Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/To Do/to do
Goals
- We need your help!! We are currently in the process of defining the guidelines for style and content of related articles, and you can participate here.
- Assess musician/band pages according to 1.0 Assessment. See Category:Unassessed biography (musicians) articles for articles that need a rating.
- Add sources to Unreferenced BLPs.
- Categorize pages in Category:Musicians.
Specific articles in need of...
- Please add articles to these lists.
...Conversion
- Bill Berry, former drummer for R.E.M. needs photo, more context, refs, discography. (The band page is an FA article!)
- Paul Butterfield-
needs photo, cleanup, referencing and album pages - The Cowsills need content, references, discography.
- The Chieftains - more substance (especially on former members)
- David Immerglück of Counting Crows content, discography, references, birthdate.
- Counting Crows- Needs cleanup, content, references, some discography cleanup of album pages and song pages.
- Cream (band) needs a photo for the infobox at least.
- Divinyls - Infobox was added, more is needed?
- Heart - What should be done next?
- Blazing Inferno - Needs an article
- Strawbs - needs additional refs and/or treatment for unintentional POV/weasel words. (see talk page for examples).
...Expansion
- Richard Perry - Music Producer- needs editing- photo, info box, discography, and lots more content. Would love to see an article that does him justice!
- Selena - Mexican-American Grammy-award winning singer. Also known as "The Queen of Tejano Music". This page is a Featured Article.
- Mel Schacher - Bassist for Grand Funk Railroad In need of content and editing.
- Martha Argerich - in need of content, photos (particularly recent ones), and in need of much work on the structure and flow of the article. Badly in need of referencing.
- Junior Barnard - Needs just about everything for this hugely influential guitarist.
- Paul Barrere, guitarist of Little Feat, needs everything except photos.
- The Burns Sisters - needscontent.
- David Bryson co-founder, and guitarist of the Counting Crows needs a photo, content, discography, references.
- Camper Van Beethoven- needs photos, content, references, disc.
- Pablo Cruise - need album pages and a lot more substance
- Country Joe McDonald aka Country Joe and the Fish-
need photo, content, references - Vinnie Colaiuta needs content, references and discography
- Cracker (band)- needs content, references, some discography
- Heroes & Zeros - needs content
- Little Feat- needs content, etc- In addition, almost every member of the band need photos on their individual pages and content... the works. This would be a good group work project.
- Ron Holloway, former band member for Dizzy Gillespie needs cleanup, much was written himself without real guidance.
- John Illsley, of Dire Straits; expansion, photos, disc. & refs
- Bianca Jagger - special request by me (Jimbo), Ms Jagger has contacted me very sweetly and very politely with concerns about some errors (which I corrected) but also supplied me with some additional info (see the talk page). It would be nice if the article could be improved, as I like to reward people who approach us in the right way (nicely!).
- Steve Jordan drummer in John Mayer Trio, and long history of high profile session work, needs content, refs, and discography.
- David Lindley needs expansion, refs, discog- big multi-instrumentalist, worked extensively with Jackson Browne & others as a session musician and had his own bands, like El Rayo X
- LeRoi Moore- sax player from the Dave Matthews Band-needs photos, content. He just died in August, 2008
- My Father's Gun - needs content, references, photo?
- Alvin Youngblood Hart needs infobox, content, refs, disc.
- Mark Hart needs content, refs, disc.
- Jimmy LaFave - needs photos, content
- Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - needs content
- David Knopfler- needs content, flow; member of Dire Straits
- Wayne Krantz- jazz guitarist, needs photos, content, etc.
- Jerry Marotta - needs photos, content
- Missing Persons - needs photos, clean-up
- Monks of Doom- needs photos, content, references, discography
- Eddie Money - album pages need information, and the page itself should be expanded
- Wazmo Nariz - American musician, needs citations and expansion.
- Nazareth - album pages need more substance as well as the article
- Stevie Nicks- needs a total cleanup, and copyedit work to bring it to GA level.
- Gram Parsons - needs photos, cleanup, references, please help expand this page
- Jaco Pastorious- please help expand this page, with references
- Joel Rafael - needs photos, content
- Jason Rebello- Keyboardist with Jeff Beck, needs photo, content, references, discog.
- Emily Robison- needs photos, content
- Joe Satriani - timeline, incorporation of extra info in external links; could be brought to GA status with some TLC!
- Diane Schuur- needs photos, content, references, discography
- Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - needs content
- Mark Seymour needs expansion, references, discography.
- Sister Sledge - needs album pages, clean-up, and more substance
- Patti Smith - needs biography, content
- Cat Stevens needs expansion, some cleanup of album and song pages already there, as it may be about to lose it's GA-ranking as of mid-December, 2009.
- Sweet Honey in the Rock needs content, etc.
- Sufjan Stevens discography needs serious work.
- The Television Personalities need a photo, expanion, refs, discography.
- Mike Terrana Needs independent editing. Most has been written by Terrana himself.
- Derek Trucks- needs content, some information removed that has been placed on his band page, references and checks of those that exist already.
- The Derek Trucks Band- (every bandmate lacks a page as well but) the band page needs content, discography and references
- Luis Villegas - needs photos, content
- Ernie Watts needs photo, content, references, discography
- Stevie Wonder needs cleanup; Could easily be made a GA article with TLC and copyediting.
- Waddy Wachtel high profile Session player needs expansion, references
- Tal Wilkenfeld needs expansion, birthdate, and references up to date (She's currently a solo artist and bassist for Jeff Beck)
- Cris Williamson missing birthdate, needs photo, content, references.
- David D'Or -- Israeli Singer of the Year and Eurovision contestant; needs sourcing for some platinum albums; also, any expansion that can help it attain GA/FA status. Thanks.
Assessment
| Biography (musicians) articles by quality and importance | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA
|
17 | 36 | 46 | 60 | 20 | 179 | |
| FL
|
5 | 5 | |||||
 A
|
1 | 1 | |||||
 GA
|
16 | 54 | 164 | 350 | 169 | 753 | |
| B | 42 | 224 | 837 | 1,381 | 1,794 | 4,278 | |
| C | 18 | 221 | 1,139 | 7,036 | 7,855 | 16,269 | |
| Start | 7 | 162 | 1,747 | 31,216 | 3 | 41,515 | 74,650 |
| Stub | 18 | 308 | 21,284 | 4 | 34,932 | 56,546 | |
| List | 3 | 2 | 8 | 179 | 1 | 188 | 381 |
| Category | 20,730 | 20,730 | |||||
| Disambig | 32 | 32 | |||||
| File | 186 | 186 | |||||
| Project | 75 | 75 | |||||
| Redirect | 1 | 5 | 44 | 710 | 3,226 | 3,986 | |
| Template | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||||
| NA | 24 | 24 | |||||
| Other | 705 | 705 | |||||
| Assessed | 104 | 722 | 4,293 | 62,222 | 25,986 | 86,473 | 179,800 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 195 | 3,211 | 3,407 | |||
| Total | 104 | 722 | 4,294 | 62,417 | 25,986 | 89,684 | 183,207 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 791,943 | Ω = 5.19 | |||||
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo - will lose its GA rating without swift intervention (6 Jan 2010).
- Lior - needs re-assessment.
- The Coors- needs peer review for FA.
- Mina (singer) - content recently replaced. needs assessment.
- Dusty Springfield - content recently replaced. needs assessment.
- Sylvie Vartan - content recently replaced. needs assessment.
- The Villebillies - recently added. needs assessment.
- Alvino Rey - Just added. Needs assessment.
- Erik Mongrain - Just added. Needs assessment.
- Abderrahmane Abdelli - Rewrote and added lots more content
- James Brown - undergoing peer review
- No Doubt - undergoing peer review
- The Notorious B.I.G. - undergoing peer review
- Naomi Phoenix - Just added. Needs assessment
- Cat Stevens will lose it's GA-ranking without quick help (17 Dec. 2009)
- The Uptones - Expanded. Needs assessment.
- Joel Ryce-Menuhin - Expanded. Needs assessment. Needs infobox.
- David D'Or -- Israeli Singer of the Year and Eurovision contestant. Expanded. Needs re-assessment.
- The Uptones - Northern California ska band article needs assessment.
- The Honeydogs - A large copyvio was removed after this was assessed as start class.
- Missy Higgins - undergoing peer review
- Gillian Welch - peer review for FA
- Loudness (band) - changed content, needs re-assessment
- Lazy (band) - needs assessment
- Keiko Terada - nedds assessment
- Tanglewood Festival Chorus - article has not been a stub for some time, needs assessment
- Girlschool - changed content, needs re-assessment
- Donna Loren - content replaced, no longer stub, needs assessment
- G.E.M. - changed content, needs re-assessment
Needs photos
- Ali Birra
- Ambulance Ltd
- Atomic Rooster
- Bill Berry
- Bobbie Gentry
- By Night
- Carola Standertskjöld
- Cat Stevens (a young version showing his face)
- Christof May
- Cortney Tidwell
- The Crash Moderns
- Dio (band)
- Divinyls
- Doug Rauch
- The Glasspack
- Glen D. Hardin (player with Elvis Presley & Emmylou Harris)
- Joel Ryce-Menuhin
- John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
- Gram Parsons
- Hedgehog Pie
- Louis Prima
Luther Tucker
Done--Leahtwosaints (talk) 10:30, 20 December 2009 (UTC)- NoCo
- Saving Abel
- Stars Like Fleas
- Strawbs
- The Modern Lovers
The Storys Done--kikumbob (talk) 13:04, 16 February 2010 (UTC)- The Teenagers
- Stevie Ray Vaughn
See also
- ARIA Hall of Fame needs an infobox, cleanup, pics in Commons
- Glenn A. Baker needs an infobox, expansion, references photos are in Wikimedia Commons
- Alan Broadbent needs an infobox, refs, discog.
- Joe Camilleri needs an infobox, expansion, references, discography and references; Wikimedia Commons has photos
- Tina Dico needs an infobox, content, discography, references
- Amina Figarova needs disc. content, references
- Glider- needs Infobox, information, refs, disc.
- Bob Harris from the Old Grey Whistle Test needs an infobox and photograph
- Levon Helm needs expansion, cleanup, and checking references
- Paul Livingston a musical journalist, aka Flacco needs content, D.O.B., refs. Suggest merging the articles.
- Carol Lynn Maillard a founding member of Sweet Honey in the Rock, still performing with them needs infobox, references, content and discography, and a photo.
- Crazy World of Arthur Brown needs infobox, everything
- Bernard Fowler (backing vocalist for The Rolling Stones) needs expansion etc.
- Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen needs photo, etc.
- Jamey Haddad needs infobox, photo, discography, references
- Ronnie Hawkins needs infobox, photo, disc. refs (this was the initial band from which came The Band
- André Manuel needs infobox, photo, discography, references
- Arnold McCuller needs infobox, photo, references and discography
- Christof May needs photo, more content, references
- Jim Moginie needs expansion, refs, discog.
- Cathie Ryan needs infobox, expansion, refs
- Meredith Music Festival appears to be the same thing as the Golden Plains Festival- Merge?? Needs refs, content
- Mia Doi Todd needs infobox, photo, proper talkpage project boxes, references, probably verified discography
- Mina (singer) needs a native English speaker to copyedit the language.
- Dusty Springfield needs a native English speaker to copyedit the language.
- Lhasa de Sela needs an infobox (artist recently deceased).
- Dave Douglas needs a separate discog page.