Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Mentally Ill
There's a https://books.google.com/books?id=3ZW6BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA40&dq=%22Mentally+Ill%22+%22Gacy%27s+Place%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjb6aqZ6L7PAhWGFz4KHSHZB-UQ6AEIJTAB#v=onepage&q=%22Mentally%20Ill%22%20%22Gacy%27s%20Place%22&f=false trivial mention (as having found musical inspiration in the California serial killings of 1977–78) in a book about the Dead Kennedys. There's one paragraph of coverage of the 2004 Alternative Tentacles issue in ''Maximumrocknroll'' #256 that serves as a review, more or less. There's another http://www.furious.com/perfect/killedbydeath.html review of sorts in ''Perfect Sound Forever (magazine)|Perfect Sound Forever'', in the context of the ''Killed by Death (albums)|Killed by Death'' punk bootleg records. The 2004 release also got a http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/69p23.html brief (and not entirely positive) review in online zine/label/etc. ''In Music We Trust''; that's bylined, and they actually have http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/about.html#jebb acknowledged staff writers, but I'm still not confident they meet RS. I feel like there ''had'' to have been coverage somewhere between 1979 and 2004, based on how the 2004+ sources talk about the band, but I can't find any of it. Whether the material that seems available is sufficient to demonstrate notability is very much an open question, and my weak keep vote is largely predicated on the idea that |we're probably missing some print-only sources
— User:Squeamish, 14:39, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NEXIST (Wikipedia:Notability)