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For any bands which do not meet the criteria outlined in allowed band types, no profile should be created, nor should any data be added. Existing profiles and releases from said bands should be tagged “removed”. (See also: handling non-visual artists in omnibuses.)
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For one-time sessions, continuous sessions, and doujin bands bands, all information may be added as usual, but no news articles should be created (except in the case of changing to a formal band).
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For parody bands and soft visual bands, all information may be added as usual, and news articles may be created so long as the band is unambiguously vkei.
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For “visual kei idols”:
Do add a -note in the biography about where the group claimed to be a visual kei idol; appropriate tags; group photos; formation and disbandment dates; official website; and name, position, and band history for any members who were previously in visual kei bands.
Do not add releases; videos; detailed biography information; live schedules (except where unambiguously vkei bands also performed); member information (except those who were previously in vkei bands); or news articles.
- For Misshitsu kei, shironuri kei, or pikopiko kei bands:
For bands who are unambiguously vkei, all information may be added as normal.
For bands that are not clearly vkei or non-vkei, most information may be added; however, biographies should only includes date of activity start/end or member joining/secession. No news articles should be created.
For bands that are clearly
non-vkei, no profile should be created.
Do add appropriate tags; one representative image; formation and disbandment date; official website; and member names, positions, and band histories. (The
allowed bands rules still apply for any bands
within the members' band histories.)
Do not add multiple images; videos; live schedules (except lives at which unambiguously vkei bands appeared); or discography entries (except those in which unambiguously vkei bands participate).
Avoid news articles about these bands except when a musician, whose previous band was explicitly vkei, forms a new non-vkei band; or when a formerly vkei musician passes away.
- For formerly visual bands, all normal data may be added. However, news articles should be avoided except if the band disbands, revives, or switches back to being a visual band, or if one of its members passes away.