Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian music

The WikiProject Indian music is a working group that aims to better organize information in articles related to Indian music. 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 or on those of the project subpages.

Parent projects

• WikiProject India
• WikiProject Music

Guidelines

Besides the usual policies and guidelines, please make sure you are aware of the specific guidelines related to music-related articles. Also ensure that you are familiar with the following topics:

1. The five pillars of Wikipedia: a quick rundown of the 5 key rules you need to start editing.
2. Simplified ruleset: 16 rules of thumb to help you avoid problems.
3. List of policies: A comprehensive list of the 42 official policies with very quick summaries.

Participants

Anyone is allowed to join this workgroup, provided that the participant will work to improve Indian music related articles.

Please list your user name below:

1. Ashwinkamath (talk · contribs · count)
2. Bharathprime (talk · contribs · count)
3. ElJay Arem (talk · contribs · count) - Indian Classical Music (mostly Hindustani, Carnatic), linked with aspects of media production (mainly radio, podcasting, (Web)TV)
4. Ganeshk (talk · contribs · count)
5. Mspraveen (talk · contribs · count) - Will help in tagging articles to the workgroup
6. Ncmvocalist (talk · contribs · count)
7. Nizonstolz (talk · contribs · count) - north indian ragas
8. RagaBhakta (talk · contribs · count) - Hindustani classical, including information about ragas, ornamentations and musicians
9. Tinucherian (talk · contribs · count)
10. Vanipriya (talk · contribs · count) - South Indian Music, Musicians, Ragas, Thalas, Krithis
11. VasuVR (talk · contribs · count) - Improve or add Indian music info, Tag existing articles for improvement and correct categorisation
12. Hekerui (talk · contribs · count)
13. Fetchmaster (talk · contribs · count) Focus includes (but not limited to): Improving Raga name translations, Adding more Krithis for each Raga.
14. Wikipedia crusader (talk · contribs · count) - Dhrupad, musical instruments, biography of musicians
15. Stillwaterising (talk · contribs · count) - Indi-pop and Classical, references and citations, formatting, and policy.
16. Prashanthns (talk · contribs · count) - Carnatic classical music
17. MansuriUmar (talk · contribs · count) - Will help in copy-editing. Can assist in music from movies.
18. Elliotb2 (talk · contribs · count) - sitar indian classical music

Related pages

• New Articles - For patrolling new articles for improvement as well as vandalism.
• Popular pages - For checking what pages of the project are often viewed.

Templates

WikiProject Indian music notice

Place this WikiProject notice {{WP India|music=yes}}, at the top of an article's Talk page to direct editors to the Wikiproject Indian music for guidelines. It will also help the assessment department of India wikiproject.

It will produce something like this:

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject India which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of India-related topics. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.
	This article is maintained by the Indian music workgroup.

Indian music stubs

For stub-class articles relating to Indian music etc., use {{India-music-stub}} instead. It will produce something like:

There is a stub for stub-class articles relating to Indian musicians. Use {{India-musician-stub}} instead. It will produce something like:

There is also a stub for stub-class articles relating to Carnatic music. Use {{Carnatic-music-stub}} instead. It will produce something like:

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.