Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexandria Harmonizers


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The result was keep‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. signed,Rosguill talk 02:13, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

Alexandria Harmonizers

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basically unsourced. although there seem to be many sources on the web, most are unreliable or lack substance. lettherebedarklight晚安 15:40, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bands and musicians and Virginia. lettherebedarklight晚安 15:40, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep Based on searching newspapers.com, it appears to meet WP:BAND given sustained coverage (outside of the immediate region even!) and seemingly well-regarded awards: https://www.newspapers.com/article/centre-daily-times-200-voices-strong/125568990/ https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-item-alexandria-harmonizers-to/125569014/ https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-american-alexandria-harmonizer/125569076/ https://www.newspapers.com/article/citizens-voice-alexandria-harmonizers-c/125569095/ (which refers to them, in 1994, as the two-time international champions of the Barbershop Singing Society), https://www.newspapers.com/article/asbury-park-press-singers-offer-champio/125569119/ and four-time a few years later: https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-press-reliving-barbershop-melodies/125569434/ and https://www.newspapers.com/article/republican-and-herald-harmonizers-to-ser/125569484/. This is the first batch of independent, and largely in-depth sources. There are more in newspapers.com and I assume other places as well. Skynxnex (talk) 16:06, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * The Washington Post has maybe a dozen or so articles of varying levels of detail, one of which is https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1995/08/03/harmonious-hotshots/86150afb-1215-4a40-ae3b-1eae1e35b718/.
 * Barbershopping: musical and social harmony (https://archive.org/details/barbershoppingmu0000unse/page/126/mode/2up?q=%22Alexandria+Harmonizers%22) refers to it as Witness the fact that in the Alexandria Harmonizers, one of the largest and most successful chapters .....
 * And this doesn't really contribute to notability (but kind of does?), but in searching archive.org, I saw that John Glenn mentions them in his memoirs, during his flight on Discovery (https://archive.org/details/johnglennmemoir0000glen/page/396/mode/2up?q=%22Alexandria+Harmonizers%22): Skynxnex (talk) 17:47, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep based upon the reliable sources newspaper coverage identified in this discussion which verifies they have played at the White House and Supreme Court and won various awards. Passes WP:GNG in my view, Atlantic306 (talk) 20:52, 4 June 2023 (UTC)


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