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Nomination of The Big Book of Sad Songs, Volume 1 for deletion

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Nomination of Living off the Radar for deletion

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Nomination of Love and the Great Depression for deletion

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 19:17, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Bigbookofsadsongs.jpg

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 22:41, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 00:29, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

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Unusually Thicke

We write about television shows, even past ones, in the present tense rather than the past — because even if the show is no longer in production, the recordings still exist and can still be reaired. It works the same way as movies and novels: the movie may have been made in 1942, and the novel may have been written and published in 1763, but they still exist today and are thus written about as is a film and is a novel, rather than was. It's appropriate to write in the past tense when you're describing specific events connected to the production of the film or television series or novel — but when we're describing very general stuff about it that isn't time-dependent, we do that in the present tense because the show still exists whether it's still in production or not.

And we also don't insert "the late" in front of a person's name in the body text of articles that are about other things merely related to the dead person. The article doesn't need to say that the show starred "the late Alan Thicke", any more than Growing Pains would need to be reedited to say that Jason Seaver was played by "the late Alan Thicke" — a person who needs to know whether Alan Thicke is alive or dead can click on the link to Alan Thicke's article to find out, so we don't insert "the late" in front of every reference to Alan Thicke in every article about anything or anybody else connected to him. Bearcat (talk) 15:47, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Introducing Payola$

The article Introducing Payola$ has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Old article that fails Google test.

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