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Welcome to the main page of the Punk music WikiProject. The project launched on April 2, 2006. Currently, we have -1 active members. Please see the discussion page for information on various project-related collaborations.
WikiProject Punk music was formed to foster the creation and encyclopedic improvement of punk rock-related articles, and to establish guidelines for those articles. Its members endeavor to produce a succinct, comprehensive, general, and authoritative reference on punk rock-related topics. The ultimate goal of the project is to have every article within its scope be at featured status. To participate, simply add your name to the participants section.
These are task forces dedicated to specific aspects of punk music such as individual artists, subgenres, etc. Some of these are WikiProjects in and of themselves, but their scope is so finely limited that we consider them child projects of WikiProject Punk music and work closely with them in much the same way that we do with task forces. If you would like to propose a new task force or work group, make your suggestion on the project talk page to see if other editors are interested.
The goal of the Punk music Wikiproject is to organize, clean, and improve punk rock-related information within a format that fits Wikipedia's policies and guidelines to, ultimately, the level of quality stressed in the Featured Article and Featured List guidelines.
Discussions and debates relating to the above items, including merges, citations, other references, image issues, splits, cleanup, formatting, and expansion.
Please sign your name below and introduce yourself in the monthly roll call section of the talk page.
Take a look at recent discussions and the things to do page to see if your ideas have already been or need to be addressed.
Get to know other users so that you can get a sense of the Project's attitude and each member's opinions on what should be merged, expanded, and so on. This will allow you to work better with the team, especially on major projects.
Make sure you cite your sources, follow the project's guidelines in addition to style guidelines, and follow the discussions and agreements for the project.
Look for text that seems biased (see WP:NPOV) and fix it.
Be bold, but do not be reckless. See the above items and the section below for further information on what to do and what not to do.
This is a general interest encyclopedia. Articles should be understandable and appeal to both casual readers and dedicated punk fans alike.
Not every person, band, album, record label, etc. in existence deserves their/its own article. Article topics must demonstrate independent notability using citations to reliablethird-party sources. Primary sources are important too, but they are not enough to support an encyclopedia article on their own.
The following is a chart of our largest tasks. For a complete list, please see the things to do subpage, in addition to our talk page. See the opentask template at the top of the page for the priority tasks. Project members, this chart should feature "priority one" tasks!
See the Wikipedia:WikiProject Punk music/index for a list of Punk music-related articles that do not require significant attention. Chances are, if an item doesn't belong on that list or isn't on there, it needs to be fixed (make a note on the things to do page and/or the discussion page).
Also remember that there is a Punk music barnstar that you can give out to deserving editors (and a userbox for those who are awarded the barnstar).
