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Nomination of Stevie Benton for deletion

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Jax 0677 (talk) 22:32, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Green Lung

There are a lot of newer UK bands who I think would be considered notable, but do not have pages. I have come here to rectify this. However, this website seems very complicated and I think it will take me a while to understand what goes where. I have begun with this draft article: Draft:Green Lung. Your feedback would be very much appreciated, before I submit it for review. I have done my best, but I am sure there are many, many things wrong with it.

The "help with editing" guidance suggested that this was the right place to ask for help. If I got it wrong, please let me know where I should go instead.

CasualInterestInManyThings (talk) 21:25, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@CasualInterestInManyThings: Hi, it looks quite good with some decent reliable sources coverage such as The Guardian and Kerrang but some of the sources used are regarded as unreliable so need to be removed and replaced if necessary. There is detailed guidance at Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Sources, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 21:00, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Atlantic306: Thank you for this. It's very useful for both that particular article and, I think, how the site works in general. It presents a bit of a dilemma, though - if there is an alternative band which has recently picked up enough coverage in publications favoured by Wikipedia to be considered notable, it seems to me that the band's early history ought to be included for the article to be informative. However, it's quite likely that the early history of still-relatively obscure metal (say) bands sometimes isn't going to be covered in the right sort of publications even if the information is out there and easily available, so there wouldn't be a reliable source for it. Does that mean it just can't be included?

Green Lung, I should say, are one of the relatively more covered bands among those for whom I was looking to write articles. On this basis, Cage Fight and Pupil Slicer may well have to wait. Hopefully Saor and Party Cannon should still manage...

Thanks again for your help.

CasualInterestInManyThings (talk) 21:10, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@CasualInterestInManyThings: Glad to help, it is best to rely on reliable sources but that list is for music-specific sources. Most national and local newspapers are acceptable (not the Daily Mail or The Sun) as are book sources from an established publisher (not self-published) and well-known general magazines, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 19:14, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation of links to Electronic metal

Can you help to disambiguation the links to the disambiguation page Electronic metal? They are shown in this list but I am not expert enough in the different genres to get this right.— Rod ^talk 17:02, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ben Green in Godflesh

Need your thoughts on what the article for G. C. Green the bassist and co-founder of Godflesh should be titled. Please discuss at Talk:G. C. Green. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 19:50, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:24, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Change class, peer review and assessment Dana Strum

The stub about Dana Strum was significantly expanded and improved, I will appreciate any help with reviewing and assessing it. Thank you. Switch827 (talk) 03:54, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Demon Hunter#Requested move 9 June 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Demon Hunter#Requested move 9 June 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 13:50, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Obelisk

Via recent edits to List of 2015 albums, I've been introduced to a website called The Obelisk. The problem is that I immediately found its about page which shows that it is obviously a one-author blog (said author is also the only byline I could find on any post) which violates our policy on self-published sources. That led me to an even greater issue, which is that this website is used as a source on about 200 pages, and that's clearly no good. Given just how many pages that compromises, it'll be a significant undertaking to replace/remove them all. So I figured I should leave a notice here about it in case anyone is interested in taking up the task, because I don't feel I have the patience to handle it all myself. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 07:58, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]