Wikipedia:WikiProject Record Labels

WikiProject Record Labels is a project intended to improve articles on record labels and people (non-artists) involved with labels, i.e. founders and owners. The goal is to make the record label-related articles provide basic information in a quick and easy-to-read fashion. Its parent project is WikiProject Music.

Please feel free to ask any questions on the talk page. Below is a basic guide to writing an article on a specific record label related articles.

Style

Naming

The article name should be the title of the record label name, generally followed by "Records", disambiguated if necessary. Do not pre-emptively disambiguate! When there is no other encyclopedic use of the label, the article should reside at the normal name, e.g. London Records, not London (record label). In cases where disambiguation is needed, an era (Apollo Records (1944)) or location (Ace of Hearts Records (Boston)) parameter may be used.

If the label uses the Latin alphabet, the article name should be at that title. Translations of labels in languages other than English should not be used as titles unless an English language version of the name was used. If the label's name does not use the Latin alphabet, the article name should be the transliterated form of the title using Latin characters. The original language title should appear in parentheses (brackets) in the opening line of the article following the transliteration.

See also: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English).

Formatting

Songs and singles are placed in "quotation marks", album titles are italicized and artists are left alone, with punctuation outside quotation marks, for example,

The Beatles' songs "Taxman", "Eleanor Rigby" and "Love You To" are from their album Revolver.

Links should only be created to albums or song articles that don't exist if you believe that the album or song most certainly deserve an article.

Capitalization

As a general rule, the name of the company and "Records" should be capitalized (i.e. Republic Records, not Republic records). Otherwise, Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music)#Capitalization applies.

Disambiguating links

When linking genres and other terms in the article, be sure it points to the appropriate music-related article and not a disambiguation page. For example, rock should point to rock music and not rock; alternative should point to alternative rock and not alternative, a disambiguation page. Use piped links if necessary. Other terms to look out for are: pop music, band (musical ensemble), LP (gramophone record) and several more.

More style suggestions

For more style suggestions, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music).

Templates

Project tag

Please add {{WikiProject Record Labels}} along with the quality of the article. You can do this by specifying |class=X, where X is Stub, Start, C, B, A, GA or FA (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment for explanation of terms). Note that the parameter and values are case sensitive. Not all record label related articles have been tagged with {{WikiProject Record Labels}}. Many articles still need to be graded based on quality.

Assessment

Top priority: Those record labels which are internationally known, and have had a profound impact on the history of recorded sound. Examples: RCA Victor, Columbia, His Master's Voice.

High priority: Those record labels which are generally well known, having a long history of strong sales and musical and/or industry influence. Examples: Warner Bros. Records, Edison Records, Parlophone, Arista.

Mid priority: Those record labels having numerous hits or having a profound impact on a particular field of music. Examples: Rounder, Aladdin, Banner (1920s)

Low priority: All other notable labels.

Assessment discussion

Infobox

See: Template:Infobox record label

Stubs

To add an article to the record label stubs category, use {{record-label-stub}}. See Category:Record label stubs for more stubs and info.

Userbox

To add yourself as a member, put the userbox labeled {{User WikiProject Record Labels}} on your user page.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Record Labels.

To see who has joined the project, see Category:WikiProject Record Labels participants.

Current members below need to place this userbox on their page and then remove their name from the list.

• Flashflash; (talk · contribs)
• Will_Dockery (talk · contribs)

Articles

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 20 Nov 2024 – Switchflicker Records (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Graywalls (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
• 17 Nov 2024 – Gold Jam Records (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by CFA (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 17 Nov 2024 – Red Cord Records (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Graywalls (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 17 Nov 2024 – Deadair Records (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Frost (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 14 Nov 2024 – Lot Fire Records (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Duffbeerforme (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
• 14 Nov 2024 – List of Lot Fire Records artists (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Duffbeerforme (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
• 04 Nov 2024 – Yab Moung Records (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Bearcat (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 17 Nov 2024; see discussion (1 participant; relisted)

Proposed deletions

• 20 Nov 2024 – Rodent Popsicle Records (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Drmies (t · c): Completely unverified (and website is dead), and there's nothing I can find in Google, Google News, Google Books (one mention in a book, Global Punk, but no discussion).

Categories for discussion

• 18 Nov 2024 – Category:Interscope-Geffen-A&M artists (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Liz (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 20 Nov 2024 – Solid State Records (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Tooth & Nail Records by Graywalls (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 18 Jun 2024 – Rich the Kid (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Roastedbeanz1 (t · c); see discussion
• 10 May 2021 – Manimal Vinyl (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Jonpatterns (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 14 Nov 2024 – Draft:UnoriginalVinyl (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SkellyRen (t · c)

Review and assessment

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Record Labels/Assessment

Statistics

Record labels articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA			1	4			5
B	1	6	10	15		3	35
C	8	18	32	98		47	203
Start	5	31	98	620		767	1,521
Stub		9	30	1,287		966	2,292
List		5	1	23		58	87
Category					2,884		2,884
Disambig					15		15
File			1		1,530		1,531
Project					4		4
Template					85		85
NA			1	94	371		466
Other				1	55		56
Assessed	14	69	174	2,142	4,944	1,841	9,184
Unassessed				10		1,092	1,102
Total	14	69	174	2,152	4,944	2,933	10,286
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 22,284			Ω = 5.49

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.