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WikiProject Classical Music aims to improve, expand, cleanup, and maintain all articles related to classical music, that aren't covered by other classical music related projects.

Participants help sort stubs and source statements made throughout the world of classical music to provide a comprehensive documentation of classical music — including historical and musicological analysis.

Contents 1 Project listing, facts and figures 2 Parentage 3 Daughter projects 4 Similar WikiProjects 5 Task forces 6 Participation 7 To-do lists 8 Project banner 9 Stub templates 10 Categories 11 Assessments 12 Guidelines 12.1 Biographical infoboxes 13 Article alerts 14 See also

[edit] Project listing, facts and figures

WikiProject Classical music is an independent WikiProject, listed under Music. It was started by OldakQuill on 25 May 2004. There were 10,332 articles within the scope of the project on 23 November 2009.

[edit] Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Music.

[edit] Daughter projects

• WikiProject Contemporary music
• WikiProject Haydn and Mozart

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects are:

• WikiProject Composers
• WikiProject Opera

• WikiProject Gilbert and Sullivan
• WikiProject Wagner

[edit] Task forces

Currently there is one task force of this WikiProject:

• Compositions task force

[edit] Participation

To join, add your name to the list of participants.

Identify yourself as a participant by adding the following to your user page: {{User WPClassical}}

This userbox should appear:

To identify yourself without using the userbox, add this to the bottom of your user page: [[Category:WikiProject Classical music members|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

[edit] To-do lists

There is also a handy list of open tasks, which are articles requiring verification, cleanup, expansion etc. If you want to find an article to improve, this is a good place to start.

• Go to to-do list

[edit] Project banner

Any article which falls under the scope of WikiProject Classical music should be tagged as such by adding the following on the talk page: {{Classical}}. This banner should appear:

WikiProject Classical music		Classical musicWikipedia:WikiProject Classical musicTemplate:WikiProject Classical musicClassical music articles
v • d • e WikiProject Classical music is within the scope of WikiProject Classical music, which aims to improve, expand, cleanup, and maintain all articles related to classical music, that aren't covered by other classical music related projects. Please read the guidelines for writing and maintaining articles. To participate, you can edit this article or visit the project page for more details.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale.

A category containing all articles with this banner on its talk page can be found here.

To request urgent attention, please tag the talk page with {{Classical|attention=yes}}. A list of all articles that have been tagged as requiring urgent attention is here.

The last bot run to automatically tag articles was carried out in June/July 2008 by ShepBot and Bot0612. (Note: all articles then bannered by the Composers, Contemporary music, and Opera projects were excluded from the run.)

[edit] Stub templates

The Stubs page lists the stub tags currently used on classical music articles.

[edit] Categories

The project categories are listed on the Categories sub page.

[edit] Assessments

The Assessment page explains the current situation regarding rating.

[edit] Guidelines

For guidelines on articles about works of classical music, please see the relevant section of the Compositions task force.

[edit] Biographical infoboxes

Current consensus among project participants holds that the use of biographical infoboxes is often counterproductive on biographies of classical musicians, including conductors and instrumentalists. They should not be used without first obtaining consensus on the article's talk page. This position is in line with that reached by the participants at the Composers Project and the Opera Project.

The following archives document the various infobox discussions:

• Classical Music Project: [1] [2] [3]
• Composers Project: [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] (scroll down) [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
• Opera Project: [14] [15] [16] [17]

[edit] Article alerts

Proposed deletion

• 28 Nov 2009 – Sabah Philharmonic Orchestra (talk) has been deleted.

Articles for deletion

• 26 Nov 2009 – Terezín: The Music 1941-44 (talk) was kept; see discussion.

Copyright problems

• 4 Dec 2009 – The copyvio tag was removed from Polina Leschenko (talk).

Other news

• 30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details.
• 30 Nov 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 3 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available.
• 19 Oct 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.

Archives

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[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music)
• Wikipedia:Music encyclopedia topics
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions

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