Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Choirs of Note

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was Delete Insufficient independent reliable sources that directly address the topic. Tim Vickers (talk) 18:54, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Choirs of Note

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The article is unreferenced, and has remained unreferenced despite active discussion on the talk page. A speedy tag was removed because A7 does not cover competitions. Mdsummermsw left these comments:

Please see WP:NOTABLE: "The topic of an article should be notable, or "worthy of notice". This concept is distinct from "fame", "importance", or "popularity".... A topic is presumed to be notable if it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." ... I think this article is a goner. Maybe someone can save it, but I can't find anything to do the job.

• Delete - This Brainerd Dispatch article is the only coverage I could find that wasn't an event announcement. Insufficient reliable sources to indicate notability.-- Whpq (talk) 02:18, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

• Keep because this is an on going event held by a well known choral director, Dr. Dale Warland. More press will be coming soon, but the notability of this event is solid. Chimzar (talk) 14:30, 27 January 2008 (UTC) I changed the !vote from do not delete to keep, in order to avoid possible confusion for bots and people. (Matchups)

• • Perhaps the solution is to move this to user space (to avoid losing the work that has been done on it) until there is adequate coverage to justify including it in the body of the encyclopedia. Matchups (talk) 15:24, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

• Keep I found another source that talks about the Choirs of Note. The Woodbury Bulletin's aticle gives even more info than the one from the Brainerd Dispatch. I know there are other papers that have run similar article and I will find them. Chimzar (talk) 20:30, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

• Strong Keep — I'm a huge fan of choir. Seems like an interesting article that could need some work. — EliasAlucard (Discussion · contribs) 02:54, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

• Delete — That anyone finds the article "interesting" is a moot point. Wikipedia's concept of notability has nothing to do with whether or not it is interesting. Those of us working on Dale Warland Singers managed to save that one by researching and improving the article with notability guidelines in mind. The original Dale Warland article was deleted for copyright violation, but I created a new version that asserts notability via the Singers (I'm still a bit wishy-washy on that one). This article, however, has resisted my attempts to find significant coverage in reliable sources or any other reason to vote "keep". The topic might reach "notable" status in the future. In my opinion, though, it is not there at the moment. I am repeating myself with my earlier suggestion to copy the article to a user sandbox and build on it if/when reliable sources become available. - Mdsummermsw (talk) 13:27, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
• Keep News coverage appears to be significant enough, if just barely at the moment (one assumes it will improve past boarderline once it actually happens) Hobit (talk) 02:28, 3 February 2008 (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.