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I would like to ask that you not post any more links to Genius. There are multiple reasons for this.

The first is that you appear to be an employee of the site in some form or fashion and inserting these links can be seen as spam.

The second is that you're trying to use these as a reliable source to establish various facts, however the problem is that anyone can annotate Genius. This means that there's little to no editorial oversight and what little there might be isn't enough to satisfy WP:RS guidelines. For example, you added a link here to back up claims that John Lennon was inspired by Lewis Carrol. While obviously he was, Genius is not the best source to back this up.

I'm going to open up a discussion at WP:RS/N to see if Genius can be used as a source of any type or even as a link in the external links section. Until a decision has been made, do not post any more links on Wikipedia. If the decision is that it cannot be used as a source, do not add any more links on Wikipedia. If the decision is that it could be used in specific circumstances, then I'd recommend that you ask at WP:RS/N before posting it anywhere. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:21, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We're not posting any new links to Genius.com. We're correcting bad links to outdated URL's (changing RapGenius.com to Genius.com). That is 100% of the scope of the project. Karmaclub (talk) 14:15, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The links to genius.com and rapgenius.com will be deleted from wikipedia. Please do not add any more of them. Staszek Lem (talk) 23:33, 5 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't added any links to genius.com. I also do not agree with how you see the situation. Please offer evidence to support your statement...I believe that I am in the right and that I can continue with my work as a rule-abiding Wikipedian, though I'm willing to let you try convince me otherwise. I also would like to know how you plan to automatically scrub hundreds of links from Wikipedia and block new ones from being added. Hundreds of individual contributors independently decided that the links were worthy of inclusion...Genius.com had nothing to do with their being posted. Karmaclub (talk) 23:51, 5 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please review WP:COI. Since you are affiliated with genius.com, whether you agree or disagree is irrelevant. I cannot scrub automatically hundreds of links; we will have to do it manually, wasting our time otherwise spent on writing wikipedia articles. Therefore we hate spam mightily. In addition to being a wikipedia spammer, genius.com stores lyrics without any indication of authors' permission. This is a violation of the law, and we cannot allow copyright violators to be cited in wikipedia. Staszek Lem (talk) 01:13, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am 100% compliant with WP:COI. I hate spam...and I also hate broken links. If this issue was important to you, you would have taken it on a long time ago. Furthermore, I disagree with your interpretation of the law and copyright violation. You are entitled to your opinion and I can respect you for having it but I'm not bound by your feelings. Karmaclub (talk) 13:10, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please also note the following: Rap Genius Website Agrees to License With Music Publishers Karmaclub (talk) 19:34, 7 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted. Unfortunately this important information is not prominent enough on their webpages. Staszek Lem (talk) 22:57, 7 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't disagree with you. Karmaclub (talk) 23:04, 7 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • I'm not sure if you were talking about me or Lem, but something to take into consideration is that there are many, MANY articles and edits that are problematic and very few editors that will actively do something about them. Now as far as COI goes, you need to be extremely, extremely careful. The reason I'm repeating that word is that to be quite frank, COI editors are frequently the subject of ire on Wikipedia and there's a sizable portion of editors that believe that they shouldn't be editing at all. I'm not one of them, mind you, and I've actually got a COI with the Library of Virginia and had a minor run in with an editor that put a ton of tags on one of my articles. (I think it was one about a former slaved turned politician on the national level, which made them pass GNG on that alone.) The reason I'm mentioning this is that it seemed like one of the main reasons my article got tagged was because of the COI, as I'd never had anything else get tagged with that amount of tags under my main account. Luckily for me another editor defended the article before I even knew anything happened and none of this ever got nasty at all, but it still happened.
Basically what I'm trying to say here is that Wikipedia can be very harsh to COI editors and as such, you need to be extremely cautious about any and all edits you make in this area. When making edits and articles on Wikipedia under my LVA account, I've frequently gone to various forums to ask for help and reassurance that everything is kosher, since I know that any misstep would be scrutinized extremely heavily because there is an extremely negative perception of COI editing of any type on Wikipedia. My point here is that you saying that you're just fixing links isn't a good enough rationale here. You need to make sure that the source can actually back up the rationales in the article. Since the site does use lyrics from the musicians, that's something that could make it usable to back up specific lyrics, however it would then only be usable when the claim is something like "This is mentioned in the song "Song Title" by Sam Smith" and it's very blatant that this is the case. The key here is that not all lyrics are blatant about this and it could be disputed. It's usually far safer to link to an article that discusses the lyrics in question, since otherwise people could contest it as WP:OR - and it's entirely possible that this could happen.
Now where you really need to be careful is when you're replacing/fixing links where the source refers to some of the crowdsourced claims. Crowdsourced content of that nature is not considered to be a reliable source on Wikipedia and the expectation is that if you're fixing a source, you should also be checking to make sure that it's actually supposed to be used in that context. Would an average editor be under that much scrutiny without a COI? Maybe not, but you do have a COI and as such there are more expectations of you. The average Joe coming in should be replacing the link with a better source as well, but with a COI editor there's always going to be a question of whether or not they left it there because they didn't know any better (ie, that they are expected to fix it) or if they left it there because they want people to go to that website, thus ensuring that the editor in question continues to get paid... and thanks to people like WikiPR, the first inclination is going to be that a COI editor is going for the payola. Bottom line is that COI editors don't get a lot of second chances and you need to be extremely careful because people have gotten blocked for less. Heck, people have actually lost jobs with Wikipedia for just being paid editors and Jimbo himself openly states that he doesn't think COI or paid editors should directly edit an article. With that sort of thought process here you need to really, really be extremely careful. I can't stress that enough and I'd like to ask that at the very least, if the lyrics cites are deemed to be OK, that you only use those - and that you replace any of the other sources with a better source or remove it and add the citation needed tag. It won't be easy to tell your bosses that you have to do this (I had to say no to my supervisor at the LVA when it came to some articles and it wasn't fun), but this will help keep the "no paid/COI editors" people at bay. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 02:23, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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  1. You'll see that I undid your addition of Category:Historic districts in the United States, because categories in Wikipedia are very hierarchical. Since the page was already a member of Category:Historic districts in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, it is automatically categorized into that higher-level category. Help:Categories explains this better than I, but when faced with a choice of categories, it's always preferred to select the most granular (lowest-level) category that fits.
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We work for a 200+ person company. Of course, we have more than 1 Wikipedia Account...we have 2 different accounts controlled by 2 different users under the same IP address. That's not being a sockpuppet. Each of these users utilize Wikipedia independently of each other and we've never colluded in any way that violates Wikipedia Standards. We were shown not to be sockpuppets on the voiting for the page deletion in question. We absolutely pledge in the future for both users to work independently of each other. Please unblock this account and Barbequeue

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