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WikiProject Guitarists is a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to guitarists. If you would like to help, please see the To-do list below, or inquire on the talk page.

Our goals

• Improve Wikipedia's coverage of guitarists by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles.
• Provide guidelines and recommendations for articles about guitarists.
• Serve as the central point of guitarist article discussion.

Our scope

The project focuses on articles about guitarists, minding the notability standards laid out at WP:MUSIC.

What can you do?

Add your name to the list of Participants and get started on anything below!

Articles for deletion

• 30 Jan 2024 – John LeCompt (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Lapadite (t · c); see discussion (5 participants; relisted)

Requested moves

• 16 Feb 2024 – Dallas Green (musician) (talk · edit · hist) move request to City and Colour by 162 etc. (t · c) was moved; see discussion

Articles to be split

• 14 Feb 2024 – Devin Townsend (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Mewhen123 (t · c); see discussion
• 22 Dec 2023 – K. K. Downing (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Mewhen123 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 26 Feb 2024 – Draft:Jenny Don't and the Spurs (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ChiliDog22 (t · c)
• 25 Feb 2024 – Draft:Young Jimmy (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Youngjimmymusic88 (t · c)
• 24 Feb 2024 – Draft:Jonathan Foster (musician) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Fostidae (t · c)
• 09 Feb 2024 – Draft:John Bruno (musician) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 209.17.40.40 (t · c)
• 05 Feb 2024 – Draft:Evan Nicole Bell (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by TheNightman92 (t · c)
• 16 Jan 2024 – Draft:More Than Just A Party Band Film (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by RobertRedfield (t · c)

Participants

Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join the project; you are also encouraged to participate in any of our task forces that might interest you.

Other

• 009o9 (talk · contribs) – interested in legacy instruments, luthier techniques and repairs.
• 15tinybirds (talk · contribs) - writer with interest in music and modern guitar, both players and their gear. Extensive knowledge of heavy metal/hard rock genres & subgenres.

A

• Aelium (talk · contribs) - Has much knowledge about the Japanese guitar world.
• Aeternus (talk · contribs) - Progressive world
• Ajili777 (talk · contribs) - Knowledge of Australian guitarists.
• Aklein62 (talk · contribs) - Knowledge of German, Irish, and some English classical guitarists & guitar composers.
• AlainLevesque (talk · contribs)
• Anger22 (talk · contribs)
• Awolfe94 (talk · contribs)

B

• Bargain Fanta (talk · contribs) - Enjoys a wide variety of music, especially pre-One Hot Minute RHCP, Led Zeppelin, Sonic Youth, and the Tragically Hip.
• Batgirl-Awsomeness (talk · contribs) – I am a vocalist and guitarist.
• Black Stripe (talk · contribs) Happy to help out. Please check out the article on Electronic tuners and give it a rating on the discussion page.
• BlueMarblesMoon (talk · contribs) - Standing like great Ulysses with guitar in his hand. Eager to spread the word of Buckethead, that little boy with a pallid mask glued to his face.
• Bobyllib (talk · contribs) - full of dust and guitars
• Bridies (talk · contribs) interests: EVH-school modern rock guitar (satch, vai, gilbert etc), post-80s instrumental rock (govan, buckethead etc), progressive blues playing

C

• CarbonKhazi (talk · contribs)
• Crw21 (talk · contribs)
• Csaag (talk · contribs) - Headcheese! And chili!
• Curseyoukhan (talk · contribs) - nascent Sister Rosetta Tharpe obsessive

D

• DinosaurJr19 (talk · contribs) - singer-songwriter, loves anything heavy, eccentric, or both (white stripes, dinosaur jr, nirvana, etc.)

E

• Emcee george (talk · contribs)-Play guitar for passion, and have heaps of knowledge on musical styles and history, particularly in the mainstream 1960's-1980's.
• Eagledj (talk · contribs)-Live in Nashville. Major contributor to Pedal steel guitar, Slide guitar (GA), Earl Scruggs(GA) Steel Bar and several articles about musicians, songwriters and record producers.

F

• FallenWings47 (talk · contribs)

G

• GreekStar12 (talk · contribs)
• Guitart (talk · contribs) - Professional concert guitarist (classical), guitar instructor and academic

H

• Hammer of the Gods27 (talk · contribs)
• Haphazardjoy (talk · contribs)
• Harryandharoldforever (talk · contribs) - Researching Rowe Industries Inc., H. N. Rowe & Company, Rowe DeArmond Inc. and DeArmond Inc. all of Toledo, Ohio, USA. Wrote the original Wikipedia biographical entry on Harry DeArmond and created www.musicpickups.com, the DeArmond, Toledo website

I

• Itsmelah (talk · contribs) - Anything to everything metal/rock riffs, love it, the six string axe!
• Izzy007 (talk · contribs) - Love the Strat and a good Marshall amp. Also love Fender amps.

J

• J04n (talk · contribs) - Early heavy metal/hard rock guitarists; Tony Iommi, Richie Blackmore, Ace Frehley. I play a Strat, like to play Sabbath and Ramones stuff.
• Jo Weber (talk · contribs) - acoustic fingerstyle guitar
• jschnur (talk · contribs) - Classical guitarist interested in baroque. Have upgraded the Gaspar Sanz article and created the Cristofaro Cesarana article.

K

• Knuand (talk · contribs) - Know a few things about Norwegian guitarists & Jazz guitar.

L

• Leahtwosaints (talk · contribs)- Mainly rock, roots music, jam bands. Love the bassists and session players too! From Jeff Beck, Santana, John Frusciante, Pino Palladino, Brian May to Derek Trucks! I love adding photos, too. Like the Ibanez, and MusicMan StingRay, the Strat, and Telecaster- played 35 yrs now.
• Lexo (talk · contribs) - guitar player: rock, jazz, blues, traditional music and free improvisation; also enthusiast for classical and world music (but not expert on either)
• LeBron's Headband (talk · contribs) - Novice guitar player into anything that sounds good, from RHCP to Hendrix to Metallica to Pearl Jam
• Lizzyd710 (talk · contribs)

M

• Mac Dreamstate (talk · contribs) - interested mainly in instrumental rock and jazz fusion, and have created articles for many guitarists in said genres. Actively involved in improving bio articles for Allan Holdsworth, Tony MacAlpine, Greg Howe and Planet X.
• Maplerocker (talk · contribs) Bass guitar player and Rickenbacker fan willing to help, especially inproving the Rickenbacker site(s) in particular the underrespresented basses
• Massimo Barbieri (talk · contribs)
• MaulYoda (talk · contribs) - Specializes in Classic Rock Guitarists but not in anything new. Some knowledge of amps, Guitar companies, but does know quiet a few Guitars. Rock freak (not completely obsessed yet) plays Electric Guitar and air guitar.
• Mdebets (talk · contribs) - mostly German Rock music and World music
• Moderatelyaverage (talk · contribs) - Serviceable knowledge of Classic Rock and Blues guitarists, somewhat good knowledge of guitar companies. Used to play electric guitar when there I had more time on my hands. I'm also good at fixing grammar, syntax and spelling errors.
• MoJiggity (talk · contribs) - Plays guitar and bass, dabbles in sound engineering live and in-studio. Into out-of-style equipment (Steinberger primarily)
• Moucon (talk · contribs) - 45 years playing/35 yrs teaching, college music minor, played semi-pro and is interested in "Vintage" USA instruments.
• Mr Pyles (talk · contribs)

N

• Nameanduser (talk · contribs) - Prog, Hard Rock, Indie/Alt Rock
• Nettrom (talk · contribs)
• NorthWu (talk)
• NuclearSolstice (talk · contribs) - Guitar enthusiast, old school metal music fan.
• Nattyshi (talk · contribs)

O

P

• Pachon (talk · contribs) - Buckethead and related
• peterdjones (talk · contribs) 30 years of amateurism in a variety of styles. Fingerstyle guitar, electric guitar, jazz guitar, guitar bracing Maccaferri guitar, rock musics, gypsy swing, Django Reinhardt.
• Photi G (talk · contribs) - A gearhead that has rudimentary playing ability. Electrics, Amplifiers, Effects, and Accessories are my thing.

Q

R

• Ritzbitz00 (talk · contribs) - An an obsessive music researcher, I'm ready and willing to do my part!
• RogerGLewis (talk · contribs) - Interested in the history of the Gibson Byrdland and its notable players. Interested in the Gibson Byrdland 12 string Guitar manufactured in 1976
• Roger Workman (talk · contribs) - Interested in all things regarding guitars and guitar players.

S

• SamBlob (talk · contribs) - Dislike most hip-hop, most dancehall, and most modern soca, otherwise like most of Western civilization's music.
• Sebread (talk · contribs)
• Shobhit.Sharma.Wiki (talk · contribs) - I love music, no matter what kind is, until it pleases your ears. An acosutic (fingerstyle) and electric guitarist since 2 years.
• Sirfeathers (talk · contribs) - I'm passionate about electric guitars and the music made with them, especially crossover jazz styles such as fusion and rockabilly.
• Sjlefebvre (talk · contribs) - I'm a 40 year vet in the guitar/bass and stringed instrument repair and history world. I'm also known for my slide playing and love of Louisiana Swamp Blues, Cajun and Zydeco music.
• SquealingWeasel (talk · contribs) - I am a passionate blues guitarist (for over 35 years), but to be honest, I am not very talented...I do however have plenty of knowledge in many guitar related subjects...
• Spike Wilbury (talk · contribs) - Project founder
• Straight Edge PXK (talk · contribs) - Metal/Grunge Bassist interested in Thrash, Emo and Grungeassociated articles
• Stratocaster27 (talk · contribs) - Huge musical knowledge pertaining to artists, guitars, and gear of 1960s and 1970s; loves The Beatles, Led Zep, & Jimi Hendrix; owns too many guitars, teaches guitar lessons, and has played since the age of 7.
• Stratopastor (talk · contribs) - I have been researching the Rivera-era range of Fender amps (1982-86) since 2004 and run a website about them.
• Svindland (talk · contribs) - Diploma degree of classical guitar performance and pedagogy.
• Systemdertoten (talk · contribs) - The Guru of poor guitarists. Blues, Metal, Alt-Rock all the way!!

T

• Tuner420 (talk · contribs) - I want to contribute where i can

U

V

• Vmavanti (talk · contribs) – Studied classical guitar for four years. I do a lot of work in Wikiproject Jazz.

W

• WikiEditCrunch (talk · contribs)

X

• XBurningAlive (talk · contribs) -

Y

Z

Departments

Assessment

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's guitarist articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work, and are also expected to play a role in the WP:1.0 program. The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the ((WikiProjectGuitarists)) project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

Task forces

Task forces are informal groups of editors gathered for collaborative work on a particular topic within the guitarist project; all project members are encouraged to participate in any that interest them.

Current task forces

• Guitar equipment
• Infobox
• Buckethead

The guidelines presented in this section are intended to be guidelines only; while they are well-suited for the vast majority of guitarist articles, there exist a number of peculiar cases where, for lack of a better solution, alternate approaches can been taken. Please discuss individual cases on the Project talk page before deviating from guidelines.

Article naming conventions

• Since the vast majority of guitarist articles are biographical articles about people, simply use the guitarist's name as the article name.
• If the guitarist uses a stage or professional name, use the most common name of the person and refer to their real name in the article. For an example of this, see Sting.
• If you must disambiguate, use Guitarist name (musician). "Musician" is preferable to "guitarist" since they may play other instruments.

See also: Naming conventions (people)

Article structure

The guidelines in this section are intended to serve as a starting point for writing a good article; they are not meant to enforce a single structure on all articles, nor to limit the topics an article will discuss. Remember to cite your sources!

Opening paragraph

The opening paragraph (or lead section) should concisely convey:

• The real name and stage name (if applicable) of the guitarist
• The birth and death dates (if applicable), place of birth, and nationality of the guitarist
• The musical groups the guitarist is best known for working with
• The techniques or styles the guitarist is best known for

For an example of a good opening paragraph, see Mark Knopfler. See also WP:LEAD.

Article body

The article can be structured along these lines:

• Biography
• Style and techniques (for example, fingerpicking, unique tuning, etc.)
• Innovations and inventions (for example, tapping)
• Equipment (guitars, amplifiers, effects, etc.) - can include endorsements
• Involvement in musical groups
• Influence and legacy
• Discography, if appropriate (if the guitarist is a member of one or more musical groups, defer the discographies to those articles.)

Infobox templates

Guitarist infobox

The guitarist infobox has been deprecated in favor of the more general-purpose ((Infobox Musical artist)). Please use that infobox for biographical articles about guitarists.

Equipment infobox

This infobox is in work - please discuss changes and refinement at the infobox discussion page.

The infobox should be added using the ((Infobox guitar model)) template, as shown below:

((Infobox guitar model
|title=
|image=
|manufacturer=
|period=
|bodytype=
|necktype=
|woodbody=
|woodneck=
|woodfingerboard=
|bridge=
|pickups=
|colors=
))

• title – guitar brand and model name
• image – an image of the guitar.
• manufacturer – the manufacturer of the guitar, often it is the guitar company.
• period – the year when it was first created, formatted as year1 - year 2, (or) year 3 - Present
• bodytype – between solid, semi-hollow and hollow
• necktype – between Set-in neck, Bolt-on neck, and Neck-thru, if there are too many variations, type (varies with sub-model)
• woodbody – type of wood used for the body, if there are too many variations, type (varies with sub-model)
• woodneck – type of wood used for the neck, if there are too many variations, type (varies with sub-model)
• woodfingerboard – years type of wood used for the fingerboard, if there are too many variations, type (varies with sub-model)
• bridge – type of the bridge, fixed, locking tremolo or non-locking tremolo, if there are too many variations, type (varies with sub-model)
• pickup – the formation of the pickups, formatted as H-S-H or S-S-S or H-H or any other relevant formations, if there are too many variations, type (varies with sub-model)
• colors – Name all the available colors, if there are too many variations, type (varies with sub-model)

Note: If varies with sub-model is used, please explain the variations on the article.

Categories

Articles should be placed in appropriate categories. At a minimum, use the following categories:

• One or more subcategories of Category:Guitarists by genre
• A subcategory of Category:Guitarists by nationality

You may locate other appropriate categories, such as Category:Bass guitarists or Category:Women guitarists

This template is used on many pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

Usage

The ((WikiProject Guitarists)) project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the project. While the template does not require any additional parameters, it has a number of optional ones that add various extra features to the banner. The full syntax is as follows:

((WikiProject Guitarists
|class=  
|attention=
<!-- Task force tags -->
|Guitarist-equipment-task-force=
))

General parameters:

• class – a rating of the article's quality; see the assessment department for more details.
• attention – "yes" if the article requires immediate attention; this should be used sparingly. If you do use it, make sure to note the reason on the article Talk page.

Task force parameters

• Guitarist-equipment-task-force – "yes" if the article is supported by the Guitar equipment task force

Participant userbox

You can add this userbox to your user page, signifying your participation in the project. Adding this to your user page automatically adds your username to Category:WikiProject Guitarists participants.

Code	Result	Usage
((User WPGUITAR))	This user is a member of WikiProject Guitarists.	Userbox to denote your participation in the project.

Project awards

The Guitarist Barnstar can be awarded to any project member you want to recognize for service to the project. Add it to their Talk page with ((subst:The Guitarist Barnstar|message ~~~~)).

The Music Barnstar can be awarded to any wikpedian that exhibits exceptional effort and dedication to music-related articles. Add it to their Talk page with ((subst:Music Barnstar|message ~~~~)).

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks – Edits bare references – adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.