Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Latin music and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project. No knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is required to join the project. We also have dedicated channel on Latino Discord!
In the music industry, "Latin music" has a broad definition due to music journalists, musicologists, and other music sources having different views of what makes an artist or a recording "Latin". For the purpose of simplicity and from past discussions, the Latin Recording Academy's definition of "Latin music" is used as the basis for the project's scope while Billboard and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)'s definitions are used as secondary sources. Therefore, the Latin music project scope mainly focuses on the following:
Music in Spanish and Portuguese from anywhere around the world.
Spanish- and Portuguese-language recording artists, musicians, songwriters, producers, and other technical recording professional involved in the Latin music industry.
Music sung in recognized languages, indigneous languages, dialects or idiomatic of countries of Ibero-America (Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries and territories of the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula) such as Basque, Catalan, Nahuatl, Quechua, Galician, Valencian, and Mayan.
Instrumental Latin music genres from Ibero-America and compositions by Ibero-American musicians.
Criteria for inclusion
Biographies
A biography that has met the notability requirements outlined at WP:BIO may be included within this project if it meets one of the following criteria.
For vocal artist and bands:
A recording artist or group whose public identity is primarily established in Spanish or Portuguese, or in languages recognized in Ibero-America or who have consistently recorded music in any of these languages.
For instrumental musicians, the project covers any of the following:
Predominantly performs any Latin music genre that originates from Ibero-America, regardless of artist's nationality.
Musicians who are from Ibero America and performs any musical traditions, genres, or rhythms that originates or is common or traditional in Ibero-America such as classical, pop, rock, urban, etc. Musicians of Ibero-American descent may also be included if their heritage is noted by reliable sources.
Composers, songwriters, producers, and any other music executives or personnel involved with the Latin music industry falls under the project scope as well.
Recordings
A recording that has met the notability requirements outlined at WP:NMUSIC may be included within this project if it meets one of the following criteria.
For vocal recordings:
More than half of its content recorded in Spanish, Portuguese or in languages or dialects in Ibero-America or any combination of these languages.
Spanish or Portuguese-language versions of a song originally recorded in another language may be included in the project scope if said version meets WP:NSONGS.
Spanish- or Portuguese-language cover versions of a song recorded in another language may also be included in the project if the cover version meets WP:SONGCOVER.
For instrumental music:
Any instrumental composition that is a Latin genre that originates from Ibero-America. Do not include recordings that are merely "Latin-influenced", as per WP:EXPLICITGENRE, "sources must explicitly attribute the genre to the work".
The recording is performed by an artist who originates from Ibero-America. Instrumental recordings by musicians of Ibero-American descent may also be included if their heritage is noted by reliable sources for the recording.
Classical music compositions recorded in Latin, German, English, Italian, French or any other language may, at the discretion of either the article's main contributor(s) or consensus at the article's talk page be included provided that the composer is of Ibero-American origin.
For titles of Spanish- and Portuguese-language recordings, when the appropriate naming under existing guidelines is unclear, the project's suggestion is to use capitalization found on most English-language reliable sources rather than the capitalization utilized by either language. If there are no English-language reliable sources available, then use the capitalization found on either Spanish or Portuguese-language reliable sources instead. See also: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) § Works of art and Wikipedia:Article titles § Foreign names and anglicization
18 Jun 2026 – Mad (band)(talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Jfire (t · c): Unsourced since creation. Promotional tone. Bit hard to search for coverage given their name but I couldn't find any.
This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.
Before starting a new article! - Notability is a concern that must be adhered to. See Wikipedia:Notability (music) for more information. Need help starting a new article? See Wikipedia:Article wizard it will help you through the process of submitting a new article to Wikipedia.
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Use references. This is an encyclopedia, so remember to include a ==References== section listing websites, newspapers, articles, books and other sources you used to write the article. New articles and statements added to existing articles may be deleted if unreferenced or referenced poorly. See Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Cite_sources and Wikipedia:References for more information.
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Use proper spelling and grammar. This is a very important aspect of an article. "We want to learn editors to write proper" There are helpful guidelines in regards to styles. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music) for more information.
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Use footnotes. Take advantage of the footnote ability Wikipedia has, instead of including html links inside the context include them as footnotes. See Wikipedia:Footnotes on how to use them.
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Write a good lead. Be sure to write a lead that concisely summarizes the entire article into one or two paragraphs, which make sense to someone who may know nothing about the subjects in question. See Wikipedia:Lead section for more information.
Keep it simple. Remember that the average reader should be able to comprehend the erudition. Although you should use a broad vocabulary of regular, non-technical terms, do not provide such a quantity of locutions as to impel those who aspire to derive serviceable information from the article to consult a dictionary.
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Use images if possible. Images enhance articles greatly, but only use them when they are necessary, and ensure that their copyright status has been specified and we are allowed to use it on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Images
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