The result was delete. In the end, it does not appear that there are sources sufficient to pass WP:GNG. T. Canens (talk) 19:54, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
fails WP:ORG. my original nomination stands. nothing in gnews. and nothing in a major Australian news website: [1]. LibStar (talk) 12:33, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hello LibStar. I am, by the way, currently one of the assistant editors of the society’s magazine (Erato). The annual festival regularly obtains press coverage in the major daily papers, depending on which city it is being held in, from time to time: both in the form of pre-publicity (e.g. the festival will be putting on concerts), but more importantly, in the form of concert reviews; a sprinkling of these over the decade could be cited since the publication of Peter Campbell’s 1999 book: like the many reviews quoted there, these are only of use to document individual concerts or festivals, and the fact that these form part of an on-going tradition:
I suppose the weakness of the article(s) – either the one concerned with the long-standing tradition of national festivals (IVCFs), or the organisation that oversees the running of them (AICSA) – is that no one has seen fit to actually investigate what it is that is special about them and write it up, as opposed to tinkering with the publicity material from the AICSA website (which is what I presume Mkativerata is describing as “copyright infringement”, based on an edit by an anonymous IP back in 2006). AICSA is essentially the umbrella under which the various choral societies — none of them individually notable (re: the above remarks of “school clubs”) — have formed a long-lasting national arts organisation, which as others here have noted is regarded as notable by both the Australian Music Centre and the Australian National Library, which is home to AICSA’s archives: the ANL holds nearly complete sets of publications, concert programmes, reviews of the past 60 festivals, as well as sound recordings of all but one of the festivals. Philip Legge User Email Talk 03:21, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]