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Hey.
As you may or may not know, Pride from OMFG has started a show on Youtube explaining World of Warcraft lore in bite sized chunks. This show is Lore For Noobs (L4N).
I am part of Pride's L4N team, and I have taken upon me the humble task of adding these videos to the relevant articles on this wiki. However, I have just now found out that these videos are disappearing. I don't know why. I know this is a wiki and anyone can alter any page, but I really don't understand why someone would remove the videos. Is there any way to stop this from happening?
--Ultima (talk) 21:26, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
- Discuss their value with the people who are removing them? It might be being seen as unwarranted advertisement.--SWM2448 21:30, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
- Agreed; that or they might appear too... cheery for a pedia. TherasTaneel (talk) 21:31, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
- A bit too "happy" for me xD
Loremaster A'noob, Arch Druid of the Noobhoof Clan (talk/contribz) 21:45, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
- Excuse me? too "happy"? What does that mean? I happen to write for Lore 4 Noobs too. I wrote the Illidan ones you took down and trust me, I am not a happy fairy unicorn princess.
- Graict (talk) 21:55, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
- I don't see the point of including them, since all the information is already in the article anyway. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 22:02, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
- That's a slippery slope, since so are the videos on Archimonde e.g. TherasTaneel (talk) 22:05, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
- I don't see the point of including them, since all the information is already in the article anyway. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 22:02, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
- Thats like saying you don't see the point of having videos showing how to take down a raid boss because all the information is written. These videos make it easier to understand.
- Graict (talk) 22:08, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
- There's a big difference between telling someone what a boss does and seeing what they do. I don't see how a video explaining who Illidan is is so different than text explaining who Illidan is. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 22:13, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
- I think it's pretty obvious that most people prefer to listen to someone talking about a subject, instead of reading large chunks of text. The L4N videos provides an easier way for these people the get access to lore, so that they don't have to read the huge articles about the different individual subjects. Perhaps a WoW player has trouble reading, and he wanted ot know about lore, if so Lore 4 Noobs is the perfect solution. In my personal opinion, the videos are only doing good for the pedia. I'm Ziztran, and I'm also a writer for L4N, and I'm just posting this because I really don't see the point of removing them form the various sites.Ziztran (talk) 22:19, 13 February 2011 (UTC)