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Episode notability

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This is in regards to Top 12 Women Perform (AI5), Top 12 Men Perform (AI5), and Top 10 Women Perform (AI5). Aspects (talk) 23:07, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I completely agree. And if that is true of the episodes, it is even more true of the participants. Maybe the winner of each season is notable. But unless they have a very established music career (a major label, major tours, etc.), these individual pages are just products of the show's junkies and are not by any means encyclopedic. My suggestion: barring other notability, the winner alone warrants a page (not participants being eliminated). TerriblyTerrible (talk) 01:39, 12 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Season 3

What happenend to the list for the third season? Someone need to seriously put that back in. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.210.97.156 (talk) 01:09, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Page malfunction

Something's wrong with the page. I put in the new episodes but it still says Template:Episode table. Plus, the Templates won't show.Lonniemitchell22 (talk) 17:22, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]