Wikipedia:WikiProject The Clash

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to The Clash (including individual members' work). 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 see the to do list.

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The Clash were one of the most successful and influential bands of the 1970s/80s. The Clash article itself is a good article and must be absolutely promoted to featured status, there are dozens of other articles about The Clash which still require a lot of work. In addition, there is a shortage of fair-use images, poor referencing, and a large number of redirects and stubs which need expansion. It is the goal of this project to unite the many Clash fans and Wikipedia editors to improve the myriad of Clash-related articles. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.

Scope

The primary goal of the project is to improve all articles related to The Clash. The first major challenge is to improve the most important Clash-related articles - specifically The Clash, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon and The Clash discography - to a level where they can become featured articles on the Wikipedia.

Parentage

The Clash covered so many genres, so this WikiProject is therefore a sub-project of numerous collaborations:

WikiProject Biography
WikiProject Music
- WikiProject Musicians
- WikiProject Albums
- WikiProject Songs
  - WikiProject Alternative music
  - WikiProject Hip hop
  - ~~WikiProject New Wave music~~ (inactive)
  - WikiProject Punk music
  - ~~WikiProject R&B and Soul Music~~ (inactive)
  - WikiProject Reggae (also covers ska, rocksteady, dancehall, and dub)
  - WikiProject Rock music
    - WikiProject The Clash

Related Wikiportals

Portal:The Clash

Participants

This is an alphabetical list of Wikipedians who are committed to the WikiProject. Feel free to add your name to the list by clicking "edit" in the upper right hand-corner, and adding

#{{User|YOURUSERNAMEHERE}} {{subst:Currentdate}}

to the appropriate line.

In addition, participants and other Wikipedians who wish to show support for this project should feel free to add

{{User WPClash}}

or

[[Category:WikiProject The Clash participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

to their user pages.

Feel free to leave a message in the project talk page.

75pickup (talk · contribs) 19:04, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Benzband - "Laugh your life 'cuz there ain't much to cry for!" - PuⁿK ! - 19:33, Tuesday September 13, 2011 (UTC)
Chadwholovedme - "If Music Could Talk" Chadwholovedme (talk) 17:08, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
Eduardofoxx13 (talk · contribs) 16:39, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Funeral (talk · contribs) 21:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
General Appo (talk · contribs) 14:06 13 November 2008
Jeyradan (talk · contribs) 16:42 22 January 2013 (UTC)
John "I'm So Bored (With the USA)" --John (talk) 19:18, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
Loopy (talk · contribs) 02:50, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
Mme. Hell (talk · contribs) 6:30, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Piepie --Piepie (talk) 12:35, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Pjoef - "The Future Is Unwritten!" 08:32:52, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Poiuytre - "Complete Control", Poiuytre 19:15, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
RepublicanJacobite (talk · contribs) "Rebel Waltz" 14:57, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Saint-Paddy --Saint-Paddy 20:19, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
SanePsychotic 20:09 7 November 2008
Sean (talk · contribs) 16:42, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
TheClashFan (talk) 04:20, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Underneath-it-All (talk) 15:23, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
WWWhatsup - "The past just might get written!" Wwwhatsup (talk) 05:43, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Goals

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

Unify and improve articles about the 4 main Clash
Unify and improve articles about albums
Unify and improve articles about songs
Promote major Clash-related articles to featured status.
Create articles for all Clash songs which currently don't have an article or simply consist of a redirect to the album. Some song stubs can not be expanded and should be redirects to the album. See WP:NSONG.
Locate and upload images under free license (such as The Clash) for use in various articles.

Projects

Major work on the 4 members of the band (Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon) is needed. Expansion where necessary, adding references (which are scant or absent in most of the articles) and copyediting is needed.
Compile a list of current and missing articles, and catalogue them by status - see Assessment and Wikipedia articles on The Clash
Create any missing articles necessary.
Bring all articles considered "Top-Importance" to GA status or higher.
Bring all articles considered "High-Importance" to B-Class status or higher.
Expand any articles considered "Mid-Importance" to at least Start-Class status.
Upgrade any articles considered "Stub" to Start, Start to C, C to B, B to A, and so on.
insert other projects (big jobs) here from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Clash

Tasks

Placing the {{WikiProject The Clash}} template on all talk pages of any article even peripherally related to The Clash. If possible, assess the articles as well. Those that have already been assessed, and the guidelines for assessment, can be found on the assessment sub-page. Automatic logs on the sub-page are updated every 24 hours or so, although mention of assessments can also be placed in the log. If you don't feel comfortable with assessing the article, simply placing the template {{WikiProject The Clash}} on the article's talk page is enough, someone else will assess it later.
Make sure infoboxes for various band members are correct ({{Infobox musical artist}} or {{Infobox person}} where appropriate) and correct accordingly. Individual articles include (but are not limited to; please expand, and remove those which have been confirmed or fixed):

To Do List

Buy a book about The Clash (for a list see the Further reading section on The Clash article, and for a more extensive list check out this project page)
Invite new members by contacting editors who have made substantial Clash-related edits in the past
Fix templates to talk pages (use What Links Here for the Clash template, that'll locate every article which uses the template, and any not properly categorised articles can be dealt with at the same time).
Construct Wikipedia:WikiProject The Clash/Assessment by following the category 'tree' (what that means is update this table: Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Clash/Categories as the automated code reads it and using what links here for the Clash template. Can do the talk page notices at the same time.
Assess articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject The Clash/Assessment
Add specific fair use rationales to Clash-related copyrighted images, especially album covers.
Add the geographic coordinates of Clash significant places as: Pimlico, Tate Gallery, Wessex Studios, Highbury, etc. As already exist for the Shea Stadium.
insert other tasks (smaller jobs) here from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Clash

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject The Clash: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2022-09-19

Highest priority

Expand all articles related to The Clash

Fair use

Add fair use rationale to all images and sound samples (all except images already labeled free use).
Resize large "fair use" images to less than 300 pixels, @ 72dpi.

Articles

Try to expand all songs stubs if possible. Some song stubs can not be expanded and should be redirects to the album. See WP:NSONG.
Expand album articles (all).
Remove Trivia sections (trivia sections should be avoided in favor of presenting information within the framework of the article's main text).

To Create: The Right Profile, Hate and War, What's My Name? (song), Cheat (song), Protex Blue, 48 Hours (song), Johnny Green (manager), List of awards and nominations received by The Clash, List of The Clash concerts, Category:The Clash tours... (see project pages Songs and List of The Clash concerts)

To Destub: (see: Category:Stub-Class The Clash articles)

To Expand: (see: Category:Start-Class The Clash articles and Category:C-Class The Clash articles)

To Improve to GA-Class:: (see: Category:B-Class The Clash articles)

To Improve to Featured standard:: (see: Category:GA-Class The Clash articles)

To Nominate at WP:FAC: The Clash, London Calling

Needing attention

Current activity: Article alerts
To Clean up: none (or all). Please, see: Cleanup listing
Lists to complete: List of The Clash concerts, Genres
Wanted Pics/Graphics: Gary Barnacle, Terry Chimes, Tymon Dogg, "Every Little Bit Hurts", Ellen Foley, "Groovy Times", The Latino Rockabilly War, Keith Levene, London SS, Ray Lowry, Sandy Pearlman, "Pressure Drop", Bill Price, Red Rockers, Bernard Rhodes, Nick Sheppard, Ray Staff, Strummerville, Kosmo Vinyl, Vince White (see: Category:The Clash articles needing photographs)
Maintain: none (or all)
Collaboration: none
To Deorphan: none
To Remove: none

Project building

Add WikiProject The Clash banner {{WPClash}} to all appropriate talk pages of all Clash-related articles.
Add/update assessments for all project pages.
Personally invite quality editors working on The Clash articles to join the project.

Project Discussions: The Clash WP Talk

If you complete one of these tasks, please remove it from the list and add your achievement to the project log.

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 same article can be adopted by more than one member.

Log

In order to track our progress as a community, whenever you perform some notable work on the following goals and projects please add a note in the log letting us all know where we are on our goals.

Project awards

The Guitarist Barnstar can be awarded to any project member you want to recognize for service to the project. Add it to their Talk page with {{subst:The Guitarist Barnstar|message ~~~~}}.

The Music Barnstar can be awarded to any Wikipedian that exhibits exceptional effort and dedication to music-related articles. Add it to their Talk page with {{subst:Music Barnstar|message ~~~~}}.

Guidelines

Following the guidelines already established by music, albums, and films for Wikiprojects for infoboxes and the like creates consistency across the Wikipedia. Please discuss any specific changes that you feel should be modified on the talk page.

Use of the Cite.php system for references across all articles covered by the Wikiproject is recommended.

As the band is from the United Kingdom, all articles should be written using UK English spelling and grammar, including treating the band name as a plural noun; i.e. "The Clash were a band", not "The Clash was a band".

The guidelines for achieving high quality in music-related articles, 'MUSTARD (MUsic STAndaRDs), are largely based on Wikipedia policies and guidelines, and common practice. WikiProject Music quality standards are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/MUSTARD, and include guidelines in the following areas:

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.

Citing a book: <ref>Author (yyyy). ''Book'', City: Editor, page number. ISBN XXXXXXXXXX.</ref>^[1]

Citing a book multiple times: Author (yyyy). Book, City: Editor. ISBN XXXXXXXXXX.

<ref>Author (yyyy). p. XX.</ref>^[2]

Reusing a reference in the same article: <ref name="somewebsite-Page_Title">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Clash#Citations Page Title]. SomeWebsite.xxx. Retrieved on [[March 14]], [[2008]]</ref>^[3]

Second use <ref name="somewebsite-Page_Title" />^[3]

You should use the {{cite book}}, {{cite journal}}, {{cite video}}, {{cite episode}} and {{cite web}} templates included in the <ref></ref> tags, and in References, Bibliography, Books or Further reading sections.

Some examples:

Using a reference and a {{cite book}} template:
<ref name="Best_of_the_Clash">{{cite book |last=Clash |first=The |authorlink=The Clash |author2=Steve Gorenberg|author3= Jeff Perrin|author4= David Whitehill |title=Best of the Clash |series=Hal Leonard guitar recorded versions |date=1999-05-01 |publisher=Hal Leonard |location=Milwaukee, WI |isbn=0793569966 |oclc=42574172| quote=Music transcriptions by Steve Gorenberg, Jeff Perrin, and Dave Whitehill; authentic transcriptions with notes and tablature. |ref=_note-Best_of_the_Clash}}</ref> ^[4];
- reusing the same reference: <ref name="Best_of_the_Clash" />;^[4]
using a wikilink to the template's ref value (_note-Best_of_the_Clash): [[#_note-Best_of_the_Clash]]. This method should be useful to link to a reference placed in another page, or to link to a section on the same page.

References

The citations are displayed by placing a {{reflist}} template at the bottom of the article.

To create small footnotes in any number of columns, use {{reflist|number of columns}} or {{reflist|colwidth=30em}} which will allow the browser to automatically choose the number of columns based on the width of the web browser.

[1]
Author (yyyy). Book, City: Editor, p. page number. ISBN XXXXXXXXXX.
[2]
Author (yyyy), p. XX.
[3]
WP Clash: Citations. WikiPedia.org. Retrieved on March 14, 2008
[4]
The Clash; Gorenberg, Steve; Perrin, Jeff; Whitehill, David (1999-05-01). Best of the Clash. Hal Leonard guitar recorded versions. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard. ISBN 0793569966. OCLC 42574172. Music transcriptions by Steve Gorenberg, Jeff Perrin, and Dave Whitehill; authentic transcriptions with notes and tablature.

Citations further reading

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

Templates

There are a lot of useful templates that may be relevant, infoboxes, notification boxes, and so forth. If you know of resources not listed here please add them!

Infoboxes

Following are useful infoboxes which should be used in a standard form across the project's articles, although some discussion may be required about which are most appropriate for a given subject.

{{Infobox musical artist}} (used for both individuals and for musical groups)
{{Infobox person}}
{{Infobox album}}
{{Infobox song}}

There are several useful infoboxes that are relevant to this project, as the project covers a large number of types of articles.

Infobox musical artist

The Clash are a band. Offshoots and side projects of members are also bands. So the {{Infobox musical artist}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. You can use it this way: {{Infobox musical artist}} Some examples:

Infobox person

Members of The Clash are people. So the {{Infobox person}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. You can use it this way: {{Infobox person}} Some examples:
- none

Infobox album

The Clash produced albums, together and individually. So the {{Infobox album}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. You can use it this way: {{Infobox album }} Some examples:

In addition to the writeup on the talk page of the infobox, the WikiProject Albums page has some discussion on how to effectively use these, color coding, and what some of the fields mean and so forth, as well as larger guidance on how Album pages ought to be done (how the track list is formatted, dates, usages, and so forth).

Some important points copied from that page: When you create or find a new album page, please add {{WikiProject Albums}} to the top of the talk page. If the page has no infobox, you should use {{WikiProject Albums|needs-infobox=yes}} instead. If the page has an incomplete infobox, note the missing details at Incomplete infobox. If the page has an old style infobox, add {{newinfobox|type=album}} to the bottom of the talk page.

Infobox song

The Clash produced songs and singles, together and individually. So the {{Infobox song}} template is likely to be useful. Hopefully most relevant articles have it already by now, but this is something to check for. You can use it this way: {{Infobox song}} Some examples:
- White Riot (first single, chronology starts here)
- London Calling (song)
- E=MC² (song) (note, uses a custom subst'd variant of the infobox since this is not a Clash single per se, it's a single written by Mick Jones, and performed by his post-Clash band Big Audio Dynamite... use your judgement)

Note that the template supports ordering of singles by when they charted.

Article template

The template which should be placed on all Clash-related talk pages, with an assessment, is {{WPClash}}. See the template's documentation page for proper formatting of the template.

Place this template in the talk page of an article that you think belongs in the project:

The Clash (inactive)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject The Clash, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.The ClashWikipedia:WikiProject The ClashTemplate:WikiProject The ClashThe Clash

by including this text at the very top of the page: {{WPClash}}

This template is also used for article classification (usage instructions). Do not subst it!

Stub templates

Category:Stub-Class_The_Clash_articles lists articles considered as stubs. There are currently about thirty-three articles listed

NOTE: stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on creating stub templates and categories. It is inadbisable to create new stub templates without consultation as these will probably be nominated for deletion.

Navigation Templates

The Clash

{{The Clash}} template should appear on all major articles (if it doesn't already). It is unnecessary on articles about individual songs and should be removed from song articles, and is probably not necessary in articles about more peripheral subjects. Place it at the bottom of the article by including this text: {{The Clash}}. The result is:

The Clash singles

{{The Clash singles}} template should appear on all articles about single and b-side (if it doesn't already). It is unnecessary on articles about individual songs. Place it at the bottom of the song article by including this text: {{The Clash singles}}>. The result is:

Invitation template

If you see someone that might have an interest in the project, you can place this template on their userpage to invite them.

More information Todo: ...

Hi! I've seen you around on Clash articles... Would you consider becoming a member of WikiProject The Clash, a WikiProject which aims to expand and improve coverage of The Clash on Wikipedia? Please feel free to join us.

"Know Your Rights"... Listen to this / Run ... to join us!

Todo:

Highest priority

Expand all articles related to The Clash

Fair use

Add fair use rationale to all images and sound samples (all except images already labeled free use).
Resize large "fair use" images to less than 300 pixels, @ 72dpi.

Articles

Try to expand all songs stubs if possible. Some song stubs can not be expanded and should be redirects to the album. See WP:NSONG.
Expand album articles (all).
Remove Trivia sections (trivia sections should be avoided in favor of presenting information within the framework of the article's main text).

To Create: The Right Profile, Hate and War, What's My Name? (song), Cheat (song), Protex Blue, 48 Hours (song), Johnny Green (manager), List of awards and nominations received by The Clash, List of The Clash concerts, Category:The Clash tours... (see project pages Songs and List of The Clash concerts)

To Destub: (see: Category:Stub-Class The Clash articles)

To Expand: (see: Category:Start-Class The Clash articles and Category:C-Class The Clash articles)

To Improve to GA-Class:: (see: Category:B-Class The Clash articles)

To Improve to Featured standard:: (see: Category:GA-Class The Clash articles)

To Nominate at WP:FAC: The Clash, London Calling

Needing attention

Current activity: Article alerts
To Clean up: none (or all). Please, see: Cleanup listing
Lists to complete: List of The Clash concerts, Genres
Wanted Pics/Graphics: Gary Barnacle, Terry Chimes, Tymon Dogg, "Every Little Bit Hurts", Ellen Foley, "Groovy Times", The Latino Rockabilly War, Keith Levene, London SS, Ray Lowry, Sandy Pearlman, "Pressure Drop", Bill Price, Red Rockers, Bernard Rhodes, Nick Sheppard, Ray Staff, Strummerville, Kosmo Vinyl, Vince White (see: Category:The Clash articles needing photographs)
Maintain: none (or all)
Collaboration: none
To Deorphan: none
To Remove: none

Project building

Add WikiProject The Clash banner {{WPClash}} to all appropriate talk pages of all Clash-related articles.
Add/update assessments for all project pages.
Personally invite quality editors working on The Clash articles to join the project.

Project Discussions: The Clash WP Talk

If you complete one of these tasks, please remove it from the list and add your achievement to the project log.

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by including this text: {{WikiProject The Clash Invite}}

DO put some commentary below it, explaining WHY they might be interested, and sign. Alternatively, you may leave a message and sign within the template by supplying an optional parameter: {{WikiProject The Clash Invite|~~~~}}

DO NOT spam people extensively, give it some thought first and don't invite too many people at once.

It makes sense to grow the project participation slowly so use with care. But it's a fun template, a bit more attention grabbing than just a note.

Membership template

Members of the project may want to put the {{User WPClash}} infobox on their user page, which appears below:

This user participates in
WikiProject The Clash.

You can place this template on your userpage to show project membership.

To identify yourself without using the userbox, add this to the bottom of your user page: [[Category:WikiProject The Clash participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

Placing one of these on your pages is entirely optional but is a way to show your involvement to others... that's good for the project as we have lots of work to do!

Media	Quotes
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Lists

Articles

List of unreferenced living people articles

Wikipedia articles on The Clash

Missing Articles

Article suggestions/requests

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