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The scope of this project covers all articles relating to the fine arts and performing arts.
- Fostering an active and interdisciplinary arts community on Wikipedia. Currently WikiProjects related to the arts suffer from long periods of inactivity, so what is needed is a single Wikiproject bringing together users of differing specialities, in the mould of the successful Science WikiProject. Contributors interested in the arts are vastly outnumbered by pop or geek culture experts as it is, so it is better to co-ordinate the efforts of the former group as much as possible than to segregate them into insular and unsuccessful WikiProjects on their particular topic of interest.
- Maintaining the Arts Wikiportal, one of the most prominent links on the Main Page, and its subportals.
- Starting an arts collaboration of the week. This will only go ahead when a sufficient number of participants have expressed their support for a weekly collaboration to be effective.
- Categorization project. This project aims to reorganize categories relating to the arts and promote consistancy between arts-related categories. This project is being developed and discussed here.
[edit] Descendant WikiProjects
The descendants of this WikiProject are:
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[edit] Portals
Help with the upkeep of these Portals would be much appreciated:
"Art means to dare — and to have been right."
Ned Rorem
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[edit] Similar Wikiprojects
[edit] Action Items
[edit] Participants
Please sign your username on the list below, and note which aspect(s) of the arts you are interested in. Please also add the userbox {{User WikiProject Arts}} to your user page (illustrated below).
- Ham (Art)
- Tyrenius (mainly contemporary UK art)
- Ganymead (representing WikiProject Theatre)
- Osbus mainly music, media-based visual art, and moving image.
- preschooler@heart my talk - contribs 16:08, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 19:40, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
- Tony (all, but especially music)
- General Eisenhower
- The Singing Badger 18:32, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
- Steve block The wikipedian meme 18:50, 25 April 2006 (UTC) representing WikiProject Comics
- PhilipPage 00:38, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 08:17, 26 April 2006 (UTC) (Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels representative)
- Kleinzach (representing WikiProject Opera)
 Tennessee Wood- Ancheta Wis: any visual art, also music
- Wootking: any and all visual arts
- User:SteveHopson: visual arts, but primarily photography
- User:Clubmarx: visual arts
[edit] Wikipedia Resources
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it immensely. All art is useless.
Oscar Wilde
[edit] Project templates
WikiProject Arts
Announcing the creation of WikiProject Arts, an effort to create a collaboration between all arts projects and artistically-minded Wikipedians in order to improve arts coverage.
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- Issue of the Month
The matter of the article History of the Beatles and the History section of the main article The Beatles continues to concern various editors, including DavidWBrooks and Vera, Chuck & Dave. Suggestions, comments, or help with the task would be much appreciated.
- From the Editors
The Beatles have been in the real world news recently, but work on The Beatles Project continues as before. This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with what has been happening with the project and, perhaps more importantly, what needs to be done (see the "Issue of the Month" above and the "To Do List" below-left).
If you've just joined, add your name to the Participants section of Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 003 – July 2006). All and any contributions are welcome. Just let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or start editing!
- Contributors to this Issue
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To Do List
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As the project is currently just starting, our more experienced editors are working on the project infrastructure, classifying articles, and listing/assessing red links. Your assistance is welcome. If you would prefer to just edit - and why wouldn't you? - we have a choice selection of red links to turn blue and articles to clean! Now let's get busy.
- Collaboration:
- To Expand: Olivia Trinidad Arias, A World Without Love, MPL Communications. See also: Adopt an article
- To Clean up: Apple Records discography (wikify)
- To Merge:
- To Create: Maureen Cleave, The Family Way, Robert Freeman, Ken Townshend. Full list & instructions.
- Lists to complete:
- Wanted Pics/Graphics: Brian Epstein (now has a picture but would benefit from a better one), Mal Evans, Flying (song), Astrid Kirchherr, Jimmy Nicol, Cynthia Powell, The Quarrymen, Alistair Taylor, Ivan Vaughan, Tittenhurst Park. We need a better open-licenced photo for the project, to replace the Abbey Road crossing. If you provide a photo, please remove the ReqPhoto tag from the article's talk page and remove the article from this list.
- Policy Discussions: Individual songs vs longer album articles, Beatle wives, Merge/split proposals
- Project: Add {{WPBeatles}} to the talk pages of all Beatles-related articles. Send a newsletter to members, canvas for new members, and coordinate tasks. Enter articles classed as stubs into this list (under To Expand) and also list articles needing cleaning 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.
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