Wikipedia:Featured Music Project/Status

The Featured Music Project process
Evaluate according to the criteria Edit according to suggestions and add to status page Ask for a peer review Nominate as a featured article candidate

The articles listed on this page have been evaluated by the Featured Music Project and may be close to ready for being a featured article candidate. All articles listed here pass at least five out of the eight categories of the Featured Music Project's criteria.

Participants

If you'd like to help improve these articles to featured article status, you may sign up for one or more of the following categories. Signing up for a category means that you may be asked to work on improving occasional articles in that category. For example, if you sign up for "Lead", you may be periodically asked to work on improving an article's lead. You may also sign up for the "Shepherd" role, which entails putting an article through peer review and a subsequent candidacy, and making any needed changes or modifications.

You may be asked to work on any article that meets the following criteria:

Already satisfies five out of the eight categories
Has not been FACed or PRed for one month
Is not currently being worked on by anyone

Of course, any article can be worked by any person at any time. This project is an attempt create a sort of featured article assembly line.

To sign up, just place your name after one or more of these categories:

Shepherd - Taking an article through PR and FAC, making whatever modifications are needed, may require work on any or all of these categories to meet standards
- Participants:
Lead - Ensuring that the lead section is of an appropriate length, neutral and appropriately referenced
- Participants: Jkelly (happy to write two-three para summaries)
Comprehensiveness - Making certain that all important aspects of a topic are covered; will require access to at least one scholarly work likely to give critical and historical evaluations of performers; you may specify which topics you will be able to work on
- Participants: Tuf-Kat (could do a pretty wide variety)
Sales - Tracking down chart and other sales data, as appropriate, and citing sources
- Participants:
Pictures - Mostly, supplying fair use rationales as needed, and searching for free images as much as possible
- Participants: Andy Holyer
Audio - Uploading sound samples and providing useful captions
- Participants: dharmabum (have a digital music library of around 10,000 tracks in a wide variety of genres); FuriousFreddy (if it's hip-hop or R&B/soul, I probably already have a CD to work from)
References - Checking on-line references and providing inline citations; will require access to print books that provide a critical and historical analysis of performers; you may specify which genres or fields you will be able to do so with
- Participants: Tuf-Kat (could do a pretty wide variety); FuriousFreddy
Discography - Trimming and formatting discographies, making subpages as needed
- Participants: Fritz Saalfeld; FuriousFreddy
Format/Style - General copyediting, trimming of "see also"s and external links, fixing formatting and sectionizing
- Participants: FuriousFreddy

8 out of 8: Shepherding phase

These articles are probably a good choice to nominate for featured article status. However, they may still require a great deal of work to satisfy all the criteria. Most have probably been nominated or peer reviewed in the past, so it may be a good idea to look over previously-stated concerns when deciding whether or not to work on an article.

Article	Subpage (cur)	Notes
Jello Biafra	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
New Radicals	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC	Current FAC
Phil Collins	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC	Featured

7 out of 8

Article	Lead	Comp	Sales	Pics	Audio	Refs	Disco	Style	Subpage (cur)	Notes
Pink Floyd									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC	Featured

6 out of 8

Article	Lead	Comp	Sales	Pics	Audio	Refs	Disco	Style	Subpage (cur)	Notes

5 out of 8

Article	Lead	Comp	Sales	Pics	Audio	Refs	Disco	Style	Subpage (cur)	Notes
Mariah Carey									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Marvin Gaye									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Pixies									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Radiohead									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Rush (band)									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Ashlee Simpson									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Sonic Youth									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Van Halen									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC

4 out of 8

Article	Lead	Comp	Sales	Pics	Audio	Refs	Disco	Style	Subpage (cur)	Notes
Joni Mitchell									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
The Smashing Pumpkins									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Cat Stevens									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Neil Young									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC

3 out of 8

Article	Lead	Comp	Sales	Pics	Audio	Refs	Disco	Style	Subpage (cur)	Notes
Aqua (band)									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Syd Barrett									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Death In June									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Grateful Dead									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Tupac Shakur									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
The White Stripes									Cur - Eval - PR - FAC

2 out of 8

Article	Subpage (cur)	Notes
The Band	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Black Flag (band)	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Captain Beefheart	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Dru Hill	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Eazy-E	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Noel Gallagher	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Garbage (band)	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Billie Holiday	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Michael Jackson	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Oasis (band)	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Henry Rollins	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Sonny Rollins	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Jessica Simpson	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Britney Spears	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Bruce Springsteen	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Rachel Stevens	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Vanilla Ninja	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC	Featured

1 out of 8

Article	Subpage (cur)	Notes
Christina Aguilera	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Bob Marley	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Pearl Jam	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC
Streetlight Manifesto	Cur - Eval - PR - FAC	Re-eval