Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-3492791-20140523192544/@comment-3492791-20140527054552

Don't be put off on making policy by thinking that it has to be some kind of super professional air-tight contract. Wiki policy are less of rules than they are guidelines. It is simply what we, as a community, agree on what pages should look like. Then it is just used as a baseline to maintain clarity and consistency between pages.

On the topics at hand, I completely agree about not allowing all the self-promotion. It was in-fact what spurred me starting this discussion. I consider the wiki, and all wikis in fact, to be an information resource, not a source of free advertizement. I like a lot of what TESwiki's policy is on this. Video should be used when text is insufficient. Such as trying to explain where to find a difficult to reach item, writing a big paragraph about "go to X bridge and go left after Y enemy behind the illusionary wall" and such would be much easier to understand if you could just see someone do it.

The most important thing should be that videos, and really all the information on the page, should be concise. Having a video of someone just moving about an area (which is what all let's plays are) is no different from someone writing a rant in text. It is a great deal of unnecessary and confusing information being given at once. I could say more, but i'm starting to feel like i'm ranting.