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Recent edits to defunct NHL teams

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Please comment on your edits regarding removal of the catagory of defunct nhl teams on many defunct nhl team pages. The category states " This category is about ice hockey teams in the National Hockey League that no longer exist, or may have moved since its inception and have gained notoriety at their former location. " Is there a discussion that has taken place that i am not aware of that has sought to remove this category? Thanks for your time Ottawa4ever (talk) 01:59, 18 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

I removed that category from those teams because they were already in that category by subcategory. For example, Atlanta Flames is in Category:Atlanta Flames which is in Category:Defunct National Hockey League teams. I apologise, if that was wrong. Lepax (talk) 06:49, 18 May 2009 (UTC)Reply
I looked the pages over myself and the links to defunct teams are still available elsewhere in the article, so it seems kinda redundant to include the category anyway now in my opinion (unless i'm missing something). When you do a large group of edits like that its always good practice to write an edit summary on the edits. Anyway your edits do make the article look better organized :) happy editing Ottawa4ever (talk) 14:52, 18 May 2009 (UTC)Reply
I'll try to remember to write an edit summary from now on. Happy editing for you, too. :) Lepax (talk) 15:20, 18 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Athlete photos

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Just a message to say thanks for cropping and making images for athlete biographies from the Osaka Championships. It's much appreciated. Even just a single photo can make a big difference for a biography. Cheers! Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits)WIKIPROJECT ATHLETICS NEEDS YOU! 12:30, 4 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for this message :) I think there are not much Osaka photos anymore but I'll continue searching athlete photos from Commons and when I find, I'll put them in use. Lepax (talk) 13:04, 4 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

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Yunaska Roger Graffor listed at Redirects for discussion

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