Hey everyone! Welcome back to the Weekly Annotation Competition! It’s been a little while. I and @thousandeyes are co-hosting the revised competition. Here, you can submit your annotations to be rated and reviewed by the Genius community, and whoever has the highest rating will receive the “Tate of the Week” title and a badge to go with it! This weeks will have an extra long submissions window so we can get back in the swing of things. Perhaps if a biweekly (once every two weeks) format works better for the competition, we may stick with it.

Hmm…
No one yet and that’s okay. Here is your chance!!!

• Today – Next Week Monday: Submit the best annotation that you have written in the past four weeks. Embed it in a forum post below!

Annotation submission will last until the voting poll is up on in the comments. Posts containing annotations not created in the past four weeks will be deleted from this thread, so check your dates!

• Tuesday – Saturday: Cast your rating on each submission.

A link to a poll will be posted in the comments where you can go through each annotation submitted to the thread and give it a rating from 1 to 5. If a rating isn’t sufficiently justified, it will be removed from the scorecard.

The highest scorer will win the week! The winner will be announced at the top of next week’s thread, so you’ll know who won this week when the next thread is posted.

• What do I win?

The winner will receive a “Tate of the Week” badge created by the WAC team with their username on it. We unfortunately had to remove the monthly prize as staff is no longer sponsoring the competition.

• What kinds of annotations count?

Your level of contribution on submitted work must be at least 70%.
Accepted line-level annotations, cover art annotations, song bios, album bios, and artist bios on music pages are all viable. Annotations that are significantly overhauled within the last 4 weeks can also be submitted. Annotation must be in English, and annotations on English Translations can also be submitted, but only if you are also the author of that annotation on the original song page or there’s no annotation on that line on the original song page.

Unreviewed annotations, verified annotations, Q&A entries, and annotations on non-music pages (excluding literature), and translations of someone else’s annotation do not count. If you have an unreviewed annotation you would like reviewed for submission, feel free to message it to me and we should be able to go back and forth on feedback until the annotation meets standards.

• How do I share my album cover, artist, and song bio annotations?

For these types of annotations you must click the share button at the bottom of the annotation and copy the “Share URL” and include that link in your response for the annotations to embed properly.

• Is this only open to @genius-editorial-board?

Absolutely not! Anyone can participate, including @genius-internationals! As long as the annotation you submit meets the criteria mentioned above, it will be added to the running.

i was missing wac fr glad u two brought it back

https://genius.com/27786166

annotating is hard..

https://genius.com/26409246/An-obsession-with-kit/An-obsession-with-kit

worth a shot lmao https://genius.com/27158670

ts back?

i changed my tate btw, discord convinced me to submit an Ice Spice tate :)

https://genius.com/27621362

ah why not give it a go for fun haha :‘)
https://genius.com/27770652

@crystallized_stars I hate to admit it, but you’re right. I haven’t made an annotation in a while for that reason :3

Anyways, as promised on Discord, I changed up some details in this annotation. I’m somewhat confident in this… writeup… thingy… but hey, free feedback amirite? :v

https://genius.com/27825871

https://genius.com/3392035

Hehe!

https://genius.com/27631146

This is my newest one and the first time in quite some time since I’ve entered WAC lol

https://genius.com/27824665

Thank you all for your submissions!

VOTING IS LIVE HERE!!!!