I want the article to be about Chordie (but the forums could be mentioned, though it is probably hard to get past the delete squad).
Chordie is the largest search engine for finding guitar chords and lyrics on the Internet. It was started in October 2002 and has today 200.000 registered members.
--maybe something about what is unique with the site?
Chordie is based around the chopro file format, a file format that separates text and chords. The format is also used by programs like Chord (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_(software)). Separating chords and lyrics makes it possible to transpose songs automatically and create graphical chord grids for guitar, banjo, ukulele and mandolin.
Chordie has the policy of immediately removing any songs that any artist wants to remove. The sites faq (chordie.com/faq.php) states that no artist has ever requested that.
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Anything along the lines of "it is a cool site", just makes them automatically delete it.
Any other suggestions?