Wikipedia:WikiProject A Cappella

Goals

Where important parts of a cappella's documentation are missing, we'll create articles. Where existing articles are of low quality, we'll improve them! This will be an excellent centralized resource for people to learn about a cappella. The quality of our articles will, in some small way, earn the respect of newcomers for the genre.

As of January 2020, these are our proposed goals (in progress):

1. Improve 10 a cappella-related articles to WP:GA status.
2. Improve 2 a cappella-related articles to WP:FA status.
3. Improve existing articles related to a cappella music.
4. Create new a cappella related articles.

We need help making these goals actionable/measurable. Feel free to re-word/propose any!

Articles we're actively working on can be found below in the section "Articles → Active collaborations".

Scope

At the highest level, our aim is to refine and expand the documentation of a cappella on Wikipedia! This could include anything you like. Here are a few examples of subject areas that inspired the creation of the WikiProject:

• Professional a cappella artists (e.g. Pentatonix, Straight No Chaser, Peter Hollens, and others)
• Collegiate a cappella groups (e.g. The Whiffenpoofs, SoCal VoCals, Voices In Your Head, BYU Vocal Point, Oxford's Out of the Blue, and others)
• Figures in the industry (e.g. Deke Sharon, Bill Hare, and others)
• A cappella recordings (e.g. That's Christmas to Me (2014), Fleet Street (2004), and others)
• Portrayals in popular culture (e.g. Pitch Perfect, The Sing-Off, and others)
• Institutions of the community (e.g. the Contemporary A Cappella Society, the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella, the Recorded A Cappella Review Board, Best of Collegiate A Cappella (BOCA), and others)

And here are a few collections of articles highly likely to pertain to our WikiProject. There's a high degree of overlap between lists and their analogous categories. The number of pages in the list/category is accurate as of January 2020.

• List of professional a cappella groups (number of articles in the list: ~100)
• List of collegiate a cappella groups in the United States (number of articles in the list: ~100)
• List of university a cappella groups in the United Kingdom (number of groups in the list: ~70)
• Potentially: List of alumni of collegiate a cappella groups (number of articles in the list: ~45)
• Category:A cappella musical groups (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (number of articles in the category: ~170)
• Category:Professional a cappella groups (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (number of articles in the category: ~95)
• Category:Collegiate a cappella groups (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (number of articles in the category: ~90)
• Potentially: Category:American vocal groups (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (number of articles in the category: ~195)
• Potentially: Category:Barbershop quartets (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (number of articles in the category: ~95)

Editing advice

• Article guidelines — Work in progress.

In the meantime, a few helpful resources for article writing might include:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Article guidelines
• Essay: Wikipedia:Avoid academic boosterism
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/Article guidelines
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/Article styles and formats

Open tasks

Participants

Please add yourself here, and indicate any areas of particular interest! We welcome anyone interested in a cappella and its related subjects. If you're excited about or interested in participating, please do!

1. Shrinkydinks (talk · contribs) — I'm especially interested in collegiate a cappella groups, their recordings and the genre's history! — 01:45, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
2. Puddleglum ^2.0 (Project maintenance, helping new participants. Also improving some articles.) 01:43, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
3. Adavidb (talk · contribs) – My A cappella interest tends toward finer Barbershop, though the entire style has my attention. I expect my project support will include article improvement, and where sufficient sourcing and notability exists, article creation.
4. MrMarkBGregory (talk) I am a former member of The Other Guys (University of St Andrews) and ran the a cappella blog University A Cappella UK for around three years while at university. My interest in a cappella has since cooled, and my time is now limited due to work and family commitments, but I'm curious to see how I can help here and what sort of progress can be made. 08:15, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
5. bosworthdk (talk) I am an a cappella profesisonal with a degree in Vocal Leadership from the Royal Academy of Aalbrog in Denmark. I have about 20 years experience in the vocal music world and know a lot especially about the European scene. I am a member of the internationel vocal jazz ensemble Touche. My time is limited due to work and family commitments, but I'll try to contribute with some regularity especially with regards to the non-North American scene and the history of a cappella. I am not an experienced Wiki contributor, so feel free to suggest how best to progress. 11.55, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
6. AJ (talk) I am a former member of several A Cappella groups and the founder of the South Asian a cappella community. Passionate about the history of a cappella music, especially South Asian music in a cappella, and excited to contribute to the project.
7. Shotgunheist ^💬 17:19, 8 July 2024 (UTC) Interested and a participant in choral and barbershop music.
8. TyronesEditsPages (talk) Main interest is spreading the Barbershop Music genre. Also likes a cappella and anything close harmony stuff. I am also interested in improving on how I edit on Wikipedia and perhaps trying to have an article GA status.

Articles

Review and assessment

Statistics

A Cappella articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA			1	5			6
B	1	1	3	5		1	11
C	1	4	10	99		4	118
Start	1	3	13	165		9	191
Stub			3	65		4	72
List		1	2	7		1	11
Category					54		54
Disambig					2		2
Project					1		1
Template					3		3
NA				5	16		21
Other					14		14
Assessed	3	9	32	351	90	19	504
Total	3	9	32	351	90	19	504
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 1,904			Ω = 4.78

The assessment bot updates tables every three days, by default. The bot has some light documentation here. You can request an immediate table update using this web form!

Categories

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  A cappella (6 C, 15 P) A cappella albums (18 C, 31 P) Barbershop music (5 C, 40 P, 2 F) A cappella musicians (2 C, 12 P) Nasheeds (1 C, 6 P) Pitch Perfect (franchise) (12 P) A cappella songs (2 C, 30 P)

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A Cappella

This article is within the scope of WikiProject A Cappella, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of a cappella (professional and collegiate) and related articles such as its groups, recordings, institutions, and public figures on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.A CappellaWikipedia:WikiProject A CappellaTemplate:WikiProject A CappellaA Cappella ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.

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