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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to document the notable activities of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty (The KLF) in a high-quality, encyclopedic fashion. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians.

Please note that this is a very small, highly focused WikiProject (a "micro Project"). This should be considered a central meeting point for discussing how to proceed on articles relating to The KLF. If you've helped with KLF articles in the past, want to help in the future, or just want to keep an eye us, please sign up below. If you would like to help or require more information you may also inquire on the talk page. Please also note that this isn't an attempt to inflate the importance of The KLF, it's simply that they're a band we love - for their antics as much as the music - and we enjoy making high quality articles about them.

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The Project is concerned with all notable activities of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, better known as The KLF, and related articles.

• Bring The KLF from B-Class to Featured Article
• Produce articles of at least Good Article standard for The KLF's albums and notable songs
• Avoid fancruft, report published opinion
• Do we want to aim for the discography and K Foundation to be featured too? - Yes! --Vinoir 02:43, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Bring The KLF back to FA status (probably via GA)
• Bring The K Foundation burn a million quid to FA
• Ensure existing FAs retain their status (4 at the time of writing, March 2020, including The Orb which is an important topic to the WikiProject - the Cauty years at least - but not our work)

• Guilty as charged. --kingboyk (Founder) 11:53, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Drstuey 23:22, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Hello there. --Evil1987 21:38, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Oh yes. --Vinoir 21:24, 21 May 2006 (UTC) [Member number 2 and the project's star editor, acc. Kingboyk][reply]
• Me too! (©dork@aol.com) Rodhullandemu 03:01, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It has not been disclosed whether this WikiProject will be inactive for 23 years, but the founder will not discuss whether or not a moratorium was or was not in place until 23 May 2009. Not to be taken seriously; the project may be revived at any time by anyone.

The KLF was named best article in the Humanities & Culture class at Wikimania 2006 I (User:Kingboyk) found out that my hard work (along with the hard work of User:Vinoir) had won a prize by finding a mention of it in Google (that is, won a prize for the nominator). Thanks for letting me know folks!

Please sign here!

• Mate, those KLF articles are simply stunning. kudos. W guice 14:07, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep up the good work! ItsGrimUpNorth 23:46, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Hi, been a big fan of the KLF, but I don't know enough about them to contribute. Great Job you're doing! Monoblonde 16:14, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• LuciferMorgan, a rock/metal music interviewer for www.lucemfero.com[1], left the following comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/All You Need Is Love (The JAMs song) which he has agreed may be placed here: This is the best song article I've seen on Wikipedia so far, and wipes the floor with the other FA song articles. Comments like this make the hard work worthwhile, so thank you very much.

Too bad we didn't think of this before, but from now on if I find a really captivating piece about The KLF it will be added here.

These are the "wow" articles:

Of course, WP:KLF's articles are all anyone needs to read ;), but if you want to take your reading further check these out:

• Kelly, Danny (29 February 1992). "Welcome To The Sheep Seats". New Musical Express. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/297 Ignore the silly title, and behold this first hand account of the BRITs award show rehearsals/live show/aftermath/Trancentral, and a Drummond interview the next day

• Shaw, William (July 1992). "Who Killed The KLF". Select. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 11 October 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/315 Essential career round-up and reaction to the retirement.

• Sharkey, Alix (21 May 1994). "Trash Art & Kreation". The Guardian Weekend. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/384 Detailed, analytical piece.

• Reid, Jim (25 September 1994). "Money to burn". The Observer. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/387 This article is a first-hand account by freelance journalist Jim Reid, the only independent witness to the burning.

Fun:

• Harrison, A., The White Room review, Splendid Magazine. Enthusiastic review of the stadium house tracks and Justified & Ancient. "Couldn't give a shit" about the other tracks though, which is a shame, as I think there's a great deal of beauty in "Build A Fire", "The Church of The KLF" and "Make It Rain".

The plan was to tackle the duo's singles and albums in chronological order. Depending on length and the availability of sources, the goal may be Featured Article status (FA).

February 2020 update: The JAMs articles are mostly very good or excellent. The KLF article is no longer even a GA. At the time of writing, only JAMs and K Foundation articles are GAs and The Orb, Fuck the Millennium and 2 JAMs articles are FAs. Therefore any future focus ought to be on The KLF and their recordings.

Our old todo list is archived here. Please feel free to restoreit to this main project page and update it if you wish to reactive the project.

• Project Log
• Additional Communicators - An article on the people who worked and collaborated with The KLF. This text has been part of The KLF, KLF Communications, and a standalone article. It's living here until we decide once and for all what - if anything - to do with it!

	The KLF (inactive)
This article is within the scope of WikiProject The KLF, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.The KLFWikipedia:WikiProject The KLFTemplate:WikiProject The KLFThe KLF

The KLF infobox should be placed at the bottom of all articles where Drummond and Cauty and/or their works are the primary topic:

{{The KLF}}

{{LibraryOfMu}} is used to reference material which is catalogued at the Library of Mu. Please help by updating Library of Mu links which do not use the template to use the template, and be sure to include an archive-url= parameter pointing to archive.org and a archive-date= parameter. Refer to the docuemtation at Template:LibraryOfMu and the list at LibraryOfMu.

{{KLFDiscography}} Adds a web citation pointing Lazlo Nibble's KLF discography. Just put it inside a ref tag e.g. {{KLFDiscography}}. Produces: Longmire, Ernie; et al. (2020) [1998]. "Discography: The KLF (including The JAMS, The Timelords, 2K etc.)". Archived from the original on 29 February 2020.

See also: /Citation templates

{{User:UBX/KLF}}

This user knows what time is love.

• Category:The KLF
• Category:WikiProject The KLF

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/K Foundation
• Wikipedia:Peer review/Whitney Joins The JAMs/archive1
• The KLF was peer reviewed at Wikipedia:Peer review/The KLF/archive1.
• The KLF was a Featured Article candidate (now archived; article promoted).
• Fuck the Millennium - Peer review
• 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) - Peer review
• The KLF discography - Peer review
• Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/The KLF discography - Failed
• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Fuck the Millennium (promoted)
• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/All You Need Is Love (The JAMs song) (promoted)
• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) (promoted)
• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/K Foundation/archive1 (article) - Failed

Bad Wisdom Notable book (easily meets WP:GNG per a quick Google search which comes up with several reviews from reputable journals) by Bill Drummond and Mark Manning --kingboyk (talk) 23:51, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• The project began at Category talk:The KLF with a list of current and proposed articles on 23 Feb 2006
• Between that date and May 2006, several KLF related articles were created and raised to Good Article status
• The KLF became a Featured Article on 21 May 2006
• The WikiProject was formalised in Project namespace on 21 May 2006
• Category:The KLF articles by quality was created, and conditional code added to {{WPKLF}}, by Kingboyk on 25 May 2006. We were in the first 10 WikiProjects to join the scheme; there are now over 500. [NB: That category seems to have been deleted and we are now in Category:KLF articles by quality. Goodness knows why; that might explain why WP 1.0 bot's Run the bot right away tool has an entry for both "KLF" and "The KLF"?]
• The KLF was selected for the Version 0.5 release of Wikipedia on 21 July 2006
• The KLF was named best article in the Humanities & Culture class at Wikimania 2006 (August 06)
• Fuck the Millennium became a Featured Article on 4 September 2006 (article at promotion)
• All You Need Is Love (The JAMs song) became a Featured Article on 1 October 2006 (article at promotion)
• The KLF was on the front page of Wikipedia as "Today's featured article" on 9 March 2007.

New KLF-related articles created since the project began:

New articles since 2007 are not currently listed. A survey would need to be done. In the meantime, selected known additions since 2007:

• The17 started in 2008 by non-member Sophie means wisdom
• Bill Butt started in 2010 by non-member Difluoroethene
• 2023: A Trilogy started in 2017 by non-member Drmies
• Welcome to the Dark Ages started by Kingboyk in 2020

• The KLF - see Wikipedia:Goings-on/May 21, 2006 ("definitive revision" approved by the WikiProject) Demoted 22 September 2009
• Fuck the Millennium - see Wikipedia:Goings-on/September 3, 2006 ("definitive revision" approved by the WikiProject)
• All You Need Is Love (The JAMs song) - see Wikipedia:Goings-on/October 1, 2006 (promoted revision)
• 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) - see Wikipedia:Goings-on/October 22, 2006 (promoted revision)

• As of 21 May 2006, six KLF-related articles had the "Good Article" badge - we dominated the recordings and compositions category, having 6 of the 24 listings.
• Last Train to Trancentral (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) received the GA badge on 29 May 2006 (7/25 listings)
• Fuck the Millennium (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) received the GA badge on 11 June 2006 (8/27 listings)
• What Time Is Love? (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) received the GA badge on 12 June 2006 (9/28 listings)
• All You Need Is Love (The JAMs) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) received the GA badge on 16 June 2006 (10/29 listings)
• Whitney Joins The JAMs (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) received the GA badge on 18 June 2006 (11/31 listings)
• Down Town (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) received the GA badge on 21 June 2006 (12/32 listings)
• Burn the Bastards (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) received the GA badge on 14 September 2006 (13/40 listings)
• K Foundation (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) received the GA badge on 12 October 2006
• Shag Times (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) received the GA badge on 12 October 2006 (12/41 for recordings and compositions; previous 13 at last count, +1 new, -2 which are now FA)
• K Foundation art award (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) received the GA badge on 14 October 2006
• Chill Out (KLF album) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) was delisted on 1 May 2007
• The Magnificent (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) received the GA badge on 4 May 2007
• The KLF discography (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) was delisted on 22 August 2007
• Disco 2000 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) received the GA badge on 4 January 2008

Later demotions and promotions (if any) have not been recorded. Kingboyk has recorded that as of February 2020 at least 19 KLF articles have been at GA at one time or another, including those which went from GA to FA. As of 26 February 2020, the project has only 4 FAs and 5 GAs remaining. Kingboyk is also pleased to note that WP:BEATLES - which he co-founded - has long since overtaken us (as they should) and as of March 2020 they have an astonishing 14 FAs and 132 GAs - although the FA count cheekily includes All You Need Is Love (the JAMs song) ;)

Help returning articles to their former status or newly promoting to GA or FA would be extremely welcome.

• Justified and Ancient was a Did You Know? selection on 3 April 2006
• Kylie Said To Jason was a Did You Know? selection on 9 October 2006
• The KLF appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on 9 March 2007 (Screenshot)
• The Magnificent was a Did You Know? selection on 19 March 2007

This is a log of operations by a bot. The contents of this page are unlikely to need human editing. In particular, links should not be disambiguated as this is a historical record.

There were no logs for this project from September 7, 2021 - September 14, 2021.

• Library of Mu - online library of KLF-related press clippings etc.
• The KLF discography - fan-maintained for 10 years and subject to much peer review.

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