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WP:WPMUSUK

Welcome to the Music of the United Kingdom WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Music of the United Kingdom.

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Goals

To make Wikipedia a leading and reliable information source on all aspects of music of the United Kingdom
To create a systematic structure/hierarchy of the articles about music in the UK such that each article is self-standing but full cross-referenced, with the minimum of duplication.
To ensure that there are appropriate and consistent redirect pages
To review all existing articles in this context
To encourage the creation of new articles on the topic.

Scope

All aspects of music in the United Kingdom including folk/traditional, 'classical' (i.e. composed), jazz and popular music. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Music of the United Kingdom.

Guidelines[edit]

I suggest a first task could be to list all the presently existing categories that relate to the topic. that will give us some idea of what is already up and what might be missing; it would also intuitively suggest a structure for the project as a whole. I have started listing some out of the top of my head and found (surprisingly that some obvious ones like Category:English orchestras don't yet exist.

Gustav von Humpelschmumpel has started listing articles - we will need to get a list but that could get out of hand if we don't have the structure first (I speak with experience from having started the WP NHS project).

Probably the best thing to do is to put categories and articles on separate sub-pages behind an integrated front page (see e.g. Wikipedia:Wikiproject National Health Service) but I'm not quite sure how to do that - anyone have the expertise? --Smerus 19:08, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All comments welcome

Open tasks[edit]

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Music of the United Kingdom: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2021-05-04

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Cleanup : Recategorise articles listed in Category:English musicians according to principles of WP:MUSCAT. So far, we've dealt with all the A's...........
Expand : Classical music of the United Kingdom, Early British popular music

Define overall structure of topic in Wikipedia (see, and comment please, on proposal in project talk page).
Review existing categories relating to topic
Review of existing articles relating to topic - rewriting/reorganizing/renaming where necessary
Set up/review redirect pages relating to topic
...........

Participants[edit]

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

Smerus (talk · contribs) (assorted aspects of Music of the United Kingdom: starting this show off to try to bring interested parties together)
Gustav von Humpelschmumpel
Withdrawn: Dr Steven Plunkett (talk · contribs). I am interested in classical music of the British Isles, but not in classical music of the United Kingdom.
John Carter 15:24, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
User:Ogg Ogg (talk) 20:32, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Totnesmartin (talk) popular music, improvised music and experimental music.
Sabrebd (talk) 14:35, 26 February 2009 (UTC) the blues esp British blues, classical music,early music,electric folk, folk music, folk rock, popular music, and rock music[reply]
Stuartpgardner (talk) 09:33, 16 June 2009 (UTC) British rock music.[reply]
Matt Lewis (talk) 23:08, 13 June 2011 (UTC) Initially making sense of the various categories. Band/music articles (aside from the possibly the super-group ones) are amongst the worst on WP too.[reply]
Chrisdevelop (talk) 06:15, 11 April 2018 (UTC) Draft talk:Derek Williams (musician) I got invited to this page after submitting my article for review, but I see see no-one’s been here since 2011! My interest is in British Classical and Jazz, with a dashing of Rock. (talk) 00:59, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Departments[edit]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Music of the United Kingdom/Assessment - the assessment unit.

Articles[edit]

Classical, Opera, Church

Ballad opera
Celtic chant
Classical music of the United Kingdom which summarises each era
Early British popular music
English Madrigal School
Things in Category:Gilbert and Sullivan
Light music
Opera in English

Pop, Jazz and Folk

Misc

Timeline of trends in music from the United Kingdom
Other things in Category:Music of the United Kingdom

Recognized content

Good articles

Did You Know (DYK)s

Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

Former good articles

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

Music of the United Kingdom

Recognition Candidates

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Music of the United Kingdom-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page.

Folk music of Ireland - I'm probably going to plunge into this within a couple of days, because the current "Music of Ireland" is generally considered to be poor, and the folk music part is the poorest part of it. Now completed.
Folk music of Scotland - should probably exist, along the lines of "Folk music of England" but I have no plans to create it
War song - I have a rough draft of this. Since Anti-war song exists, it seems only appropriate that the other side of the argument is presented, even if it is now historically discredited. Now completed.
Irish fiddling should probably exist, since Scottish fiddling exists, but I don't feel up to it. Ogg (talk) 20:40, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Pub session - I have totally re-written this article. Ogg (talk) 11:21, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Assessment

Templates[edit]

((WikiProject Music of the United Kingdom)) - to be added to the talk pages of all articles directly relevant to this project.

Music of the United Kingdom NA‑class (inactive)

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Music of the United Kingdom, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.Music of the United KingdomWikipedia:WikiProject Music of the United KingdomTemplate:WikiProject Music of the United KingdomMusic of the United Kingdom articles
NA	This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

((User WP UKMusic)) - Userbox available for project members.

This user is a participant of Wikipedia:WikiProject Music of the United Kingdom.

Resources[edit]

Related projects

External links[edit]

Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Music of the United Kingdom