Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-14908162-20190418193932

Hello everyone,

Recently Lyrics Wiki has been closed to editing because it contained too many extremely explicit content which violated the Terms of Use. Because this wiki also hosts some extremely explicit content, ElectricRaichu and I have been discussing what to do about it. We came to the conclusion that it's best to remove the lyrics from pages and add a template explaining why it was removed. This to prevent pages from being re-added and deleted repeatedly. Other pages, where only a small part of the lyrics is extremely explicit, might be censored. A more detailed explanation of the new templates and how they work can be found in the Song Article Guideline.

I've already removed the lyrics on some of the pages on this wiki, and ElectricRaichu and I are currently evaluating some other lyrics which might need to be removed. A list of pages that are already evaluated by either one or both of us can be found here. You're free to help us out if you want (please do put the lyrics on one of the lists before removing them, though). However, we're by no means perfect judges, so sometimes lyrics might be removed which do not violate the TOU after all. In that case, as mentioned on the template, if you feel that the lyrics do not violate the TOU, you're free to discuss it in the comments of the page. If it's concluded that the lyrics don't violate the TOU after all, the lyrics will be added back.

Lastly, I don't think that I speak just for myself when I say that I do not particularly like removing lyrics. I think freedom of expression is extremely important, and doing this feels like censoring. However, we are hosted by fandom, and so we should follow their rules (plus I'd rather not this wiki be closed for editing). This is the best solution we came up with. Luckily most of the lyrics can be found elsewhere, so they will never be completely lost.

Hopefully this explains the situation a bit. If you have any questions feel free to ask them here! 