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This article needs some serious editing work!

All the people in this list of progressive rock bands are listed...but the problem is that they're listed multiple times. That's not only unnecessary, but it's confusing and makes this list hard to read. One mention on the list per artist or band is all you need. Let's clean up this list A.S.A.P! Mr. Brain (talk) 16:53, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thats not fair. they often do solo work, have solo careers. But of course you will have to mention the band/group ... eg Genesis, you have to list that. But to list Phil Collins as ONLY a member of genesis would be misleading.. Ok I picked the most extreme example, but thats the problem, the solo name is often as big or bigger than the groups reputation/following/market share

220.233.121.43 (talk) 03:07, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Who is not listed ?

Who is not Listed ? "Who" is not listed.

The Who ... I won't get fooled again, for example. Tommy the Rock Opera ? Its a rock opera, its got to be Prog Rock..

Who were they competing with ? They were trying to be a bit more artistic than Stones and less weird/philosophic/aint drugs good than Pink floyd. 220.233.121.43 (talk) 03:07, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How is it possible that Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins, both of Genesis and long/successful solo careers, are not listed?

Remove descriptions?

Currently, this list has arbitrarily placed descriptions of some artists. I find that this clutters the page from a readability perspective. It's implementation is also inconsistent. What are your thoughts on removing the descriptions and having the page just be a clean list of band/solo artist names? Nickelarcade (talk) 17:05, 19 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

These seem to be the most popular elements of the descriptions:
1) Providing justification for why the artist is progressive
2) Linking a solo artist who was also in a prog band to the band and vice versa
3) Linking the artist to a side-project and vice versa
4) Naming the years/decades the artist was active
5) Naming country of origin
6) Naming the sub-genre

I propose these changes/rules for each numbered item above:
1) Remove all of these. Editors should provide a reference to a reliable source that establishes the proper "progressive rock" justification.
2) Remove these. The current rule is good enough (a band member who has also released prog rock solo may be referenced here as a solo artist). Linkage is established within the artist's article.
3) Remove these for the same reason as above.
4) Remove these. This info is easily found within artist's articles.
5) and 6) These may warrant more discussion. These two elements might be valuable when glancing through a list like this to help readers decide if they want to take the time to click into the detailed articles. The progarchives web site is set up like this. However, to do this we would need to be consistent and decide on formatting (do we convert to a table view with rows and cells or keep the existing format and add the country & sub-genre in parentheses?).

Let me know your thoughts. Thanks. - Nickelarcade (talk) 17:34, 19 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

EXCEPTIONS - In the case where two artists have the same name, we need some kind of differentiator. It could be as simple as the country of origin and sub-genre. Or it could be a little more descriptive. As an example of this, look at the two bands named "3". - Nickelarcade (talk) 17:40, 19 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Lazleitt - Progressive rock USA 193.254.30.89 (talk) 20:23, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. - FlightTime (open channel) 20:24, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Nova Pr0t0type again (talk) 11:36, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Saucy^{[talk – contribs]} 04:58, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Lazleitt - Progressive rock project from Washington, DC 216.15.29.63 (talk) 00:35, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. — Andy W. (talk) 01:24, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

progarchives.com

The site is not reliable. I only removed the references to the website. Some entries don't have an article or reference but I left them intact. Sikonmina (talk) 23:06, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of lots of entries

@Sikonmina: I do not quite understand what you are doing here. Many entries are being taken out which seem to belong here. I see, for example, that Silhouette (band) has been removed; their article says, however, that they are "a progressive rock band from Utrecht, the Netherlands" (a sentence with two citations). What is the rationale for these removals? jp×g 00:57, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I see that The Watch (band) was also taken out; their article, too, says clearly that "The Watch is an Italian progressive rock band from Milan, led by vocalist, principal songwriter and teacher Simone Rossetti, originally formed in 1997. Their music is inspired by classic progressive rock style of the 1970s and in particular by the music of Genesis". jp×g 00:58, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm only removing them from the list if they don't have a reference. If you have a reference, you can put them back in. Sikonmina (talk) 01:05, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Rush

The entry for rush doesn't have a real reference. Why is it included? I already sent a message on the reverter's talk page. Iterresise (talk) 05:39, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]