Talk:Linguavision Song Contest XIX/@comment-31145419-20180303143624/@comment-5666680-20180303152142

The percantage would indeed be optimal, as I've been constantly telling in the past few editions. But I don't think it should be based on lines as there is no official way to count lines, so the number and percentage of lines would always be biased. Besides, line limit wouldn't work with mixed lines, what has been already proved in the previous editions. So if we were going to use percentage of English in a song it should be based on number of words, in my opinion.

The number of lines limit was in the first place removed because some songs that should definitely be allowed to participate in Linguavision (such as kpop songs) weren't able to because of one line of English too much. Therefore it's been decided to scrap that rule, as the contest has been running perfectly fine before that rule was introduced, but its introduction only caused more trouble.

I still don't think decision on whether a song should be allowed in or not should be up to admins as that is highly subjective and might lead to unfairness, which has happened before where a song with way more English than another song has been allowed in, but the other one was refused.