Welcome to the Roots music WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of musically commonly classified as Folk, Roots or Traditional music. We provide guidelines and recommendations, facilitate discussion, and encourage cooperation in creating, expanding and maintaining Roots music related articles.
While the lyrics may be quoted for discussion purposes, the full text of the lyrics should (if public domain) be placed on Wikisource; see s:Child's Ballads, for example. A crosslink can be placed by using ((wikisourcepar|Child's Ballads/3)) or something similar. Possibly the link (( Template:Copy section to Wikisource )) will be useful too
Lead paragraph (not a section). Keep it short and to the point; It should probably mention "<song name> is a traditional song...".
Groups / Artists Articles
In addition to the usual policies and guidelines, please make sure you understand the specific guidelines related to music related articles. Also make sure you are familiar with:
List of Policies — a comprehensive list of the official policies.
Participants
Anyone can participate in this WikiProject! Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. You may wish to add one of our userboxes to your profile as well.
Bluewave (talk·contribs) -- Folk music of Britain (and some of the musical developments it has inspired)
DGG (talk) 07:29, 4 August 2007 (UTC) traditional folk, but not as an expert, rather a side interest from folklore & history more generally.Reply[reply]
Kmzundel 10:41, 13 August 2007 (UTC) Mostly American contemporary (singer-songwriter) folk.Reply[reply]
Redrose64 (talk) 14:00, 17 August 2009 (UTC) Fairport, Steeleye and associated. That includes acoustic acts like Carthy/Swarbrick.Reply[reply]
I.M.S. (talk) 20:59, 9 September 2009 (UTC) I'm interested in the backwaters of folk and bluegrass, artists such as Tommy Jarrell, Dock Boggs and Roscoe Holcomb.Reply[reply]
DrFree (talk) 22:35, 1 September 2010 (UTC) I'm interested in making scores, lyrics and midi files for traditional music readily accessible and usable for amateur musicians.Reply[reply]
BootleggerWill (talk·contribs) -- I'm interested in country blues musicians such as Blind Willie McTell and Mississippi John Hurt, adding infoboxes and pictures to articles, wikifying articles, and transcribing traditional lyrics.
North8000 (talk) 11:51, 20 May 2011 (UTC) Interested in most folk music and folk music topics. Working on sorting out Folk/Roots/Traditional Music articlesReply[reply]
Sensei48 (talk·contribs) -- Interested in pop-folk groups of the 1950s and 60s; Irish folk music; individual songs and ballads; folk revivals in the U.S.; revival-era performers of all stripes.
Empirecontact (talk·contribs) -- musical act pages; gathering related images; learning what's needed to make a GA.
Anne Delong (talk·contribs) -- I am an amateur fiddler and mandolinist. I hope to start a Wikiproject about bluegrass music, and I've started a topic page at User:Anne Delong/Bluegrass Topics. I am also a member of a mandolin orchestra and a regular participant in Celtic fiddle jams.
Aharrygill(talk) - I am a mandolin and tin whistle player who organises a regular acoustic music session. I play mainly Irish dance music and slow airs. My first folk related article is The Iron Muse with others to follow.
Joe Fogey I was born in 1950 and live in Plymouth, Devon. I've been interested in folk music for 51 years I play a bit and sing. I've written some articles on songs, about Walter Pardon, and on Transportation Ballads.
Scberry (talk·contribs) -- I am interested in folk, bluegrass, and country music, with a emphasis on artists who are not or are under represented on Wikipedia.
Allreet (talk·contribs) I have been editing/writing music-related Wikipedia articles since 2007. I also host a weekly Americana/Roots program on a local public radio station (U.S.) so I'm interested in all related genres.
Tamtam90 (talk·contribs) -- As ethnographer, I write or improve articles on English, German and Russian (sometimes, other) traditional folk songs. I also translated several songs from their native languages into the foreign ones (ru, en, de, es) and created in ru-wiki and here ((Infobox musical composition)).
CumbrianCorrector (talk·contribs) -- Interested in British and Irish folk music and a supporter of the use of Roud numbers in folk song articles.
Haiiya (talk·contribs) -- Interested in Korean and asian folk music. I'm currently on a quest to get as many Taryeongs (Korean folk songs) on Wikipedia as I can.
redabyss1 (talk·contribs) I have been performing folk music for 60 years. Interested in Australian, American, Isles and World acoustic music
Feel free to add your new Roots music-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please) or help out with items that appear here. When they have passed GA or FA review, move them from these sections. If you need assistance on your new article also add it to the to do list.
The Pickard Family An American country and folk music band of the 1920s-1950s. Stub expanded to Start class. nf utvol (talk) 19:11, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Daloy Politsey A pair of Yiddish protest songs now sung together by various folk and Klezmer songs.
Monggeumpo Taryeong A Korean folk song about lovers that wait and sing in the beautiful harbor for their loved ones (sailors) to return.
Sae Taryeong A Korean folk song that describes the sounds and physical descriptions of a variety of birds.
English folk music given a major expansion along with cleaning up many of the related summarised articles. --Sabrebd (talk) 21:01, 25 February 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The Cuckoo (song) - Very well known traditional song covered by so many - having a difficult time improving refs. Created as stub. Thanks! --Omarcheeseboro (talk) 18:30, 31 January 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Celtic rock - a major expansion of a stub with evidence and several sub-sections --Sabrebd (talk) 00:04, 23 January 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The Albion Country Band - have expanded this stub, corrected some issues of links and tried to provide a full discography of the most confusing folk band ever. --Sabrebd (talk) 00:28, 13 January 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Julie Matthews - this deleted biography restored with detail, evidence of significance and references --Sabrebd (talk) 01:24, 11 January 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The assessment department focuses on determining and tracking the quality of Wikipedia's Roots music articles; the resulting statistics are used to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The outreach department acts as a central location for various member outreach work, including project newsletters, recruitment and welcoming banners, and other related initiatives.
The review department conducts both informal peer reviews of articles, as well as formal reviews for A-Class status; it also provides a centralized forum for viewing external reviews (such as featured article candidacies) within the project's scope. It will exist when the Collaboration process demands it. The link WP:PR may be useful.
Translation
The translation department serves to enhance Wikipedia's Roots music content by translating material from or to non-English articles and sources for use within the project. To coordinate this, it includes a staff of volunteer translators for various languages.
The department typically works on translating featured articles from or to other-language Wikipedias; project members may request assistance with other material on the department page, or directly from one of the listed translators. This department will exist when someone wants to create it.
