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Thank you for the welcome and great information. Those cookies look delicious. BlackGreatness (talk) 16:40, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yolanda Adams[edit]

Please see {{infobox musical artist}} Associated acts are not people or groups that the musician has had a passing association with, it is for professional relationships with other musicians or bands that are significant and notable to this artist's career. The information should be clearly detailed in the article. Also, claims such as "Adams is the most awarded solo female artist in Gospel Music" needs a source as does being known as the "Queen of Contemporary Gospel Music". Finally, MOS:LQ requires us to only include terminal punctuation within quotation marks only if the punctuation was present in the original material. That would be impossible in this case. Walter Görlitz (talk) 22:29, 2 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]