Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to The Beatles (including Apple Records). This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and/or see the to-do list.

The Beatles are the quintessential pop/rock group, indisputably the most celebrated and influential in history and arguably the most popular (as measured by several metrics: number of #1 hits, total sales, Beatlemania, etc). There is already a considerable number of articles about The Beatles on Wikipedia, of varying levels of quality and depth. These range from featured articles such as Real Love (The Beatles song) down to stubs of the lowest quality. This project seeks to marshall the efforts of interested editors to improve and unify these articles and to raise the overall standard of Beatles' coverage on Wikipedia. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

Project scope

The scope of the project is articles about The Beatles and their work, and people and things directly related to - or who have achieved a significant part of their notability through their connection to - The Beatles as a group and individually.

Good Article/Featured Article

Periodically project members collaborate on an article to bring it up to Good Article/Featured Article status.

The current GAR collaboration is:

Nominations

Nominations for future collaborations can be made here:

1. George Harrison. --kingboyk 11:46, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
2. Apple Corps. --kingboyk 11:46, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
3. The Beatles, of course. I think that whilst there's a reasonably solid article lurking there, we need to be bold and rebuild the article in line with current practices. I will start making some notes on this at Talk:The Beatles/to do#Returning this to FA status. --kingboyk 18:03, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
   • I concur with this. - ElbridgeGerry t c block 18:47, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
4. The Beatles (album) - I feel this is one of the key points of Beatles' history. 01kkk 20:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
5. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - This has to be collaborated because of its focality in Beatles' history. This is where they truly changed. 01kkk 20:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
   • Agree with Sgt. Pepper. Basketball110 21:43, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Log

The achievements of the WikiProject so far are recorded at Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Log. If you create a new article, perform a merge or achieve some other goal on behalf of the project please record it in the log. It's helpful and motivating for us all to see how we've progressed as a team.

Parentage

The father of this WikiProject is WikiProject Music.

Related Wikiportals

WikiProject Beatles also manages The Beatles Portal: Portal:The Beatles.

Active participants

From time to time, the participants list may be trimmed and seemingly inactive members moved to "Inactive". Please don't be offended: if you're here and editing Beatles articles or working on administration of the WikiProject, just put yourself back on the main list.

• Kingboyk (talk · contribs) "Shanghai Surprise"
• ++Lar: t/c (Co-founder) "I'm back... back... back in the US ... back in the US... back in the USSR!" 4 March 2006
• Grutness...wha? 00:57, 6 March 2006 (UTC) (Cranberry sauce when I get time :)
• Steelbeard1 01:26, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Mr. Manu 12:19, 28 March 2006 (UTC) Los Beatles son terrible bakanes!!!!!!!!!!! XD
• Count me in! —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 19:43, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
• --Crestville 15:06, 21 May 2006 (UTC) For some reason I know a fair bit about them.
• "I Am the Eggman", 23, November, 2006, long time Beatles fan and Dale Earnhardt Sr. worshiper. "Goo, goo, ga-joob."
• Tvoz | talk 05:31, 11 February 2007 (UTC) (not really all that scary)
• andreasegde 22:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC) Do you know that Lennon has three half-sisters, two half-brothers, and McCartney has a brother and a step-sister? Do you care? I do.
• paulisdead 09:35, 16 May 2007
• BrianO 01:37, 27 August 2007 (UTC) Have begun work on All Those Years Ago
• faithless (^speak) 04:52, 27 August 2007 (UTC) Cookie!
• Bektour Iskender 15:15, 28 August 2007 (Bishkek time)
• apepper, created Influence on Recording Music article and enjoy reading all the Beatle stuff.
• User:75pickup 19:56, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
• ZincOrbie Just helping out in some areas - mainly those which have missing (or pertinent) Badfinger information.
• Hotcop2^{The Beatles Wikiproject}
• zone46 – nothing's gonna change my world
• Liverpool Scouse from Liverpool UK
• Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 21:34, 29 October 2007 (UTC) (am most definitely not the Fifth Beatle)
• Vint (talk) 02:36, 29 November 2007 (UTC) I still check in frequently, just not a whole lot of edits, sorry. If that means I count as inactive, I guess someone can move me back...
• Alexcalamaro 20:58, 17 October 2006 (UTC) There's nothing you can do it can't be done.
• Tobi4242 (talk) 02:13, 8 December 2007 (UTC) We're sgt. peppers lonly hearts club band!
• MagnoliaFen
• Basketball110
• Billy-talk 21:50, 22 December 2007 (UTC) And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.
• Chaz 19:06, 14 July 2007 (UTC) I love Wikipedia. I love the Beatles R.I.P. John and George!
• Paul Italiano I am the eggman, They are the eggman, I am the Walrus, Goo Goo G'joob!
• Pawnkingthree Looking at songs, Paul McCartney ones in particular.
• ClonedPickle I hope I can lend a hand and help out! 11:04, January 13, 2008 (UTC)
• Beggarsbanquet, massive Beatles fan. I have a lot I could contribute.
• Kodster "I'm a mocker."
• Moreno Valley User (talk · contribs) "I love the Beatles and am a huge Beatles fan, despite me being 13. I have all the albums (albeit burnt on my computer by me) and know a bunch of little facts about almost every one of their songs. I might not be able to constant ly contribute, but I can occasionally when I have time (weekly or monthly or so) or when I see something wrong with something I'm reading. I'm not too good with editing, either. I just copy and paste things from something similar to what I want done, delete the actual words, and fill in the blanks. This is a bit too long, isn't it? "
• Tj999, I am the Walrus who plays in the Strawberry Fields Forever with lovely Rita!
• faulmacca, the surlaw.
• DizFreak Another big Beatles and Wings fan
• ...... Dendodge .. Talk^Help 11:08, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Ezekiel ^†alk 15:18, 24 June 2008 (UTC) The Beatles are the greatest band ever!
• Paepaok Eggman-Walrus-Elephant Seal
• SchfiftyThree - You know my name, so look up the number!
• hornplayer2
• --Betty kerner (talk) 00:33, 10 August 2008 (UTC) (been doing mostly Wikignome work)

Inactive, or have just popped out for a cup of tea...

If your name has been moved here in error, please feel free to move it back.

• Johnleemk | Talk 19:39, 4 March 2006 (UTC) I guess so, since I've been a one-man Beatles WikiProject until lately. :p
• RENTA^{FOR LET?} 18:55, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• rogerd "If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow" 01:19, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Joining and adopting My Sweet Lord (have the cover).--Dakota ~ ° 02:36, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Estrose 03:32, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Banez 09:16, 6 March 2006 (UTC) (As the time allows).
• Vanky 13:03, 7 March 2006 (UTC) You may be a lover, but you ain't no dancer...
• Danthemankhan^(talk) 05:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC) "MISTERRRRRRR MOOOOONLIGHT!!!" Hey, somebody has to like it.
• El Slameron 00:01, 9 March 2006 (UTC) I've got a feeling...
• Jerry Bakewell Here's the original My Sweet Lord cover! Happy to fill in any gaps or tidy up in the Apple/late Beatles/early solo areas. More soon.
• --IAMTHEEGGMAN (talk) need I say more, Choo Choo Cha Choob.
• warpozio 07:54, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Steiger 03:37, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
• TheImpossibleMan 13:15, 31 March 2006 (UTC) - Happy to lend a hand. Currently working on I Am the Walrus.
• FranksValli 17:44, 5 April 2006 (UTC) Wooo finally a project I can really get into :).
• Simonthebold "Because the wind is high, it blows my mind!" Count me in. Recording session stuff is my speciality. simonthebold 10:20, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
• Analogdemon (talk) The US albums are my area of expertise so I'll be more than happy to contribute wherever my knowledge might be needed.
• You know you should be glad - Highway ^{Rainbow Sneakers} 16:48, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
• Wootking 'Tom 00:29, 21 May 2006 (UTC)'
• JaymzSpyhunter 01:35, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
• Brian.D 01:58, 29 May 2006 (UTC) "move over baby, I'm travelling on that line..."
• User:DslSWF 5:17, 31 May 2006 I'll try to help as much as I can. I've read a lot and just created my 1st article on This Guitar (Can't Keep Me From Crying)!
• Goldom ‽‽‽ ⁂ 22:55, 31 May 2006 (UTC) I figure after making those templates, I might as well stick around and see what else there is to do.
• Afghan Historian 07:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• bl4d3 03:42, 19 June 2006 (UTC) - It's The Beatles, man!
• Doctorfreedom 12:13, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• Red Alien 19:36, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• PhattyFatt
• Caesar 04:16, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
• luckymustard 13:45, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
• The4sword Heyy! Just got You'll Be Mine done; sorry, it's a stub.
• I Am The Walrus 03:02, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
• NaLaochra 03:43, 13 September 2006 (UTC) Just a generally obsessive fan and trivia junkie who knows his Beatles... hope I can help
• NauticaShades^(talk) 13:03, 9 October 2006 (UTC) Sitting in an English Garden, waiting for the Sun..
• Raymond Arritt 03:51, 13 October 2006 (UTC) Have lots of reference books, and pics of Beatles sites in Liverpool and London (that I took myself so no copyright concerns). "You can talk to me."
• Willie the Walrein 12:39, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• Peanut33Tillman "Keepin an eye on the World goin' by my window" 19:57, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Samboha 01:35, 31 October 2006 (UTC)number nine...number nine...number nine...
• Keithmall, pleased to help in any way I can
• Sturgeonman 02:10, 2 January 2007 (UTC), I'm in, and ready to help.
• SUIT⁴² 07:14, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
• Darrenhusted
• Eruption257 5:33 PM, 6 February 2007 (PST) Adopted A Spaniard in the Works
• Rbb l181 21:35, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
• Mezlo
• Hey jude, don't let me down
• Eschoir 12:41, 14 March 2007
• Beatlesmaniac
• Takedashingen620
• McTavidge 06:12, 6 January 2007 (UTC)I like editing. I like the Beatles.

• Fhqwgads 02:00, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
• Sixstring1965^{The Beatles Wikiproject}
• mrmaroon25 Blackbird singin' in the dead of night ... take these sunken eyes and learn to see ...
• DiscordantNote^Cntrbtns 01:37, 14 January 2007 (UTC) I do what I can, even if it's just updating a minor article in the project. Every bit helps! :-D
• Cbing01 14:35, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
• Juan de Dios | talk 13:21, 13 February 2007 (UTC) All you need is love!
• Freshacconci 18:44, 11 February 2007 (UTC) Second-gen Beatle fan since '79
• Shrub_of_power 19:36, 11 February 2007 (UTC) "Clutching forks and knives, to eat their bacon"
• FMAFan1990 06:55, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
• Cyktoo 15:46, 5 May 2007 (UTC) Long signatures are kind of silly, don't you think?
• Politics rule 12:47, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
• Snowfreak91287♣ 06:07 19 May 2007 (UTC)
• Psdubow 21:07, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
• Wikimaniac3651 22:45, 7 August 2007 (UTC) "In my life...I loved them all."
• Lighthead ^þ 22:30, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
• Bluegoblin7 17:44, 1 September 2007 (UTC) I LOVE The Beatles, and will help out with anything!
• thesailerman Beginning work on the "Across the Universe" film page. I love the Beatles, and I am currently living on the NYU campus, so I should be able to get many of the references.
• Butseriouslyfolks Happy to lend a velvet hand like a lizard on a window pane . . .
• Longestpants (talk) 01:51, 28 December 2007 (UTC) Ringo, Paul, George and John/Played a trick and put us on/Dropped hints Paul was dead as nails/And rocketed their record sales! -MAD
• WilliamMThompson (talk) 10:30, 21 March 2008 (UTC) We can probably work it out, we can probably work it out
• Vera, Chuck & Dave 08:40, 24 May 2006 (UTC) Dear Prudence won't you open up your eyes?
• --Mal 03:41, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
• → jacĸrм ( talk | sign ) 11:30, 1 September 2007 (UTC) I have several related Beatles images in my images page. I've added them to some articles, but feel free to add them elsewhere if you feel it's appropriate!
• Rocket000 (talk) 06:13, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

This is the bottom of the Inactive list. Please add your name to the Active list up above...

Goals

Please discuss on the talk page or be bold and add some!

1. Unify and improve articles about albums
2. Unify and improve articles about the 4 main Beatles
3. Unify and improve song articles
4. unify and improve articles about post beatle bands (i.e traveling Wilburys)

• Placeholder comment: I'm looking at consolidation, improvement, cruft removal (i.e. minutae, fan gush, non verifiable speculation innuendo and rumour). Some good sense re songs, with a nod to the fact that song notability is being discussed elsewhere (and perhaps the WikiProject should have its own guidelines) --kingboyk 07:53, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Citations

In accordance with Wikipedia policy, facts and assertions should be attributed to verifiable, reliable sources wherever possible (see WP:V and WP:RS).

The Project's preferred method for this is inline citations using the <ref> tag.

Usage is very simple. Examples:

Citing a book: <ref>Author, Book, ISBN, page number</ref>^[1]

Citing a book multiple times: Lewisohn, Mark, "Beatles Book", ISBN 73737373 (2000), Hamyln, London

<ref>Lewisohn 2003 p23</ref>^[2]

Reusing a reference:

<ref name="somewebsite">[http://www.web.com/ Some Website]</ref>^[3] Second use<ref name="somewebsite"/>^[3]

References

The citations are displayed by placing a <references/> tag at the bottom of the article.

1. ^ Author, Book, ISBN, page number
2. ^ Lewisohn, p23
3. ^ ^{a b} Some Website

Further reading

• Wikipedia:Footnotes - More details about the ref tag and footnotes
• Wikipedia:Citing sources - A more general overview

Projects

1. Compile a list of current and missing articles, and catalogue them by status - see Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification and Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Beatles#Wikipedia_articles_on_The_Beatles
2. Restore The Beatles to, and upgrade History of The Beatles to, featured article status. Alternative approaches (see Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/The Beatles history):
   • Seek peer review, and 'tweak'
   • Plan the article stucture anew and major edit. Maybe History can be merged back in, and less substantial stuff forked out.
3. insert other projects (big jobs) here from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles

Tasks

• To Do List

1. Buy a book about The Beatles
2. Invite new members by contacting editors who have made substantial Beatles-related edits in the past
3. Fix templates to talk pages
   • To do this, does anyone have a suggestion as to how to develop a list of the articles to do this to? There are so many different partial sets (the categories help). Or should an article only get the tagging as it is reviewed by one of us and improved? ++Lar: t/c 21:12, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

   • Yep, use What Links Here for the Beatles' template, as discussed elsewhere on this (ever growing) page. That'll locate every article which uses the template, and any not properly categorised articles can be dealt with at the same time. But please don't mess up the lovely cat tree I spent a lot of time tidying :)

   If you're gonna do it, and if you're gonna do it in a web browser, might be best to reset your link cache first? Then you can see where you've been and where you haven't. With the cats, subcats and the template usage you'll find most articles more than once. --kingboyk 21:48, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

4. Construct Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification by following the category 'tree'(what that means is update this table: Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Beatles/Categories as the automated code reads it and using what links here for The Beatles template. Can do the talk page notices at the same time.
5. Assess articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification
6. Apple Records discography - Needs British LPs and singles, and US LPs. Needs restructuring. I'd propose using the Brit catalog as the basis, and having only those releases which are different in the US section. This might not be practical, however, if the cat. no.s are different (they are for the singles, not sure for the albums).
   Blue links need to be checked for and, if they aren't already, added to Category:Apple Records singles or Category:Apple Records albums, and the same for The Beatles/solo members singles/albums categories.
7. Add specific fair use rationales to Beatles-related copyrighted images, especially album covers (see Image:LetItBe.jpg for example).
8. Add the geographic coordinates of The Beatles significant places as : Tittenhurst Park, Savile Row, St. Peter's Church, etc. As already exist for the Shea Stadium, Abbey Road or Friar Park. Completed by User:Billy.
9. insert other tasks (smaller jobs) here from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles

Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

• The Beatles 1962-1966 adopted by PhattyFatt
• The Beatles 1967-1970 adopted by Mr. Manu
• Apple Records and Apple Corps adopted by kingboyk
• The Beatles' Christmas Album Adopted by Danthemankhan^(talk)
• Flying (song) adopted by Grutness...wha?
• It Don't Come Easy adopted by ZincOrbie & simonthebold
• My Sweet Lord Adopted by Dakota
• Alistair Taylor Adopted by Alexcalamaro
• Klaus Voorman adopted by Mr. Manu
• Woman Is the Nigger of the World Adopted by Tezkag72 (talk)
• No one's gonna change our world adopted by simonthebold
• A Spaniard in the Works adopted by Èŗüρтîöṇ257
• Tony Barrow abopted by Basketball110
• The Beatles bootlegs adopted by paulisdead This has been something I've been working on for a while now. I'd love to get this one up to Wikipedia standards.
• Mike McCartney

Other subpages

• Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification
• Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Log
• Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/To do
• Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Missing articles (and article requests)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/The Beatles' miscellanea (moved from article space, feel free to edit and recycle)

Shortcuts

It is recommended that Project members add each of the above Project pages to their watchlists.

Articles

Wikipedia articles on The Beatles

• Articles using The Beatles template (indicated by "(inclusion)" after the article's name).

Status board

Article	Rating
Core articles
The Beatles	Good Article
John Lennon	Good Article
Paul McCartney	Good Article
George Harrison	B-class
Ringo Starr	B-class
Important personalities
Brian Epstein	Good Article
George Martin	Good Article
Neil Aspinall	Good Article
Mal Evans	Good Article
Stuart Sutcliffe	Good Article
Pete Best	Good Article
The Quarrymen	Good Article
Family and friends
Jim and Mary McCartney	Good Article
Julia Lennon	Good Article
Alfred Lennon	Good Article
Mimi Smith	Good Article
George Toogood Smith	Good Article
Cynthia Lennon	Good Article
Julia Baird	Good Article
Mona Best	Good Article
Rory Storm	Good Article
Astrid Kirchherr	Good Article
Klaus Voormann	B-class
Magic Alex	B-class
Pattie Boyd	Good Article
Linda McCartney	Good Article
Yoko Ono	B-class
May Pang	Good Article
Heather Mills	B-class

Featured articles

1. Yesterday (song) (|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (FAC)
2. Something (|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (FAC)
3. Hey Jude (|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (FAC)
4. The Long and Winding Road (|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (FAC)
5. Real Love (The Beatles song) (|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (FAC)

Featured article candidates

Featured article review

Featured pictures

Featured picture candidates

Featured lists

Featured list candidates

Good articles

1. The Beatles (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
2. John Lennon (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
3. Paul McCartney (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
4. Brian Epstein (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
5. George Martin (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
6. Neil Aspinall (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
7. Mal Evans (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
8. Stuart Sutcliffe (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
9. Astrid Kirchherr (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
10. Mona Best (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
11. Pete Best (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
12. The Casbah Coffee Club (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
13. The Quarrymen (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
14. Jim and Mary McCartney (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
15. Julia Lennon (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
16. Alfred Lennon (|talk|history|links|