Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music

WikiProject Classical Music aims to improve, expand, clean up, and maintain all articles related to classical music that aren't covered by other classical music related projects.

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.

Project listing, facts and figures

WikiProject Classical music is an independent WikiProject, listed under Music. It was started by OldakQuill on 25 May 2004. There were 16,781 articles within the scope of the project on 10 September 2013, up from 15,574 on 9 January 2012, and 10,332 on 23 November 2009.

Structure

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Music.

There is one daughter project:

• WikiProject Composers

Similar WikiProjects are:

• WikiProject Opera

• WikiProject Gilbert and Sullivan
• WikiProject Wagner

Currently there are three task forces of WikiProject Classical music:

• Compositions task force
• Contemporary music task force
• Haydn and Mozart task force (joint)

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}}

This userbox should appear:

	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|{{PAGENAME}}]]

Guidelines

See the Guidelines page.

The Biographical infoboxes guideline is located here.

Discussions and arbitration

See Major discussions and arbitration case

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 06 Mar 2016 – Valeria Kurbatova (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by GeneralizationsAreBad (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)

Good article nominees

• 24 Mar 2016 – Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gerda Arendt (t · c); start discussion
• 22 Mar 2016 – Gott ist mein König, BWV 71 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gerda Arendt (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Mar 2016 – Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 143 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gerda Arendt (t · c); start discussion
• 19 Mar 2016 – Keith Emerson (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TheBlinkster (t · c); start discussion
• 21 Feb 2016 – Violin Sonata in G minor (Tartini) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Damibaru (t · c); start discussion
• 04 Feb 2016 – Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gerda Arendt (t · c); start discussion
• 31 Jan 2016 – Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt, BWV 18 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gerda Arendt (t · c); start discussion
• 20 Jan 2016 – Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke, BWV 84 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gerda Arendt (t · c); start discussion
• 06 Jan 2016 – Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen, BWV 65 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gerda Arendt (t · c); start discussion
• 29 Nov 2015 – The Wood Nymph (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Sgvrfjs (t · c); see discussion

(3 more...)

Peer reviews

• 24 Feb 2016 – Michael Laucke (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Checkingfax (t · c); see discussion

Archived alerts are at: Article alerts/Archive

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.

• Go to-do list
• Complete missing list and start articles from Missing articles:Bach Cantatas site

Categories

The project categories are listed on the Categories sub page.

Assessments

See Assessment page.

Stub templates

The Stubs page lists the stub tags currently used on classical music articles.

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: {{WikiProject Classical music}}. This banner should appear:

A category containing all articles with this banner on its talk page can be found here.

To request urgent attention, please tag the talk page with {{WikiProject Classical music|attention=yes}}. A list of all articles that have been tagged as requiring urgent attention is here.

The last bot run to automatically tag articles was carried out in June/July 2008 by ShepBot and Bot0612. (Note: all articles then bannered by the Composers, Contemporary music, and Opera projects were excluded from the run.)

See also

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Music
• Wikipedia:Music encyclopedia topics
• Wikipedia:Article titles