Pet peeve quiz
Oct. 12th, 2013 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_whomI have a pet peeve about what appears to be standard, or at least common, Wikipedia practice for writing articles about songs.
I've prepared an example of what, say, the article about Moby-Dick would look like if articles about novels were written the same way articles about songs often seem to be written.
Without comparing it to the real Wikipedia article about Moby-Dick (or any other novel), can you guess what my pet peeve about song articles is?
I've prepared an example of what, say, the article about Moby-Dick would look like if articles about novels were written the same way articles about songs often seem to be written.
Without comparing it to the real Wikipedia article about Moby-Dick (or any other novel), can you guess what my pet peeve about song articles is?
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Date: 2013-10-12 02:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-12 03:11 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friend_of_the_Devil&direction=prev&oldid=149205192
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Date: 2013-10-12 03:13 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_spangled_banner
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Date: 2013-10-12 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-12 03:34 pm (UTC)isn't that what wikisource is for, though?
it just feels like a certain lack of editing, especially in this case where most of the official lyrics are never sung and are pretty much just trivia.
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Date: 2013-10-12 03:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-12 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-12 03:17 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaritaville&oldid=93827687
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Date: 2013-10-12 03:20 pm (UTC)it looks like there may have been a revision trend away from this in the past five years. maybe what you're seeing is an over-reaction to an earlier problem?
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Date: 2013-10-12 03:28 pm (UTC)