Forum talk:Video Policy Discussion/archive/@comment-109.175.159.115-20120214091027

First of I want to say that I think videos for entertainment should not be present on this wiki unless they are in some kind of forum where users can share their playthrough's, boss fights and such. It's not relevant to have purely entertainment videos in a place that is meant for finding out information on the different aspects of the game. That's what YouTube and forums are for (as well as other things). You could I suppose have a different section for these kinds of videos but it shouldn't be a focus point in any way and it should also be open to anyone not just Hero. My second point is about how the videos on differant articles are managed. Even though Hero does upload some videos to the wiki that aren't his own this is rare, I've seen examples given in various arguments but never found any personaly when I've been looking for information on something. I'm not suggesting they don't exist I am just giving an example of how frequently they turn up. Now this wouldn't be a problem if Hero's tutorials provided enough information, but a lot of them don't. There are plenty of Hero's videos where he has obviously just made the video as he's discovered something. A good example would be the video on the magical harp, in the video he fails to mention that the position of the cursor varies the speed of the notes. The reason for this is obvious because he has never used the item before (at the time the video was being recorded) and doesn't know how to use it. It's like getting a street cleaner to explain how a nuclear reactor works. I think that the organisation of the videos definatly needs improved. Either Hero needs to start making putting more work into his tutorials by doing some research or updating them, someone else needs to be put in charge of managing vidoes or the videos just need to become as open as the articles themselves are.

TL:DR - First point: Entertainment videos should be held on an entertainment site and informative videos should be held on informative sights like this one. Second Point: I don't have a problem with one person being in charge of all the videos I just don't think that the person who is currently in charge has done a very good job.