WikiProject Music/Music genres task force is a task force to better organize information in articles related to music genres. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions of the Wikipedians involved in this task force; it is hoped that it will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and check our goals.

This task force aims to gather together those who are interested in working on and cleaning up the various music genre articles that exist on Wikipedia.

• Maintain list of music genre articles
• Add {{Infobox music genre}}, relevant footer templates and categories to genre articles
• Add {{WikiProject Music/Music genres task force}} to genre article talk pages
• Add to and maintain surveillance of Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Music regarding deletion nominations
• Continue to work through genres adding {{Citation needed}} to all unsourced claims
• Continue discussion on the merger and cleaning up of overlapping genres and subgenres
• Prod/AFD any genre articles that can not be sourced
• To improve genre and related articles to Wikipedia:Content assessment standards

Please add your name to the bottom of this list using {{user|username}}

• Absolon (talk · contribs) — Interested in Gospel music and the related subgenres
• Andros 1337 (talk · contribs)
• Divex (talk · contribs)
• Dexter_prog (talk · contribs)
• Peter G Werner (talk · contribs) — I am fairly knowledgeable about ambient music, industrial music, jazz rock, and many of the subgenres therein. I have a fairly extensive music collection and can also contribute ogg samples.
• TimNelson (talk · contribs)
• Sabrebd (talk · contribs) — folk, blues, rock, classical and some others, especially those with a British or American element
• Allreet (talk · contribs) — folk, blues, rock, folk-rock, reggae
• 3family6 (talk · contribs) — Like pretty much every style of music on the planet. Though I'm not really knowledgeable, I'm pretty good at finding reliable sources.
• North8000 (talk · contribs) — (talk) 11:53, 20 May 2011 (UTC) Working on sorting out Folk/Roots/Traditional music[reply]
• MilkMiruku (talk · contribs) — I've been more active in the past. Mainly interested in the musicology and culture of electronic dance/experimental music styles, and in general knowledge management (references, infoboxes and templates).
• Nostalgia of Iran (talk · contribs) — Familiar with metal genres, subject matter in lyrics, particularly Iron Maiden, Slayer, Dream Theater, and System of a Down, among others
• WikiWinters (talk · contribs)
• Binksternet (talk · contribs) — Pushing for verifiable genres supported by reliable sources, not shoot-from-the-hip assessments
• Mashaunix (talk · contribs) — Interested in independent, rock, experimental, psychedelic, extreme music... Check out my rework of the post-metal article.
• Sixty Minute Limit (talk · contribs) — I’m interested in heavy metal music, especially extreme metal, though I sometimes edit other rock-related articles and I may may edit other stuff, but rarely.
• Acousmana (talk · contribs) — various, particularity electronic/electroacoustic
• Garagepunk66 (talk · contribs) — Work in various music genres and subgenres, such as garage rock, British Invasion, psychedelic rock, reggae, soul music, etc.
• QuickClown (talk · contribs) — Knowledgeable about indie music, folk music, grime music, electronic/ambient music, and emergent genres such as Vapourwave. I have a special interest in the history, culture, geography and biographies of music and musicians with a view to de-orphaning finding reliable sources for these (see my contributions to Dave Tyack).
• Missbellanash (talk · contribs) — Knowledgeable in rock, pop, blues, some jazz and classical.
• Aleeza2018 (talk · contribs) — just a random wikipedia user with a lot of knowledge about pop
• Lightshinesondark (talk · contribs) - Knowledgeable in americana, blues, southern, roots-rock, soul, country, early rock n roll
• ‪EleniXDD (talk · contribs) - Hope to improve standards and fix the overlapping genres issues
• Sergecross73 (talk · contribs) - primarily participating/mediating disputes, and taking Administrative action against editors who refuse to follow policy.
• TheUsualHuman (talk · contribs) - The Music Theory, Percussion, Ambience.
• Worldish2024 (talk · contribs) - I am interested in instruments and percussion.

Articles for deletion

• 28 Feb 2026 – Nueva Iberica (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by Lijil (t · c); see discussion (1 participant; relisted)

Redirects for discussion

• 01 Mar 2026 – Avant-garde hip hop (talk ·  · hist) →Alternative hip-hop was RfDed by J947 (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Mar 2026 – Avant hop (talk ·  · hist) →Alternative hip-hop was RfDed by J947 (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Feb 2026 – Côco (talk ·  · hist) →Coco (music) was RfDed by Abesca (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 09 Feb 2026 – Pontic Greek music (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by Kravk (t · c); start
• 22 Jan 2026 – Post-noise (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by Aradicus77 (t · c); start

Articles to be split

• 16 Oct 2025 – Traditional music of Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for splitting by Miiversal (t · c); see discussion
• 29 Mar 2023 – Fight song (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for splitting by MagentaCat1 (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Nov 2020 – Hip-hop production (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for splitting by CommonSentiments (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 09 Mar 2026 – Draft:Ethel Meserve (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by JBW3 (t · c)
• 09 Mar 2026 – Draft:Jeremy Lister (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Queen of Americana (t · c)
• 09 Mar 2026 – Draft:Chandra Fleig (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by JonsmithUK (t · c)
• 09 Mar 2026 – Draft:Somalian funk (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by KimchiKaboom (t · c)
• 08 Mar 2026 – Draft:Nederlands Douane Orkest (Dutch Customs Orchestra) (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by K-filter (t · c)
• 07 Mar 2026 – Draft:Danny Davenport (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by AshleyDG (t · c)
• 07 Mar 2026 – Draft:Ancient Warrior (Band) (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Stewed Elk (t · c)
• 06 Mar 2026 – Draft:Bella Rayne (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SFConcertPhotography1 (t · c)
• 06 Mar 2026 – Draft:Mouth Congress (Band) (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Jbentley86 (t · c)
• 05 Mar 2026 – Draft:Sucheta Bhattacharjee (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by LeenaJaiswal (t · c)

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Music/Music genres task force

Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Music genres task force is within the scope of the Music genres task force of the Music project, a user driven attempt to clean up and standardize music genre articles on Wikipedia. Please visit the task force guidelines page for ideas on how to structure a genre article and help us assess and improve genre articles to good article status.Music/Music genres task forceWikipedia:WikiProject Music/Music genres task forceTemplate:WikiProject Music/Music genres task forcemusic genre

Place this Project template at the top of all music genre related article talk pages, using: {{Genre|class = |importance = }}

Place one these userboxes to your user page, they also add you to the Category:WikiProject Music genres participants. This userbox template has two parameters for two different userbox icons.

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{{User WikiProject Music genres}}

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For an alternative icon, add the "icon" parameter, then set the value to "genres".
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