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The result was Keep. Cbrown1023 00:38, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Sword[edit]

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This seems very much like a fan page and gives biased information , one sided information and irrelevant information. Most of the information on this page is wrong. NOT doom metal , NOT heavy metal. Who say's The Swords music is original? Who say's Nebula are stoner rock icons? This is not supposed to be an ad for video games. What gear they use is irrelevant. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Huseregrav (talk • contribs) — Huseregrav (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

• Well I removed and modified some of the content in the Wiki page. I left the genres alone due to sources I have found in Rockdetector and Metal Archives (now offline). I also don't find gear they use irrelevent to the group; but what was mentioned was just unescessary. AKnot 02:52, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Who cares who the band tours with , go to their website for that info. Again this is not a place for people to advertise video games. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Huseregrav (talk • contribs) — Huseregrav (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

• Maybe you are correct about the touring (unless a biography is made). But look at some Wiki pages (like the Wolfmother album for example) they have information on their video game contributions, specifically from that album. Those notes before I believe weren't really intened to advertise but to release some extra information and to let people (who are unfamiliar with the game[s]) what were their contributions. AKnot 03:33, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Support Keep (I must be celebrating the New Year a bit too early) Although this article may not be up to WP:BAND yet, I know for a fact that The Swords reaches WP:Notability. S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 04:42, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep The article needs to be rewritten, but not deleted.Trendkill 08:09, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• DELETE! This has become a fan page! Useless info is always put on here. Doom metal? No way! This is trend metal. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.90.137.157 (talk • contribs). — 66.90.137.157 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

It should be worth noting that the above unsigned poster has a been editing the same articles as Huseregrav. I call sock puppet on that. The Kinslayer 12:50, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong Keep and clean up - Notability is established by this song being a major setlist song in Guitar Hero II. A main set list song, not a bonus song. The Kinslayer 15:41, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep It needs cleanup. People want it deleted because they don't like the band or because some wingnut thinks they are too trendy to play doom metal/heavy metal. Whether you like them or not is not relevent to whether the article should stay. Olliegrind 18:23, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Appears to meet WP:MUSIC, since the band has also toured the USA. [1] Prolog 12:47, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment I cleaned the article up a bit. It no longer reads like an ad. It still needs some citations but all the point of view stuff has been removed. I left in the heavy metal/doom metal tags although I know some people disagree. Numerous sources on the net cite them as a metal band. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Olliegrind (talk • contribs).
  • Surely it it should be what the band say there music it is that counts, not what other people think it sounds like? I always think you should go with the genre the band say they are over any other opinion. The Kinslayer 13:30, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment. Band's own opinion of their musical genre is irrelevant, though it can be trivially mentioned somewhere in the article (with a reference). We need to go by reliable sources. Prolog 15:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Your right. I suppose a band would have absolutely no idea what kind of music they play. How foolish of me to think they might. The Kinslayer 15:54, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Very high curiosity for this band after the release of Guitar Hero 2.

Comment - in the current version the reference to the tour(s) is gone, which is one of the important criteria for WP:BAND. The other main criteria (albums on major labels) appears to be there. (and a vote to keep this semi-protected until the heat of this discussion is past - based on the 'history'). SkierRMH,00:25, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.