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Needs updating

This article is outdated, I believe. Didn't AOL/Time Warner buy Tommy Boy in 2001?

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:24, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No additions without RS

While the page is completely unsourced, it makes no sense to permit further additions which are unsourced. And as previously noted, Mic Neumann, there are no RS supporting your claims of association with Tommy Boy anything.--Lexein (talk) 01:26, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

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Tommy Boy Entertainment → Tommy Boy Records – There is no source that this is the current name of the label; in addition, this would be in sync with Category:Tommy Boy Records singles. Erpert ^{blah, blah, blah...} 03:27, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Kommentar - The official website never says "Records", but in small letters at the bottome of the page it does say "Entertainment". That said, I see no indication they are in any other business but the marketing of sound recordings. 78.26 (I'm no IP, talk to me!) 13:01, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If that's the case, Category:Tommy Boy Records singles should be speedily moved to Category:Tommy Boy Entertainment singles. Erpert ^{blah, blah, blah...} 02:15, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, a quick Google gave half a million ghits for the current name [1] and five times fewer for the proposed new name [2] (your results may vary). But I see no need to move the category. Andrewa (talk) 07:35, 8 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Per WP:COMMONNAME, When using Google, generally a search of Google Books and News Archive should be defaulted to before a web search, as they concentrate reliable sources ... so I searched Gbooks. 1840 hits for "Tommy Boy Records" -Wikipedia -"books, llc" versus 68 for "Tommy Boy Entertainment" -Wikipedia -"books, llc". --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:29, 8 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]