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Where does the advice come from?

Each entry names its source and authority tier. A linked linter check may cover only part of a convention; read its example and the entry’s qualifications for the limits.

The ascending bars ahead of each entry's tier label are its standing drawn as a ladder: four steps for the four source tiers, filled up to the tier the entry's sources establish. Climbing it is evidence, never an edit: an entry rises only when a higher-tier source confirming it joins its citations.

LyricLint advisory: LyricLint's own preference, on a convention no Genius source states: the blank line between song parts, the text-hygiene checks. It shares the bottom step with community guidance, because our preference claims no more standing than unreviewed community writing.
Genius community guidance: Ordinary community voice in any venue: an unreviewed annotation, guide-page text with no staff badge, an ordinary forum post.
External reference: An authority outside Genius: a dictionary, a language academy, a platform's own documentation. It ranks below a reviewed annotation because it is authoritative about language, not about Genius.
Editor-reviewed Genius annotation: A reviewed Genius annotation with no staff among its contributors.
Genius staff guidance: Genius staff wrote or touched it: a staff-badged guide page, staff among an annotation's contributors, or a staff reply on the forum. Who wrote it decides the tier, never the venue it appears in.

What about spelling and grammar?

The workbench also uses Harper for English spelling, grammar, and style suggestions. Those suggestions come from the proofreader, so they are not listed here as Genius conventions. Read them in the context of the lyrics before applying a change.

[Hook], which Genius has retired

Warning section.deprecated-hook Previewed fix

The current Genius section guide replaces [Hook] with [Chorus] or [Refrain]. These replacements use the canonical names from the selected English language pack; choose the term that matches the song structure.

Convention: Check whether your language kept Hook.

Example

Flagged by this rule

[Hook]
Sing it

In the workbench this reads: The [Hook] section name is deprecated.

Accepted by this rule

[Chorus]
Sing it

The fix

In the workbench this finding carries one control, labelled Replace with Chorus. The change is contextual, so it is previewed as a diff in your document first and applies only when you confirm it.

The convention and its limits

This check detects the pattern shown above. An accepted example passes this check; it is not a review of the whole transcription.

Sources

The sources cited by this check:

Song Sections & Headers Guide verified 2026-08-12 Replace the deprecated Hook header with Chorus or Refrain

Song Headers in Different Languages verified 2026-07-24 Reviewed English section-header vocabulary

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