Portal talk:Rock and roll

Let's get things kicked off

What we need:

• An image for the portal, I was thinking of a guitar image, but like a cartoon like picture of a guitar.
• Categories... this is the long and tedious part but must be done. I'd recommend a subcategory for each genre, (See List of rock genres what's everyone else think? Also we need categories for the things you can do section, a category of rock stubs that need expanding etc...

I'm sure there's plenty of other stuff we need too, but in my mind, those two seem the most urgent.Qeee1 23:34, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

For the image of the portal, I think a guitar image will be nice, but not cartoon. Maybe a real one but first we need to get rid of the round, orange headings

As for categories, genres is a great idea and. Also, we should have info on each instrument, such as guitar/drums, etc.

As of now, all rock and roll portal discussion takes place here. Also as of now, Portal:Rock and Roll is officially established. YAY!!!Osbus 01:46, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I like the idea of a real guitar picture. Maybe a Stratocaster, those are pretty emblematic.

Categorizing by genres is a good idea, but it might also be nice to categorize by era. WoodenTaco 17:06, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

yeah...Jimi Hendrix and such have used stratocasters so that's a good idea. But categorizing by era...that's a bit narrowOsbus 03:39, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

i would make sense to change the titel of the page to Rock (music). unless the idea is too have a page about the earlier forms of rock music then the titel classic rock would be better. ..crowscream..

Deaths

How about adding a rock 'n' roll deaths section as well as the births one?James Barlow 23:24, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Fair use image

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Rock and Roll Birthdays

Since no one has updated the birthdays section for almost three months I'm going to delete it.

queen logo

maybe there should actually be a picture for the selected picture section instead of just a description. 65.96.41.169 20:20, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Default portal image

Currently, there are two different portal images, depending on how the portal template is called. Which one would people prefer? I'm not watching this page, so it would be great if you could comment at Template talk:Portal#Case duplicates. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 17:43, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

{{Portal|Rock and roll}}
{{Portal|Rock and Roll}}

Categorization according to live-line-up

What do you think about introducing an additional new categorization according to the typical live instrumentation for the bands.

Here are a few examples:

• Kings of Leon in category:voc/git-git-bass-drum
• The Beatles in category:voc/git-voc/git-bass-drum
• The Police in category:voc/git-bass-drum

etc.

There would have to be rules so that each band is classified according to their most typical (current) live-line-up in just one category.

Once all the bands are classified, in each category there would be a handful of bands with the same kind of cast.

These categories could be arranged hierarchically.

--84.184.39.219 (talk) 15:03, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

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Requested move 12 May 2019

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved due to no opposition — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:28, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

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Portal:Rock and Roll → Portal:Rock and roll – (over redirect) For some reason this portal was missed when nearly all other portals were converted from Title Case to standard WP title capitalization; portal names should also match their subject article, which for this one is Rock and roll. UnitedStatesian (talk) 21:18, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

• Note, following Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Rock music this portal should likely be combined with Portal:Rock music - and personally, I think the latter is the better title. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:17, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

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