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Welcome to the Flaming Lips WikiProject!

Project Goals

• Improve Wikipedia's coverage of The Flaming Lips and related subjects.
• Create guidelines and templates for articles about The Flaming Lips.
• Improve The Flaming Lips-related articles to Featured Article status.

Scope

• The project covers all articles about The Flaming Lips, and the people and works associated with them.

Contents 1 Members 2 Tasks 3 Current User Goals 4 Category 5 Templates 6 Valuable Resources 6.1 Albums 6.2 Band History 6.2.1 Essays 6.2.2 Biographies 6.2.3 General History and Information 7 Related projects

[edit] Members

1. MajorB (talk · contribs) (Lightning strikes the Wikipedian... all the time!)
2. Rajah (talk · contribs)
3. daveffreep (talk · contribs)
4. Spin Boy 11 (talk · contribs)
5. sirdragon2001 (talk · contribs)
6. Ss112 (talk · contribs)
7. Enoch the red (talk · contribs)
8. Kdwman (talk · contribs)
9. Torc2 (talk · contribs)
10. Brandt Luke Zorn (talk · contribs)

[edit] Tasks

• Improve the Flaming Lips, Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, Michael Ivins, and Kliph Scurlock articles to Featured Article status.
• Focus effort on The Flaming Lips first and then branch out from there.
• Add defaultsorts and persondata to all bios.
• Add references to all bios and main article.

[edit] Current User Goals

• Push Zaireeka to FA status! - MajorB
  • Status: currently Good article status

Here are some Featured Articles about albums for us to model: Adore (album), 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?), Christ Illusion, Doolittle (album), Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), Freak Out!, Reign in Blood, Surfer Rosa

[edit] Category

• Category:The Flaming Lips albums

[edit] Templates

• Template:WPFlamingLips
  • This is the project template. Please place this in the talk pages of any and all Flaming Lips-related articles. You are also strongly encouraged to assess the articles.

 {{Template:WPFlamingLips |class=(insert quality designation here) }} 

• Template:The Flaming Lips
  • This is the band template. Please place this at the bottom of all Flaming Lips-related articles.
• User:MajorB/Userboxes/WP Flips
  • This is a userbox template for members of this project. Stick it in your User page and show your support!

[edit] Valuable Resources

The following resources are very useful for research, fact-checking and citations related to The Flaming Lips:

[edit] Albums

• Albums by The Flaming Lips, and their respective liner notes

[edit] Band History

[edit] Essays

• Liner notes from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 5.1, The Soft Bulletin 5.1, At War With the Mystics 5.1, Finally the Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid and The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg

[edit] Biographies

• Staring at Sound, by Jim DeRogratis. Official website, including two free chapters
• Fearless Freaks, a documentary film

[edit] General History and Information

• The Official Web Site contains a wealth of information concerning, albums, tours, personnel, and more.

[edit] Related projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative music