Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Outreach/Newsletter/Issue 016

WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter
Issue 016 – November 2008

Beatles News

• Bob Dylan and The Beatles: Even geniuses can have an off day - Paul McCartney unearths Carnival of Light, a lost Beatles recording.

• Malcolm Gladwell on Joy, Gates and the Beatles -- and on stage - Malcolm Gladwell praises The Beatles and discusses how they honed their talents in Hamburg.

• Beatles' 'Eleanor Rigby''s identity revealed? - Paul McCartney reveals the inspiration for his song, Eleanor Rigby.

Project News

• We now have a barnstar - it can be placed on anybody's talk page using {{subst:Beatles barnstar|Message. ~~~~}}

• A peer review for George Harrison has been opened by Dendodge in an attempt to get both it and Ringo Starr to good article status, in order to get The Beatles personnel to good topic status.

• A portal peer review has been opened for The Beatles portal in order to get it to featured portal status. It will gain the distinction of being the first portal dedicated to an individual musician/band to reach featured status.

• 0 new articles have been listed in the Project Log since 1 October. The project log seems to have been neglected recently, and we request that project members help us to bring it up-to-date.

Member News

• New members to the project since the last issue include QuidProQuo23 and Feeling free.

• Tj999 has changed his name to TFunk.

Issue of the Month

History of The Beatles has been recreated following the advice given in a peer review of The Beatles. We request your assistance in summarising the History section of The Beatles so they are not just carbon copies of each other.

From the Editor

Please take the time to review some articles (or submit your own) at our internal peer review page. It will help us to improve our articles.

If you've just joined, add your name to the Participants section of Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!

Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 017 – December 2008). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

Contributors to this Issue

• Dendodge (Editor, Distributor)