Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Punk music/Good Charlotte task force

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Thanks. — Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 09:12, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

Task force merger

I propose turning this project into a task force of WikiProject Punk music. The rationales for this are:

The scope is too narrow to warrant the administrative overhead of a full project. The WikiProject Council guide recommends that if a project might only ever have a few dozen articles and a handful of members, a task force is a much more suitable alternative. The topic of Good Charlotte has only a few dozen articles in its scope and isn't likely to ever have enough to justify a full project. The project has been almost entirely inactive for about 2 years, and has only ever attracted 5 members (only 2 of whom are still active on Wikipedia).
The task force could benefit from using the parent project's administrative infrastructure, which is already in place. These include assessment scales, categories, etc. The project does not really merit its own assessment scale or categories as, again, it's only ever likely to cover a few dozen articles at best.
Becoming a task force would encourage members of the parent project to join the task force, thus spurring activity in the most critical area: actual article editing.

In general, full WikiProjects dedicated to a single musical artist/act almost always die of administrative overload. A vast majority of artist-specific Wikiprojects peter out and become inactive; a task force of a larger parent project is a much more suitable means of encouraging editor collaboration around artist-specific article families. Please voice your opinion below, and if there are no objections within a couple of weeks I will go ahead with a task force merger. --IllaZilla (talk) 22:35, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As it has been over 4½ months and there have been no objections, I will proceed with the task force merger. --IllaZilla (talk) 16:54, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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