Is there a way to add Trevor Rabin as an artist?

I have mentioned David Gilmour. I hope you'll not be concerned if I comment your sentences.

I was around in the early 70s and the word "progressive" I think has been used for the first time around 1972 and it took several years to become a label. Nobody was thinking of anything called prog in these years. I think I've heard it for the first time at the end of the 80s.

I don't see the ambiguity in the site. I don't get your point so I can't comment.

About prog metal, give a try to Ayreon's "The Human Equation" with a bit of open mind and let me know what you think.

If you really want to open your mind I can suggest you "Universal Totem Orchestra", the first 4 albums of Art Zoyd or even the last live of Nichelodeon (the first things that I have in mind). No metal of any kind there.

Even Sir Gilmour has attempted something really new for him with his colaboration with "The Orb". Try it.

True if you think to "related". For full prog categories that's the process, I think.

Here I agree with you (also with the mentioned bands), but remaining "specialized" is not snobism. I think it gives the site a punctual identity. The criteria for inclusion may be discussed or changed, of course.

Yes, I agree that we should indeed remain specialized. But with open minds. 

Great, I hope that he votes 'yes' then, because it is a real shame that Trevor Rabin is not here already. He clearly belongs in Prog Related! Bring him on 

Not sure I would have phrased it quite like that, unfair to Admin and perhaps a certain CZ a more appropriate place

 

It wasn't intended as a slur on our admins, who do a fantastic job. It was merely a reflection of the very strict set of criteria which the site requires to be satisfied before an artist can even be considered by them for Prog Related. This subject has been brought up in several other threads on here, and it has been well explained that we don't want the Prog Related category to expand so that it has even more artists in it than the 'real' prog subs do.

 

A fair number of suggestions that the Crossover team are presented with are kind of 'borderline cases', and team members often vote 'Prog Related' if they feel that is the most appropriate place for them to be filed. However, due to the strict entry criteria which rightly exist for PR, the need for an SC to step forward and put together a convincing case in support of the artist and present it to admins in the first place, etc etc, artists with a majority of votes cast for Prog Related tend to get shuffled off into the 'discuss' section on progfreak, where they just sit stagnating for months on end because there is little or no chance of them ever actually being considered for this category.

 

These artists have been brought back into the charts for another look in the hope that a definite 'yes' or 'no' decision can be reached rather than the current indefinite one for Prog Related, which would most likely never be resolved.

 

That is how I see it, anyway.

His inclusion here should be solely on the basis of whether he has released a prog rock album, or not, simple as. My vote, if I had one, would be yes re Jacuranda.