Wikipedia:WikiProject Rock music/Garage rock taskforce

Goals This task force aims to do the following:

• Standardize and improve existing Garage rock music-related articles
• Create new articles about Garage rock acts and scenes
• Improve Music genre-related articles that address Garage rock
• Expand information in articles about related subgenres that include or are based upon garage rock
• Encourage and facilitate translations of garage rock-related articles into different languages amongst Wikipedia's various affiliates around the world

Scope

This task force addresses articles relating to garage rock. This includes articles about garage rock acts from the US and Canada, as well as different countries, covering various time periods from the 1960s to present, including not only music from the 1960s, but more recent revivals.

See also: Garage rock, Proto-punk, Garage punk, List of garage rock bands, and List of garage rock compilations

Open tasks

Tasks for anyone

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Rock music/Garage rock taskforce: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2023-07-18 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Bad Little Woman, The Edicates,The Deepest Blue, Felt (band), The Five Canadians, The Night Shadows, Another Time, Another Place Citing sources : The Allman Joys, Blues Magoos, The Bobby Fuller Four, most album articles related to Pebbles (series), Psychedelic States Cleanup : Pebbles (series), Osees, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Collaborate : The Chocolate Watchband, Count Five, The Standells Expand : Five Americans, Little Bit O' Soul, Little Girl, The Remains, The Cramps, The Droogs

Participants Those who would like to participate in the task force can place their user name below:

• GloryRoad66 (talk · contribs)
• TheGracefulSlick (talk · contribs)
• carptrash (talk · contribs)
• Shocking Blue (talk · contribs)
• THX1136 (talk · contribs)
• frankzappatwin (talk · contribs)
• LongNailsShortHair (talk · contribs)
• Jennica (talk · contribs)
• Mistymountain546 (talk · contribs)
• Madreterra (talk · contribs)
• Amirhosein Izadi (talk · contribs)
• TimberToner (talk · contribs)

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Guidelines

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music)

Departments

• Assessment : The assessment department focuses on determining and tracking the quality of Wikipedia's music garage rock articles; the resulting statistics are used to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. To see a topical lists of our articles with quality notation, see our Garage rock topics

• Collaboration : The collaboration department seeks to identify articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort; every month, a one biography and one non-biography article are selected as the focuses, and the project attempts to improve them. The current collaboration articles are also the showcase articles on Portal:Garage rock.

• Translation : The translation department serves to enhance Wikipedia's Regional and national 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. This project will exist when someone gets interested.

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