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Show No Mercy has been listed as one of the Music good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
March 16, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
March 27, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
June 2, 2009	Good article reassessment	Kept
March 18, 2011	Good topic candidate	Promoted
August 15, 2011	Good topic candidate	Promoted
Current status: Good article

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GA on hold

A good article overall. Just a few things that need to be touched up first. Month-year combinations don't need a comma (December 1983 instead of December, 1983). Delink Slayer in the producer section of the infobox. It'd be helpful to use an appositive to show who some of the people are (e.g. "guitarist Kerry King"). "Slayer were": I could be wrong, but I believe the convention is to refer to bands like Slayer in the singular (at least the American convention is, since the subject is American). "Jeff (Hanneman)": if Hanneman wasn't part of the original quote, use brackets instead of parentheses. Congrats to WP Slayer, by the way, for pumping out some quality articles. ShadowHalo 02:16, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wooo that was quick :O I changed everything, but was unsure from the brackets, changed it from ( to [. Thanks for the quick review :) M3tal H3ad 06:41, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good. I didn't notice at first, but there are some minor problems with quotations marks. There shouldn't be any smart quotes (“, ”, and ’); these normally come from writing in a word processing software like MS Word. Also, quotes inside quotes should have single quotes: Bob said, "Mary told me that 'This is a quotation.'" Make sure to correct that at some point; other than that, this looks like it meets WP:WIAGA. Good work! ShadowHalo 06:55, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. M3tal H3ad 07:06, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Acclaim?

The reception section seems too negative, this album definitely has its fans. Some ideas for sources [1][2] Adamravenscroft 19:03, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

there should be a better review there —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.137.17.251 (talk) 05:48, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

no personnel?

Just a quick question: Shouldn't there be a section about the personnel? --Johnnyw talk 11:30, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Fight Till Death 83 demo clip.ogg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:03, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PMRC

This organization was born in 1985, Show No Mercy was released in 1983. How did the PMRC send the letter to Slagel about the record release? --Born Again 83 (talk) 14:22, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

They sent it after it was released. M3tal H3ad (talk) 04:09, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fight Till Death sample

I've removed it. I've had this album for over 20 years, that sample was not taken from it. It sounds more like a pre-production demo. I'm not even sure why this article talks about "poor production quality," since it's actually quite good, all things considered. It stands up to contemporary stuff like Metallica's Kill 'Em All, at least to my ears. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.214.138 (talk) 05:45, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

This discussion is transcluded from Talk:Show No Mercy/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.

GA Sweeps: Pass

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing Sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria. I went through the article and made various changes, please look them over. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good Article. Altogether the article is well-written and is still in great shape after its passing in 2007. Continue to improve the article making sure all new information is properly sourced and neutral. It would be beneficial to update the access dates for all of the sources. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. I have updated the article history to reflect this review. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 05:57, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

First-Wave Black Metal

I don't know how Slayer's Show No Mercy can't nt be considered first-wave of black metal. Venom is considerd the band that invented black metal, yet Show No Mercy was released in 1983 and Welcome to Hell was released in 1981. Bathory is the band that actually would define black metal as we know it and there first album was released in 1984. Slayer's Show No Mercy is a 1983 release so how is it not a fist-wave of black metal album album. (Yes I know it's obviously speed metal I want to know about the black metal part.) If Venom is first-wave of black metal then how is this album not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.209.181.76 (talk) 08:07, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's primary a sound that is composed of these particular genres: early thrash metal and first-wave black metal when this album was mainly influenced by Venom, King Diamond, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, the heaviest styles of punk (at the time), and the also the majority of New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands as well. If Wikipedia doesn't believe you or even the editor[s] who edit this album page; it is a lie indeed, it is a black metal, even if this is their only one: it is a black metal at heart with thrash metal and bits and pieces of hardcore punk thrown in there. But still, "Show No Mercy" is a good album that test the stands of time to be one of the best Slayer albums that can be listened over and over again--much like their other albums of the 80's--it will be around and around again in the black metal circles of today's time, it sounds weird, but it is not; it has Satanic imagery and lyrics, they're offensive, and they are as laughable as listening to Anal Cunt, because they didn't yet progressed in that department however. panicpack121 18:00, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 27 February 2016

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Move. Consensus is that this is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Cúchullain ^t/c 18:48, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

– Request move per primary topic criteria. There are three articles with this title. Per Wiki's traffic, Slayer's album gets 248 visits a day, Bride's album has 5 hits a day, and the song has 4 hits a day. Oddly, the disambiguation page is second most visited with 6 hits. Having unnecessary explanation in brackets clearly doesn't prevent readers from getting here. Retrohead (talk) 12:58, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support I think I can second this motion. The Slayer album seems to be the best known of them, and certainly has more traffic.--L1A1 FAL (talk) 13:29, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Forgot to mention earlier, but the Slayer album was the first one to be released, so it also scores on "original topic".--Retrohead (talk) 13:35, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Clear primary topic. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 18:04, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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