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*'''Repeat:''' (Editing from phone, so excuse mistakes) Personally, I don't see a reason not to repeat choruses and other similar lines in the standard lyric transcriptions of songs. I understand not repeating in an attempt to replicate the way the song was originally written by Cuomo, but if that's an intention, there ought to be some sort of separation between ''song lyrics'' and ''written lyrics''. Who's to say what sections shouldn't be repeated? It's almost entirely subjective (Disregarding the afformentioned Cuomo lyric sheets) where lyrics should or should not be excluded due to repition. Along with this, it undoubtedly stands to confuse new users and editors. I have no doubt new pages by inexperienced users would not follow a "Don't Repeat" standard, and that there would be editing wars by those trying to ""fix"" the lyrics. And for lesser known songs, ignoring later choruses may be overall misleading. Weezerpedia results are relatively high on Google searches, it seems unreasonable to present an incomplete form of each song in every case. I frankly do not see a decent reason to indiscriminatly remove lines from the wiki's transcriptions of the songs due to repition. I may be missing something, however, so like MNIJ says, I have no objections to being convinced that it'd be a positive change.--[[User:I Donte Like Birdse|I Donte Like Birdse]] ([[User talk:I Donte Like Birdse|talk]]) 06:24, 15 January 2021 (UTC) | *'''Repeat:''' (Editing from phone, so excuse mistakes) Personally, I don't see a reason not to repeat choruses and other similar lines in the standard lyric transcriptions of songs. I understand not repeating in an attempt to replicate the way the song was originally written by Cuomo, but if that's an intention, there ought to be some sort of separation between ''song lyrics'' and ''written lyrics''. Who's to say what sections shouldn't be repeated? It's almost entirely subjective (Disregarding the afformentioned Cuomo lyric sheets) where lyrics should or should not be excluded due to repition. Along with this, it undoubtedly stands to confuse new users and editors. I have no doubt new pages by inexperienced users would not follow a "Don't Repeat" standard, and that there would be editing wars by those trying to ""fix"" the lyrics. And for lesser known songs, ignoring later choruses may be overall misleading. Weezerpedia results are relatively high on Google searches, it seems unreasonable to present an incomplete form of each song in every case. I frankly do not see a decent reason to indiscriminatly remove lines from the wiki's transcriptions of the songs due to repition. I may be missing something, however, so like MNIJ says, I have no objections to being convinced that it'd be a positive change.--[[User:I Donte Like Birdse|I Donte Like Birdse]] ([[User talk:I Donte Like Birdse|talk]]) 06:24, 15 January 2021 (UTC) | ||
*'''Other:''' I think one major purpose of having lyrics on a page is to follow along while listening, so repeating would make that more straightforward. However, if you're concerned about brevity, we could label Chorus sections etc and just put "[Chorus]" in place of the full text for repeats. Also, for songs with multiple versions/revisions of lyrical content, I stand by the current practice of only including the sections that differ in the space for the alternate lyrics. --[[User:Lettuce|Lettuce]] ([[User talk:Lettuce|talk]]) 19:04, 15 January 2021 (UTC) | |||
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