Forum:Video Policy changes

Ok, now recently we had an offer of premium video content out to us by the wikia staff. Now, while that discussion went dead quite a while ago, one thing has been certain to me. Our video policy, compared to our image policy, is inadequate. I mean, totally inadequate. There are no guidelines as to what sorts of videos we should be using - commentaries, montages (god forbid...), general gameplay videos, etc.

Now, over the last few weeks and days, Maxwell's been uploading videos of all forms to weapon pages such as AN-94, 870 MCS, etc., with the videos sort of conforming to those proposed under the forum idea above (the blame isn't on him though). This highlighted to me just how bad our video guidelines/policies are. In fact, the current entry in the Manual of Style says:


 * ''"YouTube videos may be embedded in text, as thumbnails, but may also be placed in video galleries. Due to the size of video galleries, these should only be placed at the end of an article, not within sub-sections.

We also have an official YouTube channel for anyone who wants to submit videos for use on the site without using a personal YouTube account. Any user may submit gameplay videos to be uploaded to the channel. Details of this can be found on Battlefield Wiki:Social Networks. 

Now, while this does mention the purpose of the wiki channel, and the use of video galleries, it doesn't mention the style of videos, their content, the length and all the other stuff that we need to consider for videos on the wiki. But, considering we have templates, general article structure, and all the other stuff that makes our wiki look one of the most proffessional and best out there, it seems a shame to have videos cluttering the pages, being duplicated in infoboxes and on the page themselves, and then having all sorts of different styles of videos going about the mainspace, all seemingly OK under the "weapon demonstration" project that has had no wiki-led input for a long time.

So, having raised a pretty similar point on the forum post above, BP and I have decided to draft a new policy on the usage of videos in the mainspace. The current draft can be seen here, but input from other users is needed. - 13:30, October 10, 2011 (UTC)