User:Iadmc/CTM

Ideas for WP:CTM-related discussions. Feel free to comment here but try to make the comments short so the page can be navigated easily. Use the Talk and place a note prominantly below if you need to comment at length. Thanks --Jubilee♫clipman 01:16, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Categorising our project's articles

This thorny problem needs to be discussed thoroughly. Do we go so far as to create a new category (not recommended, IMO). If we use the existing cats, where should each individual article go in the hierarchy? How do we find articles that are not yet correctly bannered? In which particular instances should we place an article in both a higher category and one of its subcategories—or should we avoid this practice for cats related by, say, 5 degrees of subcategorisation? (Obviously, the cat heirachy is horribly complex: we can't avoid catting and subcatting, as it were, but there are some clear cut cases. Where we have both Works by X and Compositions by X, for example, we should use the latter for compositions and the former only if other more specific cats are lacking for, say, books.)

BLPs on composers to be exclusively dealt with by CTM to free up WP:Composers for all other composers

These should still be bannered for the Composers project, but perhaps CTM should deal with them exclusively since Composers deals with every composer from Hildegard of Bingen (the earliest named composer, IIRC) to the present day.

IMO it's implied that the more specialized, more specific project take the main responsibility for a given set of articles. For example opera composers belong primarily to opera, film composers to film, and so contemporary composers to contemporary music. However we also need to edit in a consistent style, so the bigger project should remain in the picture and we should try to follow their guidelines. Does that make sense? --Klein zach 00:15, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes. However, if we do that, we will need to remember to return composers to WPComposers once the "50 years or so" have run out... That's the problem: film composers don't stop being film composers neither do opera composers stop being opera composers but composers do stop being contemporary... Far easier to cat for both while CTM takes on all so-styled comtemporaries and in particular BLPs. Unless we decide to further refine and only cover living people? (We just ~~move~~ bury the dead people to at WPcomposers...[!]) However, that might cause a bit of consternation...! (It is a thought though.) --Jubilee♫clipman 01:07, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Reassessment of notability criteria for people working in contemporary classical music

These people are often difficult to source using the usual methods.

Usual methods

Google searches—including General (excluding "wikipedia"), Books (excluding "inpublisher:icon"), Scholar, and News.
Extended searches using other search engines such as Yahoo, AltaVista, etc
Searching for obituaries for those who are dead via the above search engines.
Personal research using books, dictionaries and encyclopedias such as Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (or the shortened formats of same), Harvard Dictionary of Music, Oxford Dictionary of Music, notable overviews such as The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross, etc
Personal research using the archives of national and regional newspapers, and journals and magazines such as BBC Music Magazine.

Possible extra resources

A specific list of journals, newspapers, books etc that are likely to discuss these people in more than passing fashion
A specific list of societies, major festivals, record labels, publishing houses etc that are likely to promote/showcase these people
eg ISCM, BCMG, CMC, Donemus, Schott Music, etc

Specific issues

Reassessment of notability criteria for BLPs on people working in contemporary classical music

These are often difficult to source using the usual methods. We need to refine our terms of reference and the precice meaning of "notability" for these people.

The double AfD for Oscar van Dillen is a case in point:

Other examples:

Reassessment of notability criteria for all people working in contemporary classical music

Further to the above, even those people who have passed away are often difficult to source using the usual methods.

Examples:

John Ferritto

I suggest automatically removing these articles from the project. IMO that will be simpler. --Klein zach 00:21, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Ah... see above! Great minds? We'll need to get consensus though... --Jubilee♫clipman 01:10, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Ideas for new Notability criteria

Each of the following will pertain to the people bannered by our project (most specific first):

WP:MUSIC - Specific notability guideline for music and musicians
WP:BIO - General notability guideline for people
WP:N - General notability guideline

On occassion, the following may apply (either as well or instead):

WP:PROF - Specific notability guidelines for academics—some of our people might be better known as theorists, for example)

For people (living or dead) involved with classical music generally, these criteria can be very difficult either to verify or even to meet. Even where the person is highly estemeed among colleagues, has published highly significant works, or has otherwise made an important contribution to contemporary music, very little may have actually been written about them or their music beyond "X wrote a, b, and c" or "Y is visiting your area tommorow" or "as Z said the other day in passing" etc. Often, the person is best known in one particular country: this means that most texts will be in one or all of that country's main languages. Where these languages do not include English, these texts may be difficult to verify for native English speakers who are unschooled in—and even some who are not fluent in—those languages: even the online translation services are not always useful. We need, then, either to clearly define a plan for sourcing these people's articles (above) or to draw up less severe guidelines—or both.

Non-composers inclusion criteria

Note: now at the subpage of CTM: Wikipedia:WikiProject Contemporary music/Scope.

How do we decide whether a non-composing instrumentalist, singer, academic, critic, etc is included in our project?
What do we do with those that are not included but are also not covered clearly by any other CM-related projects (aside from WP:CM itself, that is)?

Non-composers bannered by CTM:

Possible self-promos, weird edits etc

These need reviewing and we need to decide how best to handle them.

Examples:

Roberto Carnevale
Graziella Concas
Kristoffer Zegers
People associated with "Nonpop" (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nonpop)

Compositions and other publications by CTM-bannered people

Articles on these also come under our banner. These need to be checked for proper catting and bannering etc.

Ideas for future development

Something similar to {{WPTheatre Newsletter February 2010}} perhaps?

IMO this should follow the introduction of collaborations. --Klein zach 00:18, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

That's true. I really just wanted to float this one and see what people think in principle. --Jubilee♫clipman 01:12, 17 February 2010 (UTC)