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*'''Repeat:''' Until thinking about it just now to create this discussion page, I would have said we shouldn't repeat, mostly because that's what Rivers did when writing out the lyric sheets for [[Gallery:Lyric sheets#Weezer (The Blue Album)|Blue]] and [[Gallery:Lyric sheets#Pinkerton|Pink]]. I like the aesthetic of it on the wiki page - more succinct and short. I also like that it honors the text of the lyrics in their own right, as opposed to merely transcribing what is sung. I've changed my mind, though, in thinking about our being a wiki. I think part of the point of a project like this is to document and stay out of the way as much as possible. There are big exceptions to this which I fully embrace, of course - we lean rather enthusiastically into "being in the way" on [[:Category:Fandom|fandom]] pages, and I wouldn't change that. But in the lyrics of a song page, I think the responsibility is to just present exactly what the song contains, without editorializing or formatting to our liking. For that reason I vote "repeat." I'm happy to be convinced otherwise, though. --[[User:MyNameIsJason|MyNameIsJason]] ([[User talk:MyNameIsJason|talk]]) 05:55, 15 January 2021 (UTC) | *'''Repeat:''' Until thinking about it just now to create this discussion page, I would have said we shouldn't repeat, mostly because that's what Rivers did when writing out the lyric sheets for [[Gallery:Lyric sheets#Weezer (The Blue Album)|Blue]] and [[Gallery:Lyric sheets#Pinkerton|Pink]]. I like the aesthetic of it on the wiki page - more succinct and short. I also like that it honors the text of the lyrics in their own right, as opposed to merely transcribing what is sung. I've changed my mind, though, in thinking about our being a wiki. I think part of the point of a project like this is to document and stay out of the way as much as possible. There are big exceptions to this which I fully embrace, of course - we lean rather enthusiastically into "being in the way" on [[:Category:Fandom|fandom]] pages, and I wouldn't change that. But in the lyrics of a song page, I think the responsibility is to just present exactly what the song contains, without editorializing or formatting to our liking. For that reason I vote "repeat." I'm happy to be convinced otherwise, though. --[[User:MyNameIsJason|MyNameIsJason]] ([[User talk:MyNameIsJason|talk]]) 05:55, 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) | |||
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