Board Thread:Improvements and Issues/@comment-957629-20171209163647

Ok guys and girls, ACTUAL contributors here. Looks like Wikia is forcing Featured Videos on us. The Jew has asked them not to on their original post and is currently in correspondence with them but they are ignoring our concerns and I think its time everyone who is against them, elaborate on their concerns here in this topic.

As it stands, the videos are sloppily placed at the top of the article which I have major misgivings for as they are THE FIRST THING that is seen when someone comes to see the articles that we have spent a lot of time enhancing and perfecting over the years. They then take key words and spoil everything, without elaboration, in a 3 minute video that just mocks all the hard work placed on this Wiki in the last ten years. Having been here for nine and spent a lot of my free time working on these articles, I find that insulting.
 * Spoiling

Here at Bleach Wiki, we don't put every little spoiler and key word about a character into our introductory paragraphs. Some Wikis may do this, but we do not. These videos are placed ABOVE our introductions and again, immediately divulge as much information and key words as they can which means "Whats the point in reading our hard work". If they were an introduction fine but they aren't.
 * Disrespects the Format

They just messaged us and when we declined the videos, without continuing the discussion further, they added the videos further. Wheres the discussion in that, its not a very good way to respect the users who volunteer their time here.
 * No Consultation

The people who voice over the videos clearly have no interest in Bleach. Ichigo is just another protagonist to them. They don't have the passion and drive and SKILL to properly summarise the article in a fun way which shows the personality of our community.
 * Voice Acting Sounds Bored

Bleach Wiki has been making videos for years in reviewing Bleach related things. Our community enjoys our interactions with them and the humorous rapport we have with one another. IF THIS MUST BE A THING they should be done by us not forced upon us by people who don't care about anything but ads and tapping into the online video market of ads.
 * Should Be Done By Us
 * On a note on this, Wikia actually added a video over ICHIGO's article even though the video was about ISSHIN. Again no passion for this series, its insulting. Here is the proof that they did this on our Facebook page where we regularly post fun things.

I hate these videos, I hate how they appear right at the top of an article and don't properly summarise the content. If they must be done, screw just scripts I want Bleach Wiki to have creative control on them as this is a wiki WE CREATED from the ground up, not Wikia not staff, us.

PS- I'm the head of the Image Unit on this wiki and along with my insane half, Xilinoc have spent SO MUCH TIME ensuring the images on our Wiki and Animated Images on our Wiki are of top quality. Even though Wikia limit the size of images I can upload (so I have to spend a while cropping, chomping frames and working out how to make some of the techniques fit) we do the best we can. I OWN physical copies of the Anime in order to achieve this goal and to prevent images being used from COMPRESSED bad quality videos available on the net. The Featured vid on Ichigo's article (other than being text, uhm....pointless) has compressed bad quality clips in use. Bad job bad job. 
 * Video Quality