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Your username made me 'lol'. Thank you for cheering me up GimliDotNet^{(Speak to me,Stuff I've done)} 17:32, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Haha thanks, I'm not very good at thinking up usernames so I just thought I'd go with something generic and ended up coming up with it Username of a generic kind (talk) 17:52, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Since the Mikhail Youzhny career statistics FL nom is passing, its about time to discuss how to change the layout of the career statistics. It would be great if we could turn the Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray career statistics articles to FL status, but I feel I can only do that with support in the WP:Tennis project/community. --TIAYN (talk) 08:25, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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2014 Milos Raonic tennis season

Hi, I replaced your deletion PROD of this article with an Article for Deletion (AfD) tag because the deletion policy does not allow a PROD to be replaced if it has been deleted (even if that was done without indicating a reason). I copied your PROD text to the AfD.--Wolbo (talk) 10:22, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Wolbo: I wasn't 100% sure of the guidelines with this as the editor could potentially remove the tag without understanding what they were doing. Thanks for sorting it for me. Username of a generic kind (talk) 16:52, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wasn't really sure myself but the guideline as well as a talk page discussion made clear that a PROD cannot be replaced so the only option after that is the AfD.--Wolbo (talk) 18:48, 22 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Username of a generic kind, just curious if you have noticed the Andy Murray GA review that is now ongoing (and currently on hold for seven days)? As the nominator you are entitled to handle the points that are raised by the reviewer and make any changes that may be required to get the article to GA status. If you need any assistance with that just let me know.--Wolbo (talk) 03:05, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Wolbo:, I had been inactive over the festive period so hadn't been aware of this. I'm going to get started on it now. If you want to help then you're more than welcome to but if there are other things you want to spend your time on then I think I should be able to manage it myself. Username of a generic kind (talk) 15:27, 5 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Andy Murray

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