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Speedy deletion nomination of Small Drum Corps Association

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Small Drum Corps Association requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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SDCA

Some of the corps you have entered in the category of SDCA members are not SCDA members, and some, I am fairly certain, have never been SDCA members, although the SDCA website lists them as such... If you are going to do an article for Wikipedia, you should be accurate and report the subject from a neutral perspective... As currently written, your article on Small Drum Corps Association probably still qualifies for speedy deletion... I not only will not tag it for deletion, I have linked the Racine Scouts article to it, since theirs mentions that they did perform in SDCA. GWFrog (talk) 15:46, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! The corps I added were ones that are listed in photos or videos listed from their website. On their 2013 photo page http://thesdca.org/1_SDCA_2013/Master_Web_Pages/Photos_2013.html , the top page is White Sabers from NY, and the bottom image is Blue Saints Drum & Bugle Corps. I listed Pioneer as they performed at the same SDCA show that Racine Scouts did back in 2013 but don't have the link to the article on it. Thanks for linking the Racine Scouts to the page. I'm working to provide references to link to the corps listed as I'm trying to create a list of the groups involved so there is a record of performers since the circuit seems to not keep good member lists. Thanks for your assistance.

Vasaforever (talk) 16:27, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Columbus Saints Drum and Bugle Corps

The article Columbus Saints Drum and Bugle Corps has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

One of many non-notable drum and bugle corps, no evidence of success in national competition. SoundSport is local, MACBDA is regional.

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Will update, as SoundSport is an international division of Drum Corps International, the corps competes in Drum Corps Associates, and withdrew from regional competition in MACBDA a few years ago. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.97.200.101 (talk) 00:59, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Columbus Saints Drum and Bugle Corps for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Small Drum Corps Association

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Small Drum Corps Association corps

A tag has been placed on Category:Small Drum Corps Association corps indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:45, 1 April 2024 (UTC)