...Conversion

• B5 (group) - Article's only sources are an outdated MTV link and a Tripod fan page (of all things). I cleaned up the talk page because it looked like a forum, but much of the article page looks like it was written by a twelve-year-old, especially everything after this section.
• Bill Berry - former drummer for R.E.M. needs more context, refs, discography. (The band page is an FA!)
• The Cowsills – need content, references, discography.
• The Chieftains - more substance (especially on former members)
• David Immerglück of Counting Crows – content, discography, references.
• Counting Crows- Needs cleanup, content, references, some discography cleanup of album pages and song pages.
• Divinyls - Infobox was added, more is needed?
• Sonny Emory - No sources; and to say that the article is non-neutral would be an understatement.
• Jim Ford - Few sources, needs major cleanup and infobox
• Heart (band) - What should be done next?
• Strawbs - needs additional refs and/or treatment for unintentional POV/weasel words. (see talk page for examples).
• Vanessa Carlton - The "2013–present: Liberman" section needs to be reorganized using prose.
• Marshmallow Coast - Needs major cleanup,References,This article contradicts itself and is very confusing and does not provide the necessary information and the timeline of information is hard to read,To be honest this article looks like someone wrote this over 20 years without changing anything else.
• Anita Carter and Maybelle Carter - currently some problems with fan-POV editing, help is requested to improve these articles in an encyclopedic way.
• The United Travel Service - unsourced content and promotion added in 2021; reverting triggers blog filter.

Expansion (Keep alphabetized, please!)

• Alvin Youngblood Hart needs content, refs, disc.
• Antye Greie - credible experimental producer, has worked with Ellen Allien Vladislav Delay etc. needs photos, organization, references
• Antônio Carlos Jobim- a vital article, needs more information and many more references
• Arthur Arnold - needs expansion, references
• Cappadonna - unofficial, disputed member of the Wu-Tang Clan. In need of photos, referencing & a page for the discography. Very badly in need of content.
• Cat Stevens needs expansion, some cleanup of album and song pages already there.
• Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones needs expansion, references and discography for his 3 solo albums
• Chris Whitley- Blues-rock guitarist, vocalist and songwriter needs expansion, references, and discography.
• Cracker (band)- needs content, references, some discography
• Cris Williamson missing birthdate, content, references
• Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - needs content
• David D'Or -- Israeli Singer of the Year and Eurovision contestant; needs sourcing for some platinum albums; also, any expansion that can help it attain GA/FA status. Thanks.
• David Knopfler- needs content, flow; member of Dire Straits
• David Lindley needs expansion, refs, discog- big multi-instrumentalist, worked extensively with Jackson Browne & others as a session musician and had his own bands, like El Rayo X
• Diane Schuur- needs photos, content, references, discography*now moved to GA status-Eagledj (talk) 17:29, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
• Dixie Chicks needs expansion, references
• Eddie Money - album pages need information, and the page itself should be expanded
• Ernie Watts needs content, references
• Fresco Trey needs expansion, references, and photos. (very basic page!!)
• Fifth Harmony - needs expansion, references and a photo.
• Gram Parsons - needs photos, cleanup, references, please help expand this page
• GZA/The Genius - rap artist with critically acclaimed albums. In need of content and discography (singles, featured songs), photos, etc.
• Heroes & Zeros - needs content
• Jaco Pastorious- please help expand this page, with references
• Jephté Guillaume -- Needs discography, photo, more info on recent career, biographical and personal info
• Jerry Marotta - needs photos, content
• Jimmy LaFave - needs lead rewrite and clean up
• Joe Satriani - timeline, incorporation of extra info in external links; could be brought to GA status with some TLC!
• Joel Rafael - needs photos, content
• John Illsley, of Dire Straits; expansion, photos, disc. & refs
• Junior Barnard - Needs just about everything for this hugely influential guitarist.
• Little Feat- needs content, etc
• Lorenza Ponce - Violinist - needs additional citations, photo, content.
• Luis Villegas - needs photos, content
• Mark Hart needs content, refs, disc.
• Mark Seymour needs expansion, references, discography.
• Martha Argerich - in need of content, photos (particularly recent ones), and in need of much work on the structure and flow of the article. Badly in need of referencing.
• Masta Killa - rap artist and member of the Wu-Tang Clan. In need of content, photos & a page for the discography.
• Mel Schacher - Bassist for Grand Funk Railroad In need of content and editing
• Merle Watson - Was just a redirect to Doc Watson. I expanded it but I don't know a whole lot about him. In need of family/biography info, references, possible additions to discography.
• Method Man - member of the Wu-Tang Clan as well as of the duo Method Man & Redman. In need of some content in the section rapping career and photos.
• Mike Mattison of Scrapomatic and The Derek Trucks Band- needs content, refereces
• Mike Terrana Needs independent editing. Most has been written by Terrana himself.
• Missing Persons - needs photos, clean-up
• Monks of Doom- needs content, references, discography
• My Father's Gun - needs content, references, photo?
• Nazareth - album pages need more substance as well as the article
• Ol' Dirty Bastard -member of the Wu-Tang Clan. In need of content, photos & a page for the discography.
• Patti Smith - needs biography, content
• Pierre Pincemaille - Needs content
• Raekwon - rap artist and member of the Wu-Tang Clan. In need of content, photos & a page for the discography.
• Ray Lynch - Needs more sources regarding his Influences and personal life; good sources could only be found in Google Books since no online news sources exist.
• Richard Perry - Music Producer- needs editing- photo, discography, and lots more content.
• Rory Gallagher Blues rock vocalist & guitarist from Ireland needing expansion and help (also has an unfinished discography page needing completion with references). His website just made this much easier to approach now.(December 2010)]
• Sister Sledge - needs album pages, clean-up, and more substance
• Sound of Ceres - Needs expansion,Content,Also band member information
• Steve Jordan drummer in John Mayer Trio, and long history of high profile session work, needs content, refs, and discography.
• Stevie Nicks- needs a total cleanup, and copyedit work to bring it to GA level.
• Stevie Wonder needs cleanup; Could easily be made a GA article with TLC and copyediting.
• Sufjan Stevens discography needs serious work.
• Sweet Honey in the Rock needs content, etc.
• Tal Wilkenfeld needs expansion, birthdate, and references up to date (She's currently a solo artist and bassist for Jeff Beck)
• The Apples in Stereo - Needs cleanup, Content, Timeline
• The Burns Sisters - needs content.
• The Derek Trucks Band- needs content, discography and references.
• U-God - critically acclaimed American rap artist and member of the Wu-Tang Clan. In need of content, photos, referencing & a page for the discography.
• Union J - needs expansion and especially a photo.
• Vinnie Colaiuta of Frank Zappa, Megadeth and Jeff Beck fame needs content, references and discography
• Wayne Krantz- jazz guitarist, needs content expansion
• Wazmo Nariz - American musician, needs citations and expansion.
• The Television Personalities need a photo, expansion, references.
• Waddy Wachtel high profile Session player needs expansion, references

Assessment

Biography (musicians) articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	16	36	43	59		20	174
FL				5			5
GA	18	52	163	328		174	735
B	40	222	815	1,241		1,675	3,993
C	18	206	1,058	6,488	1	7,269	15,040
Start	7	151	1,762	30,135	3	40,548	72,606
Stub		16	314	21,575	3	36,023	57,931
List	3	2	8	173		175	361
Category			4	6	9,496		9,506
Disambig				3	23		26
File					173		173
Project					27		27
Redirect	1	3	31	636	2,961		3,632
Template				17	915		932
NA					1		1
Other			1	37	1,445		1,483
Assessed	103	688	4,199	60,703	15,048	85,884	166,625
Unassessed			2	244		3,450	3,696
Total	103	688	4,201	60,947	15,048	89,334	170,321
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 784,205			Ω = 5.21

• Abderrahmane Abdelli - Rewrote and added lots more content
• Alvino Rey - Just added. Needs assessment.(Rated C class)Eagledj (talk) 13:47, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
• Aparde - request to assess please
• Draft:Ayaz Ismail (iThinkSound) - Request to assess and help with article
• Barbara Manning - Unstubbed. Needs new assessment.
• Cat Stevens - will lose it's GA-ranking without quick help (17 Dec. 2009)
• Draft:Curevaneers - Request to assess and help with article
• Dana Strum - Significantly expanded and improved, please review and assess. Thank you.
• Danny Flowers - Updated this older article, had no refs, tagged for 12 years.
• David D'Or - Israeli Singer of the Year and Eurovision contestant. Expanded. Needs re-assessment.
• Donna Loren - content replaced, no longer stub, needs assessment
• Dropkick Murphys - needs re-assessment, can't believe it's start class
• Dusty Springfield - content recently replaced. needs assessment.
• Erik Mongrain - Just added. Needs assessment.
• Fikret Kızılok - Heavily expanded, removed stub assessment, article needs proper assessment, though.
• G.E.M. - changed content, needs re-assessment
• Gillian Welch - peer review for FA
• Girlschool - changed content, needs re-assessment
• James Brown - undergoing peer review
• Joel Ryce-Menuhin - Expanded. Needs assessment.
• Jonathan Cohler - Needs re-assessment. Added many secondary sources. Removed most primary sources. Has nearly 100 sources. Pruned unsourced statements to a minimum. Expanded. Added section header. Very well sourced. Writing is neutral tone. Reasonably well written. Can't believe it is only start class.
• Keiko Terada - needs assessment
• Ladysmith Black Mambazo - will lose its GA rating without swift intervention (6 Jan 2010).
• Lazy (band) - needs assessment
• Lior - needs re-assessment.
• Loudness (band) - changed content, needs re-assessment
• Michael Laucke - undergoing peer review while awaiting GA
• Mina (singer) - content recently replaced. needs assessment.
• Misha B - removed unofficial B+ assessment, article needs proper assessment?
• Missrepresent - Article needs proper assessment, please.
• Missy Higgins - undergoing peer review
• Naomi Phoenix - Just added. Needs assessment
• No Doubt - undergoing peer review
• Oleg Bezuglov - request to assess
• Quantice Never Crashed - Needs assessment
• Queensrÿche - Heavily expanded. Needs re-assessment + input on what is still missing.
• Richard Christy - needs re-assessment.
• Rockette Morton - needs assessment
• Spirogyra (band) - Needs reassessment. I recently made some extensive revisions. 26 July 2021.
• Stanford Fleet Street Singers - Needs assessment. Article is newly added to the Musicians WikiProject; contains infobox, history, notable performances/works, discography, awards and nominations, alumni, and ~70 references. (2 December 2019)
• Sylvie Vartan - content recently replaced. needs assessment.
• Tanglewood Festival Chorus - article has not been a stub for some time, needs assessment
• Tav Falco - Expanded and reorganized; needs reassessment. (Rated "stub class" at this time)
• Tom Brumley -expanded and upgraded with photographs— Been on "Did You Know". Never assessed.
• The Apples In Stereo - Expanded,cleaned up,Added timeline,Needs reassessment
• The Coors- needs peer review for FA.
• The Honeydogs - A large copyvio was removed after this was assessed as start class.
• The Phenomenauts - Requesting re-assessment. Listed as Stub. I added 4,000 words; 109 references; five free images; 3 non-free images; four audio clips with subtitles; band member timeline.
• The Notorious B.I.G. - undergoing peer review
• Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Rewritten and hugely expanded, respectfully requesting a fresh assessment.
• The Uptones - Expanded. Needs assessment.
• The Uptones - Northern California ska band article needs assessment.
• The Villebillies - recently added. needs assessment.
• Wingtip Sloat - New article. Needs assessment.
• Alfredo Antonini - last assessed in 2008 as a Start-Class. it has been expanded and upgraded with photographs and external links.
• Skycycle (rock band) - Requesting reassessment; assigned Stub-Class in 2009. It has seen major expansions since then. Thanks!

Needs photos

• Ali Birra
• Alisa Amador
• Ambulance Ltd
• Anjimile
• Atomic Rooster
• Bobbie Gentry
• By Night
• Cat Stevens (a young version showing his face)
• Corook
• Cortney Tidwell
• Curevaneers
• François Kevorkian
• Hamish Imlach
• Hedgehog Pie
• Jephté Guillaume
• John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
• Jonas Tomalty
• Lane Shi Otayonii
• Leith Ross
• Lex Luger
• Lookas
• Mint Green
• Missrepresent
• Naia Izumi
• Neffy
• Quinn Christopherson
• Rockette Morton
• Stars Like Fleas
• Sheep, Dog & Wolf (musician)
• Tenci
• Val Jeanty

See Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of musicians for more.

See also

• Category:Musicians work group articles needing attention
• Category:Musicians work group articles needing discographies
• Category:Musicians work group articles needing infoboxes
• Joni Anwar needs a native English speaker to copyedit the page.
• Glenn A. Baker needs expansion
• Alan Broadbent needs references
• Joe Camilleri needs discography
• Amina Figarova needs disc. content, references
• Glider- needs information, refs, disc.
• Levon Helm needs cleanup
• Paul Livingston a musical journalist, aka Flacco needs content, D.O.B., refs.
• Carol Lynn Maillard a founding member of Sweet Honey in the Rock, still performing with them needs references, content and discography, and a photo.
• Jamey Haddad needs photo, discography, references
• Ronnie Hawkins needs photo
• André Manuel needs photo, discography, references
• Arnold McCuller needs references
• Jim Moginie needs expansion, refs, discog.
• Nile Rodgers needs ref checking. There's been promotional editing without cites.
• Cathie Ryan needs expansion, refs
• Mia Doi Todd needs references, verified discography
• Dusty Springfield needs a native English speaker to copyedit the language.
• Dave Douglas needs a separate discog page.
• Samuel Adler (composer) Perhaps an editor could participate in the discussion about including an InfoBox to enhance this article about a noted conductor, composer and music educator- See the talk page on the article for possible Infobox formulations including: "Infobox person" or "Infobox musical artist" or "Infobox academic". See Talk:Samuel Adler (composer) to include your thoughts. Thanks in advance.
• Caramel (singer) needs discography, references