Wikipedia:WikiProject The Kinks

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The Kinks
Original line-up in 1965. From left: Pete Quaife, Dave Davies, Ray Davies, Mick Avory.
Original line-up in 1965. From left: Pete Quaife, Dave Davies, Ray Davies, Mick Avory.
Background information
OriginLondon, England
GenresRock, pop, hard rock
Years active1963–1996; 2018–present
LabelsPye, Reprise, RCA, Arista, London, MCA, Sony, Koch, Tower, Konk/Guardian
MembersRay Davies
Dave Davies
Mick Avory
John Dalton
Past membersPete Quaife
John Gosling
Jim Rodford
Ian Gibbons
Bob Henrit
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This page represents the Wikipedia Project The Kinks, a collaborative effort to help classify and improve the quality of all articles relating and pertaining to British Rock group The Kinks. If you’d like to join or help, please add your name to the list below in the "members" section. Everyone is welcome to help!

This project is still in its fledgling stages. If you have any tips or would like to point out something, please feel free to leave a comment on this projects talk page. Thanks!

Scope[edit]

The scope of the project is articles about The Kinks 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 Kinks as a group and individually.

Goals[edit]

  1. To Improve all articles relating to The Kinks
  2. To tag all The Kinks articles
  3. To Categorise all The Kinks articles
  4. To create articles to fill in gaps in The Kinks’ coverage on Wikipedia

And, specifically,

  1. Unify and improve articles about albums
  2. Unify and improve articles about the group
  3. Unify and improve song articles

Members[edit]

Anyone can sign up as a member whether you will contribute regularly or not. If you wish to become a participant, sign below (please note this list should be kept in order of date joined):

  1. I.M.S. (talk) 20:38, 25 September 2009 (UTC), Project Founder.[reply]
  2. User:dj.minister 20:17, 30 October 2009 (GMT)
  3. User:Moxy (talk) 08:04, 21 January 2010 (UTC) portal guy[reply]
  4. Kielbasa1 (talk) 19:12, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  5. The Mad Hatter (talk) 20:00, 30 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Beatleswhobeachboys (talk) 31 March 2014
  7. Mistymountain546 (talk) 28 January 2016
  8. PetrusMatthaeus (talk) 15 October 2016
  9. Amirhosein Izadi Amirhosein Izadi (talk) 21:31, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Related projects[edit]

Parentage[edit]

The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Music.

To-do list[edit]

Wikipedia articles on The Kinks[edit]

Templates[edit]

There’s three templates for the project right now, and these are the following:

Project Banner[edit]

WikiProject iconThe Kinks NA‑class (inactive)
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject The Kinks, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.
NAThis article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

This you can add to the Talk Page (not the main article) of any pages related to The Kinks. Anyone can do it – the more the better!

Please add {{WikiProject The Kinks}} along with the importance and quality of the article. You can do this by putting |class=X (where X is Stub, Start, B, A, GA or FA) and |importance=X (where X is Low, Mid, High or Top). Note that the parameters and values are case sensitive.

End-of-page Template[edit]

Add this to the end of the actual article on a page relating to The Kinks. This does not belong on pages only vaguely related, the scope is not as broad as the Project Banner. Basically, add this to songs, members, and albums. Type {{The Kinks}}.

User box[edit]

Once you've joined, you can add the following Template to your user page:

This user is a member of
WikiProject The Kinks.

Do this by typing: {{User The Kinks Project}}


Assessment[edit]

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/The Kinks articles by quality statistics

Showcase[edit]

The following items have received recognition from the Wikipedia community:

Featured Articles [edit]

  1. The Kinks
  2. Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
  3. "Village Green"

Good Articles [edit]

  1. Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
  2. You Really Got Me
  3. "Lola"
  4. "Come Dancing"
  5. "Big Sky"
  6. The Great Lost Kinks Album
  7. "Mr. Songbird"
  8. "Picture Book"
  9. "Starstruck"
  10. "Monica"
  11. "People Take Pictures of Each Other"
  12. "All of My Friends Were There"
  13. "Animal Farm"
  14. "Do You Remember Walter?"
  15. "Sitting by the Riverside"
  16. "Johnny Thunder"
  17. "Wicked Annabella"
  18. The Kinks Greatest Hits!
  19. "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains"
  20. "Polly"
  21. "Berkeley Mews"

Did You Know... (DYK) [edit]

  1. Konk (recording)
  2. "Dedicated Follower of Fashion"
  3. Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
  4. Live at Kelvin Hall
  5. "Don't Forget to Dance"
  6. "The Hard Way"
  7. "Sitting in My Hotel"
  8. "Lola"