Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Music genres task force

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WikiProject Music/Music genres task force
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WikiProject Music/Music genres task force is a task force to better organize information in articles related to music genres. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions of the Wikipedians involved in this task force; it is hoped that it will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and check our goals.

Scope

This task force aims to gather together those who are interested in working on and cleaning up the various music genre articles that exist on Wikipedia.

Goals

Maintain list of music genre articles
Add {{Infobox music genre}}, relevant footer templates and categories to genre articles
Add {{WikiProject Music/Music genres task force}} to genre article talk pages
Add to and maintain surveillance of Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Music regarding deletion nominations
Continue to work through genres adding {{Citation needed}} to all unsourced claims
Continue discussion on the merger and cleaning up of overlapping genres and subgenres
Prod/AFD any genre articles that can not be sourced
To improve genre and related articles to Wikipedia:Content assessment standards

Assessment

Music genre pages by quality
Quality
Quality	Total
FA	4
GA	42
B	271
C	729
Start	1,605
Stub	819
List	67
Category	892
Disambig	130
Portal	1
Project	2
Redirect	287
Template	138
Assessed	4,987
Total	4,987
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 16,752	Ω = 4.83

Participants

Please add your name to the bottom of this list using {{user|username}}

Absolon (talk · contribs) — Interested in Gospel music and the related subgenres
Andros 1337 (talk · contribs)
Divex (talk · contribs)
Dexter_prog (talk · contribs)
Peter G Werner (talk · contribs) — I am fairly knowledgeable about ambient music, industrial music, jazz rock, and many of the subgenres therein. I have a fairly extensive music collection and can also contribute ogg samples.
TimNelson (talk · contribs)
Sabrebd (talk · contribs) — folk, blues, rock, classical and some others, especially those with a British or American element
Allreet (talk · contribs) — folk, blues, rock, folk-rock, reggae
3family6 (talk · contribs) — Like pretty much every style of music on the planet. Though I'm not really knowledgeable, I'm pretty good at finding reliable sources.
North8000 (talk · contribs) — (talk) 11:53, 20 May 2011 (UTC) Working on sorting out Folk/Roots/Traditional music[reply]
MilkMiruku (talk · contribs) — I've been more active in the past. Mainly interested in the musicology and culture of electronic dance/experimental music styles, and in general knowledge management (references, infoboxes and templates).
Nostalgia of Iran (talk · contribs) — Familiar with metal genres, subject matter in lyrics, particularly Iron Maiden, Slayer, Dream Theater, and System of a Down, among others
WikiWinters (talk · contribs)
Binksternet (talk · contribs) — Pushing for verifiable genres supported by reliable sources, not shoot-from-the-hip assessments
Mashaunix (talk · contribs) — Interested in independent, rock, experimental, psychedelic, extreme music... Check out my rework of the post-metal article.
Sixty Minute Limit (talk · contribs) — I’m interested in heavy metal music, especially extreme metal, though I sometimes edit other rock-related articles and I may may edit other stuff, but rarely.
Acousmana (talk · contribs) — various, particularity electronic/electroacoustic
Garagepunk66 (talk · contribs) — Work in various music genres and subgenres, such as garage rock, British Invasion, psychedelic rock, reggae, soul music, etc.
QuickClown (talk · contribs) — Knowledgeable about indie music, folk music, grime music, electronic/ambient music, and emergent genres such as Vapourwave. I have a special interest in the history, culture, geography and biographies of music and musicians with a view to de-orphaning finding reliable sources for these (see my contributions to Dave Tyack).
Missbellanash (talk · contribs) — Knowledgeable in rock, pop, blues, some jazz and classical.
Aleeza2018 (talk · contribs) — just a random wikipedia user with a lot of knowledge about pop
Lightshinesondark (talk · contribs) - Knowledgeable in americana, blues, southern, roots-rock, soul, country, early rock n roll
‪EleniXDD (talk · contribs) - Hope to improve standards and fix the overlapping genres issues
Sergecross73 (talk · contribs) - primarily participating/mediating disputes, and taking Administrative action against editors who refuse to follow policy.
TheUsualHuman (talk · contribs) - The Music Theory, Percussion, Ambience.
Worldish2024 (talk · contribs) - I am interested in instruments and percussion.

Articles

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

22 Jan 2026 – Music of Jiangxi (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by 4meter4 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)

Templates for discussion

18 Jan 2026 – Template:US/Louisianamusic (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by Gonnym (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

22 Jan 2026 – Shoegaze (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Aradicus77 (t · c); see discussion
22 Jan 2026 – Post-noise (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Aradicus77 (t · c); start discussion
29 Jul 2025 – Hyperpop (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Aradicus77 (t · c); start discussion

Requested moves

15 Jan 2026 – Rhumba (talk · edit · hist) move request to Ballroom rumba by Altenmann (t · c) was moved to Ballroom rumba (talk · edit · hist) by Agent VII (t · c) on 22 Jan 2026; see discussion

Articles to be split

16 Oct 2025 – Traditional music of Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Miiversal (t · c); see discussion
08 Feb 2024 – Manila sound (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Sanglahi86 (t · c); see discussion
29 Mar 2023 – Fight song (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by MagentaCat1 (t · c); see discussion
23 Nov 2020 – Hip-hop production (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by CommonSentiments (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

23 Jan 2026 – Draft:Clone Records (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Cvan3064 (t · c)
22 Jan 2026 – Draft:D-Magic (Haitian rapper) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ifonise (t · c)
21 Jan 2026 – Draft:Carlo Muscat (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Storeroomalta (t · c)
20 Jan 2026 – Draft:GB MC (Gentian Bajrami) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Afghfgui (t · c)
20 Jan 2026 – Draft:Trinisha Browne (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ~2026-21723-6 (t · c)
20 Jan 2026 – Draft:Hojat Rahimi (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by HojatEditor2026 (t · c)
19 Jan 2026 – Draft:Daño (Peso Pluma & Tito Double P) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Sandrafoxy (t · c)
19 Jan 2026 – Draft:Jeremy D. Smith, Producer (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ConsultHolistic (t · c)
18 Jan 2026 – Draft:Rainy merry-go-round (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Keijuu (t · c)
18 Jan 2026 – Draft:Needle to the Groove (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by DMA021680 (t · c)

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Templates

Music genre related articles

Music/Music genres task force

Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Music genres task force is within the scope of the Music genres task force of the Music project, a user driven attempt to clean up and standardize music genre articles on Wikipedia. Please visit the task force guidelines page for ideas on how to structure a genre article and help us assess and improve genre articles to good article status.Music/Music genres task forceWikipedia:WikiProject Music/Music genres task forceTemplate:WikiProject Music/Music genres task forcemusic genre

Place this Project template at the top of all music genre related article talk pages, using: {{Genre|class = |importance = }}

Userboxes

Place one these userboxes to your user page, they also add you to the Category:WikiProject Music genres participants. This userbox template has two parameters for two different userbox icons.

The default icon is set by omitting the "icon" parameter.
{{User WikiProject Music genres}}

This user is a participant in WikiProject Music genres task force.

For an alternative icon, add the "icon" parameter, then set the value to "genres".
{{User WikiProject Music genres}}