Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin music

Welcome to the Latin American Music task force of WikiProject Latin America and WikiProject Music.

Scope

• Latin American Music task force covers all Music of Latin American topics, such as artists from any Latin American countries, and their albums and songs, as well as any other related topics.

Goals

1. To be involved in discussions and debates relating to "Latin music" including and not limited to:
   merges, citations, other references, image issues, splits, cleanup, formatting, and expansion.
2. Reduce trivial information, speculation, point of view, and anything else that violates Wikipedia's core article policies.
3. Bring numerous articles to Good Article, Featured Article, and/or Featured List status.

To do

• Created every song article that reached number-one on the Top Latin Songs chart .

To do items for members of Latin American Music task force

• Tag related articles.
• Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here.
• Identify articles for creation
• Identify articles for improvement
• Review importance and quality of existing articles
• Portal:Latin America music - add content

Todo items for anyone

Wikipedia:Wikiproject Latin America/ Latin American Music task force/to do

Participants

To become a member of the WikiProject (anyone may join), simply edit the section and add your username.

1. magiciandude (talk · contribs)
2. jaespinoza (talk · contribs)
3. gariseiro (talk · contribs)
4. Moxy (talk) 05:34, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Tagging and assessment

Please add {{WikiProject Latin America|music=yes}} to the talk pages of any articles under this task force's scope. If you can, assess the articles class (other WikiProject banners may contain the class of the article), and the music-importance, the importance (top, high, mid, low or NA) to this task force). See here for more on assessing articles.

Templates

For main project templates, see the main project page for Wikiproject Latin America.

Portal

{{Portal|Latin American music}}

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The portal template may be placed in the See also or another appropriate section of Latin American music articles.

Infobox template

{{LatinAmericanmusic}} ..To be added to the bottom of related articles.

Userbox template

{{Latin music task force}} Template:Latin music task force... If you wish you can add the Member userbox to your user page

Stub templates

See also: Category:Music stubs

Featured content

Articles

1. Selena
2. Héctor Lavoe
3. Salsa music

Lists

1. List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums from the 1990s
2. List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2000
3. List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2001
4. List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2002
5. List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2003
6. List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2004
7. List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2005
8. List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006
9. List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2007
10. List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2008
11. List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Songs from the 1980s
12. List of number-one albums of 2009 (Mexico)
13. Billboard Top Latin Songs Year-End Chart

Good content

1. Daddy Yankee
2. Para Siempre
3. Mediocre (album)
4. Gilberto Gil
5. Amon Tobin
6. Buena Vista Social Club
7. Cê
8. Daniel Santos (singer)
9. Arise (Sepultura album)
10. Amor Prohibido (song)
11. Contra La Corriente (Marc Anthony album)

Resources

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

Tips

?.	Use common sense. Ultimately, assume good faith on the part of others, be bold in editing because perfection is not required. See Wikipedia:Editing policy for more information. Before starting a new article! - Notability is a concern that must be adhered to. See Wikipedia:Notability (music) for more information. Need help starting a new article? See Wikipedia:Article wizard it will help you through the process of submitting a new article to Wikipedia.
I.	Use references. This is an encyclopedia, so remember to include a ==References== section listing websites, newspapers, articles, books and other sources you used to write the article. New articles and statements added to existing articles may be deleted if unreferenced or referenced poorly. See Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Cite_sources and Wikipedia:References for more information.
II.	Use proper spelling and grammar. This is a very important aspect of an article. "We want to learn editors to write proper" There are helpful guidelines in regards to styles. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music) for more information.
III.	Use footnotes. Take advantage of the footnote ability Wikipedia has, instead of including html links inside the context include them as footnotes. See Wikipedia:Footnotes on how to use them.
IV.	Write a good lead. Be sure to write a lead that concisely summarizes the entire article into one or two paragraphs, which make sense to someone who may know nothing about the subjects in question. See Wikipedia:Lead section for more information.
V.	Stay on topic. Many articles are criticized for length; sticking to the subject matter helps eliminate this. See Wikipedia:The perfect article for more information.
VI.	Keep it simple. Remember that the average reader should be able to comprehend the erudition. Although you should use a broad vocabulary of regular, non-technical terms, do not provide such a quantity of locutions as to impel those who aspire to derive serviceable information from the article to consult a dictionary.
VII.	Use images if possible. Images enhance articles greatly, but only use them when they are necessary, and ensure that their copyright status has been specified and we are allowed to use it on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Images