Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Queen

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Index Page

" * " indicates single

If theres anything wrong feel free to fix it and leave a comment

See http://queen.musichall.cz/ for loads of info and album/single covers.

Comments

Template

I added the template to all songs listed on all albums listed on the template. Billvoltage 20:29, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Great, Thanks - Mtmtmt 09:13, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

It is indeed great work, Billvoltage. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 14:12, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, but I wish to help more, is there any other way I can?? Billvoltage 02:36, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject The Beatles

Hi, I'm just dropping by to say good luck with your Project. WikiProject The Beatles has been running for a while now and we have a good infrastructure in place, so if you need any help or advice come visit us at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles. Feel free to copy any of our pages but if you do please credit where you got it from in the edit summary :) Good luck. --kingboyk 04:57, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

It seems to me the structure has been copied directly off that project… With a bad result, I may add; the page seems cluttered here, having a lot of unnecessary sections. This talk page is also quite cluttered – it'd be good if someone cleaned it up a bit. Jon Harald Søby 11:08, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

It is possible that the structure was copied from the standard project. It brings in a lot of stuff. We at WP:Beatles initially hid a lot of it as we didn't need it (just comment it out) but then brought some back as we found uses for it. Anyway, I'm excited to see another band project get underway, Queen is a fave of mine (not as high as Genesis or The Beatles, mind you) and I wish you all good success and happy editing. If there is anything I can do to help please ask. In particular if you decide to do article classification I'd be happy to generate your initial article table for you. ++Lar: t/c 12:07, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Looks more like a default WikiProject, yes. I don't see enough members or involvement right now to be honest, I think you really need 10 or 15 members to make a Project work... --kingboyk 02:03, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

May I be bold and offer a few words of unsolicited advice? Take it or leave it :)

• I think you're wrong to have some sort of requirement for membership. I'd suggest removing it, and take all the help you can get!
• Songs which weren't singles or otherwise notable are better covered in album articles. There is no need to have a blue link for every song Queen ever recorded. (I hope to put this into practice at the Beatles Project, so we're kinda shooting in opposite directions here). See WP:SONG for notability issues, and note that an album track by Dido is currently doing badly at WP:AFD. The logic is quite simple: it's better to have a thorough high quality article on an album, than it is to have 10 stubs. Of course, if the song is notable and can be fleshed out into at least a Good Article then go for it, I'd just urge caution in your approach that every song should have an article.

Hope I haven't overstepped the mark and that my suggestions are of use. --kingboyk 02:03, 7 May 2006 (UTC) P.S. I was at the Freddie tribute in 1992 and can be glimpsed in the film :)

Thanks for your comment - I fully agree! Candyfloss 14:10, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

I have to agree with you here up to a certain extent. The reason is because on a personal level, I feel that all songs recorded by VERY notable groups and artists should be have their own articles on Wikipedia. But I also understand that this is against the official guideline of WP:SONG. Well, I hope that this would change in the future. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 14:20, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

An article isn't a badge of honour. I'm thinking here of article quality primarily. Hey, I have every Queen album on CD (the wall-mounted boxset), and I certainly consider them to be one of the more notable bands. If there's a glowing article to be written on every song, go for it. My experience from looking at many Queen and Beatles articles, however, is that most songs articles are crap, because there's not much to say about a generic album track. I'm suggesting it would be a better use of Project time to clean up what you have than to make creating stubs a priority (and indeed, when I wrote, a requirement of membership). --kingboyk 16:00, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

*I think you're wrong to have some sort of requirement for membership. I'd suggest removing it, and take all the help you can get!

I have removed that and am trying to work somthing out.

Mtmtmt 01:52, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Article project box

This box: {{Queen WikiProject}}... has a Queen crest in it. I beleive that image is fair use only, and cannot be used except in article space to illustrate directly relevant things. You may want to seek a different image (the WP:Beatles project had to do so as well) Hope that helps. ++Lar: t/c 15:44, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Song Infoboxes

I added a song infobox to the "Doing All Right" article. I didn't use the Song Infobox template because I wanted to use the same colors as the boxes on the A Night at the Opera song articles. I also added a small box to the "Keep Yourself Alive" article with links to the previous and next songs in the album, so one could browse through all songs from an album without having to return each time to the album article. Please tell me if this looks OK, and if it is, I'll proceed on adding boxes to the other song articles. --Kristbg 15:19, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much. You may want to see Wikipedia:Queen for a list of songs and albums. - Mtmtmt 15:42, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Welcome letter?

What is this welcome letter, and may I distribute it to the two members that have yet to recieve it (one of whom is me)? Billvoltage 22:06, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes you may distribute it, sorry about that. I'm working on an official one Template:Queen WikiProject welcome . - Mtmtmt 05:15, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Now What?

Now that Queen (band) is a good article what should we do? Any ideas? Should we focus on making Queen (band) a featured article or another article a good article - Mtmtmt 11:41, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

I believe that we should do both of these, we should make all four of the members (Freddie, Brian, John, and Roger) good articles, and we should try to get Queen (band) as a featured article... Billvoltage 01:36, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I think we should all focus on turning one of the band members' articles into a good article. The most obvious choice would be Freddie's, of course. --Kristbg 01:55, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree, I think we should work on the band members first and then the albums. Queen (band) doesn't need that much more work to become a featured article. - Mtmtmt

God Save The Queen

Candyfloss is right, we shouldn't have a separate article for Queen's cover of "God Save The Queen". I added instead a small infobox to the article on the British anthem (I don't think it'll stay there for long, though). --Kristbg 02:01, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Name change

I have changed my user name due to someone loging on and vandalizing pages which i don't want on my record. I am sorry for the incovenince. My new name is mtmtm.