Talk:M.A.D (band)

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Styling of the band's name[edit]

After reviewing the Geoma Records site, other sites (e.g.,[1],[2]) and the band's official Twitter and Facebook feeds, I have made internal references consistent as M.A.D (without a terminal period) rather than M.A.D. (though some external sites refer to the band as M.A.D., MAD or some variant). Dwpaul ^Talk 18:52, 16 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move[edit]

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Ixfd64 (talk) 17:53, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

M.A.D → M.A.D (boy band) – MAD is an acronym with many uses and a new British boyband isn't WP:PRIMARYTOPIC over Mutually Assured Destruction or any of the other options at MAD#Acronym. Per WP:MOSTM regarding spelling/formatting of trademarks this should be MAD (boy band), but that's a minor point compared to the current problem. Note also "boy" is required since M.A.D. (punk band) is a redirect to Blast (American band). In ictu oculi (talk) 05:14, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wait, why does M.A.D. (punk band) redirect there? There's no mention of a band by that name. --BDD (talk) 17:41, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Should have been in the article. In any case M.A.D. as the original name of the US punk band is verifiable, and I've just added a line to Blast (American band) sourced from/footnoted to David A. Ensminger Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation 2011 Page 132 In ictu oculi (talk) 01:20, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. It should be a disambiguation page -- 65.94.171.206 (talk) 06:27, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Clear-cut. ^walk victor falk^talk 11:36, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - would disambiguating by nationality not be better? That's the case with Blue, Damage and Embrace. Unreal7 (talk) 19:17, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - definitely should be a DAB page; the missing "." at the end is not enough to distinguish this - I catch myself making precisely that typographical error (for example with "a.k.a") several times per week, and I cannot be alone in that. The boy band should be at MAD (boy band) if it's really an acronym, or at Mad (boy band) if it' snot, per MOS:TM; "M.A.D" is just vanity typography. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 09:30, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom and MOS:TM. —BarrelProof (talk) 19:11, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. This is so typical of the shortchanging of female-oriented topics on Wiki. When it was celebrity dresses, novelists, and the wives of ex-PMs, I was silent. But this is boy bands! I notice that tsorts are manly enough to make the grade, vanity capitalization and all. Adding a parenthetical will of course reduce traffic to this article. If you are not going fix the vanity punctuation problem, what's the point? Guelf (talk) 03:34, 26 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Mad support. Clear lack of a distinct primary topic for the term with the hard-to-catch missing final punctuation. No objection to the disambiguator using either the genre or the nationality of the band. bd2412 T 16:09, 26 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - it seems evident from above that those supporting a move would also be happy with MAD (British band) as an alternative. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:45, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support proposal; prefer disambiguator (British band) as more encyclopedic in tone, and equally precise. Xoloz (talk) 02:55, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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