Talk:List of collegiate a cappella groups in the United States

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I was checking this list against the groups listed in the Collegiate a cappella groups category and found that the following groups weren't listed. It would be great if someone would add them because I'm too lazy to do it.

Cardinal Sinners; Something Extra (American musical group); UGA Accidentals; WPI Simple Harmonic Motion

Done! --Kamoranakrre T. Eyaelitenan 20:15, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

This page is quite long, and could perhaps use some splitting. Could potentially divide it by gender (all-male, all-female, mixed), geographical region (Western US, Southern US, Midwestern US, Europe, Canada, Asia), primary musical genre (jazz, rock, R&B, etc.). Any thoughts? JavaTenor 20:15, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

On second thought, genre may be more difficult to pin down than my other two suggestions, which I assume should be rather cut-and-dried. JavaTenor 20:35, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Dividing it up by region and then by school would be good. Perhaps by ICCA regions? (Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, New England, Northeast, South, West, Western Europe) Zabaglione 22:39, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't think going by ICCA regions is a good idea. ICCA is run by a for-profit company (Varsity Vocals) and on its website, there is no breakdown of the states that fall within each region (plus the ICCA regions don't account for groups outside US/Europe - I notice a couple of groups listed from Bangalore). What if instead the list was reorganized by university rather than by name of group? Since this is collegiate a capella, it makes more sense to give university affiliation precedence over individual group name. That way a split of the list can be managed thus: List of collegiate a cappella groups by university, A-L and List of collegiate a cappella groups by university, M-Z. Wl219 16:20, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

I see your point, in any case this list of 500+ groups looks very sloppy as is. Let's work together to revamp this page Zabaglione 22:27, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Articles deleted ONLY because they're about a collegiate a cappella group

Chorallaries got speedy-deleted on the grounds that it was only a college a cappella group and therefore not notable according to WP:Music. Resonance (MIT) was deleted in a not entirely honest way (see talk:Resonance (MIT)), on the grounds that it's only a college a cappella group. No reasons were given that would not apply to EVERY article in this category. Michael Hardy 00:05, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Inclusion criterion

Anyone considering adding a group to this list should keep in mind the following from the Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone lists) guideline:

"Ideally each entry on the list should have a Wikipedia article but this is not required if it is reasonable to expect an article could be forthcoming in the future."

To test the reasonableness of your expectations, you may want to create the article on the group first and then add it to this list. UnitedStatesian 18:55, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

The claim stated in the comment reverting my most recent edit to this article is far stronger than the above one. (i.e., WP:WTAF is not policy.) The Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone lists) guideline goes on to say: "The one exception is for list articles that are created explicitly because the listed items do not warrant independent articles: an example of this is List of minor characters in Dilbert." When I had taking to working on this article previously, it was implicitly under this policy that I interpreted the existence of this list. (Certainly not every entry included was important enough for a separate article.) Even if no red-linked groups are in this list, I further suggest that WP:IGNORE applies to adding references to sections of articles the subject of which is a collegiate a cappella group with substantial information. The usefulness of this list as a reference is significantly improved by their inclusion. I shan't just revert the reversion as that's counterproductive, but perhaps we could reach a consensus on this? Kamoranakrre T. Eyaelitenan (talk) 21:36, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Seven years on, it's not a great deal of help to have lots of completely unsourced redlinks. I don't mind redlinks being added to (non-BLP) lists as long as there is some evidence provided showing they are significant to be listed. There must surely be other websites (failing that, the colleges own websites) that serve as a directory for all existing college acappella groups.

I would suggest that unless the group can be cited to at least one independent, reliable source it should be removed. Sionk (talk) 19:20, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Straight No Chaser

A group from Indiana University. Briaboru (talk) 18:11, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Request for Comment: New WikiProject for A Cappella-related articles

Hi there! To any and all interested: I've proposed a WikiProject dedicated to a cappella. This would be a group of editors interested in improving the quality of articles related to a cappella. If you're passionate about a cappella—ranging from the Pentatonix to collegiate a cappella groups like these listed here, or perhaps pop culture representations like Pitch Perfect and The Sing-Off—please check out the proposal and share your feedback!

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—Shrinkydinks (talk) 05:21, 6 December 2019 (UTC)