Talk:The Devin Townsend Band

Name
Since Ocean Machine's sole CD is released as DT now, it doesn't make sense for it to need its own page. The number of bands that started as one name and merely switched names later on is numerous, most have but one page. The lineup and sound is very closely similar to Ocean Machine.
 * --Atechi 19:36, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Agree. Reversing and merging. 24.126.199.129 11:05, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Discography/Albums
Are Infinity and Ziltoid DTB releases? --80.130.157.218 (talk) 22:57, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Merged
I merged this into Devin Townsend. There's just nothing to talk about. This band only existed as an outlet for Townsend's solo material. There is little to distinguish the two albums they did from Townsend's other eight releases. Musically, there's certainly no distinction between these two albums and the rest, since all of Townsend's albums are completely different, and AE and Synchestra were completely different from each other.

If the band were much more prominent, or even if they were still together, there would be something more to go on, but given the facts as they stand, this just isn't a notable group independent of Townsend. The fact that Townsend got input from these specific bandmates on these two albums doesn't make a big difference—I'm sure Townsend got some input from Hoglan on Terria, but that doesn't make that album's particular lineup significant.

That is the main reason; we also note that


 * This article was very long but very poorly laid out.
 * This article had no inline citations.
 * The few references noted were not reliable, secondary sources.
 * This article hadn't had a significant contribution in well over a year.
 * This article almost exclusively documented Townsend's entire career before 2003 and after 2007.
 * This article was almost entirely plagiarized.
 * This article would not have survived a deletion discussion (in summary: WP:SNOW).

So, that's my take. —Heavyboat (Talk) 02:35, 4 December 2008 (UTC)