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Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Bigger, Better Power Ballads II. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use Wikipedia:Sandbox for test edits. Thank you. slakr 09:55, 3 July 2007 (UTC) reply

Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Now 04. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use Wikipedia:Sandbox for test edits. Thank you. Jac16888 10:52, 6 August 2007 (UTC) reply

Please stop. If you continue to blank out (or delete portions of) page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to Now 06, you will be blocked from editing. Lra drama 10:53, 6 August 2007 (UTC) reply

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Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, which wasn't included with your recent edit to Now 6 (Portuguese series). Thank you. Martial BACQUET 13:27, 2 October 2007 (UTC) reply

A tag has been placed on Now That's What I Call Music Volume 1 (N.Z. First series), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read our the guidelines on spam as well as the Wikipedia:Business' FAQ for more information.

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An article that you have been involved in editing, List of Now That's What I Call Music! albums, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Now That's What I Call Music! albums. Thank you. Jeepday ( talk) 16:21, 22 November 2007 (UTC) reply

Just a heads up that I've written a proposal for changing SingStar-related articles at Talk:SingStar (series). I'd like to hear your opinion on it. -- Tntnnbltn 15:22, 3 December 2007 (UTC) reply

A tag has been placed on Now This Is Music 8 (Original Holland series) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

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The article Now That's What I Call Noughties: The Best of Now 2000–2007 has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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