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WikiProject The Beatles

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Several Wikipedians have formed a WikiProject to better organize information in articles related to The Beatles (including Apple Records). This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and/or see the to-do list.

The Beatles are the quintessential pop/rock group, indisputably the most celebrated and influential in history and, arguably, the most popular (as measured by several metrics: number of #1 hits, total sales, Beatlemania, etc.). There are already a considerable number of articles about The Beatles on Wikipedia, of varying levels of quality and depth. These range from featured articles, such as John Lennon, down to stubs of the lowest quality. This project seeks to marshall the efforts of interested editors to improve and unify these articles and to raise the overall standard of The Beatles' coverage on Wikipedia.

Scope

The scope of the project is articles about The Beatles and their work, and people and things directly related to - or who have achieved a significant part of their notability through their connection to - The Beatles as a group and individually.

Goals

Please discuss on the talk page or be bold and add some!

1. Unify and improve articles about albums
2. Unify and improve articles about the Fab Four
3. Unify and improve song articles
4. Unify and improve articles about post Beatles bands (i.e. Traveling Wilburys)

Guidelines

Book References

In accordance with Wikipedia policy, facts and assertions should be attributed to verifiable, reliable sources wherever possible (see WP:V and WP:RS).

The Project's preferred method for this is inline citations using the <ref> tag.

Usage is very simple:

Put the book in the "references" section:

* {{cite book|first=Mark |last=Lewisohn|authorlink=Mark Lewisohn|title=The Complete Beatles Chronicle|publisher=Chronicle Press|year=1996|isbn=978-1851529759|ref={{SfnRef|Lewisohn|1996}}}}

Citing the book in the article:

{{sfn|Lewisohn|1996|p=77}}

References from web pages

<ref name="WEBpageLennon">{{cite web|url=URLwebpagehfhjbidjvhjdk/jkkhkdd457 |title=Lennon and McCartney: The Truth |first=Andreas |last=Egde |page=1|publisher=[[The Times]] |date=8 December 2006 |accessdate=4 June 2011}}</ref>

Further reading

• Wikipedia:Footnotes - More details about the ref tag and footnotes
• Wikipedia:Citing sources - A more general overview

Books used for references

• Babiuk, Andy (2002). Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments, from Stage to Studio (Revised ed.). Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-662-9. 
• Badman, Keith (1999). The Beatles After the Breakup 1970-2000: A day-by-day diary. Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-7520-5. 
• The Beatles (2000). The Beatles Anthology. Chronicle Books. ISBN 0-811-82684-8. 
• The Beatles (2003). The Beatles Anthology (DVD). Apple Records. ASIN: B00008GKEG. 
• Best, Pete (1989). BEATLE! The Pete Best Story. Plexus Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-0859650779. 
• Braun, Michael (1995). Love Me Do: The Beatles' Progress (Reprint ed.). London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-002278-3. 
• Bresler, Fenton (1990). Who Killed John Lennon. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-92367-8. 
• Brown, Peter; Gaines, Steven (1983). The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of The Beatles. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-36134-2. 
• Brown, Peter; Gaines, Steven (2002). The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of The Beatles (Reprint ed.). NAL Tradem. ISBN 978-0451207357. 
• Coleman, Ray (1989). Brian Epstein: The Man Who Made The Beatles. Viking Press. ISBN 0-670-81474-1. 
• Coleman, Ray (1989). Lennon: The Definitive Biography. Harper. ISBN 0-330-48330-7. 
• Connolly, Ray (1981). John Lennon 1940-1980. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-636405-4. 
• Cross, Craig (2005). The Beatles: Day-by-Day, Song-by-Song, Record-by-Record. iUniverse. ISBN 978-0595346639. 
• Davies, Hunter (2004). The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (Revised ed.). Cassell Illustrated. ISBN 1-84403-104-7. 
• DiLello, Richard (1973). The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider's Diary of the Beatles, Their Million-dollar Apple Empire and Its Wild Rise and Fall. Playboy Press. ISBN 1-84195-602-3. 
• Emerick, Geoff (2006). Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles. Gotham. ISBN 978-1592401796. 
• Everett, Walter (2001). The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men Through Rubber Soul. US: Oxford University Press. ISBN 019514105. 
• Everett, Walter (1999). The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology Project. US: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-512941-5. 
• Flippo, Chet (1988). Yesterday. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385234825. 
• Frame, Pete (1999). Pete Frame's Rockin' Around Britain: Rock'n'roll Landmarks of the UK and Ireland. Music Sales Group. ISBN 0-7119-6973-6. 
• Gambaccini, Paul (1993). Paul McCartney: In His Own Words. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0860012399. 
• Geller, Deborah (1999). The Brian Epstein Story. Faber and Faber Ltd.. ISBN 0-571-20156-3. 
• Giuliano, Geoffrey (1997). Dark Horse: The Life and Art of George Harrison (Revised ed.). New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80747-5. 
• Gould, Jonathan (2008). Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America. Piatkus Books. ISBN 978-0-7499-2988-6. 
• Granados, Stefan (2002). Those Were the Days: An Unofficial History of the Beatles Apple Organization 1967-2001. Cherry Red Books. ISBN 978-1901447125. 
• Greene, Joshua M. (2007). Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 0-470-12780-5. 
• Harrison, George (1980). I, Me, Mine. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-42787-3. 
• Harry, Bill (1992). The Ultimate Beatles Encyclopedia. Virgin Books. ISBN 0-86369-681-3. 
• Harry, Bill (1997). The Encyclopedia of Beatles People. Blandford Pr. ISBN 978-0713726060. 
• Harry, Bill (2000). The Beatles Encyclopedia: Revised and Updated. London: Virgin Publishing. ISBN 0-7535-0481-2. 
• Harry, Bill (2002). The Paul McCartney Encyclopedia. Virgin Books. ISBN 0-7535-0716-1. 
• Huntley, Elliot J. (2004). Mystical One: George Harrison: After the Break-up of the Beatles. Guernica Editions. ISBN 1-55071-197-0. 
• Ingham, Chris (2006). The Rough Guide to the Beatles. Rough Guides. ISBN 1843537206. 
• Lennon, Cynthia (1978). A Twist of Lennon. Avon. 
• Lennon, Cynthia (2006). John. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-89828-3. 
• Leonard, Hal (1993). The Beatles - Complete Scores. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 978-0-7935-1832-6. 
• Lipack, Richard Warren (1996). Epoch Moments and Secrets. Barrister Publishers. ISBN 978-0965095914. 
• Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. Harmony Books. ISBN 0-517-57066-1. 
• Lewisohn, Mark (1992). The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years. Hamlyn. ISBN 0-681-03189-1. 
• Lewisohn, Mark (1996). The Complete Beatles Chronicle. Chronicle Press. ISBN 1-85152-975-6. 
• Lewisohn, Mark (2002). Wingspan. Little, Brown and Company (New York). ISBN 0-316-86032-8. 
• MacDonald, Ian (1995). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties. Vintage. ISBN 0-7126-6697-4. 
• MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (Second Revised ed.). London: Pimlico (Rand). ISBN 1-844-13828-3. 
• Madinger, Chip; Easter, Mark (2000). Eight Arms To Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium. 44.1 Productions. ISBN 0-615-11724-4. 
• Manning, Sean (2008). Rock and Roll Cagematch: Music's Greatest Rivalries, Decided. Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0307396273. 
• Martin, George; Pearson, William (1994). With a Little Help from My Friends: The Making of Sgt. Pepper. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-54783-2. 
• Martin, George; Hornsby, Jeremy (1994). All You Need Is Ears. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-11482-6. 
• McCabe, Peter; Schonfeld, Robert D. (1984). John Lennon: For the Record. Bantam Books. ISBN 9780553248029. 
• Miles, Barry (1997). Many Years From Now. Vintage-Random House. ISBN 0-7493-8658-4. 
• Miles, Barry (1998). The Beatles Diary. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0711963153. 
• Miles, Barry; Badman, Keith (2001). The Beatles Diary: After the Break-Up 1970-2001. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0711983076. 
• Norman, Philip (2008). John Lennon: The Life. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-075401-3. 
• Norman, Philip (1993). Shout!. Pan Books. ISBN 978-0330487689. 
• O'Brien, Ray (2001). There are Places I'll Remember. 1. London: Ray O'Brien. ISBN 0-954-44730-1. 
• Pang, May (1983). Loving John. Warner Books. ISBN 978-0-446-37916-8. 
• Pang, May (2008). Instamatic Karma: Photographs of John Lennon. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-37741-0. 
• Pawlowski, Gareth L (1990). How They Became The Beatles. McDonald & Co. ISBN 0-356-19052-8. 
• Pedler, Dominic (2003). The Songwriting Secrets of The Beatles. Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-8167-1. 
• Peel, Ian (2002). The Unknown Paul McCartney. Reynolds & Hearn Ltd. ISBN 1-903111-36-6. 
• Ryan, David Stuart (1990). John Lennon's Secret: A Biography. Kozmik Press. ISBN 978-0905116204. 
• Sandford, Christopher (2006). McCartney. Random House. ISBN 978-0786716142. 
• Schechter, Danny (1997). The More You Watch, the Less You Know: News Wars/Submerged Hopes/Media Adventures. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1-888363-80-0. 
• Sheff, David (2000). All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-25464-4. 
• Spitz, Bob (2005). The Beatles: The Biography. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 1-84513-160-6. 
• Spizer, Bruce (2003). The Beatles Are Coming!: The Birth of Beatlemania in America. Four Ninety-Eight Productions. ISBN 978-0-9662649-8-2. 
• Wenner, Jann S (2000). Lennon Remembers. London: Verso. ISBN 1-85984-600-9. 
• Wiener, Jon (1995). Come Together: John Lennon In His Time. Random House. ISBN 978-0-571-13576-9. 
• Wiener, Jon (1999). Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-22246-6. 

Related projects

Parentage

The father of this WikiProject is WikiProject Music.

Related portals

WikiProject The Beatles also manages The Beatles Portal: Portal:The Beatles.

Log

The achievements of the WikiProject so far are recorded at Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Log. If you create a new article, perform a merge or achieve some other goal on behalf of the project please record it in the log. It's helpful and motivating for us all to see how we've progressed as a team.

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Projects

1. Compile a list of current and missing articles, and catalogue them by status - see Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Assessment and Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Beatles#Wikipedia_articles_on_The_Beatles
2. Restore The Beatles to, and upgrade History of The Beatles to, featured article status. Alternative approaches (see Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/The Beatles history):
   • Seek peer review, and 'tweak'
   • Plan the article stucture anew and major edit. Maybe History can be merged back in, and less substantial stuff forked out.
3. Insert other projects (big jobs) here from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles

To-do list

WikiProject Project talk Log talk Assessments talk To do list talk Media

Tasks

1. Buy a book about The Beatles
2. Invite new members by contacting editors who have made substantial Beatles-related edits in the past
3. Fix templates to talk pages
   • To do this, does anyone have a suggestion as to how to develop a list of the articles to do this to? There are so many different partial sets (the categories help). Or should an article only get the tagging as it is reviewed by one of us and improved? ++Lar: t/c 21:12, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

   • Yep, use What Links Here for the Beatles' template, as discussed elsewhere on this (ever growing) page. That'll locate every article which uses the template, and any not properly categorised articles can be dealt with at the same time. But please don't mess up the lovely cat tree I spent a lot of time tidying :)

   If you're gonna do it, and if you're gonna do it in a web browser, might be best to reset your link cache first? Then you can see where you've been and where you haven't. With the cats, subcats and the template usage you'll find most articles more than once. --kingboyk 21:48, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

4. Construct Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Assessment by following the category 'tree'(what that means is update this table: Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Beatles/Categories as the automated code reads it and using what links here for The Beatles template. Can do the talk page notices at the same time.
5. Assess articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Assessment
6. Apple Records discography - Needs British LPs and singles, and US LPs. Needs restructuring. I'd propose using the Brit catalog as the basis, and having only those releases which are different in the US section. This might not be practical, however, if the cat. no.s are different (they are for the singles, not sure for the albums).
   Blue links need to be checked for and, if they aren't already, added to Category:Apple Records singles or Category:Apple Records albums, and the same for The Beatles/solo members singles/albums categories.
7. Add specific fair use rationales to Beatles-related copyrighted images, especially album covers (see Image:LetItBe.jpg for example).
8. Add the geographic coordinates of The Beatles significant places as : Tittenhurst Park, Savile Row, St. Peter's Church, etc. As already exist for the Shea Stadium, Abbey Road or Friar Park. Completed by User:Billy.
9. insert other tasks (smaller jobs) here from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles

Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

• The Beatles 1962-1966 adopted by PhattyFatt
• The Beatles 1967-1970 adopted by Mr. Manu
• Apple Records and Apple Corps adopted by kingboyk
• The Beatles' Christmas Album Adopted by Danthemankhan^(talk)
• Flying (song) adopted by Grutness...wha?
• It Don't Come Easy adopted by ZincOrbie & simonthebold
• My Sweet Lord Adopted by Dakota
• Alistair Taylor Adopted by Alexcalamaro
• Klaus Voormann adopted by Mr. Manu
• Woman Is the Nigger of the World Adopted by Tezkag72 (talk)
• No One's Gonna Change Our World adopted by simonthebold
• A Spaniard in the Works adopted by Èŗüρтîöṇ257
• Tony Barrow abopted by Basketball110
• The Beatles bootleg recordings adopted by paulisdead This has been something I've been working on for a while now. I'd love to get this one up to Wikipedia standards.
• Mike McCartney
• I Am the Walrus adopted by Raiku Lucifer Samiyaza.
• The Beatles (No. 1) adopted by Yeepsi (Talk to me!) 17:05, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

• The following are participants in Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles... Anyone may join!
• To join simply click here and add yourself at the bottom of the list.
• Please use the [[user|username]] template

Active participants

From time to time, the participants list may be trimmed and seemingly inactive members moved to "Inactive". Please don't be offended; if you're here and editing Beatles articles or working on administration of the WikiProject, just put yourself back on the main list. ZoneOne (talk · contribs)

• ElioDelRIo (talk · contribs) She's leaving home
• Kingboyk (talk · contribs) "Shanghai Surprise"
• ++Lar: t/c (Co-founder) "I'm back... back... back in the US ... back in the US... back in the USSR!" 4 March 2006
• Grutness...wha? 00:57, 6 March 2006 (UTC) (Cranberry sauce when I get time :)
• Steelbeard1 01:26, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Elgobbes (talk · contribs)
• Count me in! —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 19:43, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
• --Crestville 15:06, 21 May 2006 (UTC) For some reason I know a fair bit about them.
• "I Am the Eggman", 23, November, 2006, long time Beatles fan and Dale Earnhardt Sr. worshiper. "Goo, goo, ga-joob."
• Tvoz | talk 05:31, 11 February 2007 (UTC) (not really all that scary)
• andreasegde 22:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC) Do you know that Lennon has three half-sisters, two half-brothers, and McCartney has a brother and a step-sister? Do you care? I do.
• paulisdead 09:35, 16 May 2007
• BrianO 01:37, 27 August 2007 (UTC) Have begun work on All Those Years Ago
• faithless (^speak) 04:52, 27 August 2007 (UTC) Cookie!
• Bektour Iskender 15:15, 28 August 2007 (Bishkek time)
• apepper, created Influence on Recording Music article and enjoy reading all the Beatle stuff.
• User:75pickup 19:56, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
• Hotcop2^{The Beatles Wikiproject}
• zone46 – nothing's gonna change my world
• Liverpool Scouse from Liverpool UK
• Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 21:34, 29 October 2007 (UTC) (am most definitely not the Fifth Beatle)
• Vint (talk) 02:36, 29 November 2007 (UTC) I still check in frequently, just not a whole lot of edits, sorry. If that means I count as inactive, I guess someone can move me back...
• Alexcalamaro 20:58, 17 October 2006 (UTC) There's nothing you can do it can't be done.
• Tobi4242 (talk) 02:13, 8 December 2007 (UTC) We're sgt. peppers lonly hearts club band!
• MagnoliaFen
• Basketball110
• Billy-talk 21:50, 22 December 2007 (UTC) And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.
• Chaz 19:06, 14 July 2007 (UTC) I love Wikipedia. I love the Beatles R.I.P. John and George!
• Paul Italiano I am the eggman, They are the eggman, I am the Walrus, Goo Goo G'joob!
• Pawnkingthree Looking at songs, Paul McCartney ones in particular.
• ClonedPickle I hope I can lend a hand and help out! 11:04, January 13, 2008 (UTC)
• Beggarsbanquet (talk) , massive Beatles fan. I have a lot I could contribute.
• Kodster "I'm a mocker."
• Moreno Valley User (talk · contribs) "I love the Beatles and am a huge Beatles fan, despite me being 13. I have all the albums (albeit burnt on my computer by me) and know a bunch of little facts about almost every one of their songs. I might not be able to constant ly contribute, but I can occasionally when I have time (weekly or monthly or so) or when I see something wrong with something I'm reading. I'm not too good with editing, either. I just copy and paste things from something similar to what I want done, delete the actual words, and fill in the blanks. This is a bit too long, isn't it? "
• (Dofis (talk)) Im a huge fan of The Beatles and would love to help out!
• TFunk, I am a big Beatles and George Harrison solo fan
• faulmacca, the surlaw.
• DizFreak Another big Beatles and Wings fan
• ...... Dendodge .. Talk^Help 11:08, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
• Ezekiel 7:19 ^{S†rawberry Fields (sign)} I changed my name so I wanted to re add my name to the list. Go Beatles!
• Paepaok Eggman-Walrus-Elephant Seal
• hornplayer2
• --Betty kerner (talk) 00:33, 10 August 2008 (UTC) (been doing mostly Wikignome work)
• QuidProQuo²³ 22:07, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
• User:Feeling free
• SilkTork *^YES! 20:03, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
• The Walrus- All you need is love
• Montypics- I'm not Paul. Paul is dead.
• User:Levalley - will copyedit, wikify, etc. And I know a bit about the Beatles, yes I do.
• User:Zobango
• JayLeno175
• User:FootyStavros
• Irv 18:07, 23 July 2009 (UTC) Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland
• McLerristarr 18:31, 15 April 2009 (UTC) The Beatles are the best band in the world ever! I Am The Walrus!
• Krobertj (talk) 21:21, 29 March 2009 (UTC) The Beatles are my favorite band ever and I would love to help improve the pages as much as I can and "I'd love to turn you on" to all I know about this bloody brilliant group!
• Raiku Lucifer Samiyaza 20:49, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
• Will Thompson (talk) 03:21, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
• Deserted Cities (talk) 01:38, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
• We're gonna have a good time! John, Paul, George, Ringo 15:57, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
• Ost (talk)
• The Beatles Fan (talk)
• User:Musicbreather 18:53, 5 November 2009
• Doc9871 (talk) 12:47, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
• Sean (talk || contribs) 16:43, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
• CuriousEric (talk) 16:10, 1 January 2010 (UTC) – a fan since 1967; just missed Beatlemania; first four in Stereo!
• GoingBatty (talk) 06:11, 7 February 2010 (UTC) - cleaning up List of artists who have covered The Beatles and other misc edits
• Vegavairbob (talk) 01:16, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
• Simon^KSK 21:15, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
• Diego Grez (talk) 20:35, 8 November 2010 (UTC) Eight days a week... I love you...
• Piriczki (talk) 13:46, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
• Yeepsi (Talk to me!) 18:08, 17 March 2011 (UTC) Handle me with care...
• Fuzzybunny911 I might not be on all the time...
• Evanh2008, Super Genius Who am I? You can talk to me... 12:04, 24 July 2011 (UTC) Me!
• SenatorSteve Long time fan!SenatorSteve (talk) 20:01, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
• Rlendog (talk) 00:41, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
• --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 05:38, 31 December 2011 (UTC) Love Magical Mystery Tour
• 02:04, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Inactive, or have just popped out for a cup of tea...

If your name has been moved here in error, please feel free to move it back.

• Mr. Manu 12:19, 28 March 2006 (UTC) Los Beatles son terrible bakanes!!!!!!!!!!! XD
• Nufcmichael (talk · contribs)
• Johnleemk | Talk 19:39, 4 March 2006 (UTC) I guess so, since I've been a one-man Beatles WikiProject until lately. :p
• RENTA^{FOR LET?} 18:55, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• rogerd "If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow" 01:19, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Joining and adopting My Sweet Lord (have the cover).--Dakota ~ ° 02:36, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Estrose 03:32, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Banez 09:16, 6 March 2006 (UTC) (As the time allows).
• Vanky 13:03, 7 March 2006 (UTC) You may be a lover, but you ain't no dancer...
• Danthemankhan^(talk) 05:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC) "MISTERRRRRRR MOOOOONLIGHT!!!" Hey, somebody has to like it.
• El Slameron 00:01, 9 March 2006 (UTC) I've got a feeling...
• Jerry Bakewell Here's the original My Sweet Lord cover! Happy to fill in any gaps or tidy up in the Apple/late Beatles/early solo areas. More soon.
• --IAMTHEEGGMAN (talk) need I say more, Choo Choo Cha Choob.
• warpozio 07:54, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Steiger 03:37, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
• TheImpossibleMan 13:15, 31 March 2006 (UTC) - Happy to lend a hand. Currently working on I Am the Walrus.
• FranksValli 17:44, 5 April 2006 (UTC) Wooo finally a project I can really get into :).
• Simonthebold "Because the wind is high, it blows my mind!" Count me in. Recording session stuff is my speciality. simonthebold 10:20, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
• Analogdemon (talk) The US albums are my area of expertise so I'll be more than happy to contribute wherever my knowledge might be needed.
• You know you should be glad - Highway ^{Rainbow Sneakers} 16:48, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
• Wootking 'Tom 00:29, 21 May 2006 (UTC)'
• JaymzSpyhunter 01:35, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
• Brian.D 01:58, 29 May 2006 (UTC) "move over baby, I'm travelling on that line..."
• User:DslSWF 5:17, 31 May 2006 I'll try to help as much as I can. I've read a lot and just created my 1st article on This Guitar (Can't Keep Me From Crying)!
• Goldom ‽‽‽ ⁂ 22:55, 31 May 2006 (UTC) I figure after making those templates, I might as well stick around and see what else there is to do.
• Afghan Historian 07:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• bl4d3 03:42, 19 June 2006 (UTC) - It's The Beatles, man!
• Doctorfreedom 12:13, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• Red Alien 19:36, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• PhattyFatt
• Caesar 04:16, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
• luckymustard 13:45, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
• The4sword Heyy! Just got You'll Be Mine done; sorry, it's a stub.
• I Am The Walrus 03:02, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
• NaLaochra 03:43, 13 September 2006 (UTC) Just a generally obsessive fan and trivia junkie who knows his Beatles... hope I can help
• NauticaShades^(talk) 13:03, 9 October 2006 (UTC) Sitting in an English Garden, waiting for the Sun..
• Raymond Arritt 03:51, 13 October 2006 (UTC) Have lots of reference books, and pics of Beatles sites in Liverpool and London (that I took myself so no copyright concerns). "You can talk to me."
• Willie the Walrein 12:39, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• Peanut33Tillman "Keepin an eye on the World goin' by my window" 19:57, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Samboha 01:35, 31 October 2006 (UTC)number nine...number nine...number nine...
• Keithmall, pleased to help in any way I can
• Sturgeonman 02:10, 2 January 2007 (UTC), I'm in, and ready to help.
• SUIT⁴² 07:14, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
• Darrenhusted
• Eruption257 5:33 PM, 6 February 2007 (PST) Adopted A Spaniard in the Works
• Rbb l181 21:35, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
• Mezlo
• Hey jude, don't let me down
• Eschoir 12:41, 14 March 2007
• Beatlesmaniac
• Takedashingen620
• McTavidge 06:12, 6 January 2007 (UTC)I like editing. I like the Beatles.
• Fhqwgads 02:00, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
• Sixstring1965^{The Beatles Wikiproject}
• mrmaroon25 Blackbird singin' in the dead of night ... take these sunken eyes and learn to see ...
• DiscordantNote^Cntrbtns 01:37, 14 January 2007 (UTC) I do what I can, even if it's just updating a minor article in the project. Every bit helps! :-D
• Cbing01 14:35, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
• Juan de Dios | talk 13:21, 13 February 2007 (UTC) All you need is love!
• Freshacconci 18:44, 11 February 2007 (UTC) Second-gen Beatle fan since '79
• Shrub_of_power 19:36, 11 February 2007 (UTC) "Clutching forks and knives, to eat their bacon"
• FMAFan1990 06:55, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
• Cyktoo 15:46, 5 May 2007 (UTC) Long signatures are kind of silly, don't you think?
• Politics rule 12:47, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
• Snowfreak91287♣ 06:07 19 May 2007 (UTC)
• Psdubow 21:07, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
• Wikimaniac3651 22:45, 7 August 2007 (UTC) "In my life...I loved them all."
• Lighthead ^þ 22:30, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
• Bluegoblin7 17:44, 1 September 2007 (UTC) I LOVE The Beatles, and will help out with anything!
• thesailerman Beginning work on the "Across the Universe" film page. I love the Beatles, and I am currently living on the NYU campus, so I should be able to get many of the references.
• Butseriouslyfolks Happy to lend a velvet hand like a lizard on a window pane . . .
• Longestpants (talk) 01:51, 28 December 2007 (UTC) Ringo, Paul, George and John/Played a trick and put us on/Dropped hints Paul was dead as nails/And rocketed their record sales! -MAD
• WilliamMThompson (talk) 10:30, 21 March 2008 (UTC) We can probably work it out, we can probably work it out
• Vera, Chuck & Dave 08:40, 24 May 2006 (UTC) Dear Prudence won't you open up your eyes?
• --Mal 03:41, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
• → jacĸrм ( talk | sign ) 11:30, 1 September 2007 (UTC) I have several related Beatles images in my images page. I've added them to some articles, but feel free to add them elsewhere if you feel it's appropriate!
• Rocket000 (talk) 06:13, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
• flaminglawyer^c 04:52, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

This is the bottom of the Inactive list. Please add your name to the Active list up above...

Articles

Good Article/Featured Article

Periodically, project members collaborate on an article to bring it up to Good Article/Featured Article status.

The current GAR collaboration is:

Nominations

Nominations for future collaborations can be made here:

1. Apple Corps. --kingboyk 11:46, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
2. The Beatles (album) - I feel this is one of the key points of Beatles' history. 01kkk 20:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - This has to be collaborated because of its focality in Beatles' history. This is where they truly changed. 01kkk 20:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
4. All My Loving - I would like assistance to bring this article to good article status. I would particularly like to include information about the musical structureNimbusWeb (talk) 08:53, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia articles on The Beatles

• Articles using The Beatles template (indicated by "(inclusion)" after the article's name).

Featured articles

1. The Beatles (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (FAC)
2. John Lennon (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (FAC)
3. Something (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (FAC)
4. Hey Jude (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (FAC)
5. The Long and Winding Road (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (FAC)
6. Say Say Say (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (FAC)
7. Lisa the Vegetarian (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (FAC)

Good articles

The Beatles:

1. Paul McCartney (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
2. George Harrison (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
3. Ringo Starr (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
4. Brian Epstein (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
5. George Martin (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
6. Pete Best (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
7. Stuart Sutcliffe (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
8. Neil Aspinall (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
9. Mal Evans (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
10. The Quarrymen (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
11. The Beatles in Hamburg (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
12. Beatlemania in the United Kingdom (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
13. The Beatles in the United States (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
14. The Beatles in Rishikesh (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
15. Death of John Lennon (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Relatives, spouses and girlfriends:

1. Jim and Mary McCartney (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
2. Julia Lennon (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
3. Alfred Lennon (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
4. Mimi Smith (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
5. George Toogood Smith (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
6. Cynthia Lennon (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
7. Astrid Kirchherr (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
8. Pattie Boyd (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
9. Linda McCartney (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
10. May Pang (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
11. Heather Mills (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
12. Julia Baird (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
13. Paul McCartney's relationships and marriages (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Friends:

1. Bill Harry (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
2. Mona Best (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
3. The Casbah Coffee Club (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
4. Rory Storm (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
5. Magic Alex (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Songs, albums and films:

1. A Day in the Life (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
2. A Hard Day's Night (film) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
3. Free as a Bird (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
4. Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
5. Past Masters (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
6. Rain (The Beatles song) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
7. Revolution (song) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
8. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (song) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
9. Strawberry Fields Forever (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
10. The Beatles Anthology (documentary) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
11. Tomorrow Never Knows (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Miscellaneous:

1. 34 Montagu Square, Marylebone (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
2. Kenwood, St. George's Hill (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
3. List of awards received by Paul McCartney (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
4. List of songs produced by Jeff Lynne (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
5. Phillips' Sound Recording Services (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
6. Seltaeb (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
7. Sony/ATV Music Publishing (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

External:

1. Brush with Greatness (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
2. Homer's Barbershop Quartet (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
3. Ravi Shankar (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
4. The Girl Is Mine (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Articles that could be GA

• Maureen Starkey Tigrett
• More popular than Jesus
• Badfinger
• Northern Songs
• The Beatles at The Cavern Club
• Paul McCartney's musical career

Review and assessment

Assessment

Please see the Assessment department for further info.

Unsourced personnel, track listing sections etc.

Like genre churn, an ongoing problem on Wikipedia is constant change to who played what instrument, who sang which vocals etc. In a proportion of Beatles articles, the relevant sections have been checked by editors against reliable sources and hence are supported by inline citations. This makes it a straightforward matter to revert any unexplained changes to the content of those sections. Please add articles where this has not yet been done to the list below. Include a diff if you want to provide an example of the churn that prompted the addition here.

For examples of sourced articles, see personnel sourced from Lewisohn and track listings sourced from Calkin and from Allmusic.

To take on one of the articles in this list, append Taken ~~~~ to the line, review and source the section in question, and then change "Taken" to "Done" here.

• You've Got to Hide Your Love Away [1]
• Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
• Rubber Soul (track listing only part sourced, and source doesn't support stated vocalists)
• Please Please Me#Track_listing (includes vocalists) [2]

Red links

See Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Red links for a full list

Missing Articles

Redlinks which need to be turned blue at the earliest opportunity need to be listed here. If you can help by creating a stub (or better!) please be bold and go right ahead (In brackets: number of incoming links from main space, excluding redirects and dab pages):

• Apple Records artists:

• Chris Hodge (1 link)
  
• Lon and Derek Van Eaton (1 link)

Created stubs with tracklists and infoboxes and ext links on all Julian Lennon albums... if someone would please have a look to see if they could add anything, that would be appreciated!NaLaochra 15:13, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Article suggestions/requests

• Beatle tours/dates (see e.g. Pink Floyd live performances) --kingboyk 15:21, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Actually, I think this would be best as one article per tour, with press reports, cities played etc. --kingboyk 22:49, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Liverpool Legends [3], a Beatles cover band hand-picked by Louise Harrison, George's sister —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 06:41, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
• Beatle firsts Atricle discussing the ground-breaking stuff the Beatles did. e.g. First hidden track - Her Majesty; first group to occupy top 5 places in U.S. chart etc. The are loads of these, certainly enough for an article. simonthebold 17:04, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
• John Lennon solo career- Feeling free
• Lennon/McCartney songs not originally released by the Beatles:
  • One and One is Two - The Strangers with Mike Shannon
• The Fest for Beatle Fans (formerly Beatlefest) - GoingBatty (talk) 06:04, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Article creation instructions

You're starting a new article? Great! Please follow these instructions:

• Articles about The Beatles are generally considered to be articles with a "strong tie" to the dialect of the United Kingdom and should be written in British English.
• Add the new article to the appropriate subcategory of Category:The Beatles, or to the parent category if most appropriate
• Add any appropriate template to the article, such as an album or single infobox
• Place a {{WPBeatles}} template on the new article's Talk page
• If the article is listed as a redlink on the to-do list please remove it from that list
• If the article needs a photo and you don't have one, place a {{Reqphoto}} template on the talk page and add the article to "Wanted Pics/Graphics" on the the to-do list
• List the article in the appropriate category on the Article Classification list. Don't classify it yourself, it's best if we classify each other's articles not our own
• Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a 120 hour time limit (from the creation of the article, not the nomination).
• Finally (hooray!) record your wonderful achievement on the Project Log

Articles for deletion

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Bands and musicians

Categories

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Categories

• Per current Wikipedia convention, articles on Beatles singles which are also the sole article for the song in question should belong to the following categories:

Category:The Beatles songs

Category:The Beatles singles

Category:Year singles

Category:Year songs

Category:Parlophone singles or Category:Apple Records singles (if appropriate; and note that no Capitol Records single category exists at the time of writing)

Subpages

• List of all subpages of this page

Quiz

Please go to Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Quiz for a quiz about The Beatles in general.

Shortcuts

Pagename	Redirects to page
WP:Beatles, WP:TB	This page (Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles)
WT:Beatles, WT:TB	This page's talk page (Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles)
P:TB	Portal:The Beatles
WP:TBA	Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Assessment
WP:TBC	Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Categories
WP:TBD	Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Bands and musicians
WP:TBL	Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Log
WP:TBM	Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Missing articles
WP:TBR	Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Red links
WP:TBT	Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/To do
WP:TBCOTM	Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/COTM

It is recommended that Project members add each of the above Project pages to their watchlists.

Templates

There are a lot of useful templates that may be relevant, infoboxes, notification boxes and so forth. If you know of any resources not listed here, please add them!

Infoboxes

There are several useful infoboxes that are relevant to this project, as the project covers a large number of types of articles.

Infobox Album

• The Beatles produced albums, together and individually. So the {{Infobox Album}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. Some examples:
  • Help! (album)
  • Band on the Run
  • Dark Horse (album)

In addition to the writeup on the talk page of the infobox, the WikiProject Albums page has some discussion on how to effectively use these, color coding, and what some of the fields mean and so forth, as well as larger guidance on how Album pages ought to be done (how the track list is formatted, dates, usages, and so forth).

Some important points copied from that page: When you create or find a new album page, please add {{WikiProject Albums}} to the top of the talk page. If the page has no infobox, you should use {{WikiProject Albums|needs-infobox=yes}} instead. If the page has an incomplete infobox, note the missing details at Incomplete infobox. If the page has an old style infobox, add {{newinfobox|type=album}} to the bottom of the talk page.

Infobox Musical artist

• The Beatles are a band. Offshoots and side projects of members are also bands. So the {{Infobox Musical artist}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. Some examples:
  • The Beatles
  • Wings (band)
  • Traveling Wilburys

Infobox Person

• Members of The Beatles are people. So the {{Infobox Person}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. Some examples:
  • George Harrison
  • George Martin
  • Linda McCartney
  • Mimi Smith
  • Julia Lennon
  • Alfred Lennon

Infobox Single

• The Beatles produced singles, together and individually. So the {{Infobox Single}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. Some examples:
  • Please Please Me (song) (first single, chronology starts here)
  • Help! (song)
  • Say Say Say (note, uses a custom subst'd variant of the infobox since this is not a Beatles' single per se, it's a collaboration between Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson and it has two covers... use your judgement)

Note that the template supports ordering of singles by when they charted.

Invite user

If you see someone that might have an interest in the project, you can place {{WikiProject The Beatles Invite}} on their userpage to invite them:

	Hi! I've seen you around on The Beatles' articles... Would you consider becoming a member of WikiProject The Beatles, a WikiProject which aims to expand and improve coverage of The Beatles on Wikipedia? Please feel free to join us.
Abbey Road... You're not in this picture... yet! Todo list:

• DO put some commentary below it, explaining WHY they might be interested, and sign. Alternatively, you may leave a message and sign within the template by supplying an optional parameter
• DO NOT spam people extensively, give it some thought first and don't invite too many people at once.

It makes sense to grow the project participation slowly so use with care. But it's a fun template, a bit more attention grabbing than just a note.

Navboxes

• Use {{The Beatles}} for major articles. Place it at the bottom of the article. The result is:

• Use {{The Beatles singles}} on articles about singles and b-side releases:

• Use {{Apple Corps}} for articles about the company:

Project banner

Place {{WPBeatles|class= |importance= }} on the talk page of an article that you think belongs in the project:

• This template is used for article classification. See also: usage instructions. Do not subst it!

Stubs

• {{beatles-song-stub}} lists articles in Category:The Beatles song stubs. There are currently about 95 songs listed, though some of these are songs recorded by the members of the band as soloists after 1970.

NOTE: stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on creating stub templates and categories. It is inadbisable to create new stub templates without consultation as these will probably be nominated for deletion.

Userboxes

You can place {{User WikiProject The Beatles}} on your userpage to show project membership:

	This user is a member of WikiProject The Beatles.

Alternatively or in addition, you can place {{User WikiProject The Beatles 2}} on your userpage to show project membership:

Placing one of these on your pages is entirely optional, but it is a way to show your involvement to others... That's good for the project, as we have lots of work to do!

Resources

This should be a list of useful resources to the project that will aid in research, article creation, or that may be a source of images that are freely usable by the project. Please add to this list as you find items. Assume that project members know about common things, like IMDB.

• Soundscapes.

Musicologist Allan W. Pollack has taken an in-depth look at each of the Beatles' songs from a musicological point of view. Wordy, but with a lot of meat, and definitely helpful in adding length to articles on songs - also useful to add as an external link to song articles.

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External watchlist

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject The Beatles

Directory of WikiProjects

WikiProject Council

Guide to WikiProjects