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January 2011

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of previously published material to our articles. Please cite a reliable source for all of your information. Thank you. Ckatz^chat_spy 06:16, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

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March 2011

Your recent edit to the page Modern Family appears to have added incorrect information and has been reverted or removed. All information in this encyclopedia must be verifiable in a reliable, published source. If you believe the information that you added was correct, please cite the references or sources or before making the changes, discuss them on the article's talk page. Please use the sandbox for any tests that you wish to make. Do take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thank you. Tbhotch* ^{۩ ۞} 03:47, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

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Modern Family

Please stop readding a good article icon on Modern Family. If you want it to be a good article, then put it up for nomination here, but it is already there but not a good article yet. Please be patient. Thanks. -- Matthew RD 18:33, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

April 2011

Your recent edit to the page Glee (TV series) appears to have added incorrect information and has been reverted or removed. All information in this encyclopedia must be verifiable in a reliable, published source. If you believe the information that you added was correct, please cite the references or sources or before making the changes, discuss them on the article's talk page. Please use the sandbox for any tests that you wish to make. Do take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thank you. Yves (talk) 03:56, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

May 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Glee (TV series). When removing content, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the content has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. CTJF83 19:03, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Glee genres

Several times now you have changed the genres at Glee (TV series),[1][2][3][4] and several times the changes have been reverted. If you really believe the genres are incorrect, it would be wise to discuss this on the article's talk page, rather than simply change them every few days as such edits can be seen to be disruptive. --AussieLegend (talk) 19:28, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Weeds genres

Please do not removed sourced content without providing a valid explanation. Active Banana (^bananaphone 19:07, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

What I wrote above applies equally to Weeds, and any other TV program for that matter, as it does to Glee. The changes you made to Weeds were most inappropriate. --AussieLegend (talk) 19:18, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

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July 2011

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Nomination of List of directors who won the Academy, BAFTA, DGA, Golden Globe, and Critic's Choice Award for a single film for deletion

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