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Good article reassessment for Vanilla Ice

Vanilla Ice has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 14:54, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Księga Tajemnicza. Prolog

The article Księga Tajemnicza. Prolog has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unreferenced for almost 14 years. No other language has a reliably sourced article from which to translate: the Polish article is sourced to blogs and Discogs. Makes wildly dubious claims.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion based on established criteria.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Bearian (talk) 16:05, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Question about sources for hip-hop artist draft

Hello, I’m working on a draft article for a hip-hop artist currently under Articles for Creation review. The draft uses coverage from AllHipHop, Sheen Magazine, and a longer profile from The Bridge Magazine.

I’m seeking input from WikiProject Hip hop editors on whether these publications are generally considered reliable secondary sources and whether the depth of coverage would meet expectations for music biography articles.

I want to make sure the article aligns with Wikipedia sourcing standards. Thank you for any guidance. Godsentme1 (talk) 06:44, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Redlinked categories

As you guys obviously know, Wikipedia's categories for the genre of music use the spelling hip-hop with a hyphen — but the redlinked category report sees a constant infusion of pages where somebody has either erroneously used the unhyphenated "hip hop" on a new article instead of the existing categories, or tried to flip longstanding articles that were in the existing categories back to the unhyphenated spelling for some reason. There are almost always at least one or two, and sometimes several more, "hip hop" categories for which the exact same category already exists at the "hip-hop" form, on that report practically every single time it updates with new redlinked categories, so it's becoming a disruptive pain in the badonkadonk to have to keep fixing this over and over and over again.

So I wanted to ask if there would be any support for ensuring that any category with a hyphenated hip-hop spelling also has a categoryredirect from the unhyphenated hip hop, so that this stops being my problem to fix and can be left to the bots that fix categoryredirect errors instead? Bearcat (talk) 18:57, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

This proposal seems sensible to me! Redirects are cheap, after all, and there's evidently a use case for the specific ones you propose. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 20:47, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

Brothers uv da Blakmarket

Please add reliable sources. Bearian (talk) 20:37, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

HipHopDX

Last month HipHopDX deleted over 20 years of articles from their site.[1][2] It looks like all content pre-2024 acquisition is gone. Thankfully a lot of it is on the Internet Archive but still extremely unfortunate. मल्ल (talk) 15:18, 26 February 2026 (UTC)