Some Wikipedians have formed a project to coordinate and better organize information in articles related to hip hop culture and music. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there. WikiProject Hip hop will attempt to standardize and improve all articles related to the culture of hip hop on Wikipedia, as well as create missing articles. We will do this through volunteer contributors and editors. A large emphasis is made on citing reliable sources. If you would like to make a contribution and are interested in joining the WikiProject, please feel free to add your name to the Members list and find yourself an article to adopt. If you're not sure where to begin or if you have doubts or ideas on how to improve an article, please address the project's discussion forum.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see WikiPedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

1. Write and expand articles related to hip hop culture and/or hip hop music.
2. Organize and manage that content — A mass of information is of no use if it isn't properly organized. Also, make sure that any activity on any hip hop-related article is being relayed back to the project. If there is a dispute on a related talk page, not everyone is going to see it. Recommend that the dispute be brought to the project, that way you can get the opinions of all of the project's participants.
3. Damage control — See something that needs to be done? Be bold! Edit articles, get involved in the discussions on the articles talk page, and feel free to tell us your thoughts and ideas on the WikiProject talk page!
4. Featured articles and Good articles — Though we do have our fair share of good/featured content at the moment there's still a ton of work to be done and articles to be elevated in stature. We need to work on cleaning up alot of our pages and getting them in decent enough shape to be nominated.
5. Maintain the portal.

1. Reduce trivial information, speculation, point of view, and anything else that violates Wikipedia's Fictional Guidelines.
2. Monitoring all articles for violations of anything listed above (trivial information, speculation, etc.)
3. Promote the Hip hop article to Good or Featured Article status.
4. Add the project template {{WikiProject hip hop}} to all hip hop related articles' talk pages.
5. Assess all hip hop related articles for class and importance.
6. Expand and improve all related articles.
7. Work toward making all hip hop related articles and lists clean, organized, well-written, and accessible.

[edit] Announcements
Announcements for the Hip hop WikiProject December 3, 2009 8 June 2009: The Game has been demoted from Good Article status. 20 March 2009: Dr. Octagonecologyst is promoted to Good Article status. 26 February 2009: "Ice Ice Baby" is promoted to Good Article status. 20 January 2009: Kala (album) is promoted to Good Article status. 28 October 2008: Paid in Full (album) is promoted to Good Article status. 4 September 2008: Voodoo (album) is promoted to Good Article status. 20 August 2008: Insane Clown Posse is promoted to Featured Article status. 17 August 2008: Esham is promoted to Good Article status. 7 July 2008: Radio (LL Cool J album) and new school hip hop are promoted to Good Article status. 16 June 2008: 2001 (album) is promoted to Good Article status. 30 May 2008: Daara J is promoted to Good Article status. 27 May 2008: Dr. Dre is promoted to Good Article status. 24 May 2008: Insane Clown Posse is promoted to Good Article status. 21 May 2008: "It Was a Good Day" is promoted to Good Article status. 19 May 2008: God's Son is promoted to Good Article status. 14 May 2008: Ready to Die is promoted to Good Article status. 4 May 2008: Doggystyle is promoted to Good Article status. 29 April 2008: Timbaland is promoted to Good Article status. 27 April 2008: Kanye West is promoted to Good Article status. 24 April 2008: Eminem is promoted to Good Article status. 14 April 2008: Reasonable Doubt is promoted to Good Article status. 28 March 2008: Positive Black Soul is promoted to Good Article status. 24 March 2008: The Cool Kids is promoted to Good Article status. 23 March 2008: The Chronic is promoted to Good Article status. 5 January 2008: Rage Against the Machine is promoted to Good Article status. 12 December 2007: American Gangster (album) and "Can I Have It Like That" are promoted to Good Article status. 19 November 2007: Curtis {50 Cent album) is promoted to Good Article status. 14 November 2007: Straight Outta Compton is promoted to Good Article status. 25 October 2007: "Through the Wire" is promoted to Good Article status. 1 October 2007: Grill (jewelry) is promoted to Good Article status. 9 September 2007: "Hey Ya!" is today's featured article. 29 July 2007-WikiProject:G-Unit Records has been started. Join now to improve all related articles!. 24 July 2007: 50 Cent is promoted to Good Article status. 11 July 2007: "In da Club" is promoted to Good Article status. 3 July 2007: "Candy Shop" is promoted to Good Article status. 17 June 2007: "Dirrty" is promoted to Good Article status. 9 April 2007: "Luxurious" is promoted to Good Article status. 29 March 2007: Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde is promoted to Good Article status. 16 March 2007: The Notorious B.I.G. is promoted to featured status. 3 March 2007: Illmatic is promoted to Good Article status. 25 February 2007: Enta Da Stage is today's featured article. 19 February 2007: Urthogie has marked all of the Hip hop categories with maintenance templates where appropriate. Please help him finish sorting them. 12 February 2007: Deletion discussion has ended regarding the Indian hip hop category. The verdict was KEEP. 10 February 2007: The Notorious B.I.G. is promoted to Good Article status. 2 February 2007: Indian hip hop category up for deletion. Please vote at the link. 1 February 2007: Illmatic was de-featured after review; The Game (rapper) is promoted to Good Article status. 31 January 2007: Disco D has been expanded significantly and is looking for contributors to help bring the article up to GA status. 14 January 2007: Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) is promoted to featured status. 1 June 2006: Please see Talk:Rapping and help us take the necessary steps to make it featured. Please help improve Rapping, the current project collaboration. edit

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