth. If you know of resources not listed here please add them.!

[edit] Infoboxes

There are several useful infoboxes that are relevant to this project, as the project covers a large number of types of articles.

[edit] Infobox Musical artist

• The Beatles are a band. Offshoots and side projects of members are also bands. So the {{Infobox Musical artist}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. You can use it this way: {{Infobox Musical artist}} Some examples:
  • The Beatles
  • Wings (band)
  • Traveling Wilburys

[edit] Infobox Biography

• Members of The Beatles are people. So the {{Infobox Biography}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. You can use it this way: {{Infobox Biography}} Some examples:
  • George Harrison
  • George Martin
  • Linda McCartney
  • Mimi Smith
  • Julia Lennon
  • Freddie Lennon

[edit] Infobox Album

• The Beatles produced albums, together and individually. So the {{Infobox Album}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. You can use it this way: {{Infobox Album }} Some examples:
  • Help! (album)
  • Band on the Run
  • Dark Horse

In addition to the writeup on the talk page of the infobox, the WikiProject Albums page has some discussion on how to effectively use these, color coding, and what some of the fields mean and so forth, as well as larger guidance on how Album pages ought to be done (how the track list is formatted, dates, usages, and so forth).

Some important points copied from that page: When you create or find a new album page, please add {{Album}} to the top of the talk page. If the page has no infobox, you should use {{Album|needs-infobox=yes}} instead. If the page has an incomplete infobox, note the missing details at Incomplete infobox. If the page has an old style infobox, add {{newinfobox|type=album}} to the bottom of the talk page.

[edit] Infobox Single

• The Beatles produced singles, together and individually. So the {{Infobox Single}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. You can use it this way: {{Infobox Single}} Some examples:
  • Please Please Me (song) (first single, chronology starts here)
  • Help! (song)
  • Say Say Say (note, uses a custom subst'd variant of the infobox since this is not a Beatles' single per se, it's a collaboration between Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson and it has two covers... use your judgement)

Note that the template supports ordering of singles by when they charted.

[edit] Stub templates

{{beatles-song-stub}} lists articles in Cat:The Beatles song stubs. There are currently about 120 songs listed, though some of these are songs recorded by the members of the band as soloists after 1970.

NOTE: stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on creating stub templates and categories. It is inadbisable to create new stub templates without consultation as these will probably be nominated for deletion.

[edit] Membership template

You can place this template on your userpage to show project membership

	This user is a member of WikiProject The Beatles, a WikiProject which aims to expand and improve coverage of The Beatles on Wikipedia. Please feel free to join us.
Abbey Road

by including this text: {{WikiProject The Beatles}}

Alternatively, (or in addition), you can place this userbox on your userpage to show project membership

by including this text: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Userbox}}

Placing one of these on your pages is entirely optional but is a way to show your involvement to others... that's good for the project as we have lots of work to do!

[edit] Invitation template

If you see someone that might have an interest in the project, you can place this template on their userpage to invite them.

Hi! I've seen you around on The Beatles' articles... Would you consider becoming a member of WikiProject The Beatles, a WikiProject which aims to expand and improve coverage of The Beatles on Wikipedia? Please feel free to [join us].

Abbey Road... You're not in this picture... yet! Todo: Open tasks for WikiProject The Beatles. Edit or discuss these tasks. To Expand: Apple Records See also: Adopt an article To Clean up: Apple Records discography (wikify). The Beatles' 1965 USA Tour. Italian Cover Versions of Beatles' songs To Merge: To Create: Phil McDonald (engineer). Lennon/McCartney songs: I'll Keep You Satisfied (produced by George Martin), From A Window. George Martin produced Billy J. Kramer song: Magic Carpet (song). Bag o'Nails, where Paul met Linda. Articles on each Beatle tour (Category:The Beatles tours). The Lost Lennon Tapes, notable radio series which has spawned many bootlegs. Full list & instructions. Lists to complete: Wanted Pics/Graphics: Jimmy Nicol, Alistair Taylor, Ivan Vaughan, Tittenhurst Park, Tony Barrow. Project Discussions: The Beatles history, Individual songs vs longer album articles, Beatle wives, Merge/split proposals Project: Add {{WPBeatles}} to the talk pages of all Beatles-related articles. Send a newsletter to members, canvas for new members, and coordinate tasks. Enter articles classed as stubs into this list (under To Expand) and also list articles needing cleaning and other work here. If you complete one of these tasks, please remove it from the list and add your achievement to the project log.

by including this text: {{WikiProject The Beatles Invite}}

• DO put some commentary below it, explaining WHY they might be interested, and sign. Alternatively, you may leave a message and sign within the template by supplying an optional parameter
• DO NOT spam people extensively, give it some thought first and don't invite too many people at once.

It makes sense to grow the project participation slowly so use with care. But it's a fun template, a bit more attention grabbing than just a note.

[edit] Article Template

Place this template in the talk page of an article that you think belongs in the project:

		This Beatles-related page is within the scope of The Beatles WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve and expand Wikipedia coverage of The Beatles, Apple Records, George Martin, Brian Epstein/NEMS, and related topics. You are more than welcome to join the project and/or contribute to discussion.
		Suggested article edit guidelines: New additions to articles should be attributed to reliable and verifiable sources, using inline citations per the Project's style guide. The system is very easy to use so please do try to help by following this guideline. Most articles should be written in British English. Some terms may be different from - or non-existent in - American English, and some spellings may differ. For more information, see American and British English differences. If this article is Unassessed, please assess it. See the Article Assessment Department for instructions. If you disagree with a rating, you can change it or discuss it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles/Assessment.
The Beatles To-do: You can HELP!: Open tasks for WikiProject The Beatles. Edit or discuss these tasks. To Expand: Apple Records See also: Adopt an article To Clean up: Apple Records discography (wikify). The Beatles' 1965 USA Tour. Italian Cover Versions of Beatles' songs To Merge: To Create: Phil McDonald (engineer). Lennon/McCartney songs: I'll Keep You Satisfied (produced by George Martin), From A Window. George Martin produced Billy J. Kramer song: Magic Carpet (song). Bag o'Nails, where Paul met Linda. Articles on each Beatle tour (Category:The Beatles tours). The Lost Lennon Tapes, notable radio series which has spawned many bootlegs. Full list & instructions. Lists to complete: Wanted Pics/Graphics: Jimmy Nicol, Alistair Taylor, Ivan Vaughan, Tittenhurst Park, Tony Barrow. Project Discussions: The Beatles history, Individual songs vs longer album articles, Beatle wives, Merge/split proposals Project: Add {{WPBeatles}} to the talk pages of all Beatles-related articles. Send a newsletter to members, canvas for new members, and coordinate tasks. Enter articles classed as stubs into this list (under To Expand) and also list articles needing cleaning and other work here. If you complete one of these tasks, please remove it from the list and add your achievement to the project log.

by including this text at the very top of the page: {{WPBeatles}}

This template is also used for article classification (usage instructions). Do not subst it!

[edit] Navigation Templates

Major articles should use {{The Beatles}}. Place it at the bottom of the article by including this text: {{The Beatles}}. The result is:

v • d • e The Beatles George Harrison · John Lennon · Paul McCartney · Ringo Starr Pete Best · Stuart Sutcliffe Management Allan Williams · Brian Epstein · Allen Klein · Lee Eastman · Neil Aspinall · Peter Brown · Mal Evans · Alistair Taylor · Apple Records Production George Martin · Geoff Emerick · Norman Smith · Ken Scott · Phil Spector · Jeff Lynne · Abbey Road Studios Studio albums (U.K.) Please Please Me · With The Beatles · A Hard Day's Night · Beatles for Sale · Help! · Rubber Soul · Revolver · Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band · The Beatles · Yellow Submarine · Abbey Road · Let It Be Studio albums (U.S.) Introducing... The Beatles · Meet The Beatles! · The Beatles' Second Album · A Hard Day's Night · Something New · Beatles '65 · The Early Beatles · Beatles VI · Help! · Rubber Soul · Yesterday and Today · Revolver · Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band · Magical Mystery Tour · The Beatles · Yellow Submarine · Abbey Road · Let It Be EPs Twist and Shout · The Beatles' Hits · The Beatles (No. 1) · All My Loving · Long Tall Sally · Extracts from the Album A Hard Day's Night · Beatles for Sale · Beatles for Sale (No. 2) · The Beatles' Million Sellers · Yesterday · Nowhere Man · Magical Mystery Tour (double EP) Post-breakup albums Live at the BBC · Anthology 1 · Anthology 2 · Anthology 3 · Yellow Submarine Songtrack · Let It Be… Naked · Love Compilations A Collection of Beatles Oldies · Hey Jude · 1962–1966 · 1967–1970 · Past Masters, Volume One · Past Masters, Volume Two · 1 Filmography A Hard Day's Night · Help! · Magical Mystery Tour · Yellow Submarine · Let It Be Videography The Compleat Beatles · The First U.S. Visit · The Beatles Anthology Discography Songs · Bootlegs · Outtakes Related persons Eric Clapton · Klaus Voormann · Harry Nilsson · Derek Taylor · Cynthia Lennon · Yoko Ono · Linda McCartney · Pattie Boyd · Jane Asher · Maureen Starr · Olivia Harrison · Billy Preston · Tony Sheridan · Andy White · Jimmy Nicol · Astrid Kirchherr · Magic Alex · Tony Barrow · Ken Mansfield See also Line-ups · Love (Cirque du Soleil) · Across the Universe (film) · Lennon/McCartney · Influence · Beatle boots · The Quarrymen · The Beatles' breakup · London · Beatlemania · Fifth Beatle · Paul is dead · The Beatles (TV series) · British Invasion · The Ed Sullivan Show · Apple Corps · Northern Songs · Harrisongs · Startling Music · The Beatles Anthology · The Rutles · John Lennon's jukebox · List of artists who have covered The Beatles

Use {{The Beatles singles}} on articles about single and b-side releases:

v • d • e The Beatles' singles discography UK: (Parlophone, Apple Records) 1962: "Love Me Do" • 1963: "Please Please Me", "From Me to You", "She Loves You", "I Want to Hold Your Hand" • 1964: "Can't Buy Me Love", "A Hard Day's Night", "I Feel Fine" • 1965: "Ticket to Ride", "Help!", "Day Tripper" / "We Can Work It Out" • 1966: "Paperback Writer", "Eleanor Rigby" / "Yellow Submarine" • 1967: "Strawberry Fields Forever" / "Penny Lane", "All You Need Is Love", "Hello Goodbye" • 1968: "Lady Madonna", "Hey Jude" • 1969: "Get Back" / "Don't Let Me Down", "Ballad of John and Yoko", "Something" / "Come Together" • 1970: "Let It Be" • 1976: "Yesterday", "Back in the U.S.S.R." • 1978: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" / "A Day in the Life" • 1982: "The Beatles Movie Medley", "Love Me Do" (reissue) • 1995: "Baby It's You", "Free as a Bird" • 1996: "Real Love" B-sides 1962: "P.S. I Love You" • 1963: "Ask Me Why", "Thank You Girl", "I'll Get You", "This Boy" • 1964: "You Can't Do That", "Things We Said Today", "She's a Woman" • 1965: "Yes It Is", "I'm Down" • 1966: "Rain" • 1967: "Baby, You're a Rich Man", "I Am the Walrus" • 1968: "The Inner Light", "Revolution" • 1969: "Old Brown Shoe" • 1970: "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" • 1976: "I Should Have Known Better", "Twist and Shout" • 1982: "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You", "P.S. I Love You" (reissue) • 1995: "I'll Follow the Sun" / "Devil in Her Heart" / "Boys", "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)" • 1996: "Baby's in Black" U.S.: (Vee-Jay, Swan, Tollie, Capitol, Apple Records) 1963: "Please Please Me" (VJ), "From Me to You" (VJ), "She Loves You" (Swan), "I Want to Hold Your Hand" • 1964: "Twist and Shout" (Tollie), "Can't Buy Me Love", "Do You Want to Know a Secret" (VJ), "Love Me Do" (Tollie), "Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)" (Swan), "A Hard Day's Night", "I'll Cry Instead", "And I Love Her", "Matchbox", "I Feel Fine" • 1965: "Eight Days a Week", "Ticket to Ride", "Help!", "Yesterday", "We Can Work It Out" / "Day Tripper" • 1966: "Nowhere Man", "Paperback Writer", "Eleanor Rigby" / "Yellow Submarine" • 1967: "Penny Lane" / "Strawberry Fields Forever", "All You Need Is Love", "Hello, Goodbye" • 1968: "Lady Madonna", "Hey Jude" • 1969: "Get Back" / "Don't Let Me Down", "Ballad of John and Yoko", "Something" / "Come Together" • 1970: "Let It Be", "The Long and Winding Road" • 1976: "Got to Get You into My Life", "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" • 1978: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" / "A Day in the Life" • 1982: "The Beatles Movie Medley" • 1986: "Twist and Shout" • 1995: "Baby It's You", "Free as a Bird" • 1996: "Real Love" B-sides 1963: "Ask Me Why", "Thank You Girl", "I'll Get You", "I Saw Her Standing There" • 1964: "From Me to You", "There's a Place", "You Can't Do That", "I Should Have Known Better", "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You", "If I Fell", "Slow Down", "She's a Woman" • 1965: "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party", "Yes It Is", "I'm Down", "Act Naturally" • 1966: "What Goes On", "Rain" • 1967: "Baby You're a Rich Man", "I Am the Walrus" • 1968: "The Inner Light", "Revolution" • 1969: "Old Brown Shoe" • 1970: "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)", "For You Blue" • 1976: "Helter Skelter" • 1982: "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" • 1986: "There's a Place" • 1995: "I'll Follow the Sun" / "Devil in Her Heart" / "Boys", "I Saw Her Standing There" / "This Boy" / "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)" • 1996: "Baby's in Black" / "Yellow Submarine" / "Here, There and Everywhere"

{{Apple Corps}}:

v • d • e Apple Corps Discography Badfinger • Black Dyke Mills Band • Delaney, Bonnie & Friends • Elastic Oz Band • Elephant's Memory • Grapefruit • George Harrison • Mary Hopkin • Hot Chocolate • John Lennon • Jackie Lomax • Paul McCartney • Modern Jazz Quartet • Yoko Ono • David Peel • Plastic Ono Band • Billy Preston • The Radha Krsna Temple • Ravi Shankar • Ronnie Spector • Ringo Starr • Sundown Playboys • John Tavener • James Taylor • Doris Troy • White Trash • Wings Related articles The Beatles • Neil Aspinall • Allen Klein • Jeff Jones • Apple Boutique • Disputes with Apple Computer

[edit] Categories

• Category:The Beatles, and extensive subcategories including the four key members and Apple Corps.

• See this list: Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Beatles/Categories for all the categories currently considered as "part of the project" in that they contain articles that the project is concerned about.

• The WikiProject has its own category (Category:WikiProject The Beatles) and the articles managed by the Project can be found in Category:WikiProject The Beatles articles.

• Per current Wikipedia convention, articles on Beatles singles which are also the sole article for the song in question should belong to the following categories:

Category:The Beatles songs

Category:The Beatles singles

Category:Year singles

Category:Year songs

Category:Parlophone singles or Category:Apple Records singles (if appropriate; and note that no Capitol Records single category exists at the time of writing)

[edit] Articles for deletion

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Beatles

[edit] Policies

The Project has several "policies" with the aim of standardising language and style across Beatles related articles. See Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Policy.

[edit] Log

• Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Log

[edit] Online resources

This should be a list of useful resources to the project that will aid in research, article creation, or that may be a source of images that are freely usable by the project. Please add to this list as you find items. Assume that project members know about common things like IMDB.

• Soundscapes.

Musicologist Allan W. Pollack has taken an in-depth look at each of the Beatles' songs from a musicological point of view. Wordy, but with a lot of meat, and definitely helpful in adding length to articles on songs - also useful to add as an external link to song articles.