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Nomination of Unorthodox (song) for deletion

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April 2011

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That's okay. Yes, it's updated now, so I've re-added it. Happy editing! Yves (talk) 18:08, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Houdini (song)

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UK singles chart

I appreciate your edits to List of number-one singles from the 2010s (UK) adding the new No. 1 single and updating some of the other text. However, the IP editor before you reverted my edits which *restored* the date rule found in the "Attention" box whenever editing the No. 1 list: The date must be the week-ending date, which is the Saturday after the Radio 1 chart show (i.e., Sunday + 6 days), per The Official Charts Company. Since the effort to revert the dates to chart-show dates is being led by IP editors, I have requested semi-protection for that page. Just remember, next time use the Saturday after the chart show. --RBBrittain (talk) 02:03, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

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Singles templates

Hi. Please don't add singles templates to album articles, they belong solely in singles articles. Thank you. SnapSnap 20:41, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Also, do not make singles templates for artists who have so few releases. Tinie Tempah's templates were fine.—Ryulong (竜龙) 09:32, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar

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		For so regularly and diligently updating the lists of the 2010s UK Singles and Albums Charts number ones – your hard work hasn't gone unnoticed! A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 01:40, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Need your help

Hi. I saw you have made a many contributions to the UK charts series of articles. I've recently created a similar series of articles of the U.S. singles charts by decade, which are built the same way the British ones are (by decade and with statistics).

These are the articles​​:

• List of Billboard number-one singles of the 1940s (U.S.)
• List of Billboard number-one singles during 1950–1958 (U.S.)
• List of Hot 100 number-one singles during 1958–1969 (U.S.)
• List of Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1970s (U.S.)
• List of Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1980s (U.S.)
• List of Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1990s (U.S.)
• List of Hot 100 number-one singles of the 2000s (U.S.)
• List of Hot 100 number-one singles of the 2010s (U.S.)

Unfortunately, there are some Wikipedians whom oppose keeping these articles around, claiming that they are essentially a duplication of information which already exists in other articles (namely, the extended articles covering individual years in the U.S. singles chart) and therefore they are in their opinion redundant – even though in my opinion, these articles present the chart lists more effectively (through sortable lists with reduced redundant data) and contain statistics by decade which does not exist elsewhere on Wikipedia. Despite this opposition, so far three of these articles have ​​survived individual AfDs. Nevertheless, according to this current ongoing deletion review it seems that very soon another bigger AfD is going to be held in which the fate of ALL these articles is going to be determined in a voting. I myself believe that these articles have a lot of potential and could be further expanded/developed. Nevertheless, if this potential would not be demonstrated soon enough, I fear the outcome of the upcoming voting, knowing that many Wikipedians might not see the value in such a series and/or its potential to be further expanded/developed.

Because you have had a lot of experience in developing the British charts articles, I asume you might have some good insights on how to expanding this series of articles as well. I would appreciate any help you would be able to provide in expanding/developing this series of articles.

Thanks in advance. TheCuriousGnome (talk) 02:24, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:StooShe

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February 2012

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Grant bought the rights to the album in April 2010

In January 2012, Del Rey revealed that she recently bought back the rights to her 2010 album Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzy Grant and will re-release it in the Summer of 2012 under Interscope Records and Polydor.[48]

This is incorrect her previous producer and previous label have both said Grant and her management bought the rights to the album in April 2010 3 months after it had been put up on itunes as another deal was offered to her, they insisted that all trace be removed of the album, they didn't want any reference to it anywhere, it was written in a new contract and they were following up on it weekly:source;

</ref>http://read.mtvhive.com/2012/01/30/lana-del-rey-first-album-5-points-records-interview/</ref> </ref>http://www.billboard.com/features/lana-del-rey-the-billboard-cover-story-1005869152.story#/features/lana-del-rey-the-billboard-cover-story-1005869152.story</ref>

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Series

Hi, please use the term 'series' and not 'season' when writing on British articles. Mythical Curse (talk) 15:49, 5 April 2012 (UTC).

In March 2012, Matthew Protheroe (as stage name, Vince Kidd), auditioned for the first season of The Voice UK. Singing "Like a Virgin" by Madonna, Kidd was desired by all four of the show's judges - Danny O'Donoghue, Jessie J, Tom Jones and will.i.am; selecting Jessie J as his mentor to advance to the second round with.

I bolded the part you used the term 'season' in. It's from List of The X Factor finalists (UK series 4). Mythical Curse (talk) 21:13, 5 April 2012 (UTC).

April 2012

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Love Me (Stooshe song)

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Stooshe etc

Hi. I see you have renamed StooShe to Stooshe by copying and pasting the content into a new article and redirecting the old one. However, you must not do that, as in doing so you have lost all of the old article history, and that is required to me kept in accordance with Wikipedia's copyright requirements. What you needed to do was simply move the existing article to the new spelling - see Wikipedia:Moving a page. Seeing as you have gone on to make further edits to the page, it will now require an admin with knowledge of merging page histories to fix the problem, so please stop editing the article until that has been done. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 16:59, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

The same applies to Love Me (Stooshe song), but as there have not been significant edits to that since your copy/paste move, I have been able to do that one correctly - I've deleted your new article and moved the old one to the new title. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 17:11, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Sam Buttery

Hello. Really sorry, but you'll need other sources if you want to keep the Sam Buttery material you added. Your sole source actually pre-dates many of the things you mentioned. In short, you can't use that single source to support all the statements you added. Nothing personal. You are a good editor. I'm merely trying to help this page to adhere to WP:BLP guidelines. Would you like me to help you search for other sources? Regards,George Custer's Sabre (talk) 20:35, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

June 2012

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Ways to improve Cough Cough

Hi, I'm Danielj27052705. AlligatorSky, thanks for creating Cough Cough!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. It states that the song was released in 2012 yet in the chronology section it states 2009.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. —Preceding undated comment added 17:48, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

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	Thank you for your article, List of UK top 10 singles in 2013. Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 17:29, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

January 2013

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Imagination

Hey, the article Imagination (Gorgon City song) is currently up for deletion. I checked Gorgon City's bio page and in their discography section noticed that the song achieved minor success on the UK charts, which seems like a viable reason to keep the article. However I can't seem to find record of the song on Zobbel or the UK Dance Chart archives, considering you added those chart placings could you possibly link me to where you found the info? I'd appreciate it, thanks. Azealia911 _talk 19:04, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Magnets (song)

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Updating UK chart positions

Did you actually just come out of semi-retirement to update a chart position on two articles? I was doing it already and you honestly must have raced to those discography pages to do that before me, which I really do not understand. Ss112 15:48, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

I'm assuming that was sarcasm, because nobody could or would be "assigned" to doing it. It doesn't really matter to me if somebody helps out as I usually endeavour to do it alone, I was just confused as to how two pages had been updated when no others had been, and to then see it was done by somebody who hadn't edited in months. Nothing against you, I was just wondering why this and now. Ss112 16:05, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

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Edit summary

I wouldn't really point this out to editors, it's not worth it. Ss112 15:41, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

Also, you're again jumping ahead of editors who have already started doing something, it's a bit rude. Ss112 15:46, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

What the?

You said you weren't "questioning" me, then you did exactly that, which made no sense. Then mere minutes later you do this. Nice double standard right there. You were essentially questioning me why different editors do different things to me—I am not responsible for what any other editor, including Lk95, does. Ask them why they care about reverting over BPI's certifications—probably because they want to be the first to update them. Personally, I find different charts have different approaches. That's why I sent Lk95 a talk page message about German websites that will probably never update with the information Lk95 was claiming is/will be at them, because different sites now archive the information. At least officialcharts.com updates within a short amount of time. I never said to other editors to not update UK peaks because the information might not be there at the exact time they changed it. Besides, the best approach here or anywhere is, really, don't question why people do things if you're blatantly "guilty" of doing the exact same thing. Ss112 16:50, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

@Ss112: I wasn't telling you off for making your edits to the UK chart positions, but rather asking about the correct procedure. I am not trying to start an argument, merely trying to understand how best to handle editing on Wikipedia; particularly as I'm seeing different users doing different things (e.g., you have pulled me up on making unsourced edits, yet make unsourced edits of your own). AlligatorSky 19:35, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

I didn't "pull you up" on making unsourced edits to anything until now, to point out the hypocrisy of asking questions that come off as criticism while doing the same thing (the previous section on this page that I made was about you "interrupting" another editor, e.g. me, already doing something, not about making unsourced edits). Your talk page message to me did not seem like merely innocently asking, it came off as criticism because it stemmed from nothing to do with me. Some situations aren't comparable—the German and UK situations are not the same, and nor are charts and certifications the same. Different editors have different approaches and care about different things. Lk95 wouldn't be the first to revert another editor extensively for updating BPI certifications ahead of time. I've seen that happen quite a bit. I might have even done it in the past—however it's not something I care that much about. As I said, it's best to ask the editor who reverted you directly why they did. I can't tell you the reason why another editor did what they did; I can only speculate. Ss112 18:46, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

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Hi. Thanks for adding references and updating singles for British artists. However, just a few things following my edit summary tags that I want to say:

• We do not need divides (|-) right at the end of wikitables ( |} ). They only start a new row.
• Generally, we should not use date parameters if we're citing iTunes, Spotify or Tidal. This parameter means publication date, and those websites only provide something's release date. Most albums are uploaded well in advance of that date to iTunes, for instance, and occasionally songs are too. So it's mostly unverifiable or at best misleading.
• Please use work or website for publications like NME, DIY, The Line of Best Fit and so on. These parameters (work/website) are mostly interchangeable. iTunes is a website and is published by Apple, not a publisher itself. As we're not citing Apple directly, we should putting website=iTunes or iTunes Store, or Apple Music. Publisher is hardly ever used, but can be used for something like AllMusic, as it is not a publication but a database.
• The country isn't really relevant to put next to iTunes/Apple Music (what matters more is what site it's on), and has mostly been phased out by the majority of users who add these sorts of references.
• Also, please try to cut down on links to the same articles in references that will come right after one another in the reflist. Hardly anybody will click on these anyway, and it's WP:REPEATLINK (even though that does say one can repeat refs in citations, it is unnecessary if they're all next to each other).

I am sorry if I came across as rude in my tags, but it has been tiring to alter this at many different articles, and seeing you go back to articles like Sam Fender to partially restore what I already cleaned up is somewhat irritating. Hopefully this clears that up for future instances. Thank you. Ss112 23:33, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

@Ss112: Many thanks for this feedback, I will be sure to take it onboard! Apologies for having to make you go back and clean articles such as Sam Fender too, it was not my intention to make things harder for you. AlligatorSky 09:50, 8 March 2019

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Hi. Thanks for contributing to discographies and British music articles, however it is not a good practice to be adding what looks like your own opinion of what genres a song is when you make the article, as you did at Be Someone. If you can't source the genres, leave the parameter blank. Genres are by far the most controversial area of music articles, and so there will always be disagreements over them/changes to them, especially if they are not backed up by a good source, so they stick out when they are unsourced (and this also goes against WP:V). Thanks. Ss112 10:57, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

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Hi there. Last week, you updated several peaks on Ladbroke Grove and changed the accessdate for the already updated UK chart. I updated that chart, and I obviously live in a different, further-ahead time zone than you, so please don't do this in future. It was not incorrect. Thanks. Ss112 15:55, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

@Ss112: I wasn't to know that you live in a different, further-ahead time zone, so apologies; thought it was merely a typo. Will know for next time! AlligatorSky 21:26, 28 June 2019

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Social media and e-commerce sites are both primary sources

With this edit on Fredo (British rapper), you replaced a link to Fredo's social media to Apple Music—whereas both are WP:PRIMARY sources and just as acceptable as each other. There was no need to replace it with a link to an online store, and besides, you'll find some users still think adding references to Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal and the like constitute promotion of a song. I don't, but in some senses your reference was not any better. Ss112 18:10, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

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Hello. Regarding edits like this, I might have let you know before, but please avoid removing the temporary citations below chart peaks when a song is actively ascending a chart and gaining week upon week, as "Prada" is doing right now. The citations will just be re-added next week (it's slightly more of a pain to copy a new one instead of updating the old one, which could be alleviated by not removing them), and there's no need to remove them like we need to make the table look more "presentable" or similar arguments I've read other editors use. Thanks. Ss112 07:15, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know Ss112, as I hadn't thought about it this way before - will keep in mind for future edits. AlligatorSky (talk) 11:53, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

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