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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.
A musicological description of common musical characteristics and instrumentation should be provided. For examples, see Heavy metal music#Characteristics, Punk rock#Characteristics, Funk#Characteristics, Bouncy techno#Characteristics. For more ideas on what to write about, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Music terminology .
See WP:1.0 and WP:WVWP for more info. The { { WikiProject Music/Music genres task force }} template has been modified with a 'class' parameter so an articles assessment level can be displayed on its talk page and will appear in the subcategories of Category:Music genre articles by quality.
ClassCriteriaReader's ExperienceEditing SuggestionsThe article has attained featured article ...Professional, outstanding, and thorough;No further content additions should be ...The article has attained featured list ...Professional standard; it comprehensively ...No further content additions should be ...The article is well organized and ...Very useful to readers. A fairly complete ...Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak ...The article meets all of the good article ...Useful to nearly all readers, with no ...Some editing by subject and style experts ...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.
It includes styles and genres from around the world, such as pop, hip hop, R&B, rock, jazz, gospel, reggae, electronic dance, folk, country, disco, and classical on top of its traditional Korean music roots.
Language links are at the top of the page across from the title.
What is Wikipedia's sense of the general weight we give a genre label that has entered common parlance but was never used to describe the music it's now describing at the time that music arose, vs. other objective issues like linguistic incoherence?