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Welcome to the British folk rock task force of WikiProject Roots music, and WikiProject Regional and national music.

Scope

• The British folk rock task force covers the English-speaking and Celtic branches of British folk rock, as defined at British folk rock. It also covers other associated acts such as Pentangle (band). It does not cover Celtic punk, or general folk rock topics that are not British folk rock.

Participants

Please use # ~~~~ to add your name to the list below

1. TimNelson 08:22, 31 May 2007 (UTC)-
2. Sabrebd (talk) 01:36, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Todo

Todo items for members of British folk rock task force

• Tag and assess related articles.
  • Especially tag articles that need to go in Category:British folk rock albums
• Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here.
• Make a template like Template:Folk music
• Follow the "Quick article improvements" information below for:
  • All groups in Category:British folk rock groups
  • All albums associated with groups in Category:British folk rock groups
  • All musicians/artists associated with groups in Category:British folk rock groups
• Create infoboxes for articles in Category:British folk rock task force articles needing infoboxes

Guidelines

Tagging and assessment

Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with the project banners of WikiProject Roots music and WikiProject Regional and national music. You may also find {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} useful. To each of these banners, you should add british-folk-rock-task-force = yes as this will automatically put the page in the appropriate categories, such as Category:British folk rock task force articles.

The text you probably want is: {{WikiProject Roots music|class=|importance=|needs-infobox=|british-folk-rock-task-force=yes}}

The importance levels in the tagging scheme work as follows:

• Top: The British folk rock article itself, and maybe one or two others
• High: Festivals, the 4 important bands (cf. Britta Sweers), "Liege and Lief" album, etc
• Mid: Most bands, a few important musicians and albums
• Low: Individual musicians, most albums, a songs that have been covered by at least 3 of the British folk rock bands, etc

Categories

• Category:British folk rock groups (and all subcategories)
• Category:British folk rock task force articles (and all subcategories)

Templates

For main project templates, see the main project page for WikiProject Roots music and WikiProject Regional and national music.

Userbox template

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Roots music/Outreach/User British folk rock task force}}

Infobox template

The following infoboxen may be useful:

• Template:Infobox Musical artist (for individual musicians and bands)

Bands, individuals, and albums

• Ensure that the article is tagged and assessed (see tagging and assessment, above)
• In many cases, the term folk rock can be changed to British folk rock (as a more precise definition). This is by no means universal, so intelligence must be applied.
• Add some more headings

Item	Bands	Individuals	Albums
Ensure that the article is in the appropriate category (or subcategories)	Category:British folk rock groups	Category:British folk rock musicians	Category:British folk rock albums
Ensure that the article has an infobox	{{Infobox Musical artist}}	{{Infobox Musical artist}}	{{Infobox Album}}
Other	Create a timeline using m:EasyTimeline Consider making a template somewhat like Template:Steeleye Span	If the related bands have templates, include these on the page	If the related band has a template, include it on the page Song names can often be turned into links (if there's already an article on the song)

Songs

• Most British folk rock songs are folk songs played in this style, and thus no special suggestions could be applicable

Resources

Notable Articles

New Articles

Feel free to add your new Roots music-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please) or help out with items that appear here. When they have passed GA or FA review, move them from these sections. If you need assistance on your new article also add it to the to do list. Medieval folk rock - British folk rock now has a sub-genre --Sabrebd (talk) 09:55, 5 February 2009 (UTC) Simon Nicol - major expansion and clean up.--Sabrebd (talk) 21:28, 1 February 2009 (UTC) Celtic rock - major expansion, this article probably rates with British folk rock in importance for this task force --Sabrebd (talk) 09:42, 24 January 2009 (UTC) Fairport Convention - Rewritten with NPOV and references, some thinner sections expanded --Sabrebd (talk) 18:49, 15 January 2009 (UTC) Ashley Hutchings - have expanded and updated this article and supplied some references --Sabrebd (talk) 16:14, 13 January 2009 (UTC) The Albion Country Band - have expanded this stub, corrected some issues of links and tried to provide a full discography of the most confusing folk band ever. --Sabrebd (talk) 00:28, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

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