Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-3492791-20140523192544/@comment-6003396-20140807074544

I share similar views with Jimeee on this subject. I'm not sure if you were on this wiki in the first few weeks following the release of DaSII, Billy Ho, but articles were getting flooded with youtubers posting their videos. Many of them were of poor quality, unfocused let's plays, too long (over 30 min), and blatant advertisements to their channel. The media policy came from necessity – some kind of quality control was definitely warranted.

Although you may not have ill intentions with your own videos and plan to limit colorful commentary to something reasonable, there are many others that will not. If more leniency is given to general commentary in videos, then it opens the flood gates and it becomes very difficult to ensure high quality across the board.

I think there is a fundamental conflict with the style of a typical youtube video and the style of most wikis. Imagine if the youtube style were applied to the text of wiki articles. Editors would be speaking directly to the reader, arbitrarily directing them on how to do things, verbose rambling, humorous anecdotes etc., and then signing their name at the bottom. There is no serious wiki that I am aware of that operates in this way. It only makes sense that the same general style and standard of quality and professionalism that is applied to the textual content of the wiki should be extended to its video content.

I see wiki articles as a bastion for those of us that just want a place to find accurate and relevant information as efficiently as possible. If you slap a let's play on the bottom of a page then this distinction becomes blurred. Let me reiterate that this mostly applies to articles themselves and not the other areas of the wiki. I don't think that anyone would have a problem if you were to post a series of blog posts featuring your video commentaries in any style that you wish (within reason), or if you posted links to them on your user page.