The aim of this project is to standardize and improve articles related to heavy metal music and its sub-genres, as well as to create missing articles. Please add tasks needing to be done in the appropriate section, and remove them accordingly when they are done.
General Strategy and Discussion Forums
Featured articles
Former featured articles
Assessment
One of the main tasks of the Metal WikiProject is to assess the quality of Wikipedia's Metal articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to help in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. They also play a role in the WP:1.0 program, which the WikiProject uses to help automate some of the assessing process.
It is easiest if you simply tag and assess articles as you come across or edit them. To find out more, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Metal/Assessment.
Articles that need to be improved
Genre Articles
Band/Musician Articles
- American Head Charge (Needs NPOV and moderate expansion)
- Amon Amarth
- Atrophia Red Sun (I started editing en rewriting (which is really needed because the text is more of an ad now) but I could use some help)
- Birdflesh
- Coroner (Swiss progressive thrash band, article really needs updating)
- Death Breath
- Despised Icon (Needs a more extensive biography. I've done what little I can for album pages, though it needs a great deal of work.)
- Dark Moor
- Fuseboxx
- Hermética (One of the best Argentine bands, needs NPOV and "specialist" checking.
- I, a black metal supergroup from Norway
- Last Days of Humanity
- Moi Dix Mois (Needing expansion and citations for genre)
- Nicke Andersson
- Nightfall
- Pharaoh
- Possessed
- Randy Blythe, Lamb of God's lead singer
- Rob Halford (One of the most important artists of heavy metal, needs major expansion)
Scar Symmetry (Dexter_prog will be working in this one). Might need some more info, if there is...
Scars of Life (The album and singles need doing)
- Sex Machineguns created this a while ago, translated half the Japanese bio, never finished. needs bio completion and some consistency stuff between the band page and the musician pages
- Sororicide (Seems impossible, but need more info)
- Stargazer (Australian avant-garde blackened death metal band. In need of expansion)
- Thergothon
- Unearth, a metalcore band from Boston.
- Warlord UK NEEDS BIG RENOVATION (Need Infobox)
Album articles
All five releases above need their respective band lineups
Song articles
Discographies
Other Articles to improve
- Metalhead, an article that probably concerns most people in this WikiProject, but has been in need of a cleanup since April 2006.
Articles that need to be revamped
Genre articles
- Black metal (yeah... why did it get nerfed and left with 2 madeup genres?)
- Death metal
- Doom metal (Article needs reorganising, expanding, and citations)
- Speed metal (needs discussion and then appropriate rewrite; poll also needs to finish)
Band articles
- Celtic Frost
- Dead Brain Cells
- Judas Priest
- Mastodon (Too bland, band has expanded, also personal bios need to be added)
- Quiet Riot
- Vader (has been tagged)
- Summoning (still shows signs of copy-and-paste work from the band's website, grammar issues)
- Beyond Dawn (need a more comprehensive biography - I've done the best I can with it so far)
- Saturnus (The current article is clearly no more than a press release for the latest album.)
- Visceral Bleeding (needs correct citations and to be expanded more, I've tried the best I could cleaning it up)
Other
Deletion
(Please list heavy metal related topics which are being considered for deletion here. Results of recently closed debates can be left up.)
Undeletion
Mergers
- Note that there is currently a debate about whether this article should be kept, merged or re-nominated for deletion. All invited to check out the article and pass opinion in the talk page.
- Funk Metal and Funk rock. There is too much overlap and most articles are primitive stubs with little content.
Articles for protection
Orchetra of the Muted Candy, great band, but "the man" wants to delete their article. Metalheads unite! Help save the page!Ootmc 22:50, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
too late
- List_of_Black_Sabbath_band_members (see Discussion - there's been an argument between me and two other people that I think could be easily resolved if we just got a few people to talk about it)
Template
- Infoboxes (Use This article to go through each genre/cross-genre refernece and add an info box to those that dont have them)
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