Talk:University of Michigan Men's Glee Club

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I am currently a member of the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club and I had notified the executive members of the club that I was creating this page. It was met with endorsement, and another member started to contribute to the article by using the text we have on our website. The use of any text from our website (http://www.umich.edu/~ummgc) and it's subsequent pages may be used in this Wikipedia article, as we give the permission to do so. If there is anything else that needs to be done to remove this from possible copyright violation (aside from adding a note under the article's listing on Wikipedia:Copyright problems), please let me know. Thank you.

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[edit] Something to note

I was just now browsing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_National_Cathedral and saw that UM Glee Club alumnus Scott Hanoian holds a prominent position at the National Cathedral. I don't have the information but it might be worth creating an article for him.

Also, a section listing famous alumni (Bob McGrath, Dewey, etc) might be nice.

Keep up the good work!

[edit] Revisions

I'm revising much of this page as a lot of the text taken from the official UMMGC page has a tone which is unencyclopedic. Thus, I'm keeping all the historical content, while removing more editorial comments. -- MarkBuckles 05:09, 14 June 2006 (UTC) (UMMGC Alumnus)

Many revisions finished. Still needs some a fair amount of work to get rid of all POV's but it's a lot better. I'm not sure whether so much information should be repeated in the TC&ME section. Most of it is already in the History section. We should also add a discography. -- MarkBuckles 06:37, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
I agree -- the "Values" section is almost entirely a recap of what we've just read. There is almost no new information added. Seems like it doesn't deserve three subsections; I have cut it down substantially. Ztrawhcs 12:24, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sources

I think this article is quite well written, and could be expanded (in areas other than history, which is already extensive.) What is there now, however, needs sources. I have been participating in edits of Harvard Glee Club, Cornell Glee Club, and others to improve the use of citations and so on; I am a little too far removed from this group to do the same, but it still needs to be done.--Dmz5 17:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Founding Date

I think that it's more than a bit dishonest to claim that the organization was founded in 1859. The various groups that existed before 1876 were all separate entities for each graduating class. To call 1859 the founding date of the Glee Club is like saying that 1607 is when the United States of America was founded because that's when the first of her constituent colonies came into existence. I'm sure this will be a contentious point, but I think that's the fairest way to describe the date of the group's founding - its own web page and press kits notwithstanding. 68.163.45.91 04:40, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Where has the 1876 date come from?