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This project aims to bring together editors interested in working on articles related to all aspects of bagpiping. Migrated from Wikipedia:WikiProject Pipe Bands in December 2016.

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Looking for quality photos of all players and pipe bands that have their own article.

How to assess notability for bagpipe-related articles, especially historical ones? Guidelines for music acts and groups. Notability comes from coverage in media, but there are certain ways a band or player can generate that coverage. If a band or player hasn't competed at a high level or produced some other form of media, coverage is much more likely to be primary - ie generated by them - or only a mention in passing.

Pipe bands

Ways for a band to assert notability:

• Bands that have spent time in Grade 1 at any point in history - and the coverage associated with competing at this level
• Featuring prominently in major events

Solo players

Ways for a solo player to become notable.

• Winning a Gold medal - there is only a finite number of these players
• As a touring musician

Composers

• ??

Makers

• List of bagpipe makers

Organisations

• Schools and associations covered by Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)

Tunes

• Only a few tunes meet the guidelines. Composers are more likely to be notable than tunes, and any useful information about a tune can also be said about the composer.

• List of pipe bands

Userboxes This user is a member of WikiProject Bagpipes. GHB This user plays the Great Highland Bagpipe.

Add {{ User WP Bagpipes}} to your user page to be added to the category of participants. {{ User Highland Bagpipes}} is also available.

• JarrahTree 23:25, 12 April 2019 (UTC) reply

Pipe Band Infobox

{{ Infobox Pipe band}} all pipe band articles

Musical Artist Infobox

{{ Infobox musical artist}} for solo players

Grade 1 pipe band NavBox

{{ Grade 1 pipe bands}} for the bottom of articles on Grade 1 pipe bands.

Talk Page Template

{{ WikiProject Bagpipes}} for article and category talk pages

Stub template

{{ Pipe-band-stub}} for pipe band stubs

• pipesdrums.com/ Frequent news, some in-depth features that require subscription
• pipetunes.ca Good bios for many piping composers

• Roots, folk and traditional