Wikipedia:WikiProject Gilbert and Sullivan

Major articles for expansion/development

• The Gilbert and Sullivan article is ready to be improved to a WP:Featured Article.
• Many of the G&S opera articles need a better and more detailed historical background section. For good examples, see Trial by Jury, Thespis (opera) and H.M.S. Pinafore.

Other articles for expansion/development

• Several of the articles for Gilbert's other non-Sullivan works need more thorough synopses or background information. For example, The Mountebanks and Princess Toto could use expansion. (See /Opera articles for our style guideline).
• J. C. Williamson, Washington Savoyards, Ohio Light Opera, Opera a la Carte, Gilbert and Sullivan for All and other professional G&S groups' pages need to be better referenced.
• W. S. Gilbert wrote six German Reed Entertainments from 1869 to 1875. Articles on each of them are linked from the German Reed Entertainment article, and most of these should be refined or expanded.
• The Savoy Theatre, Opera Comique and Royalty Theatre articles could be better harmonised with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company article.
• Victoria and Merrie England's "Description of scenes" is weak.
• The article on "Onward, Christian Soldiers" could use a discussion of its cultural significance. Wasn't it a Salvation Army theme song?
• The Long Day Closes (song) could use another editor's eyes.
• The Window; or, The Songs of the Wrens needs a "musical analysis" section and, perhaps, other expansion
• Wikisource:Author:Arthur Sullivan and Wikisource:Author:W. S. Gilbert give an idea of what isn't yet ready on the sister sites.

• People: More work is needed on:
  • Nancy McIntosh, especially a description of her later years living with the Gilberts. Also, some of this info should then be summarized in Gilbert's article.
  • Thomas German Reed
  • William Greet, an impressario and manager of the Savoy Theatre under Helen Carte.
  • Composers articles need expansion (with [[WP:Reliable sources added), e.g., Frederic Clay, Edward Solomon (See Savoy Opera for names of others).
  • Librettists articles need expansion, e.g., Basil Hood, Henry Pottinger Stephens and B. C. Stephenson (See Savoy Opera for names of others).
  • Many of the major G&S performer articles could use expansion and better referencing - For starters,their obituaries in The Times should be added.

Cleanup listing subscription

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

Works

• We could use articles on some more of Sullivan's most successful songs and possible one or two of his orchestral pieces that we do not yet have. You can use The Absent-Minded Beggar, The Masque at Kenilworth or Te Deum Laudamus (Sullivan) for examples.
• We need articles on Gilbert's most successful short stories. You can use Creatures of Impulse as a structure guideline.
• For opera articles, use H.M.S. Pinafore as an article structure guideline.

Opera companies

• We have articles on many of the professional G&S repertory companies but are missing on Somerset Opera, Grim's Dyke Opera, Cotswold Savoyards, and probably others. Please list any others here that you know of.

People

• We have articles on most of the key G&S performers (see our expansion/development opportunities above), but there are still some conductors, directors and choreographers of the D'Oyly Carte opera company, and other people associated with G&S who could be added.

Miscellaneous

• We need articles describing G&S scholarship today and the major G&S museum collections and other principal G&S sources available for G&S enthusiasts.