Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-3492791-20140523192544/@comment-25173123-20140806130652

I read the discussion (portions of it. I like to talk but hate to read.:P) and totally disagree with your points on preferring text based walkthroughs versus video. But of course they are your points of opinion and you have your own voice obviously.

Relevance is easy enough. If the video is pertaining to material talked in the article then relevance is assumed. If it has no relevance to the article then we remove it and ask the submitter to refrain from submitting non-relevant material. No different then what we do with text input, like Strategy and Lore and of course images.

It has already been discussed that we don't want restrictive policy to the point of what the Wiki has for Dark Souls. They to only allow Wiki video content and it is why I am not there. Too restrictive.

I have always found Wiki pages to be the restrictive, and cold pages while Wikia pages tend to be the more fan based areas for relative material. But that is just my view of things.

You say people can just search Youtube for videos. Well same can be said about all the material in the Wikia. People can just search Google. But what then is the point of having a Wikia? Especially when a Wiki on the game is already present? I would think it was because we want to be able to share information in a different manner? Allowing more freedom for fans/gamers to get their material? Choices.

I totally understand the non-advertising issue. And leaning away from people using the Wikia simply as another tool to get Youtube hits. (not that I would understand why they wouldn't just dedicate their focus on reddit like everyone else?)

I myself do things because I like to share. I am the type of person that gives the guy the armor off my back if they need it. :) I have never tried to make money or earn fame from anything I have submitted or created. But I can see how others do that and it could be something that needs to be monitored. But we have enough users here to help with that. And Admin that can hopefully keep us from fighting over what is problematic and what is actually helpful. Policy and rules can always be modified later if issues arise. But to start out with a blanket "no video policy" due to others having issue is not a productive addressing of the situation.

So that's just another amount of money placed down on my bar tab on the subject. :D

Video can be helpful to some while others don't find it professional. But if video games can't be discussed using videos and only text is deemed valid, then why are we playing video games instead of just reading books in the first place? Hhhhmmmm...

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