Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canadian music

This is the discussion page for WikiProject Canadian music. The Canadian music WikiProject is a project, created on March 18, 2007, that helps to assemble writers and editors interested in Canadian music. To become a member of the Canadian music WikiProject, anyone can join. Simply click on the list of members - edit page and add your username. If you don't know what to write or where to begin, or if you have doubts or ideas on how to improve an article, address them here on this page by clicking new section tab above. See also: The to-do list

• Archive of past discussions (May 2007 - November 2008)

New main Article for Music of Canada

The Article has been re-done!! Music of Canada as of August 15, 2009 It has taken some time ..but tks to the work of many people we have gotten Music of Canada well on it's way Much more needs to be done...Pls fell free to Add relevant info (With proper References)!! But.. keep in mind we are trying to keep the article as wide-viewed as possible.. ..pls do not randomly list artist. (seeTalk:Music of Canada ) We have also taken the time to link the article to as much as possible, and added some banners to the discussions talk pages,,,and have Archived some Talk pages like Talk:Music of Canada/Archive 1 and Talk:Canadian rock/Archive 1.

Canadian music genres and Music of Canadian cultures may need to be merged into one article maybe called Musical diversity in Canada or something what ever you think is proper..but they do need work.

We are looking for writers on many sub topics like Canadian folk music and Canadian country music etc....See (Sandboxs post below this one) Also we have taken the time to clean up Canadian rock...but it can always use some cultural topics. O yes i am Back .... Buzzzsherman (talk) 19:07, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Sandbox pages

(From Archive of past discussions)

I'm going to create some sandbox pages for the various genre sub-articles, filled in with basic outlines for expansion and development into articles:

• User:Bearcat/Canadian alternative rock
• User:Bearcat/Canadian country music
• User:Bearcat/Canadian folk music

Please offer any comments, and/or help to expand these. Bearcat 00:23, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Art Bergmann birth year dispute

See Talk:Art Bergmann#Year of birth? - some assistance confirming dob would be welcome. Dl2000 (talk) 16:05, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

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I've subscribed our project to the Article Alert Bot. It says it is down; but I think it is working in a sort-of-kinda-way. My guess is that it is not doing everything it advertises. Anyone in the know, leave a comment... Argolin (talk) 00:59, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

I've subscribed our project to the new Article alerts: Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian music/Article alerts. I've added a link on the main page. It is currently functional.

The replacement for the Walterbot is also functional [1]. It's a great tool. Argolin (talk) 23:49, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

New Member

Hello,

Would Dean Lickyer qualify for this WikiProject? Thanks!--gordonrox24 (talk) 04:28, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to the project. The article does fit this project's scope. However, it could use further work to support for the band's notability as described at WP:MUSIC. Dl2000 (talk) 23:34, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Casey Sheehan and Weapons of Mass Instruction

For any fans of James Gordon (Canadian musician), Casey Sheehan Didn't Die for Nothing and Weapons of Mass Instruction have been proposed for deletion. Any further documentation, particularly in Canadian or other National newspapers would be appreciated. Pustelnik (talk) 00:56, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

"the" Arcade Fire

I recently boldly went through the Arcade Fire article and inserted a "the" in the band's name (depending on where it fit), per consensus at featured articles Pixies and Sex Pistols (though there is no established consensus yet at Arcade Fire). If anyone has comments on the matter, feel free to discuss at Talk:Arcade Fire#Arcade Fire / The Arcade Fire. Thanks, -M.Nelson (talk) 01:16, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Removal of reviews from the album infobox

This is a notification of the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums regarding the removal of reviews from the album infobox. The discussion has reached consensus to remove the reviews, though is still accepting further input into the matter. We are especially requiring more discussion on what steps to take next. Your input would be appreciated on what is a matter that will affect a lot of music articles. kiac. (talk-contrib) 09:22, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Canadian music portal

We will be making a Canadian music portal..... I am interested in what and who should be in the portal...Pls add suggestions bellow..Buzzzsherman (talk) 10:57, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Portal:Music of Australia seems a good example to follow, except their charts box seems out of date. We'd need to make sure that material on the portal is maintainable e.g. some commitment that the various items won't get too stale over time. WP:POG has the general guideline. Dl2000 (talk) 05:08, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Ok it has been started ...It is just the start...pls fell free to edit and add anything....we will move this conversation to the portal talk page Portal talk:Music of Canada.

{{portal|MofC1}} option 1... {{MofC1 portal}}

Buzzzsherman (talk) 05:59, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Here's the other option... {{portal|MofC2}} {{MofC2 portal}}

Argolin (talk) 07:08, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

{{Portal|Music of Canada}}

Best if you can use {{Portal|Music of Canada}} - this is standard and will be easier when portals need to go in a portalbox - like this:

{{Portal box|Music of Canada|Canada|Music}} Rich Farmbrough, 13:16, 1 June 2010 (UTC).

Yeah! What about one to link to the project page? Argolin (talk) 08:58, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Rush portal

{{Portal|Rush}} The portal has had a major upgrade in its look..I think we need to find a picture for the portal link.... Portal:Rush {{Portal|Rush}}

Buzzzsherman (talk) 01:32, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Updated FA/FL/GA list

The featured/good article list was updated. Some new articles added, but Run to You (Bryan Adams song) was delisted from GA in June. Dl2000 (talk) 04:53, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Japandroids

The article for the musical group Japandroids does not seem to me to meet WP:BAND. It is followed with an article on their album Post-Nothing and now the Post-Nothing Tour. Rather than Prod them of AfD them, maybe someone more familiar with music could have a look at them. --KenWalker | Talk 08:04, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Nothing heard after raising this here and on the three mentioned articles talk pages, I have proposed Japandroids for deletion. --KenWalker | Talk 07:47, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

I believe 24 hours is insufficient time to wait for a response. The band was also nominated for a Juno Award on March 3rd, 2010. Any request for deletion should no longer be considered. --Anon 15:49, 4 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.237.251.252 (talk)

New portals to watch over for our group

The Neil Young portal...[[Portal:Neil Young]]..........--->{{Portal|Neil Young}}{{Portal|Neil Young}}
The Celine Dion portal...[[Portal:Celine Dion]]..........--->{{Portal|Celine Dion}}{{Portal|Celine Dion}}
The Shania Twain portal...[[Portal:Shania Twain]]..........--->{{Portal|Shania Twain}}{{Portal|Shania Twain}}
The Bryan Adams portal...[[Portal:Bryan Adams]]..........--->{{Portal|Bryan Adams}}{{Portal|Bryan Adams}} Pls add this to your watch list!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Buzzzsherman (talk) 20:45, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Need help

could i get someone to crop this in closer so it can be nicer on our portal page ...for some odd reason i cant do it maybe because its a pdf??.....Buzzzsherman (talk) 15:05, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Yeah pdf's aren't images. So the only way you could do it would be to take a screen shot and then crop that, but that would completely kill the legibility of the pdf. -DJSasso (talk) 15:08, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Tks man!! your fast!! Dame that is what i was thinking...best we leave it so people can download a nice copy...Buzzzsherman (talk) 15:14, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Not true at all. You can take a screenshot and save it as a .png file. Only Jpegs kill quality. Throwaway85 (talk) 02:29, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Its ok we have decided on this look bellow ...With link to PDF file.......Buzzzsherman (talk) 19:03, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

The national anthem

O Canada National anthem of Canada Sheet music Lyrics Adolphe-Basile Routhier (French, 1880) Robert Stanley Weir (English, 1908) Music Calixa Lavallée (1880) Adopted 1980 Audio sample "O Canada" English Johnson (1937) file help O Canada is the national anthem of Canada. The song was originally commissioned by the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, the Honourable Théodore Robitaille, for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony. Calixa Lavallée wrote the music, which was a setting of a patriotic poem composed by the poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier. The text was originally only in French, before it was translated to English in 1906. Robert Stanley Weir penned an English version, which is not a translation of the French. Weir's words have been revised twice, taking their present form in 1980, but the French lyrics remain unaltered. "O Canada" was not officially Canada's national anthem until 1980, when it was signed into law on July 1 as part of that year's Dominion Day celebrations. The original French lyrics were written by Sir Adolphe Basile Routhier, as a French Canadian patriotic song for the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society. The French "Ô Canada" was first performed on June 24, 1880, at a Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day banquet in Quebec City, but did not become Canada's official national anthem until July 1, 1980. The Canadian government bought the rights to the lyrics and music for only one dollar. The National Anthem Act of 1980 added a religious reference to the English lyrics and the phrase "From far and wide, O Canada" to replace one of the somewhat tedious repetitions of the phrase "We stand on guard." Read more....

Great news

I was able to get someone to code our new music portal into the {{WikiProject Canada|music=yes}} So the portal will now appear in all Talk pages that have the template......... as of now there are 2,018 articles with the template

Template without |music=yes {{WikiProject Canada}} Will still show the Canada portal

PS dont forget ....Portals are use to help readers and editors navigate vast topics. {{WikiProject Canada|music=yes}} on talk pages.

Buzzzsherman (talk) 06:06, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

User template

Ok guys i made us a User template...just so you can have a fast link to the project on your user page
...If you wish here it is →{{User WikiProject Music of Canada}}

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Canadian music.

Buzzzsherman (talk) 21:22, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

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Request for comment on Biographies of living people

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Comment Question guys ..should we join this subscription ...Or let the Main Canada project deal wit this???Buzzzsherman (talk) 21:24, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Looks like there is no response yet, it is very easy to set up, take two seconds, and you can save a lot of articles Ikip 21:58, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

The Tragically Hip

There is currently a merger discussion at The Tragically Hip article about the band members own pages ...Please leave a comment if you like here...tks for your time!! ..Buzzzsherman (talk) 04:13, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Adding you to a bot

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The newly created page will be here, when the bot is approved: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Canadian_music/Unreferenced BLPs

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Portal question

I have a question for all...does any one have suggestions for 2 more selected articles for the portal i have added two new 5th selections see #1 here one from a new GA article that our new member User:Timmeh did (Three Days Grace) and one that is in the process of a GA See #2 here (Avril Lavigne) by a few members here. Was looking for 2 more articles from an older period , perhaps a composer or pianist..since the 2 new additions are from modern times. Was thinking Robert Nathaniel Dett or Murray Adaskin...Or a french artist... i am just not sure about this time period and would like some help in picking 2 nice articles for the rotation.....Moxy (talk) 22:35, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Not a classical composer, but how about Skinny Puppy? The WikiProject Industrial group has rated the article as Top...Argolin (talk) 08:31, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

ok we can do that one its a nice article ..we just need to pic one more group or persons so i can start!!!..Moxy (talk) 16:45, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Since no one else has answered your call, how about Michel Pagliaro? Who you might say? Pagliaro is from Montreal and has had considerable hits in both French and English. Have a listen to "What The Hell I Got" and "Lovin' You Ain't Easy". Forgive my weaslely use of considerable since the article needs a lot of work.Argolin (talk) 02:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

How about D.O.A.? It has a start rating which may not be corrct: perhaps C or B? It has an importance=mid. Again correctness? I dont't know whether anyone from the Punk group has done anything. They are punkers after all...Argolin (talk) 09:06, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Look for you --> Did you know?/15 and Did you know?/14..lets get that DOA article better referenced and we can add it to a main pic...Moxy (talk) 23:14, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Moxy that is great. love the did you know thing. Is there any reason it is limited to 15? Argolin (talk) 04:20, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

You may add as many as you like..i just pre did some to make it easy to do!! Lets up it to 25!!..Moxy (talk) 04:52, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Why do I need to add 1 to each: bio, article, song, album at the same time? They each have separate paramters on the main portal. Argolin (talk) 09:04, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

..Ok because they work better if even and a prime number...PS dont forget the portal is for FA and important articles...like juno winners etc...not just one hit wonders!! or bands that are up and comers!! The portal is to promote the best articles we have..Not what we like!!!! -->Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria--->Template:Random portal component///,,,Moxy (talk) 17:48, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

I didn't know what that meant. Do juno nominees count? What about other Canadian award receipiants? Argolin (talk) 20:07, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Moxy, when you get a minitue, please join this conversation about the Juno Awards by year. Argolin (talk) 22:44, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Portal upgrade

There has been a Portal upgrade to match the main Canada portal in looks and function ..Portal:Music of Canada... Moxy (talk) 04:59, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Before: [2] After: [3] Nicely done, Moxy! Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 05:06, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Love the specific tasks to do; currently the unreferenced BLP's. Argolin (talk) 02:58, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

• Moxy, can you subscribe our project to User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription? Argolin (talk) 02:29, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

 Done Thanks Moxy, being bold I've subscribed the Canadian music group project to User:WolterBot. After it is done "processing" the "cleanup listing" will turn to a hyperlink. Visit the Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian music to get a feel of what it will do. Argolin (talk) 03:24, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Category:Quebec record labels

FYI, Category:Quebec record labels has been nominated for renaming. 70.29.208.247 (talk) 04:39, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Musical groups from Yukon

This category has been nominated Category:Musical groups from Yukon (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. The Canadian music project's opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Argolin (talk) 20:09, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Importance assessment of category pages

Sorry that I missed your note when first removing the importance rating, but I still don't understand why it's there. Once a category has been put in a super-category and has a link to its topic, it's done. Nothing else needs to be done to those pages, so their importance ranking should be NA. If you want to do anything else to them, you should be making a portal, not a category. If you are concerned about the articles in the category, then you should advertise those articles by putting them in an "alert" or "current collaboration" section of this project page. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 01:32, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

If no one comments on this in the next few days, I'm changing it back to NA importance. Categories have no importance rating because nothing needs to be done to them. If you want to add content to it, make a portal instead. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 18:28, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Artic Gnome I've been busy assessing the Category:Unassessed Canadian music articles. We now have zero articles in this category! Also, I've been dealing with your concerns over placing an importance rating in categories. Give me another few days. I will answer you. Argolin (talk) 02:31, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Congrats on the assessments, I always like to see the assessment tables inch closer to completion. I appreciate that you want to draw attention to a category of articles that you're working on; my point is just that this is better done by putting a link to the category on the WikiProject page. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 21:43, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

I guess you can't wait for an answer. lol So here ya go! We're going to be boring the pants off of everyone! :) Yes, my point in assigning a top importance to the Categories was to draw the music project's attention to the missing prov/terr information. After you posted your comment here, I linked the two "missing" categories to our project:

WikiProject Canadian music

WikiProject Canadian music articles

Canadian musical groups missing province or territory

Canadian musicians missing province or territory

Canadian music articles needing images

Canadian music stubs

Canadian music templates

When I do assessments of articles, I generally edit it also. There's always an infobox, categories, stub tab, etc to add to the article. When doing them last week, I found myself having to think too hard about whether the article is a band or musician, then what did I name the cat? Many articles last week were neither and could not be placed in the missing cat's. I have asked those in the know whether the music project can have only one visible category linked to the above. I'd like it named something along the lines of "Canadian music articles missing origin".
I was hoping to do all this work first (avoiding the post above). Then post a message to you and the group on the new category. Discussions on categories aren't necessarily big draws talk pages. Oh well... see below plzArgolin (talk) 03:20, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

I don't do much work with categories, but it looks like you have a good idea about how you want the categories set up. You should add the wikiproject canadian music categorization tree on this page bellow the canadian music tree, and maybe add some prose to show what you're up to. You'll be able to explain what you're doing a lot better there than you can by adding category importance to the WP:1.0 table. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 21:09, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

I added the Wikiproject as a child of Canadian music a while back. Technically, arguments can be made that it should be the other way around. I've haven't seen any projects (music or other) set up like that. I also added the Canadian music portal category as a sub/child of Canadian music. So far, I've only seen Vancouver with a portal category. I was going to notify the music project once I got an answer on the one main category for all Canadian music articles missing origin. Argolin (talk) 22:19, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

I wasn't proposing any change to how you're setting up the categories, I think you're doing fine. I'm just saying that you should announce what work you're trying to get done on the Canadian music categories somewhere on the main WP:WikiProject Canadian music so that other people can contribute. I'm still not exactly sure what you're trying to get done before marking categories as "finished". —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 05:43, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Discussion threads on categories are a big sleeper with many users. Did you read my last post (dated 01 June 2010) on the Canada template discussion page regarding the |needs-photo=yes parameter? I knew enough to link this new category to the Canadian music project. It's all very nice to link categories to the Canada project, but without a direct link to the sub project it's invisible. Vancouver has one Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Vancouver. This cat has not been linked to Wikipedia:WikiProject Vancouver (even through it's parent). I know there is a problem with the Canada photographs category so I posted what I did with regard to the Canadian music project. There was no follow up post from anyone asking either for clarification or for me to do anything.

What am I trying to do?: place {{WikiProject Canada|music=yes}} on all Canadian music categories in use by this project. Again, any importance rating that may be assigned is completly 100% temporary non-permanent. I can go through the category tree myself. However, I need a bot to pick up categories not linked directly to Canadian music (like the photo category above). The category tree is not like project class related categories (book, template, redirect, etc). These categories that you and I have been setting up for the Canada project are quite easy. The placement of this object {{Cat class|topic=Canadian music|class=Bottom}} will automatically assign the Bottom clsss to the Canadian music articles by quality category.

Can you switch the Canada template back to allow an unknown rating? Argolin (talk) 04:22, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I thought those were old notices. If you want to get all of the music articles tagged, make a list of every relevant category and show the list to WP:Bot requests. They should be willing to add all of them for you. I don't know much about category trees, so I have no comment there other than my old adage that non-content pages don't have importance rankings. If you need a way to draw attention to non-content pages in the music project, I recommend having a prominent box for current goals at the top of the music page. As for the unknown rating in the template, I don't mind doing it, but it's a big enough change that I think we should make sure there is consensus for the change first. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 06:13, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

AG, there was no consensus or discussion of any kind when someone at the Canada project removed the unknown rating. IMO, there is no need for consensus or discussion to switch it back. Quoted from above: Again, any importance rating that may be assigned is completly 100% temporary non-permanent. Argolin (talk) 23:28, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

The unknown rating was only there for a few days due to an error on my part, the default is to sort by namespace; are you planning to go through all of the NA-class articles and change their classes? I don't know whether anyone will volunteer their bot to do it given that things are already sorted into the right categories now. Regarding the importance ratings, it should have only taken a couple days for a bot to tag the articles, and it was like that for more than a couple of days, so the designation didn't look temporary last time. And in any case, even if it is temporary, why not do it right temporarily rather than do it wrong temporarily? —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 02:38, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Tragically Hip Template:WikiProject_Canada#Importance

Artic Gnome, while you're here, I'll tell you that yesterday I reassessed the Tragically Hip as high importance. I'm telling you cause they are specifically listed on the Canada project's Template importance rating as an example of medium. How can that be? They are a quintessential Canadian band. An execellent example of Canadian rock music. I think the only Canadian music award that they have not been awarded is the GG. Believe me when I tell you that it was not meant to annoy anyone at the Canada project. Please do not change it back to importance=Mid.

Shouldn't the Canadian music project be advising the Canada project on what bands/musicians to include on the Template:WikiProject Canada template and the Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada/Assessment page? Argolin (talk) 03:20, 27 May 2010 (UTC) Argolin (talk) 06:45, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Importance is very subjective, but it's probably reasonable to keep the Hip at high at least until the article is FA. Keep in mind that the high-importance group contains articles like Prime Minister of Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and Winnipeg, all of which I would say are a higher priority than the Tragically Hip. If there is too much of a conflict with importance ratings between WPCANADA and WPCANADA MUSIC, we can give the later its own importance ranking system like we did the cities. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 06:26, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Great: Arctic.gnome please remove the reference to The Tragically Hip as "Mid" Importance from Template:WikiProject_Canada#Importance. Argolin (talk) 05:50, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons

The WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons (UBLPs) aims to reduce the number of unreferenced biographical articles to under 30,000 by June 1, primarily by enabling WikiProjects to easily identify UBLP articles in their project's scope. There were over 52,000 unreferenced BLPs in January 2010 and this has been reduced to 32,665 as of May 16. A bot is now running daily to compile a list of all articles that are in both Category:All unreferenced BLPs and have been tagged by a WikiProject. Note that the bot does NOT place unreferenced tags or assign articles to projects - this has been done by others previously - it just compiles a list.

Your Project's list can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian music/Unreferenced BLPs. As of May 17 you have approximately 35 articles to be referenced, a 23.9% reduction from last week. Great work! The list of all other WikiProject UBLPs can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/WikiProjects.

Your assistance in reviewing and referencing these articles is greatly appreciated. If you have any questions, please don't hestitate to ask either at WT:URBLP or at my talk page. Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 17:25, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the notice...we are currently working on them we started with 56 and as you mentioned are down to 35....Moxy (talk) 17:28, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

You might find it goes up tomorrow, as there were some Canadian music related ones listed at Wikipedia:Database_reports/Untagged_and_unreferenced_biographies_of_living_people that I assigned to the Canada and Canada music projects. The important thing is that we are checking and referencing the articles. Most of the music projects have been really good - with Opera and Metal leading the way having cleared their lists... so far. We estimate that there are about 10,000 articles either without WikiProjects assigned, or just the Biography project and no work-groups or secondary projects. Thanks again for your efforts.The-Pope (talk) 18:40, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

WOw that many..we are lucky here...about 15 of the ones listed will most likely be deleted soon, as we are just waiting to see if they are notable!!..Moxy (talk) 18:42, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

UPDATE i have gone over most of them and have nominated many for deletion see -->Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2010 May 17 for more info....Moxy (talk) 19:47, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Help with an article in need of an assessment

David Bottrill discography This record producer does not have a main article. There is one (not particularly good) reference. There is a hard redirect from David Bottrill to his discography. I don't know what needs to be done. Someone please help. Argolin (talk) 05:09, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

 Done per [4]. Argolin (talk) 02:19, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Review request: Alphabet Soup

Alphabet Soup Children's Entertainment is a Winnipeg-based children's band. I've created an article for them, but am struggling a little to find a relevant Talk page to get a review from (and get rid of the "unreviewed" status). If anyone here can take a look, or point me to a better page to make the request on, I'd be very grateful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Norepeat (talk • contribs) 02:43, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

You've got it right. The Canadian music project does not yet have an /Assessment page. I added the Canada and Biography banner templates to the article's talk page. The Biography project will eventually rate and assess the article. They have a huge backlog. With a little more content it will easliy qualify for a class=start article. Hope this helps whomever you are! Argolin (talk) 20:43, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Help with Hardcopy References

The article about the band Staggered Crossing is under scrutiny and faces possible deletion. It's self-referenced but for a couple brief music reviews. There is next to nothing online. Can anyone help track down references to the band in local sources, such as hardcopy Toronto music press? --Whoosit ^(stalk) 22:46, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Caribbean music

Caribbean music in Canada needs some major work. As written, it seems to imply that the Caribbean music genre has really only existed in Canada since 2000 (which is absurd, obviously) and that it consists exclusively of soca and calypso. Like, hello — reggae? Zouk? Merengue? Lillian Allen? Leroy Sibbles? Sattalites? Hell, even Parachute Club had enough of a Caribbean influence going on to bear at least cursory mention. Anyone able to help get it up to scratch? Bearcat (talk) 02:32, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Canadian music articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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WikiProject cleanup listing

I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 21:15, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

You rock!. I've updated our project page to point to the Canadian music cleanup listings. Argolin (talk) 03:58, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

pls add Portal:Justin Bieber to your watchlist

After seeing Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada/Popular pages i decided that we should make a portal for him so that more people might see the Canada music portal, thus getting us some views and perhaps some more editors. Moxy (talk) 05:27, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Proposal for new infobox: POSTHUMOUS ALBUM

There has been some talk that this project should clearly see and be involved in - it has led to a proposal of sorts for a new category called "POSTHUMOUS" for the Template:Infobox album ... Pls see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Posthumous albums: Studio vs Compilation.Moxy (talk) 20:27, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

RFC regarding use of succession boxes in song and album articles

There is currently an RFC taking place at WT:CHARTS#Request for comment: Use of succession boxes. Interested parties are encouraged to participate. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (talk) 10:03, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Request for Re-assessment

I didn't see a link on the Canadian music project page for "Request Assessment", or anything similar. I've done some editing, and if somebody could re-evaluate the article Andrew Scott (Canadian musical artist), for B-class, I'd surely appreciate it! Thanks! Boneyard90 (talk) 15:59, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

 Done..but its more of a C level if that as per -->Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada/Assessment#Quality scale.. Will will have to find some more refs..I will add some links (if i find any) on the articles talk page that we can work with i hope .Moxy (talk) 19:44, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Moxy, I would have assessed it as class=Start? I'm not questioning that the Andrew Scott article will pass the WP:NM, if challenged. The article has only a single reference per WP:V. Doesn't the fact that it may be challenged under WP:NM mean that it is class=Start? Argolin (talk) 00:34, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

You can change it if you like...i am just not sure theres much more to be said...plus i am a little concern with notability.Moxy (talk) 01:25, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Well, I won't argue with the C-class rating (other WikiProjects I've worked with didn't use the 'C' rating), or even the start-class if that's what you all decide. I'll dig around and see if there are other relevant and reliable sources to be had. Thanks! Boneyard90 (talk) 01:56, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

One or two more references per WP:CITE would satisfy WP:V and prevent deletion of Andrew Scott per guidelines WP:NM. Argolin (talk) 03:19, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Moxy, I am not questioning your assessment of the Andrew Scott article. I know that there is an enormus gap in finding online sources for Canadian content. My question is are there Canadian Wikiproject guidelines to address this fact? Argolin (talk) 03:28, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Bye bye mon cowboy

Bye bye mon cowboy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) was prodded for deletion. I deprodded it, but it needs some work. 64.229.101.119 (talk) 06:27, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject collaborations

Hello! This is magiciandude from the Latin American music task force requesting a collaboration between the two groups for an article. Fellow member Gariseiro has made a strong contribution to album, Mi Plan by Nelly Furtado, to achieve GA. Since the album is within both scopes, I think it would be benefit both groups to have it GA. Thanks! Magiciandude (talk) 22:09, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs - the final surge

Since early in 2010, many editors have assisted in the referencing or removal of over 90% of the Unreferenced Biographies of Living People, bringing the total down from over 50,000 to the current 4,862 (as of 16:21, 1 June 2011 (UTC)). Thank you for all of the work you've done to date, but we are now asking for your help in finishing this task. There are two main projects which are devoted to removing UBLPs from en.Wikipedia:

• WP:URBLP has set up a large number of topic based lists, which are updated each day by a WP:BOT. Your project's list is located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian music/Unreferenced BLPs and currently contains 63 articles.
• WP:URBLPR is focusing on clearing out the backlog based on the month in which each article was tagged as being unreferenced. The current task is Category:Unreferenced BLPs from September 2009, and it is the last month remaining from 2009.
• You can also reference a random article or make your own lists using one of the catscan tools, such as this search for Canadian rappers.

All you have to do is pick your articles and then add suitable references from reliable sources and remove the {{BLP unsourced}} template. There is no need to log your changes, register or remove the articles from the list. If you need any help, or have any comments, please ask at WP:URBLPR or WT:URBLP.

Thank you for any assistance you can provide. The-Pope (talk) 16:21, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the reminder. We are doing pretty good here down to 63 ---> Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian music/Unreferenced BLPs.Moxy (talk) 16

33, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Canadian music will have interest in putting on events related to women's roles in Canadian music; as performers, singers, etc. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 19:10, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

photo requests categories - request for input

There are large number of articles with requests for photographs of musicians in Canada. One of the categories they are placed in is that of their city of origin. This is however swamping other requests for photographs in that city. I would like to split these requests to make it easier for people to see what image requests of locations have been made. Someone has invested a substantial amount of time classifying these requests and I do not want to throw away that hard work. I have a proposal on how to do this. Comments requested at Template talk:WikiProject Canada#needs-photo=yes--Traveler100 (talk) 13:14, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Proposal to redirect Canadian related project talk pages

Please see Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board#Proposal to redirect Canadian related project talk pages.Moxy (talk) 17:43, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

What genres can be considered Canadian?

Hello, I've just created a page about the Central Canadian Bluegrass Awards. I added the category Music Organizations in Canada, but I'm not sure what else is appropriate. Bluegrass, of course, is an American music genre, but there's a lot of it being performed, and new songs written, in Canada as well. If anyone here has advice about what categories to use on this page, I would appreciate it. —Anne Delong (talk) 01:10, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Great job with the article - I will see if I can upload there logo. As for your question I have asked User:Bearcat to come see this post (hes our resident Canadian category expert). There is also User:Argolin who would also know whats best for music cats and talk page banners. Moxy (talk) 02:09, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

I've added Category:Canadian music awards, as well as Category:Canadian country music and Category:Canadian folk music (given that bluegrass is a sort of country/folk hybrid.) I don't personally think a category specifically for "Canadian bluegrass" would be particularly justified at this time — but that's mainly a question of whether Wikipedia has enough articles to populate one. If you can find evidence that we do have a reasonable number of articles (even just four or five is sufficient) that would belong in a Category:Canadian bluegrass music category, then it would be completely justifiable to create one. We don't have to "own" the genre in a nationalist sense to warrant a category — we merely have to have a reasonable number of articles to put in it. After all, the likes of "rock", "pop", "folk", "country" and "hip hop" aren't uniquely Canadian genres of music either, but we do still have categories for their Canadian iterations. Bearcat (talk) 02:36, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Here are some pages that could fall under Canadian bluegrass:

• Pineridge Bluegrass Folklore Society
• Central Canadian Bluegrass Awards
• Saddle River String Band
• Mike Stevens (bluegrass harmonica)
• J. P. Cormier
• The Good Brothers
• Luther Wright and the Wrongs
• Rex Yetman
• Paul Hébert (bluegrass musician)
• The Abrams Brothers
• Willie P. Bennett
• The Paperboys
• Joel Quarrington
• Jenny Whiteley
• Tottenham, Ontario

As well, there are many bluegrass articles that aren't written yet, such as this list of bluegrass festivals that I am compiling:

• User:Anne Delong/Bluegrass Topics#Canadian Bluegrass Festivals —Anne Delong (talk) 11:09, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Many of those wouldn't be appropriate, for the record; bands and musicians don't ever go directly in a "genre music" category under any circumstances, but in "genre musicians" and "genre musical groups" subcategories. You've also provided no explanation for Tottenham, Ontario, but I find it hard to imagine a context where that would be appropriate — there may well be something in the town that's connected to bluegrass in some way, but the town itself is not an aspect of the musical genre. Bearcat (talk) 07:26, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Moxy,

Yes indeed long time. I took a little break from editing wikipedia. There was an over zealous editor in another realated project that well, (I'm sure) you know just makes one question the futulity of it all...

Hope all is well with you also! Sorry, I can't actually contribute to this discussion. I have zero knowlege of bulegrass esp Canadian blugrass. Thank you for thinking of me to include in this discussion.

And, OH MY! From your talk page, the Cfd project is still the same. I established the categories for missing place of origin (by province) ages ago. No one from that project notified me that a deletion discussion had been initiated!!! I remember consulting Bearcat on what to do with missing place of origin (see below).

All articles on music performers (bands & muscians) require three things:

1. year of formation (start of career; generally tied to #2 below but not necessarily)
2. place of orgin (first place of public performance)
3. genre of music

As you know, wikipedia articles must have these three things. Interpretation of what they mean is the thing. Thanks again.

Best, Argolin (talk) 00:42, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Vital articles

There is a discussion occuring here regarding which music articles should be deemed vital to the Wikipedia project. Your input would be appreciated. GabeMc ^{(talk|contribs)} 21:54, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Cœur de pirate discography

The Cœur de pirate discography is currently at FLC. Please leave comments and feedback to get this discography to Featured List status. – Underneath-it-All (talk) 18:55, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Kellie Loder

The article about Canadian musician Kellie Loder has an ongoing featured article candidacy here. Any constructive comments you would be willing to provide there would be greatly appreciated. Neelix (talk) 03:02, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Category:Canadian musicians missing province or territory

Category:Canadian musicians missing province or territory, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for merging. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 19:33, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

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Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

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Rush FAR

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Invitation to a virtual editathon on Women in Music

Women in Music
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National campaign on music in 2017

Hi all, We are a group of music librarians, archivists, musicians and academics. We're organizing a national editing campaign focused on Canadian music. We're going to have several events culminating in a distributed edit-a-thon in Oct. 2017. We'd love to collaborate with this project and would welcome volunteers. We don't have a project page up yet, but we're applying for a Wikimedia grant to help fund some of the activities and you can read about it here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Music_in_Canada_@_150:_A_Wikipedia_and_Wikidata_Project We welcome and comments and suggestions. --Smallison (talk) 02:37, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Our national edit-a-thons are taking place this month. We have a number of editing events taking place across Canada between October 19th and 26th. WikiProject Canadian music members would be most welcome. Check out the meet-up page for more info. We'll also be holding a virtual edit-a-thon. --Smallison (talk) 00:52, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Is Jon Vickers the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC of the disambiguation page on which his name appears?

A discussion regarding the above topic at Talk:John Vickers (disambiguation)#Requested move 18 February 2017 may be of interest. —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 21:08, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Theory of a Deadman discography

Hello, WikiProject Canadian Music! I have nominated this discography for WP:FL (you can find it here) and the review seems to have stalled. May I please ask that anyone interested please take a few moments to review it and leave comments and support for its promotion? It would be greatly appreciated and I would be happy to reciprocate if you have anything under review that needs commenting. Thank you! — Miss Sarita 14:59, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Just need one or two more "Supports"! A lot of the major legwork has already been done. If anyone has some time to look it over, that would be so wonderful! It's so close! And as I mentioned, I am more than happy to take a look at anything you have that needs to be reviewed (now or any time in the future). Thank you! — Miss Sarita 19:56, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

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WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

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Proposal to redirect all Canadian project related talk pages

Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board#Proposal to redirect all Canadian project related talk pages...--Moxy 🍁 22:39, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

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Justin Bieber RFC

Hi, I would like to notify the wikiproject that there's currently an RFC underway at Talk:Justin Bieber#RFC: Describing Bieber as to how to describe the talents of Justin Bieber. Your participation is welcome.--NØ 10:37, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Waking up the neighbours

Waking up the neighbours is at GAR if anyone from this project is interested in working on it, see Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Waking Up the Neighbours/1 Aircorn (talk) 23:52, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

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Discussion at Wikipedia:Content assessment

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Rush (band) regarding end of band

There is a discussion on the article's talk page regarding the band either ending in 2015 or 2018. Some opinions would be helpful to see if a full consensus can be given. The topic is Talk:Rush (band)#Lifeson confirming 2015 end. Thanks. HorrorLover555 (talk) 20:44, 6 December 2023 (UTC)