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Modern Rock #1s edit

Hey there, thanks for doing wikilink maintenance on these! Just a quick request - if the current link is incorrect please disambiguate it instead of removing it completely (i.e. if "Good Stuff (song)" is wrong, change it to "Good Stuff (The B-52's song)" instead of getting rid of the link). Thanks and keep up the good work! - eo 14:21, 27 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

Yeah...I'm do that. This morning, all I was doing was trying to fill up the Modern Rock #1 hits category as the category page requested. I would set up pages for the red links later though. Yeah, I'll take care of it though. Maplejet 19:05, 27 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion edit

I noticed that you tagged the page List of post-grunge articles for speedy deletion with the reason "list is full of inaccuracies, poorly defined, unreliable". However, "list is full of inaccuracies, poorly defined, unreliable" is not currently one of our criteria for speedy deletion, so I have removed the speedy deletion tag. You can use Wikipedia:Articles for deletion if you still want the page to be deleted. Thanks! Stifle (talk) 18:14, 24 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

List of post-grunge artists edit

I agree with you that this page is redundant with Category:Post-grunge groups. I just wanted to make sure that, before doing so, you went through the list and made sure that all of the appropriate groups are tagged as being in that category, because that way we are making sure that the list really is redundant with the category. If you've done so, I'd even support the prod with a {{prod2}}. Thanks. Chubbles 06:43, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

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