Talk:List of symphonic metal bands

Metallica
Listing Metallica here is pretty ridiculous. Metallica did not change their style to symphonic metal. They just played their songs accompanied by orchestration. I don't think this novelty event warrants inclusion here. And I don't think there's such a thing as symphonic thrash anyway. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.98.240.226 (talk) 16:29, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

About the flags
The Manual of Style (flags) clearly says that:

"The flag icons were created for use in lists and tables (especially of sporting and other statistics), and have subsequently found widespread usage in infoboxes."

Well, this page IS a list. So people like User:Wyatt Riot that remove the flags, please make sure you actually read the Manual of Style on flags before blindly removing them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.226.52.202 (talk) 18:38, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Imperia?

 * What about Imperia? Are they more gothic metal? /V
 * Their WP page here says gothic metal, so we'll leave them off this list for consistency's sake. Also, just for future reference, please don't add bands who don't have a WP page, as you did with Amberian Dawn. If you'd like to first create their WP page, then by all means feel free. :-) --Managerpants (talk) 17:42, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I DID create an Amberian Dawn-page, but some one removed it because they hadn't relased their album yet. Anyway, its released now. Doesnt matter, some one else will add them sooner or later. /V

Proposal
I know many, (if not all of you) are incredibly tired of people adding bands with no articles to these lists, especially, along with links that are blue but are disambiguation pages or something else along with not even being the "x" genre of metal it's supposed to be. I was thinking of making a rule box or something similar like a section for it, instead of it being with the context/intro. For example, bands that are added because the editor wants an article on them very badly, people who just look over our (damned) comments, the people that don't check their links for the right article and those links that lead to disamb pages that don't have the band or you would have to make a huge search for the band and the bands that are not even part of the genre. If there was a "master list" that I know of where all editors that edit these lists would see it, then it would've been better to put this there and as there are many metal lists it would be insane to put them all over which I might want to do anyway if you accept my proposal or better yet show you here and you decide how we should go along with it and to fight those that add redlinks and remove bands they dislike, etc. Something must be done and I thought those hidden comments were enough and it's clearly not. I also think this would make a good explanation to editors who do this type of thing as a warning on their talk pages which is an action we can partake. Here is my proposal below:

This will be part of the introduction to an editor for his warning:

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to add bands to this list, the last band you added was a red-link, was not the intended article or has notability concerns on it's article page. Hereby you must follow to these guidelines for band inclusion to this list:

Article rules/warning explanation:

Bands without articles will hastily be removed from these lists. This list is not merely the place for you to add bands of the style that you want an article for, this is a list of "x" bands with articles nothing more. You can do this exactly at Requested articles/music/Performers and bands but they must pass WP:MUSIC to be acceptable here. Also, please click the "show preview" button next to the "save page" button to check your article links before adding them here and that you also have the right band that plays the genre. This is not of your personal opinion of what the band actually plays, the band's genre must have been approved either by verifiability with other editors or sources stated in that respective article. Also, make sure a band is notable, if a band is being questioned for notability has a notability tag at the top of the page then it should not be added to this list, wait awhile and re-add them when the notability of the band has been established. Please make sure bands are alphabetised and that the formatting is consistent with the other bands before adding them. Thank you.

I hope this proposal goes well. − ₪ÇɨгcaғucɨҲ₪  kaiden  05:14, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Yo, I like the idea man. But how is this going to trigger? is it like all HTML'd and stuff I don't understand or is it some person who catched the person themselves? I would like though, one thing, if the band added is a 'red' link and a death metal band...if that band is notable, I think we should create a 'death metal article to be made list' so that all the notable bands go on wikipedia. My last header, was saying this, I don't think we should just delete bands becuase the wikipedians before us haven't bothered to get information and make a dam article for them, do we?

Also, this way you get notable bands, becuase of wikifacists like speedy deletion service jeps the dam articles you make, just becuase you translate the biography into english and change a few sentences and that somehow interfers with G what the fuck O laws. Bullshit. Anyway, yeah nice idea, but ant going to work...you still going to have fags that think Bullet for my valentine are metal.

METALFREAK04 (talk) 14:25, 14 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Well it would be like User warning templates, if you catch them you warn them and if they persist well... I never thought of that but they would keep on being reverted until the link is blue, that's for sure. And of course, if a band is surely notable we'll have a list here (wouldn't make sense to have a death metal band article to be made list anyways (and would have to start with "Wikipedia:Requested articles/music/. . .")) for them (which I'm not sure can stay up here, as this page would need to get archived within time) and also at the request article link I provided. Also, the amount of editors we will need will be like the size of a taskforce (albeit small one) for this to be carried out well. I've been thinking I should really add this to all the other lists.


 * All I ask for is for people like you and everyone who edits these lists help in notifying these type of users. If that can be done then that's the least you could do for these lists. Have hope, and let's make an example for them. − ₪ÇɨгcaғucɨҲ₪  kaiden  06:01, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Savatage
Since no metal symphonic your page not discussed it in this list should not be right. Diogo t. alvim 14:31, 26 November 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.84.176.149 (talk)

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