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Article skeleton

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Percussion/Percussion instrument article skeleton contains a skeleton which uses the infobox and footer templates and provides the standard appendix and footer section headings.

For more detail, HS classifications, images etc, see the individual resources below.

Categories

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Each percussion instrument article should be in at least one of the subcategories (direct or indirect) of each of these container categories, and often more than one. Note however that owing to the complex nature of the category tree, this doesn't always mean it ends up in four categories.

Articles on individual percussion instruments should not be in Category:Percussion instruments, see WP:DIFFUSE, although they will often be put there by well-meaning editors. Just patiently clean them up!

Templates

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This template informs other editors of our interest, and also links the page to the project alert system, so we get an automatic heads-up of pending moves and deletions for example.

{{WikiProject Percussion|class=NA}} should be used on the talk pages of relevant redirects and disambiguation pages, and {{WikiProject Percussion}} on relevant category talk pages (where it defaults to class=NA).

  • Template:Percussion creates a footer which gives quick navigation to other percussion articles, and should be on most if not all percussion articles. Place {{Percussion}} after the last section or the article (which will be External links if there are any) and before the categories. It's that simple.
  • Template:Infobox instrument is a sidebar which should be used in all instrument articles, and gives information about the instrument in a concise format.

Parameters of the infobox template, with some important ones bolded:

name = normally the article name, minus any disambiguation
names = other names, lower case, separated by commas
image = the filename if we have an image
image_capt = normally no need for this
background = percussion (this sets the background colour)
classification = Percussion (this appears as text)
hornbostel_sachs = the numerical code, as precise as we can make it, see Hornbostel-Sachs 
hornbostel_sachs_desc = the corresponding description
inventors = link to any known significant innovators who developed the instrument 
developed = time or period in which the instrument was developed
range = even for pitched percussion, rarely useful, glockenspiels for example have many different ranges, but occasionally can be specified
related = link to similar instruments
musicians = link to any known significant players and composers
builders = noted builders not already listed as inventors
articles = any particularly relevant see alsos not already covered

Real life example (source below, with what it generates at the right):

Swish cymbal
Original design Zildjian swish cymbal with six rivets, mounted bell up
Percussion instrument
Classification Percussion
Hornbostel–Sachs classification111.242.12+112.12
(Hanging bells suspended from the apex with rattles attached to a carrier against which they strike)
Inventor(s)Robert Zildjian, Gene Krupa, Mel Lewis
Developed1930s
Related instruments
Pang cymbal
Builders
All major cymbal companies, many boutique makers

{{Infobox instrument
| name = Swish cymbal
| names =
| image = Swishcymbal.jpg
| image_capt = Original design Zildjian swish cymbal with six rivets, mounted bell up
| background = percussion
| classification = Percussion
| hornbostel_sachs = 111.242.12+112.12
| hornbostel_sachs_desc = Hanging bells suspended from the apex with rattles attached to a carrier against which they strike
| inventors = [[Robert Zildjian]], [[Gene Krupa]], [[Mel Lewis]]
| developed = 1930s
| related = Pang cymbal
| musicians =
| builders = All major cymbal companies, many boutique makers
| articles =
}}

Hornbostel-Sachs

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Images

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Uploading your own photos of instruments (your own instruments, your friends' instruments, whatever) to Commons is easy and highly recommended. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard and follow the instructions. You need to be logged in to Commons to upload images, but if you have a unified login then simply logging in to English Wikipedia will log you in to Commons too.

Simply using any of the many tempting photos to be found on the web is of course a complete no-no, see Wikipedia:Image use policy. Clearing them with the copyright owners is possible but can be arduous, and if you set just one foot ever so slightly wrong in the process, the image will be deleted sooner or later. Or possibly even if you don't. So check commons first, usage of its images is relatively trouble-free. That's what it's there for!