Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles

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Several Wikipedians have formed a WikiProject to better organize information in articles related to the Beatles (including Apple Records). This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and/or see the to-do list.

The Beatles are the quintessential pop/rock group, indisputably the most celebrated and influential in history and, arguably, the most popular (as measured by several metrics: number of #1 hits, total sales, Beatlemania, etc.). There are already a considerable number of articles about the Beatles on Wikipedia, of varying levels of quality and depth. These range from featured articles, such as John Lennon, down to stubs of the lowest quality. This project seeks to marshall the efforts of interested editors to improve and unify these articles and to raise the overall standard of the Beatles' coverage on Wikipedia.

The scope of the project is articles about the Beatles and their work, and people and things directly related to—or who have achieved a significant part of their notability through their connection to—the Beatles as a group and individually.

Please discuss on the talk page or be bold and add some!

1. Unify and improve articles about albums
2. Unify and improve articles about the Fab Four
3. Unify and improve song articles
4. Unify and improve articles about post-Beatles bands (i.e. Traveling Wilburys)

Consensus per this RfC closure is to use "the Beatles" mid-sentence.

In accordance with Wikipedia policy, facts and assertions should be attributed to verifiable, reliable sources wherever possible (see WP:V and WP:RS).

The Project's preferred method for this is inline citations using the <ref> tag.

Usage is very simple:

Put the book in the "references" section:

* {{cite book |last=Lewisohn |first=Mark |year=1992 |edition=2010 |location=Chicago |title=The Complete Beatles Chronicle:The Definitive Day-By-Day Guide To the Beatles' Entire Career |publisher=[[Chicago Review Press]] |isbn=978-1-56976-534-0 }}

Citing the book in the article:

{{sfn|Lewisohn|1996|p=77}}

<ref name="WEBpageLennon">{{cite web|url=URLwebpage |title=Lennon and McCartney: The Truth |first=Andreas |last=Egde |page=1|publisher=[[The Times]] |date=8 December 2006 |access-date=4 June 2011}}</ref>

• Wikipedia:Footnotes – More details about the ref tag and footnotes
• Wikipedia:Citing sources – A more general overview

The father of this WikiProject is WikiProject Music.

The achievements of the WikiProject so far are recorded at Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Log. If you create a new article, perform a merge or achieve some other goal on behalf of the project please record it in the log. It's helpful and motivating for us all to see how we've progressed as a team.

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1. Compile a list of current and missing articles, and catalogue them by status – see Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Assessment and Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Beatles#Wikipedia_articles_on_The_Beatles
2. Restore The Beatles to, and upgrade History of The Beatles to, featured article status. Alternative approaches (see Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/The Beatles history):
   • Seek peer review, and 'tweak'
   • Plan the article structure anew and major edit. Maybe History can be merged back in, and less substantial stuff forked out.
3. Insert other projects (big jobs) here from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles: A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects. Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Articles on each Beatle tour (Category:The Beatles concert tours). See: Missing articles. Expand : The Lost Lennon Tapes, notable radio series which has spawned many bootlegs. Apple Records See also: Adopt an article Stubs : See: Category:The Beatles song stubs Update : Pics/Graphics wanted: Kenwood. Verify : Beatle wives Other : Project: Add {{WikiProject The Beatles}} to the talk pages of all Beatles-related articles. Send a newsletter to members, canvas for new members and coordinate tasks. Enter articles assessed as stubs onto this list, also list articles needing cleanup and other work here. If you complete one of these tasks, please remove it from the list and add your achievement to the project log.

1. Buy a book about the Beatles
2. Invite new members by contacting editors who have made substantial Beatles-related edits in the past
3. Fix templates to talk pages
   • To do this, does anyone have a suggestion as to how to develop a list of the articles to do this to? There are so many different partial sets (the categories help). Or should an article only get the tagging as it is reviewed by one of us and improved? ++Lar: t/c 21:12, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

   • Yep, use What Links Here for the Beatles' template, as discussed elsewhere on this (ever growing) page. That'll locate every article which uses the template, and any not properly categorised articles can be dealt with at the same time. But please don't mess up the lovely cat tree I spent a lot of time tidying :)

   If you're gonna do it, and if you're gonna do it in a web browser, might be best to reset your link cache first? Then you can see where you've been and where you haven't. With the cats, subcats and the template usage you'll find most articles more than once. --kingboyk 21:48, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

4. Construct Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Assessment by following the category 'tree'(what that means is update this table: Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Beatles/Categories as the automated code reads it and using what links here for The Beatles template. Can do the talk page notices at the same time.
5. Assess articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Assessment
6. Apple Records discography – Needs British LPs and singles, and US LPs. Needs restructuring. I'd propose using the Brit catalog as the basis, and having only those releases which are different in the US section. This might not be practical, however, if the cat. no.s are different (they are for the singles, not sure for the albums).
   Blue links need to be checked for and, if they aren't already, added to Category:Apple Records singles or Category:Apple Records albums, and the same for The Beatles/solo members singles/albums categories.
7. Add specific fair use rationales to Beatles-related copyrighted images, especially album covers (see Image:LetItBe.jpg for example).
8. Add the geographic coordinates of The Beatles significant places as : Tittenhurst Park, Savile Row, St. Peter's Church, etc. As already exist for the Shea Stadium, Abbey Road or Friar Park. Completed by User:Billy.
9. insert other tasks (smaller jobs) here from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

• The following are participants in Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles... Anyone may join!
• To join simply click here and add yourself at the bottom of the list.
• Please use the {{user|username}} template

Please add yourself to the bottom of the list if you would like to take part.

From time to time, the participants list may be trimmed and seemingly inactive members moved to "Inactive". Please don't be offended; if you're here and editing Beatles articles or working on administration of the WikiProject, just put yourself back on the main list.

If your name has been moved here in error, please feel free to move it back.

Periodically, project members collaborate on an article to bring it up to Good Article/Featured Article status.

As of April 2022^[update], GAR collaboration is: Please Please Me album

We are assembling a "task force" to get every album to at least GA status (see discussion). Below is the proposed schedule for future collaborations :

• Articles using The Beatles template (indicated by "(inclusion)" after the article's name).

1. Something (Beatles song) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (FAC)
2. Hey Jude (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (FAC)
3. The Long and Winding Road (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (FAC)
4. Lisa the Vegetarian (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (FAC)
5. The Beatles (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (FAC)
6. Say Say Say (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (FAC)
7. John Lennon (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (FAC)
8. Paul McCartney (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (FAC)
9. Imagine (John Lennon song) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (FAC)
10. George Harrison (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (FAC)
11. Ringo Starr (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (FAC)
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (FAC)
13. I've Just Seen a Face (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (FAC)

1. List of songs recorded by George Harrison (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (FLC)
2. List of songs recorded by John Lennon (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (FLC)
3. List of songs recorded by Paul McCartney (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (FLC)
4. List of songs recorded by Ringo Starr (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (FLC)
5. List of songs recorded by the Beatles (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (FLC)

• Badfinger

Please see the Assessment department for further info.

Like genre churn, an ongoing problem on Wikipedia is constant change to who played what instrument, who sang which vocals etc. In a proportion of Beatles articles, the relevant sections have been checked by editors against reliable sources and hence are supported by inline citations. This makes it a straightforward matter to revert any unexplained changes to the content of those sections. Please add articles where this has not yet been done to the list below. Include a diff if you want to provide an example of the churn that prompted the addition here.

For examples of sourced articles, see personnel sourced from Lewisohn and track listings sourced from Calkin and from Allmusic.

To take on one of the articles in this list, append Taken ~~~~ to the line, review and source the section in question, and then change "Taken" to "Done" here.

• You've Got to Hide Your Love Away [1]
• Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
• Rubber Soul (track listing only part sourced, and source doesn't support stated vocalists)
• Please Please Me#Track_listing (includes vocalists) [2]

See Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Red links for a full list

Redlinks which need to be turned blue at the earliest opportunity need to be listed here. If you can help by creating a stub (or better!) please be bold and go right ahead (In brackets: number of incoming links from main space, excluding redirects and dab pages):

• Lennon/McCartney songs not originally released by the Beatles:
  • One and One is Two - The Strangers with Mike Shannon

This topic is obliquely treated in the article The Songs Lennon and McCartney Gave Away. WWGB (talk) 02:08, 14 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You're starting a new article? Great! Please follow these instructions:

• Articles about the Beatles are generally considered to be articles with a "strong tie" to the dialect of the United Kingdom and should be written in British English.
• Add the new article to the appropriate subcategory of Category:The Beatles, or to the parent category if most appropriate
• Add any appropriate template to the article, such as an album or single infobox
• Place a {{WPBeatles}} template on the new article's Talk page
• If the article is listed as a redlink on the to-do list please remove it from that list
• If the article needs a photo and you don't have one, place a {{Photo requested}} template on the talk page and add the article to "Wanted Pics/Graphics" on the the to-do list
• List the article in the appropriate category on the Article Classification list. Don't classify it yourself, it's best if we classify each other's articles not our own
• Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a 120-hour time limit (from the creation of the article, not the nomination).
• Finally (hooray!) record your wonderful achievement on the Project Log

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Bands and musicians

• Per current Wikipedia convention, articles on Beatles singles which are also the sole article for the song in question should belong to the following categories:

Category:The Beatles songs

Category:The Beatles singles

Category:Year singles

Category:Year songs

Category:Parlophone singles or Category:Apple Records singles (if appropriate; and note that no Capitol Records single category exists at the time of writing)

• List of all subpages of this page

Please go to Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Quiz for a quiz about The Beatles in general.

It is recommended that Project members add each of the above Project pages to their watchlists.

There are a lot of useful templates that may be relevant, infoboxes, notification boxes and so forth. If you know of any resources not listed here, please add them!

There are several useful infoboxes that are relevant to this project, as the project covers a large number of types of articles.

• The Beatles produced albums, together and individually. So the {{Infobox album}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. Some examples:
  • Help! (album)
  • Band on the Run
  • Dark Horse (George Harrison album)

In addition to the writeup on the talk page of the infobox, the WikiProject Albums page has some discussion on how to effectively use these, color coding, and what some of the fields mean and so forth, as well as larger guidance on how Album pages ought to be done (how the track list is formatted, dates, usages, and so forth).

Some important points copied from that page: When you create or find a new album page, please add {{WikiProject Albums}} to the top of the talk page. If the page has no infobox, you should use {{WikiProject Albums|needs-infobox=yes}} instead. If the page has an incomplete infobox, note the missing details at Incomplete infobox. If the page has an old style infobox, add {{newinfobox|type=album}} to the bottom of the talk page.

• The Beatles are a band. Offshoots and side projects of members are also bands. So the {{Infobox musical artist}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. Some examples:
  • The Beatles
  • Wings (band)
  • Traveling Wilburys

• Members of The Beatles are people. So the {{Infobox person}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. Some examples:
  • George Harrison
  • George Martin
  • Linda McCartney
  • Mimi Smith
  • Julia Lennon
  • Alfred Lennon

• The Beatles produced singles, together and individually. So the {{Infobox song}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. Some examples:
  • Please Please Me (song) (first single, chronology starts here)
  • Help! (song)
  • Say Say Say (note, uses a custom subst'd variant of the infobox since this is not a Beatles' single per se, it's a collaboration between Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson and it has two covers... use your judgement)

Note that the template supports ordering of singles by when they charted.

If you see someone that might have an interest in the project, you can place {{WikiProject The Beatles Invite}} on their userpage to invite them:

Hi! I've seen you around on The Beatles' articles... Would you consider becoming a member of WikiProject The Beatles, a WikiProject which aims to expand and improve coverage of The Beatles on Wikipedia? Please feel free to join us.

Abbey Road... You're not in this picture... yet! Todo list: To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles: A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects. Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Articles on each Beatle tour (Category:The Beatles concert tours). See: Missing articles. Expand : The Lost Lennon Tapes, notable radio series which has spawned many bootlegs. Apple Records See also: Adopt an article Stubs : See: Category:The Beatles song stubs Update : Pics/Graphics wanted: Kenwood. Verify : Beatle wives Other : Project: Add {{WikiProject The Beatles}} to the talk pages of all Beatles-related articles. Send a newsletter to members, canvas for new members and coordinate tasks. Enter articles assessed as stubs onto this list, also list articles needing cleanup and other work here. If you complete one of these tasks, please remove it from the list and add your achievement to the project log.

• DO put some commentary below it, explaining WHY they might be interested, and sign. Alternatively, you may leave a message and sign within the template by supplying an optional parameter
• DO NOT spam people extensively, give it some thought first and don't invite too many people at once.

It makes sense to grow the project participation slowly so use with care. But it's a fun template, a bit more attention grabbing than just a note.

• Use {{The Beatles}} for major articles. Place it at the bottom of the article. The result is:

• Use {{The Beatles albums}} on articles about albums:

• Use {{The Beatles singles}} on articles about singles and b-side releases:

• Use {{The Beatles compilations}} on articles about compilation albums:

• Use {{The Beatles filmography and videography}} on articles about films and videos:

• Use {{Apple Corps}} for articles about the company:

Place {{WikiProject The Beatles|class= |importance= }} on the talk page of an article that you think belongs in the project:

The Beatles Start‑class Mid‑importance

This Beatles-related article is within the scope of WikiProject The Beatles, which focuses on improving coverage of English rock band The Beatles and related topics on Wikipedia. Users who are willing to participate in the project should visit the project page, where they can join and see a list of open tasks. Start This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. To-do list: For WikiProject The Beatles A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects. Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Articles on each Beatle tour (Category:The Beatles concert tours). See: Missing articles. Expand : The Lost Lennon Tapes, notable radio series which has spawned many bootlegs. Apple Records See also: Adopt an article Stubs : See: Category:The Beatles song stubs Update : Pics/Graphics wanted: Kenwood. Verify : Beatle wives Other : Project: Add {{WikiProject The Beatles}} to the talk pages of all Beatles-related articles. Send a newsletter to members, canvas for new members and coordinate tasks. Enter articles assessed as stubs onto this list, also list articles needing cleanup and other work here. This article does not yet have a related to do list. If you can think of any ways to improve the article, why not create one?

• This template is used for article classification. See also: usage instructions. Do not subst it!

• {{beatles-song-stub}} lists articles in Category:The Beatles song stubs. There are currently about 95 songs listed, though some of these are songs recorded by the members of the band as soloists after 1970.

NOTE: stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on creating stub templates and categories. It is inadbisable to create new stub templates without consultation as these will probably be nominated for deletion.

You can place {{User WikiProject The Beatles}} on your userpage to show project membership:

This user participates in WikiProject The Beatles.

Alternatively or in addition, you can place {{User WikiProject The Beatles 2}} on your userpage to show project membership:

Abbey Road

This user is a participant in WikiProject The Beatles, which aims to expand and improve coverage of The Beatles on Wikipedia. Please feel free to join us!

Placing one of these on your pages is entirely optional, but it is a way to show your involvement to others... That's good for the project, as we have lots of work to do!

The {{Beatles barnstar}} may be awarded by any editor to another editor who has made a significant contribution to the WikiProject and/or to articles about the Beatles and related topics. Neither editor need be a registered member of the WikiProject.

To award the template, add the following to the recipient's talk page:

{{subst:Beatles barnstar|Put your message here. ~~~~}}

		The WikiProject The Beatles barnstar
		We all live in a yellow submarine --kingboyk (talk) 00:45, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This should be a list of useful resources to the project that will aid in research, article creation, or that may be a source of images that are freely usable by the project. Please add to this list as you find items. Assume that project members know about common things, like IMDB.

• Soundscapes.

Musicologist Allan W. Pollack has taken an in-depth look at each of the Beatles' songs from a musicological point of view. Wordy, but with a lot of meat, and definitely helpful in adding length to articles on songs – also useful to add as an external link to song articles.