Talk:Song Fight!

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[edit] Wikification

I've had a lot of experience with SF, and I vaguely recall the fuss on their boards when this article was posted and duly rejected. The original editor(s) didn't really "get" Wikipedia, I think, which isn't so much a problem in itself as it was a confrontation waiting to happen. I'll be working on this shortly, since it seems some NPOV matters need to be resolved (in addition to layout and just about everything else). The WP-significance of the site is indisputable to anyone familiar with it, I think, but it needs a lot of cleanup work. Fearwig 19:12, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

• Okay, think that covers it for now. I'll probably add to it in time. Opinions? Fearwig 17:06, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notable artists

Okay, we can't really list every major SF artist under this category unless they've achieved some sort of significance outside of Song Fight. Since it would be silly to start implementing complicated standards as to what is and isn't significant, I'm going to suggest that a band isn't significant unless it has a WP article. If you think a band is significant but it doesn't have a WP article, then make one, and see if it lasts. This is why I am removing "Yummybug" and "Fish Sausage" (neither of whom I remember from SF, though I have been absent for a while) from the list, in case anyone has a gripe. Fearwig 18:34, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Update: Okay, "Yummy Bug" entered four songs in 2003-2004, none of which won. Hard to defend this as significant. Fish Sausage was an even more minor participant (two songs this year), so I don't think there's any way to defend their inclusion either. Come on, folks, let's not be vain. Fearwig 18:36, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

I can think of one "notable" artist: Brad Sucks was already a fairly prolific songwriter before he entered one song in the Bad Attraction SF in July m2003. He won by a wide margin (see the link and check out the song, it's quite good). I don't recall he ever participated in SF again. I'll add him. -Axlq 15:00, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

I want to add that I changed the heading of the section, but I can't figure out the right words to explain it. The section really ought to be a list of SF contestants who have achieved some sort of significance outside of SF, but not necessarily because of SF. I mean, if the Rolling Stones happened to submit a song, that would be notable regardless of who won. -Axlq 19:29, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

I see what you're getting at. I do think Wikipedia's notability standards are probably the most objective we can get here, though. Fearwig 05:35, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Australia

When was there a SFL in Australia? I can't find any information about it anywhere. It hasn't happend since 2003 and before that I think there were two Australians so I don't know how it could have happened.

It would have been pre-2003, but not by much. It wasn't "official", but then I'm not sure there's anything official about an SFL in the first place, other than that all the "official" ones seem to go up on the site and have an "Song Fight X and Y"-style name. There were certainly more than two Australians at that time, though I can't say I ever paid much attention to SF forum demographics... Fearwig 05:34, 22 August 2007 (UTC)