Blind Faith

They've been suggested a couple of times (e.g. here) and some of Team members consider they cannot be fit for any prog subgenre.

Please ask to one of Special Collaborators if you suggest them as a Prog-Related one.

What Keishiro is saying is that the only way into PA for Blind Faith is the Prog Related route. They've been suggested and rejected a couple of times before, but they have never been suggested for PR.
..........:aaaand the only ones who can suggest band for prog related are collaborators

What is the point of not being able to suggest an artist? It's not like I can force anyone to add it, it's literally just a suggestion. I don't think that such a thing should be restricted because everyone has suggestions even if they aren't a collaborator. PMing them is basically the same as posting it on the forum except on the post everyone can see the suggestion and add their two-sense. Just saying. 

Ah, thank you for clarifying. That makes a heck of a lot more sense. I sent Scott a message. I don't know if he'll respond but he might.

Yes, but the hassle usually comes with this scenario: I feel that Dire Straits should be included as prog related, but if they include Blind Faith than I and other Dire Straits fans (as an example) would be upset. So it takes a lot to get listed in this site as prog related or as prog anything.

The current rule was enforced to avoid controversy - which is always rife when prog-related or proto-prog acts are added. I think you have seen a couple of threads around about Iron Maiden and Queen - almost a decade after they were added - and in the past the backlash was often anything but pretty. Moreover, people are always ready with the eternal question, "if X is here, why not Y?", and that also has the potential to turn ugly - as some people seem to think that "controversial" additions are as relevant in the grand scheme of things as war or famine.

On a personal level, though I like the Blind Faith album a whole lot, I am not sure it's truly prog-related, and then its addition would have people demanding for Cream to be added. So, you see, it's not an easy decision to make.

^To me, Disraeli Gears is as proto prog as Are You Experienced?, but as you said: That's life. 

Atavachron wrote: Cream were proto-Protoprog.  In fact they were the proto-Protoprog band.  This goes to artists that are "related to Prog-related".   There has to be a cutoff point.

I can see where you are coming from. This is the great difficulty in trying to classify acts,especially one as important as Cream.

They were a heady mix of blues, jazz, psychedelic, and sheer presence whose influence on all forms of rock which followed was immense.

Whether that makes them Proto prog, or Proto Proto prog, as you,put it, is a different matter altogether.

I would rather leave it as it is as far as PA is concerned, and that goes for Blind Faith as well.

Because I never said the JHE were proto either: indeed I opposed the addition of James Marshall Hendrix many moons ago on similar grounds--  not to mention the fact that Jimi died before he could become a "progressive rock artist", even if he had later taken that course (which there is some evidence to indicate he would have).  

The PA canon is not the final word, it is simply a best effort by a group of very experienced contributors to catalog a mercifully small genre as compared with, say, jazz.

He wasn't a band, he was a force !