Wikipedia talk:Songs about Wikipedia/March of Wikipedia

This is my first attempt at making one of these. Hope you enjoy. - Champion (talk) (contribs) (Formerly TheChampionMan1234) 23:02, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested changes to lyrics for WP song[edit]

Nice work. Some suggestions (unless otherwise stated, "ETA" means the English lyrics of the Turkish National Anthem as given at that article):

Line 1, "donation banner" instead of "puzzle ball", goes more closely to "crimson banner" in the ETA.
Line 2, "article", -> "flame war".
Line 9, take from ETA "You [not I] have been WP:FREE since the beginning and forever shall be so" (or WP:DONATE)
Line 11, "everyday" (humdrum, unexceptional) -> "every day"
Line 12, "I'll tear apart mountains, exceed the expanses and still gush out"!
Line 19, pipe "soon will come" to WP:NOTFINISHED
Line 21, "and think about the nameless editors"... ("shroudless" in ETA, though I suppose this is an antonym)
Line 26, cut "it" from "request it"
Line 27 & elsewhere, "Janitors" -> "WP:GNOMEs perhaps, though it doesn't scan so well

Si Trew (talk) 06:56, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@SimonTrew: the notes and piped links on the article on the Turkish anthem should provide a clue. Also, if you didn't notice, I left a verse out because I had trouble "translating" that one. - Champion (talk) (contribs) (Formerly TheChampionMan1234) 22:07, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also, WP:GNOME doesnt go so well, as I am looking for some metaphorical references, I am happy with the first person pronouns wherever they exist. The anons are not necessarily newbies, there are many who made 1000s of edits. - Champion (talk) (contribs) (Formerly TheChampionMan1234) 22:24, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Arbitrary break[edit]

@SimonTrew: I have now revised it a little and added the missing stanza, it only needs a little more befor it becomes finalized. Also, I don't think any references to the puzzle ball needs to be changed as we don't have a de jure banner, not even a de facto one, disregarding the illustration I put to illustrate the first line of the final stanza. - Champion (talk) (contribs) (Formerly TheChampionMan1234) 02:51, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

OK, they were only suggestions! I have my work cut out with translating Draft:Lumières (from fr:Lumières) and I think it will take me another day or so before I can offer more bad suggestions... perhaps it's just me but I always find it easier to reject a concrete suggestion instead of an abstract one, and being an engineer I neither mind criticising something constructively nor taking criticism myself. (A lot of WPians seem to take any criticism rather too personally, in my opinion.) Si Trew (talk) 02:59, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]