Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Philip Sousa Foundation


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The result was   keep. Though I will say that to avoid another AfD, more of those sources Carrite mentions should be added in as soon as possible The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 01:41, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

John Philip Sousa Foundation

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No reliable secondary sources, no significant coverage found via Google. I'm rather surprised that there is no such coverage, but all I could find were various newspaper articles mentioning that the Foundation had handed out this or that award to a local band, with the foundation only mentioned in passing. The article has been tagged for improved references since June 2008. Apparently none are to be found. Thus the topic fails the general notability guideline and WP:ORG. Huon (talk) 14:17, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep. The foundation's best known function is honoring marching bands; these awards (which are the main subject of this Wikipedia article) are prestigious within the band world and well-covered in the media.  Search string <"Sousa Foundation" Sudler> ("Sudler" being the name of many of the awards) yields hundreds of hits at GNews and hundreds more in GBooks; many of these hits relate to the particular winners of the award, but the cumulative effect of the coverage is to show the notability of the foundation's activities.--Arxiloxos (talk) 17:13, 13 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep - Agency behind the Sousa National High School Honors Band, arguably the top honor band for marching musicians in the country. This organization has been around for decades and its band a big deal just as long, as THIS MAY 1983 ARTICLE from the Bryan [Ohio] Times indicates. The number of independently published articles on this band is substantial. If I were the one starting the article I would have written it on the band with "John Philip Sousa Foundation" being part of that story and redirecting there. This is sort of backwards, to my way of thinking — but the band and the foundation are two aspects of the same piece and must be considered in tandem, in my view. Clearly a notable entity. Carrite (talk) 17:33, 13 January 2012 (UTC) Last edit: Carrite (talk) 17:35, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
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