Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5751180-20131113082445

Our wiki may eventually face the same fate chartarchive.org faced last year, and here's why.

Most of us have heard that back in November 2012, the Official Charts Company had asked Mazilladon of chartarchive.org to remove most of the chart data from his site, because it was breaching their database rights. If Mazilladon did not do what OCC said, he could have been faced with charges against him, which he did not want, so he agreed. Unbeknown to OCC (and possibly Mazilladon as well), the chart data was still hidden using the 'print this chart' function.

About a month before the archive was reduced, our founder, Havemeforty created the UK Singles Chart Wiki, later called the UK Charts Archive Wiki to complete Mazilladon's work. Although Havemeforty created the wiki, he does not own it, wikia does. When OCC find out that there is another site archiving their charts, they will probably ask wikia to take our wiki down, and all our work we have been doing over the past year will have been for nothing. 