To Wikipedia
- Almost all Pages have a formal type that will streamline addition and viewing. All genres on wikipedia are just clones of other genre pages that take the general format of the sidebar but as soon as one editor inserts a new field and the page is popular, people will take this modified sidebar format and run with it as there is no standardisation. The lack of standardisation for big objects like genres, historical events, people, etc is a primary killer for performing any sort of stat analysis outside of user actions or link/relation recognition besides "Relevant Pages"
- Influences and Derivative Forms on Wikipedia are nonsensical since anyone can add anything with a low bar of sources (see Electro). From the start, we are developing a music map which visually shows how genres developed, how they're parented, how they're influenced, and what they're derived from. All of these are well-defined relationships that will help the first Selling Point.
- There will be a queue to approve pages/descriptions. A lot of effort has been taken to improve speed and verifying sources including us having a backend archiver of any sources posted so webrot is a non-issue
- Sections of Pages can be embedded into other Pages, preventing the need for "History of X" but rather having a big X page with several sections and subsections, spread around as needed

To RYM
- RYM has the basic object types of Genre, Movement, Scene but Movements and Scenes aren't actually implemented - they're all treated visually and chart-wise as genres. The site has layered these into multi-media movements and scenes (Psychedelia, No Wave) that properly represent releases that may not fit under a genre but as part of a wider cultural phenomena
- Moderation is very conservative with what is included in the databases - valid releases are even blacklisted over external shenanigans of the artist. Sharifi has said verbatim that RYM is not an archival site while this is.
- Artists and releases can be tagged in threads to discuss them outside of the singular global comment box per-release; this is done on RYM now by literally tagging/mentioning them (putting [Artist###] in a post) which will still be viewable, but there will be another layer of making your thread/post explicitly related to specific objects.

To Discogs (another site trying to be improved upon):
- You can search by label/matrix runout number as well as all other info - no more opening 50 tabs to find which Vinyl you own.
- Layered search hints/automatic relation chains of artists help identify who you were searching for. The goal is no more looking for The Band and having to go thru hundreds of artists named the same with an infinitesimal amount of releases