Talk:Wah-Wah (song)

MetroLyrics link
The MetroLyrics link for "Wah-Wah" in External links shows "SONGWRITERS PAGE, JAMES PATRICK / PLANT, ROBERT." Misidentifying copyright holders by MetroLyrics is not uncommon and was brought to the attention of Copyright problems. No action was taken to address the problem or to remove bad links, but the bot operator was later banned. If there are no objections, I'll remove this link. —Ojorojo (talk) 17:58, 10 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi Ojorojo, thanks for raising the issue here. My feeling is that it's okay – yes the lyrics are attributed to Plant & Page (and that's embarrassing), but if a reader comes to this link after reading the article, the first line or two of lyrics are going to tell them they have in fact got the correct "Wah-Wah". You raised an interesting point at Wikipedia:Copyright problems, I admit. If we know that, even despite the appearance of a LyricsFind symbol, something untoward is going on re MetroLyrics, I guess we should ditch them all. But is that the case? JG66 (talk) 02:24, 11 March 2016 (UTC)


 * MetroLyrics as a source is questionable. Maybe they usually get it right, but there are too many spectacular blunders:
 * "Stairway to Heaven" (LZ song) – HOWARD GREENFIELD, NEIL SEDAKA
 * "Something" (Beatles FA) – MAX GREEN, CRAIG EDWARD MABBITT, BRIAN MONEY, ROBERT ORTIZ, JOHN FELDMANN
 * "Good Vibrations" (Beach Boys) – HARTMAN, DAN/WAHLBERG, DONALD EDMOND/WAHLBERG, MARK
 * "Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry) – CHARLIE DANIELS, BRENDAN COKER
 * "L.A. Woman" (The Doors) – JAMES
 * "Money" (Pink Floyd) – GOAPELE K. MOHLABANE, JAMES RYAN WUIHUN HO
 * "Green Onions" (Booker T. instrumental) – with lyrics by KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
 * WP articles are supposed to be based on reliable sources. WP:ELNEVER includes "If there is reason to believe that a website has a copy of a work in violation of its copyright, do not link to it" (miscrediting copyright holders is probably a copyvio – try it on an album or book).


 * It still puzzles me why 20,000+ links to a single commercial site were added to WP by an automated process with minimal discussion. This should have been handled by establishing a recommended list of lyrics providers (similar to WP:GOODCHARTS and WP:ALBUM/SOURCES) that have been checked for accuracy as well as licensing.  Then article editors could choose to include a link if it seems correct. —Ojorojo (talk) 15:34, 11 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Hmm, fair enough. Based on that sample (two of which are among my favourite songs of all time), feel free to ditch the link. I imagined – I guess we all imagined – that such a process had taken place when the MetroLyrics links were added to song articles here … Thanks, JG66 (talk) 15:48, 11 March 2016 (UTC)