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Takafumi Sakagami·11/20/2014 in Announcements

Lyrical Analysis - Where does it belong?

A popular part of Digital Haunt is formulating ideas and sharing them with everyone. Currently the song pages we have contain a lyrical analysis section. This section served as a quick way for our small group to contain the information and ideas we had, however the community has grown since then, and the thoughts brought up in these analyses are both questionable and capable of creating bias within the community. Keeping this section of the wiki in a place where factual information belongs could hinder the input of new ideas from individuals and groups, and personally, I believe it already has.

We have to question whether the lyrical analyses should be put on a song page, or whether they should be contained in User Blogs or on the forum where individual thoughts are better suited and presented. Group efforts through the forum and clean presentation through blog posts would be a welcome change. We would however need to increase the visibility of Blog Posts to reflect this.

This is not the kind of decision I should make on my own, so any opinions you have on this proposed change would be welcome!

(Edited by Takafumi Sakagami)

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Kowetas·11/21/2014

Mmm, good question.

I think that the song pages are messy, but at the same time we need the theories on the page somewhere since this is what DH is all about. Since nothing is confirmed it's difficult to know what should and shouldn't be on there.

Perhaps if we make more repeated themes pages, then link individual ideas/words to those pages then that would work. That way people could search through themes by song or by theme.

Then any speculation should be kept to user blogs/personal theories etc...

(Edited by Kowetas)

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Takafumi Sakagami·11/22/2014

Hmm... then people could link their blog posts in the relevent theme pages? Then if someone prefers to focus on a certain repeated theme, they can see what everyone else wrote about it.

(Edited by Takafumi Sakagami)

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Kowetas·11/22/2014

Yeah that sounds good to me.

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MaKit·12/1/2014

Could I suggest we have a section in each "reccuring themes" page where we say why each line of lyrics belongs on the page? Not to scrutinise people, but as like a way of incorporating lyrical analysis into the page without it being so messy.

(Edited by MaKit)

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Takafumi Sakagami·12/1/2014

Most of the actual analyses need to be moves over from where they were on the song pages, but getting the foundations put down is the priority.

(Edited by Takafumi Sakagami)

What do you think?