Welcome to WikiProject Country music. Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Country music and the organization of information and articles on this topic.
Scope
[edit]This project encompasses all Wikipedia articles, templates, categories, and related talk pages concerning country-music topics, including but not limited to artists, albums, songs, record labels, and organizations in the country-music industry.
Goals
[edit]Our goals and duties:
- Discussions and debates relating to Country music, including merges, citations, other references, image issues, splits, cleanup, formatting, and expansion.
- Reduce trivial information, speculation, point of view, and anything else that violates Wikipedia's core article policies.
- Monitoring all articles for violations of anything listed in the above two parts.
- Bring numerous articles to Good Article, Featured Article, and/or Featured List status.
Participants
[edit]Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
- BlueDolphin574 (talk) 04:41, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
- Moxy (talk) 04:13, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
- Nowyouseemetalk2me 05:14, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
- Eric444 (talk) 11:42, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
- Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 19:50, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
- EnDaLeCoMpLeX (contributions) • (let's chat) 20:00, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
- Ga Be 19 03:13, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
- GDuwen (talk) 14:42, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
- Ngs61 (talk) 22:29, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
- Novice7 (talk) 14:55, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
- Gilliganfanatic (talk) 22:56, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
- ipodnano05 * leave@message 18:33, 10 July 2011 (UTC) I mainly edit Taylor Swift and Shania Twain articles.
- Fiddle music. All kinds. GeoBardRap 03:02, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
- Caldorwards4 (talk) 05:43, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
- J04n(talk page) 00:46, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
- Preservationist957 (talk) 16:24, 2 January 2012 (UTC) Old country, resolving errors and omissions
- talk (pbl1998) 12:52PM GMT, 11 January 2012
- Devin Murphy (talk) 05:44, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
- Tomsv 98 (talk) 21:23, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
- Ggdlmnt (talk) 14:45, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
- Satchikova Satchikova (talk) 03:07, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
- Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 19:28, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
- SR11 (talk) 22:40, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
- Masssly Masssly (talk) 23:18, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
- --Old Time Music Fan (talk) 00:43, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- Vip Country Vip Country (talk) 18:49, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
- DepressedPer (talk) 06:42, 26 March 2015 (UTC) Ext. and C/E both old and modern country music articles.
- --Jack Gaines (talk) 20:47, 22 October 2015 (UTC) Mostly modern country music articles.
- Julietvbarbara (talk) 18:25, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
- FPGT24 (talk) 13:39 14 April 2016 (UTC) modern country music articles only
- Eagledj (talk) 16:59, 23 February 2021 (UTC) I'm Nashville based. Songwriters, record producers, Earl Scruggs (GA), Lap steel guitar, Slide guitar (GA)
- Maxim Stoyalov
- Aoba47 (talk): More obscure music releases
- User:Ed. Jishnu Lesser known country music artists
- ChrisTofu11961 (talk), women in country – veteran and current artists
- Yeehaw45 (talk) Canadian country, chart updates, album updates, etc
- JW 1961 Talk 18:16, 29 January 2021 (UTC) Various, but mostly old time country
- DanCherek (talk) 03:08, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
- Tillywillly17 (talk) 8:23 assistant
- MRN2electricboogaloo (talk) 02:48, 23 May 2022 (UTC) Modern, mainstream country mainly
- Leonor Hopscotch (talk) September 12, 2022 (UTC) Bluegrass, Flatt and Scruggs
- Dylan620 (he/him • talk • edits) 15:52, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Main articles
[edit]Article alerts
[edit]Articles for deletion
- 23 Aug 2024 – List of entertainment events at The OVO Hydro (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mikeblas (t · c); see discussion (8 participants; relisted)
Proposed deletions
- 18 Aug 2024 – Revival (Tara Oram album) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Donaldd23 (t · c) was redirected to Tara Oram (talk · edit · hist)
Good article nominees
- 12 Jul 2024 – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TenPoundHammer (t · c); start discussion
- 14 Jun 2024 – That's When (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gained (t · c); start discussion
- 08 Jun 2024 – Speak Now World Tour (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Ippantekina (t · c); see discussion
- 16 May 2024 – Soon You'll Get Better (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Ippantekina (t · c); see discussion
- 12 May 2024 – The Way I Loved You (Taylor Swift song) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gained (t · c); see discussion
- 04 May 2024 – Chapel Hart (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TenPoundHammer (t · c); start discussion
- 19 Apr 2024 – Vince Gill (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TenPoundHammer (t · c); start discussion
Requested moves
- 23 Aug 2024 – Our Song (Taylor Swift song) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Our Song by JohnCWiesenthal (t · c); see discussion
- 20 Aug 2024 – Joe Chambers (music producer) (talk · edit · hist) move request to Joe Chambers (museum creator) by Clovermoss (t · c) was moved to Joe Chambers (musician) (talk · edit · hist) by Bensci54 (t · c) on 28 Aug 2024; see discussion
Articles for creation
- 01 Jun 2024 – Draft:Garrett T. Capps (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Howmusicworks (t · c)
- 22 May 2024 – Draft:Come On Over - All The Hits (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by JSFarman (t · c)
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Assessment
[edit]Country music assessment statistics
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Categories
[edit]Templates
[edit]What to type | Code result | What it's for | ||||||||||
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{{WikiProject Country music}} |
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To be placed at the top of article talk pages for all topics related to country music. Do not substitute it. | ||||||||||
{{User WikiProject Country music}} |
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Feel free to place it in your user page if you're a member of the project. | ||||||||||
{{User:Scepia/country music}} |
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Feel free to place it on your user page if you're a fan of country music. | ||||||||||
{{Singer-songwriter-stub}} | Place it at the bottom of stubs about singer-songwriters. | |||||||||||
{{US-country-band-stub}} | Place it at the bottom of stubs about American country bands and musical groups. | |||||||||||
{{Canada-country-band-stub}} | Place it at the bottom of stubs about Canadian country bands and musical groups. | |||||||||||
{{country-album-stub}} | Place it at the bottom of stubs about country albums. | |||||||||||
{{country-song-stub}} | Place it at the bottom of stubs about country songs. |
Tips
[edit]? | Use common sense. Ultimately, assume good faith on the part of others, be bold in editing because perfection is not required. See Wikipedia:Editing policy for more information. Before starting a new article! - Notability is a concern that must be adhered to. See Wikipedia:Notability (music) for more information. |
I. | Use references. This is an encyclopedia, so remember to include a ==References== section listing websites, newspapers, articles, books and other sources you used to write the article. New articles and statements added to existing articles may be deleted if unreferenced or referenced poorly. See Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Cite_sources and Wikipedia:References for more information. |
II. | Use proper spelling and grammar. This is a very important aspect of an article. "We want to learn editors to write proper" There are helpful guidelines in regards to styles. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music) for more information. |
III. | Use footnotes. Take advantage of the footnote ability Wikipedia has, instead of including html links inside the context include them as footnotes. See Wikipedia:Footnotes on how to use them. |
IV. | Write a good lead. Be sure to write a lead that concisely summarizes the entire article into one or two paragraphs, which make sense to someone who may know nothing about the subjects in question. See Wikipedia:Lead section for more information. |
V. | Stay on topic. Many articles are criticized for length; sticking to the subject matter helps eliminate this. See Wikipedia:The perfect article for more information. |
VI. | Keep it simple. Remember that the average reader should be able to comprehend the erudition. Although you should use a broad vocabulary of regular, non-technical terms, do not provide such a quantity of locutions as to impel those who aspire to derive serviceable information from the article to consult a dictionary. |
VII. | Use images if possible. Images enhance articles greatly, but only use them when they are necessary, and ensure that their copyright status has been specified and we are allowed to use it on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Images |
Parentage
[edit]Since Country music covers multiple branches of topics, the WikiProject is therefore a sub-project of numerous collaborations:
Sister projects
[edit]There are also a number of similar genre-oriented projects which we consider our "sister" projects:
- WikiProject Alternative music
- WikiProject Electronic music
- WikiProject Emo
- WikiProject Hip hop
- WikiProject Metal
- WikiProject Rock music
Resources
[edit]Tools
[edit]- 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.