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First off, if anyone can contribute pictures or soundclips to the Good Articles listed on this page, do so. If you need suggestions for any particular group, post a request here.
Now, for an initial project (if anyone is interested): The Cure really needs to be whipped up into shape, and I think it can be done relatively easily. If someone is willing to make a band template listing members, singles, albums, and so forth, I can take care of copyediting and combing over the main text of the article. Someone else might want to clean up the Discography. WesleyDodds
I'm currently working to turn The Smashing Pumpkins into a Featured Article. I have enough resources at the moment for the main body of the article, but I need help with some things. Can anyone provide more soundclips and images? Album covers are fine, but it'd be nice to have more pictures of the band, especially from the Siamese Dream and Adore eras. Additionally, the only soundclips currently up come from Siamese Dream. I'm also trying to find the source of Billy Corgan's quote that Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was devised as " The Wall for the 90's". I mean, I have plenty of sources verifying that he said it, but it's not clear when he actually said it. So far I've learned it was uttered no later than February 1995. I'd appreciate any assistance. WesleyDodds 05:06, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
I began cleanup on the RHCP article in the history section. Before [1], after [2] any thoughts? maxcap 19:00, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
I took a look at it right now to follow up on the whole External Links debate. From a prose point of view, the History section is a total mess. Unnecessary sections, short paragraphs, and so forth. I'll probably take a crack at fixing it up in a few days. WesleyDodds 10:05, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
Why isn't Third Wave Ska listed under fushion Alternative rock genres? Chubdub 20:40, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Should Radiohead overview and influence be its own article? WesleyDodds 10:03, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
A lot of articles about indie bands ( Arctic Monkeys, We Are Scientists etc. seem to undergo occasional edit wars over whether indie rock is a type of music, or the name given to an independant-signed band. The article suggests that indie rock is a musical genre, but which is the prefered meaning? smurrayinch ester( User), ( Talk) 22:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Green Day has recently been delisted from Wikipedia:Good articles for reasons listed on its talk page. I think that's a shame, and I really want to work on getting it back to that status. Right now major problems include constant vandalism by unregistered users, lack of inline citations, and some non POV statements scattered throughout. I can dig up some sources, but is anyone else interested on working on this article? WesleyDodds 02:12, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
So, this was mentioned over on the /Strategy page, but thought more eyes would see it here... I think that we should try to move articles to becoming Good Articles on a much more active basis. Drawing everyone's eyes to bands that they may not be fans of by way of a collaboration of the week for WP:ALM. I've taken the liberty of adding it to the Collaboration category, and sketching in a rough layout. -- Xinit 19:06, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Elliott Smith is currently up for Featured Article review. If you have any comments or assistance to offer to the review, please do so. WesleyDodds 09:05, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Is anyone here a fan of The Smiths/ Morrissey? We need someone to go into the articles and cite all those books mentioned as references. Also, a lot of Smiths singles need pages. WesleyDodds 03:19, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
There's not much this article needs to meet the criteria, but would someone like to copyedit this article? WesleyDodds 10:25, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Suggestions / help welcome.
Current Collaboration Template:AMCOTWCurrent
Past Collaboration Template:AMCOTWPast
-- Xinit 00:15, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm a new user on here but this is an area of interest to me and I'd like to help out if possible. Is there a page which I should read to understand how these projects work and what I can do? Xobxela 08:01, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
The Smashing Pumpkins has been nominated as a Featured Article candidate. Please leave feedback at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Smashing Pumpkins. And if anyone could look up citations for their sales figures, that would be very helpful. WesleyDodds 10:36, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Considering that there are a number of people interested in this project, I suggest expanding the banner to include article assessment on rank, importance, and whether an infobox is needer. See the sources for Template:Electronic-music-project and Template:WPBiography for more information. 24.126.199.129 20:55, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
I am currently overhauling Britpop; with the resources available on the genre, I'm aiming to get this listed as a Good Article and maybe even get it to FA status. Help is much appreciated. WesleyDodds 21:43, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Nirvana is today's Main Page article, and as a result is attracting a lot of vandal edits. I have to check back on the page every twnety minutes or so. Please help keep on the lookout for such edits and if you are reverting vandalism, make sure to look through the page History to make sure you catch all the changes. WesleyDodds 05:25, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:
and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 21:31, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Nirvana's a band that has had a lot written about them, and given the amount of resources and that Nirvana (band) and Kurt Cobain are FA and GA articles respectivley, I'm surprised and somewhat disappointed at the shape a lot of the album and song articles are in. With the resources available, we should be able to improve these articles substantially. I started working " Smells Like Teen Spirit" a few days ago and have been able to drastically improve it since then, mainly going on easily-attainable books and a comprehensive list of articles at www.nirvanaclub.com. Help is much appreciated on these articles. WesleyDodds 02:31, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
As part of my cusade against the "genre edit wars" that plague many band articles, I have made the following proposal at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musicians#Genre wars and the distinguishing of genres and styles.
I would appreciate feedback on this proposal. I am going to push hard for this proposal to be put into action, and I appreciate any supporters in helping me do so. Thank you. --
Reaper
X 01:19, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:54, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
I submitted Frank Black for peer review (which can be found here) a week ago, but I've not yet recieved any critiques. I know WP:PR isn't the most responsive part of Wikipedia, but it would be helpful if some editors from this WikiProject could review the article - as I'd like to submit to FAC as soon as possible. CloudNine 20:14, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
While waiting for my submissions to pass though peer review and good article review, I decided to make us a portal for alternative music. Feel free to change whatever you want, bearing in mind that only free images may be used in the selected pictures area. Teemu08 08:03, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Yea, that sounds good. The Rock music Wikiproject will gladfully take ownership, but I think we should shhare it joinmtly for a while, until I and User:DavidJJJ can get the project rolling faster. We still need more participants and articles. -- Reaper X 06:10, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Well, after a bit of tinkering with the alternative rock template, I managed to get ratings worked out. You can add a rating to an article's alternative rock template by placing |class=X as a parameter of the template, where X is FA, GA, A, B, Start, or Stub. Teemu08 08:23, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Be good to get more feedback about its rating (B) and what "actually" needs doing. Presumably it needs nominating to a FA or GA. Jem 12:25, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
(discussion moved to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music)
I started an article for the band Big Hand, but it desperately needs attention.
I'd like to change the picture in the template since Kim Gordon's head is very blurry in the picture (plus, the template's creator, Jmabel, even suggested that it be changed). I'd post on the template's page, but I doubt anyone would respond. How about these images of Better Than Ezra, Robert Smith, Morningwood (a shameless plug, but hey, it's a free promo photo), OK Go, R.E.M., Snow Patrol, or U2? The band itself probably isn't as important as the picture since it's going to be a tiny thumbnail. ShadowHalo 07:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Teemu08 has goen through the eoffrt to make an importance scale for the project. This will help us ascertain which projects need attentiont he most, and we can consequently rate them (FA, A, GA, B, Start, and Stub class) and work on them. Having dealt with some rankings on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics scale, I think we shoudl be very stringent abotu our rankings. Personally, I believe we shouldn't have mroe than ten to twenty Top Importance articles. Teemu08 tagged the no-brainers ( Alternative rock, Nirvana (band), R.E.M. (band)) but there's things to consider including vastly popular bands (Pearl Jam, Oasis), important albums (Nevermind, Murmur), important subgenres (grunge, indie rock), and bands that didn't sell all that well but were critical to the development of the genre (Pixies, the Smiths). Personally, I think for top importance were should consider what a basic encyclopedia or a rock encyclopedia would have. For example, Encyclopedia Britainnica has entries for alternative rock, grunge, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Smiths, New Order, and Radiohead, but not R.E.M., Smashing Pumpkins, The Cure, or Pixies. Most broad encyclopedias would not have an alternative rock entry (at best, they'd have one for grunge at least) but a rock encyclopedia would, as well as entries for R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, but maybe not for The Smiths, the Pixies, etc. High importance is where I think the vast majority of popular bands would go (Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, Weezer, Radiohead, White Stripes, The Cure etc) as well as seminal lesser-known bands (typical candidates would include Sonic Youth, Pixies, Husker Du, Replacements, Stone Roses). Those are my opening thoughts. WesleyDodds 19:27, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
I don't know if anybody here is a fan, but you all seem to have ignored Joy Division as an alternative msuic artist. Common people, give 'em some attention. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by -- ArmedAndDangerous 17:48, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Ok, let's try to get a COTW going. I've passed The Smashing Pumpkins as the first collaboration, and this will be in effect until the 8th. The article is pretty close to featured status as it is, so let's put it over the top. Don't forget to vote and nominate articles as well. I'll try to get a template to work for the article's page. Teemu08 22:44, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm going to put up the article up for FAC real soon, so if there's anything anyone thinks there's left for us to fix, let's try and do it now. WesleyDodds 01:33, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Somebody please correct me if I'm addressing this in the wrong place, but shouldn't the Butthole Surfers be ranked at High-importance rather than their current Mid-importance level? Certainly if their peers such as Sonic Youth, Flaming Lips and Hüsker Dü are ranked as such (high) they should be as well. They were one of the most successful indie touring bands in the '80s, and had at least a few "modern rock" radio hits (including "Pepper" which was a #1) in the '90s and '00s. Even their aformentioned peers have cited them as influences, or at least were fans. The same goes for Cobain and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and others. OK, perhaps I should cite these assertations (I will if it's needed), but does anybody object to their influence or at least their importance in the grand scale of all that is Alternative-ness?
Unfortunately their article is sorely in need of improvement. No one's really taken up the reins and done any serious work. Perhaps I should (and will, if I have time). Someone's at least started to update their discography. Gruntmaster flush 07:01, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Just working on expanding the Alec Eiffel article currently (along with others :)). I was wondering if anyone had any information on the live tracks on the single, or what chart positions it reached in the US, UK and France? CloudNine 15:51, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
I've submitted the alternative music portal for portal peer review. CloudNine 19:05, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
I have started a vote on the blink-182 article regarding the long term edit war over the bands genre of Pop Punk or Punk Rock. votes can be cast here. cheers -- Dan027 07:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I created a category to go along with the existing userbox to make collaboration with other editors easier, it is under Category:WikiProject Alternative music members. I hope this helps. Darth griz 98 21:25, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
First of all, Sebadoh is very thin and not even part of the project, which it should be. Second, the individual albums, i.e. The Freed Man have no covers and rarely more'n a single sentance describing them. I'll get to work on the covers, but I'm not that Sebadoh-literate, so any help is appreciated. Thanks! Oystermind 03:43, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Is someone's autograph (just the signature part, not the "to" and/or "best wishes" bits) something you think would enhance an artist's entry? (Example: [5])
It might be a nice addition -- and be one more way that Wikipedia is set apart from paper encyclopedias.
If it was something people here are interested in, the next question would be: Would there be a copyright issue with such handwritten material?
- Andwhatsnext 15:26, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
First off, if anyone can contribute pictures or soundclips to the Good Articles listed on this page, do so. If you need suggestions for any particular group, post a request here.
Now, for an initial project (if anyone is interested): The Cure really needs to be whipped up into shape, and I think it can be done relatively easily. If someone is willing to make a band template listing members, singles, albums, and so forth, I can take care of copyediting and combing over the main text of the article. Someone else might want to clean up the Discography. WesleyDodds
I'm currently working to turn The Smashing Pumpkins into a Featured Article. I have enough resources at the moment for the main body of the article, but I need help with some things. Can anyone provide more soundclips and images? Album covers are fine, but it'd be nice to have more pictures of the band, especially from the Siamese Dream and Adore eras. Additionally, the only soundclips currently up come from Siamese Dream. I'm also trying to find the source of Billy Corgan's quote that Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was devised as " The Wall for the 90's". I mean, I have plenty of sources verifying that he said it, but it's not clear when he actually said it. So far I've learned it was uttered no later than February 1995. I'd appreciate any assistance. WesleyDodds 05:06, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
I began cleanup on the RHCP article in the history section. Before [1], after [2] any thoughts? maxcap 19:00, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
I took a look at it right now to follow up on the whole External Links debate. From a prose point of view, the History section is a total mess. Unnecessary sections, short paragraphs, and so forth. I'll probably take a crack at fixing it up in a few days. WesleyDodds 10:05, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
Why isn't Third Wave Ska listed under fushion Alternative rock genres? Chubdub 20:40, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Should Radiohead overview and influence be its own article? WesleyDodds 10:03, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
A lot of articles about indie bands ( Arctic Monkeys, We Are Scientists etc. seem to undergo occasional edit wars over whether indie rock is a type of music, or the name given to an independant-signed band. The article suggests that indie rock is a musical genre, but which is the prefered meaning? smurrayinch ester( User), ( Talk) 22:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Green Day has recently been delisted from Wikipedia:Good articles for reasons listed on its talk page. I think that's a shame, and I really want to work on getting it back to that status. Right now major problems include constant vandalism by unregistered users, lack of inline citations, and some non POV statements scattered throughout. I can dig up some sources, but is anyone else interested on working on this article? WesleyDodds 02:12, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
So, this was mentioned over on the /Strategy page, but thought more eyes would see it here... I think that we should try to move articles to becoming Good Articles on a much more active basis. Drawing everyone's eyes to bands that they may not be fans of by way of a collaboration of the week for WP:ALM. I've taken the liberty of adding it to the Collaboration category, and sketching in a rough layout. -- Xinit 19:06, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Elliott Smith is currently up for Featured Article review. If you have any comments or assistance to offer to the review, please do so. WesleyDodds 09:05, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Is anyone here a fan of The Smiths/ Morrissey? We need someone to go into the articles and cite all those books mentioned as references. Also, a lot of Smiths singles need pages. WesleyDodds 03:19, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
There's not much this article needs to meet the criteria, but would someone like to copyedit this article? WesleyDodds 10:25, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Suggestions / help welcome.
Current Collaboration Template:AMCOTWCurrent
Past Collaboration Template:AMCOTWPast
-- Xinit 00:15, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm a new user on here but this is an area of interest to me and I'd like to help out if possible. Is there a page which I should read to understand how these projects work and what I can do? Xobxela 08:01, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
The Smashing Pumpkins has been nominated as a Featured Article candidate. Please leave feedback at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Smashing Pumpkins. And if anyone could look up citations for their sales figures, that would be very helpful. WesleyDodds 10:36, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Considering that there are a number of people interested in this project, I suggest expanding the banner to include article assessment on rank, importance, and whether an infobox is needer. See the sources for Template:Electronic-music-project and Template:WPBiography for more information. 24.126.199.129 20:55, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
I am currently overhauling Britpop; with the resources available on the genre, I'm aiming to get this listed as a Good Article and maybe even get it to FA status. Help is much appreciated. WesleyDodds 21:43, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Nirvana is today's Main Page article, and as a result is attracting a lot of vandal edits. I have to check back on the page every twnety minutes or so. Please help keep on the lookout for such edits and if you are reverting vandalism, make sure to look through the page History to make sure you catch all the changes. WesleyDodds 05:25, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:
and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 21:31, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Nirvana's a band that has had a lot written about them, and given the amount of resources and that Nirvana (band) and Kurt Cobain are FA and GA articles respectivley, I'm surprised and somewhat disappointed at the shape a lot of the album and song articles are in. With the resources available, we should be able to improve these articles substantially. I started working " Smells Like Teen Spirit" a few days ago and have been able to drastically improve it since then, mainly going on easily-attainable books and a comprehensive list of articles at www.nirvanaclub.com. Help is much appreciated on these articles. WesleyDodds 02:31, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
As part of my cusade against the "genre edit wars" that plague many band articles, I have made the following proposal at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musicians#Genre wars and the distinguishing of genres and styles.
I would appreciate feedback on this proposal. I am going to push hard for this proposal to be put into action, and I appreciate any supporters in helping me do so. Thank you. --
Reaper
X 01:19, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:54, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
I submitted Frank Black for peer review (which can be found here) a week ago, but I've not yet recieved any critiques. I know WP:PR isn't the most responsive part of Wikipedia, but it would be helpful if some editors from this WikiProject could review the article - as I'd like to submit to FAC as soon as possible. CloudNine 20:14, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
While waiting for my submissions to pass though peer review and good article review, I decided to make us a portal for alternative music. Feel free to change whatever you want, bearing in mind that only free images may be used in the selected pictures area. Teemu08 08:03, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Yea, that sounds good. The Rock music Wikiproject will gladfully take ownership, but I think we should shhare it joinmtly for a while, until I and User:DavidJJJ can get the project rolling faster. We still need more participants and articles. -- Reaper X 06:10, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Well, after a bit of tinkering with the alternative rock template, I managed to get ratings worked out. You can add a rating to an article's alternative rock template by placing |class=X as a parameter of the template, where X is FA, GA, A, B, Start, or Stub. Teemu08 08:23, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Be good to get more feedback about its rating (B) and what "actually" needs doing. Presumably it needs nominating to a FA or GA. Jem 12:25, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
(discussion moved to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music)
I started an article for the band Big Hand, but it desperately needs attention.
I'd like to change the picture in the template since Kim Gordon's head is very blurry in the picture (plus, the template's creator, Jmabel, even suggested that it be changed). I'd post on the template's page, but I doubt anyone would respond. How about these images of Better Than Ezra, Robert Smith, Morningwood (a shameless plug, but hey, it's a free promo photo), OK Go, R.E.M., Snow Patrol, or U2? The band itself probably isn't as important as the picture since it's going to be a tiny thumbnail. ShadowHalo 07:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Teemu08 has goen through the eoffrt to make an importance scale for the project. This will help us ascertain which projects need attentiont he most, and we can consequently rate them (FA, A, GA, B, Start, and Stub class) and work on them. Having dealt with some rankings on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics scale, I think we shoudl be very stringent abotu our rankings. Personally, I believe we shouldn't have mroe than ten to twenty Top Importance articles. Teemu08 tagged the no-brainers ( Alternative rock, Nirvana (band), R.E.M. (band)) but there's things to consider including vastly popular bands (Pearl Jam, Oasis), important albums (Nevermind, Murmur), important subgenres (grunge, indie rock), and bands that didn't sell all that well but were critical to the development of the genre (Pixies, the Smiths). Personally, I think for top importance were should consider what a basic encyclopedia or a rock encyclopedia would have. For example, Encyclopedia Britainnica has entries for alternative rock, grunge, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Smiths, New Order, and Radiohead, but not R.E.M., Smashing Pumpkins, The Cure, or Pixies. Most broad encyclopedias would not have an alternative rock entry (at best, they'd have one for grunge at least) but a rock encyclopedia would, as well as entries for R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, but maybe not for The Smiths, the Pixies, etc. High importance is where I think the vast majority of popular bands would go (Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, Weezer, Radiohead, White Stripes, The Cure etc) as well as seminal lesser-known bands (typical candidates would include Sonic Youth, Pixies, Husker Du, Replacements, Stone Roses). Those are my opening thoughts. WesleyDodds 19:27, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
I don't know if anybody here is a fan, but you all seem to have ignored Joy Division as an alternative msuic artist. Common people, give 'em some attention. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by -- ArmedAndDangerous 17:48, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Ok, let's try to get a COTW going. I've passed The Smashing Pumpkins as the first collaboration, and this will be in effect until the 8th. The article is pretty close to featured status as it is, so let's put it over the top. Don't forget to vote and nominate articles as well. I'll try to get a template to work for the article's page. Teemu08 22:44, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm going to put up the article up for FAC real soon, so if there's anything anyone thinks there's left for us to fix, let's try and do it now. WesleyDodds 01:33, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Somebody please correct me if I'm addressing this in the wrong place, but shouldn't the Butthole Surfers be ranked at High-importance rather than their current Mid-importance level? Certainly if their peers such as Sonic Youth, Flaming Lips and Hüsker Dü are ranked as such (high) they should be as well. They were one of the most successful indie touring bands in the '80s, and had at least a few "modern rock" radio hits (including "Pepper" which was a #1) in the '90s and '00s. Even their aformentioned peers have cited them as influences, or at least were fans. The same goes for Cobain and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and others. OK, perhaps I should cite these assertations (I will if it's needed), but does anybody object to their influence or at least their importance in the grand scale of all that is Alternative-ness?
Unfortunately their article is sorely in need of improvement. No one's really taken up the reins and done any serious work. Perhaps I should (and will, if I have time). Someone's at least started to update their discography. Gruntmaster flush 07:01, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Just working on expanding the Alec Eiffel article currently (along with others :)). I was wondering if anyone had any information on the live tracks on the single, or what chart positions it reached in the US, UK and France? CloudNine 15:51, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
I've submitted the alternative music portal for portal peer review. CloudNine 19:05, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
I have started a vote on the blink-182 article regarding the long term edit war over the bands genre of Pop Punk or Punk Rock. votes can be cast here. cheers -- Dan027 07:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I created a category to go along with the existing userbox to make collaboration with other editors easier, it is under Category:WikiProject Alternative music members. I hope this helps. Darth griz 98 21:25, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
First of all, Sebadoh is very thin and not even part of the project, which it should be. Second, the individual albums, i.e. The Freed Man have no covers and rarely more'n a single sentance describing them. I'll get to work on the covers, but I'm not that Sebadoh-literate, so any help is appreciated. Thanks! Oystermind 03:43, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Is someone's autograph (just the signature part, not the "to" and/or "best wishes" bits) something you think would enhance an artist's entry? (Example: [5])
It might be a nice addition -- and be one more way that Wikipedia is set apart from paper encyclopedias.
If it was something people here are interested in, the next question would be: Would there be a copyright issue with such handwritten material?
- Andwhatsnext 15:26, 7 March 2007 (UTC)