Wikipedia:WikiProject Richard Wagner

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in the articles related to the composer Richard Wagner, his life and his operas. The project is also intended to complete or add new articles within its "Scope" described below. It is hoped that this project, and the discussions here, will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. For future reference, you can easily reach this page via the shortcut WP:Wagner.

To find out more about what we have been doing, see Scope and Articles below. If you would like to help, consider looking at the To do lists below, including clean-up tasks and new article opportunities below. You could also adopt an article. Feel free to add additional tasks or articles to these lists. If you would like to join us, please add your name to the list of participants.

Scope

Template:Wagner operas The scope of this project is:

Richard Wagner
The fourteen Wagner operas, or Music Dramas.
Operas by Richard Wagner
The Bayreuth Festival.
Members of the Wagner Family.
People who worked with or were influenced by Richard Wagner.
People who love Wagner (Wagnerites)
People who hate Wagner (Anti-Wagnerites)
Wagnerian Performers
Sources of Wagner information or scholarship

About this project

Goal

To increase the accuracy, clarity, coverage and overall quality of articles related to Richard Wagner, his works, his life, his colleagues and his influence.

Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Opera (parent project)
WikiProject Musical Theatre

Participants

Dogbertd
Peter cohen
Kleinzach
Fireplace
Moreschi
Folantin
Smerus
Alexs
Javitomad (Logo creator)
Sutherland4l (talk) 02:02, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Articles

Main articles

There are articles on each of the Wagner operas:

Die Hochzeit (1832)
Die Feen (1833)
Das Liebesverbot (1836)
Rienzi (1840)
Der fliegende Holländer (1843)
Tannhäuser (opera) (1845)
Lohengrin (opera) (1848)
- Der Ring des Nibelungen:
  - Das Rheingold (1854)
  - Die Walküre (1856)
  - Siegfried (opera) (1871)
  - Götterdämmerung (1874)
Tristan und Isolde (1859)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1867)
Parsifal (1882)

Assessments

For article assessments see the Assessment Section.

To do lists

Clean-up tasks

The following articles are candidates for expansion, re-organization, or clean-up:

Major articles

The articles on the operas are of widely varying quality. See WP:WPO#Templates for examples of article structure and WP:WPO#Guidelines for guidance on article style.

Rienzi lacks a synopsis.

Lohengrin lacks sections on composition, premiere and critical reception.

Most of the major articles lack adequate verification.
Most of the synopses lack internal wikilinks.

New article opportunities

Feel free to add an article on any relevant topic, as long as it is encyclopedic, adopts a neutral point of view, and is verifiable. Normally the best way to ensure verifiability and neutrality is to cite sources, rather than relying on what you merely believe to be true. Some participants also believe that articles should be "notable". See WP:MUS WP:BIO and WP:ORG. Below are suggestions for new articles that are needed to round out the Wagner coverage on Wikipedia.

Translations from the German Wiki

Gottfried Wagner [1]

Singers

The following worked with Wagner in creating major roles but lack articles:

Joseph Tichatschek • Johann Michael Wächter • Georg Unger • Franz Betz • Amalia Materna • Karl Hill •

There are also many other major singers who lack articles, such as:

Margarethe Siems • Barbara Kemp • Michael Bohnen • Margarete Teschemacher • Nanny Larsen-Todsen • Karin Branzell • Sigrid Onegin • Franz Völker • Rudolf Bockelmann • Jean Madeira • Peter Seiffert

A subpage provides a fuller List of Wagner singers, with and without published articles.

Adopt an article

Would you like to adopt an article? This would involve doing the research, writing, and finding public domain images to create or improve an article. Just pick an article from one of the "To do" lists above and start editing (see "clean-up tasks" and "new article opportunities" above). Of course, anyone can edit any article, even if someone had "adopted" it. But the idea of adopting an article is to focus for a while on a particular article until you feel it is as completely researched and referenced, and as well-written as you can make it, with a view of building up the number of high quality articles relating to this project. When you are finished working on an adopted article, leave a message on the talk page to let the other members of the project know you are finished, and they can look it over.

Adopted articles in progress: Die Feen - Push towards GA - User:Peter cohen

Project banner

We have an official project talk page banner indicating the involvement of the project. The coding is {{Wagner}}. This is displayed on all articles (28 in July 2007) in the Wagner categories (see above). The banner is set up to include assessment ratings.