Since the Project began on the 4th March, 14 new articles that we know of have been created - to see a list and add any we didn't know about, visit the
Project Log.
Stick the following template {{Template:WPBeatles}} on relevant articles. We have 500+ already but may have missed some!
Use British/English grammar and spelling per
Policy
A few moments checking other editors contributions is always appreciated.
Don't be shy on using the talk pages. It's where a lot of stuff gets decided.
From the Editors
Welcome to the inaugural issue of The Beatles WikiProject's newsletter! We hope that this newsletter will help members—especially those who may be unable to keep up with some of the rapid developments that tend to occur—find new things to do within the project that they may wish to participate in.
Please consider this inital issue to be a prototype; as always, any comments and suggestions are quite welcome. We would like to emphasise that this is a collaborative Project and all editors are equal - so next month the newsletter editor might be you!
A small number of articles from the 1st batch still need to be
classified (assessed). Some choice cuts remain, such as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band! Batch 2 will start soon so let's get these done!
If you create a new article related to The Beatles, whether or not it's on the above list, please follow
these instructions. It's nothing heavy, it just helps us Project-structure wonks keep track of things.
Finally, if you haven't yet adopted an article for improvement, please
see the list here.
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.
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Marijuana Wiki
Hi there,
I see that you are a pro-Cannabis Wikipedian so I hope this will be of some interest to you.
I've started a Marijuana wiki (aka The Sticky Wiki) which I think you might be interested in. I'm hoping you can help me get started with this project. Whereas lots of articles about weed get speedy-deleted on Wikipedia, they would be totally cool over at MarijuanaWiki. But really I want the site to be more of a marijuana community than merely an encyclopedia.
To give you an example, I want to have city guides about where to score, find pot-friendly cafes, marijuana events, and what represents a good price in that city. Etc. (You can check out the featured article: "Toronto" to see what I mean). Of course, I want to see articles about the negative health effects and the drug laws in each of the countries. I also want to have grow diaries and marijuana blogs. All in all, basically more communal than encyclopedic.
I am in need of admins/moderators, and people experienced with MediaWiki to help build policy, categories, and templates, etc. If you'd be interested in helping me with this project, the URL is
MarijuanaWiki
Thanks for your time and consideration. Hope to see you there!
Apple Corps v. Apple Computer. A case brought by
Apple Corps against
Apple Computer, regarding possible infringement of a previous agreement between the two parties in respect of distribution of music, was heard in a London
High Court. The story made Wikipedia's front page due to a nomination by our own
Kingboyk. The story had an amusing second wave in the news and on Wikipedia; be sure to read the article on
Guy Goma if you missed it!
Project News
The Beatles article has been approved for inclusion in
Wikipedia Version 0.5, making it one of the first 20 articles to be selected and the first in the Music category.
Eleven new articles have been listed in the
Project Log since
1 May.
The hottest Project page this month has been
Policy Talk, where some lively discussion has taken place regarding the (perennial) question of the capitalisation of the letter T in "The Beatles". After seeking the comments of Wikipedian third parties unrelated to the project, the proponents and opponents concluded that the
current naming policy was correct. The discussion had the added bonus of bringing in some new members.
Project member (and "co-instigator" of The Beatles Project)
Lar was made an Administrator. Project member
Kingboyk (the other guilty party) has been awarded a Music
Barnstar for his contributions, including his work within The Beatles Project, and has also stewarded the
KLF article to
Featured Article status this month. Sometimes-contributor
ZincOrbie has also been awarded a Barnstar for his work on the
Badfinger article. Congratulations to all!
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).
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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!
As the project is currently just starting, our more experienced editors are working on the
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Billy Preston, often considered the
Fifth Beatle, died on
6 June at age 59. The American soul musician was a long term friend of The Beatles and was the only person to receive joint credit on a Beatles single ("
Get Back"). Preston was an
Apple Records recording artist and he performed at George Harrison's
Concert for Bangladesh and at the
Concert for George, both energetic and memorable performances. He also played regularly with
The Rolling Stones and a number of other artists.
New article classification system, for our use and for
Wikipedia 1.0. Very important and we need editor involvement. How can you help? Rate articles! It's easy:
After deciding what grade it should have, modify the invocation of {{WPBeatles}} on the talk page to add parms. The template itself gives you the parameters to use. For example, change {{WPBeatles}} to {{WPBeatles|B|Low}} if you think it's a low-importance, B-class article. Save your changes and make sure the talk page is now showing the ratings.
Click on the link in the template to edit the /comments subpage and explain why you rated the article the way you did. Don't forget to sign with ~~~~. Save that too.
Want to stay up on new project developments? Watchlist all of the WikiProject pages plus
The Beatles and each of the 4 members, to get a feel for what's happening. Also monitor and regularly review
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/The Beatles articles by quality log. If an article is listed on there as "added", go check the article's history. If it's new since the Project began add it to the Project Log as a new article and up the counter by one :)
It was a bit of a struggle to get this month's newsletter done, as we did it without a lead editor. Hopefully, next month you'll jump in and be our lead editor. Big news is that
WP:1.0 is coming along nicely and our article classification system has changed to conform to it.
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Despite it being the lead news article of last month, there is still help required in the assessing of articles and the migrating of comments.
Lar is willing to provide assistance to those unsure how to do this.
The Beatles article, the "
Flagship" of the Project, is currently under review with regard to its
Featured Article status. It is hoped that the review will identify those areas that need some(/lots of) remedial work, and that the Project participants and those editors who are involved in the the FA admin pages to can work together to "save" the status of the article.
At the moment there is some discussion as to why it has been listed, and what may be needed to help it retain its FA status. It may well be that some work is going to be required in formulating a plan of action, and then some more in achieving those aims.
The FA status is obviously quite important to the Project, and it would be appreciated if participants are able to provide assistance in keeping the article up to standard. The editors would be grateful if those persons receiving this Newsletter could spare some of their time, energy and brainpower in keeping this jewel in our crown in its proper place. Please go to
Wikipedia:Featured article review/The Beatles and get involved! Thank you.
As mentioned in the Project News section, The Beatles article has just been listed for a review of its Featured Article status. Working on this is quite important.
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Unfortunately, the
Featured Article badge on
The Beatles was revoked. The article was immediately nominated for
Good Article status, which it received later that same day. Project member
Kingboyk said of the nomination, "I'm quite happy about it really, as I feel that GA is about where we're at and gives some incentive to work on the article."
We have a new category for
Beatles articles needing attention. If you're looking for something to work on, the articles in this category and the subcategories need some TLC. To put an article in this category, tag its talk page with {{WPBeatles|attention=yes}}.
Kingboyk has given {{WPBeatles}} another major overhaul, and has assessed all of the Beatles articles. He would be grateful if other editors would leave comments on the state of articles, needed improvements and so on, by clicking the Comments link in the template. Also, feel free to revise the gradings—the assessments were done quickly, and article quality can change.
No articles have been adopted this past month.
Adopt one now!
A month of slow progress and some amazing efforts. Still need help getting comments shifted. Don't forget to
log your accomplishments!
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The site of the former Casbah Club, operated by
Mona Best (mother of
Pete) in the basement of her house, and where the nascent Beatles played and rehearsed, has been accorded Grade II Listed status following a recommendation by British Heritage.
Project News
Some Project articles are having their Featured Article status reviewed, and the comments are not encouraging. The articles are
A Day in the Life and
A Hard Day's Night (song). (
She Loves You has already had its FA status revoked.) Please participate in the discussion and help improve the articles!
In other Project news, the articles
The Beatles trivia and
John Lennon were nominated for
deletion, presumably as vandalism, but the deletions were quickly vetoed.
As usual, the self-effacing individuals who contribute to the Project are far too modest to mention any Barnstars or other awards they may have received. Obviously they feel their editing/contributing is reward enough.
Issue of the Month
The lead article of the Project recently lost its FA status, and now some of the other articles are being reviewed. Citations and references within articles are again the major concern. Contributors who have literature (books, magazines, links, etc.) are especially needed to provide the necessary citations. It is not enough for editors to know the facts; they need to be backed up by other sources. All help, both within the articles and the discussion, would be appreciated.
From the Editors
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Infobox Fields
Thank you for casting your vote on the Einstein infobox. Please now go to
[4] to give your opinion on how you want the individual fields modified.
SuperGirl08:18, 19 October 2006 (UTC)reply
Again, the issue of the month is inline citations.
A Day in the Life,
A Hard Day's Night (song), and
Get Back have all been defeatured, as they failed to satisfy criterion 1(c) of
What is a featured article?, and other song FAs are due for the chopping block. Inline citations are an important aspect of articles—they ensure verifiability and reliability, and they remove original research. Additionally, they give readers the option to read the original source material and view it within context.
Basically:
All direct quotations attributed to Beatles members pooled from interviews need full inline citations.
All critical comments about songs or albums need full inline citations to notable music critics, magazines opinions, or reviews, as opposed to being merely comments by Wikipedians.
Inline citations need: author name, article name, publication date, and name of publication. Such info is still preferable even if quoting from an interview posted upon a website; when this is the case, place the URL link at the end of the citation with the date it was last accessed. (This will help editors retrieve the page using the
Wayback Machine, should the link go dead in the future.)
Beatles News
The Beatles are due to release a soundtrack album, LOVE, at the end of November, as a companion to their
Cirque du Soleiladaptation of the same name. It will feature remastered and remixed versions of their previously released songs, including some new medleys.
Paul's getting a divorce. Pain, arguing, and fighting abound.
Project News
Featured Article drive: A number of project members are collaborating on
Paul McCartney's article, with the aim of getting it to Featured Article status. The work is going well and all help is welcome! Check in at
Talk:Paul McCartney if you want to help.
The Wings tours are really nicely documented now (see
Category:Wings tours), but
Category:The Beatles tours is almost empty.
Kingboyk and the rest of us would love to see (and read) articles on each Beatles tour, including the pre-fame tours of the UK—and the Hamburg trips, of course!
Our project members are too modest to report any awards they may have given or received.
From the Editors
Wherever possible, editors should help to trim down on list-like prose within Beatles articles. They should convert list-like sections into fluent, cohesive prose which ties an article's sections together. Lists make articles disjointed, awkward, and difficult to read.
Be sure to take part in the Featured Article drive, and don't forget those inline citations!
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As the project is currently just starting, our more experienced editors are working on the
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Wikipedia's standards are improving all the time, with the result that many articles in The Beatles Wikiproject are being nominated for review of their
FA and
GA status - and many are losing that accolade. It is difficult, with such a large number of articles and the ease with which editors may make changes which are detrimental, to maintain the standard of articles, let alone improve them. As ever, members efforts are both appreciated and needed to keep the Project on course.
Beatles News
A Beatles compilation called "Love", featuring tracks remastered by
George Martin (with his son Giles), has been released and has made number 1 in Canada.
The impending divorce between Paul McCartney and the former
Heather Mills continues to make the pages in the tabloid press in the UK.
Project News
New to the
Project Log is the nomination of four articles for consideration as suitable for collaboration, in the manner in which
Paul McCartney is now being edited, once the aforementioned article is completed. The nominations are
George Harrison,
Apple Corp,
The Beatles(!!), all proposed by
Kingboyk and
John Lennon, proposed by
LuciferMorgan. Interested editors should make themselves known on the various article talk pages.
If one is to be mercenary about the subject, it should be noted that Paul McCartney is going to be more noteworthy than usual in the near future as his divorce case comes to court. In that case it is great to note that a small group of Project Members (plus another individual who does not feel compelled to register himself despite important contributions) have worked very hard, and in an atmosphere of good humour, to take the McCartney piece to a succesful Good Article nomination. Perhaps this is the method to use for future articles, a small dedicated team concentrating on one subject at a time. Of course, all members are invited to join any existing group or even go about forming their own. Please note any such action in the
Project Log.
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The ongoing divorce proceedings between Paul McCartney and the former Heather Mills continues to occupy the attention of the media - Heather Mills reportedly receiving unspecified death threats.
The British Post Office have released a series of stamps depicting various Beatles album covers.
Project News
The
Paul McCartney article is being primped and primed for submission as a Featured Article candidate.
The good folk who have been working on the above article have turned their attention to the
John Lennon page. Everyone is, of course, invited to contribute.
The question of capitalising of the letter "t" in The of The Beatles has been raised again. It appears that UK style references (
here and
here) also maintains that the letter should be in lower case. If the Project is to be appear professional then it may have to change the format. Polite discussion is invited at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles/Policy. If possible, please provide sources/references to support your position.
From the Editors
It has been a fairly quiet time with regard to the Project (or at least that is how it seems). If you are reading this and wondering why your efforts in respect of a Beatles article has not been mentioned, it may be that you haven't told any editor. This is your Newsletter, which means you can contribute to it, so please do!
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Hi there!!!!
This may be the LAST The Beatles project newsletter you receive!
On Friday 30th March, a deranged fan was held after attempting to force his way into
Paul McCartney's mansion. See
here for more details.
Apple Corps continues to make news, after the recent settlement with
Apple Computer over the use of the Apple trademark. On April 10th, the company announced that long-time chief executive
Neil Aspinall had stepped down and had been replaced by American
Jeff Jones. It was also announced that another long term dispute, this time with
EMI over royalties, had been amicably settled prior to Aspinall's departure.
[5][6]
Project News
The article "
Jeff Jones (music industry executive)" suddenly becomes of top importance in the Apple sphere of Beatledom.
User:Kingboyk has created a stub on the man, but the article needs urgent beefing up (including basic biographical data such as date and place of birth) and, if possible, a photograph of the new Apple chief executive.
With the debate over "the Beatles" vs "The Beatles" continuing to cause ill feeling and a number of resignations from the project from advocates on both sides,
Kingboyk attempted to diffuse the situation by blanking the
Project Policy page and tagging it as {{historical}}. Although this unilateral action hasn't been reverted as of the time of writing, the reaction was mixed, with two members rejoining the project and others stating their disagreement. With the issue still not resolved, the page was sent to
Miscellany for Deletion, for the wider community (and WikiProject The Beatles members) to consider the issue.
Member News
The membership list has been trimmed, with inactive members listed seperately to help gauge the status of the project. If you've been incorrectly listed as inactive, please don't be offended - just move yourself back to the main list.
From the Editors
This has been a tumultuous month for the project yet again.
We need your input on how the project should work and what it's role should be. And we need to start getting Featured Articles, folks! :)
Next issue
This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the
next issue (Issue 013 – May 2007). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
As the project is currently just starting, our more experienced editors are working on the
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Aspirin has been selected as this week's Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week! Please help us bring this article up to
featured standards during the week. The goal is to nominate this at
WP:FAC on
September 10,
2007.
The
Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology main page has been updated and overhauled, to make it easier to find things, as well as to highlight other goals and announcements for the project.
Fvasconcellos notes that discussion is
ongoing regarding the current wording of MEDMOS on including dosage information in drug articles. All input is welcome.
Here's a brief update in some of the recent developments of WikiProject Pharmacology!
Aspirin has just completed its two week run as the first
Collaboration of the Week! Many thanks to those editors that contributed; the article got a lot of good work accomplished, and in particular, much work was done in fixing up the history section. It's still not quite "done" yet (is a wikipedia article really ever done?), but after two weeks I think it's more important to push onwards with the development of the new collaboration of the week program. I will be fixing up
Aspirin in the next few days and possibly nominating it for either
GA or
FA status.
Muscle relaxant has been selected as the new
Collaboration of the week until
October 2,
2007! This article is currently rated as a "stub", so it's got quite a bit of work cut out for collaborators! Admittedly,
featured status could be a long way off,... but still attainable! At the least, maybe we could at least get it up to meeting the
Good article criteria? Please stop by the article and help improve it.
Resveratrol, having recently achieved
GA status on
August 16,
2007, is now making a run for
featured status. This is quite a fascinating compound. If you can, please stop by
its discussion page and leave comments in support of it.
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