Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bostonians of Boston College

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The result was DELETE. Larry V (talk | contribs) 10:38, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bostonians of Boston College

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College a capella group that does not meet the notability criteria of WP:MUSIC. Their only claim to fame is having won two non-notable awards as well as "slowly building into what would become their greatest success in 2006" savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 10:23, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. MER-C 10:33, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletions. -- Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs) 21:36, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom & prior discussions on similar groups.SkierRMH 07:27, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Varsity Vocals runs two of the three major college a cappella competitions, the ICCA (for live performance) and BOCA (for recorded a cappella). Being chosen for BOCA is a significant accomplishment for a collegiate a cappella group; being chosen multiple times means they have won a major music competition (WP:MUSIC criterion #9) multiple times. The article is crappily written, I definitely agree, but the group is notable in the genre. JDoorjam Talk 23:59, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I've seen no independent sources vouching for the BOCA as a reliable independent "award" or "contest", let alone a "major music competition". As you can see on their website [1], their submission criteria is mainly composed of the submissions not having tuning problems or poor production quality. There is no indication on their website that they reject a significant quantity of the reasonably recorded songs that they recieve, as would be indicative of some kind of competition. In fact, you can hardly call it an award when you have to pay them! You have to buy 50 of their CDs at $5 a piece to get on their CD! It's a glorified self-produced CD. If winning the National Merit Scholarship required you to pay them $200, I doubt anyone would put it on their resume. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 09:20, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

• Weak Keep Delete - about just notable enough... per above comment. Insanephantom 09:36, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.