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Goals: To improve genre and related articles to Wikipedia:Version 1.0 standards. Keep watch over spam links and non-notable artists/bands. General: Maintain music genre list of articles Add genre infoboxs, relevant footer templates and categories to genre articles. Replace occurrences of genrebox templates with genre infoboxs. Add {{genre}} to genre article talk pages. Add to and maintain surveillance of Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Music regarding deletion nominations Specific: Request for Comment: Merging/redirecting Electronic Music and Electronica articles Distinguish between hardcore techno and gabber Correct Chicago house so it has information about Chicago house :) Separate ambient techno from ambient music? Separate electro funk from electro (music)? Expand hard house and hard dance Add references for Folk music Expand and add references for Progressive folk music

Contents 1 The depreciation of genre specific genrebox templates 2 Genrebox traceback project 2.1 Rock music origins 2.2 Other music origins

[edit] The depreciation of genre specific genrebox templates

As specifically tailored genre infobox templates become more prevalent on subgenre articles, there is no longer a need for parent genres to have specific templates that contain their own genrebox. The following genre specific genrebox templates need to be merged with the relevant genre articles then proposed for deletion;

• Template:Altrock (talk, links, edit)
• Template:bluesbox (talk, links, edit)
• Template:Ccm (talk, links, edit)
• Template:emo (talk, links, edit)
• Template:punkbox (talk, links, edit)
• Template:hardcorepunkbox (talk, links, edit)
• Template:hiphopgenrebox (talk, links, edit)
• Template:jazzbox (talk, links, edit)
• Template:metalcore (talk, links, edit)
• Template:pop (talk, links, edit)
• Template:RockBox (talk, links, edit)
• Template:smoothjazz (talk, links, edit)

[edit] Genrebox traceback project

The project here is to start with your favourite genre, and (after adding a genrebox if necessary), click on all the links in the "stylistic origins" section, and ensure that they have genreboxes too. Then go to the stylistic origins of those and make more genreboxes, and keep going until you can't go any further (this usually means that you have gotten to some kind of traditional music).

In this section, feel free to list any styles that need genreboxes.

[edit] Rock music origins

I've traced rock music back until I got to the following points:

• Country music
• American march music
• Hymn
• Music of Africa
• Music of West Africa,

That's correct; if you trace the origins of rock, you will find all these. The ones I've listed are the ones that I got to before I started working on something else. Country music has a genrebox you can use to trace back into other styles, but the others all need genreboxes added. If anyone wishes to continue, that would be great; I plan to come back to it myself sometime, too.

[edit] Other music origins