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Forgive me if this hasn't been brought up before or if this doesn't really matter.

Recently, with the release of Black Ops, users have posted videos of the aforementioned game in our mainspace articles. These videos usually contain copyrighted music and/or bad quality video, which is not enough for my high-quality standards.

What I'd like to discuss is the possibility that users put up the videos for the sole purpose of advertisement, not to help the wiki by contributing. This bothers me, because users should not use the popularity of this site in order to gain views for their video montages. However, for some videos I will still assume good faith. Want proof that some videos are posted for the purpose of getting views and ratings? Here's a few selections of videos I collected from articles.

Video 1

I saw a comment reading "awesome i﻿ just posted﻿ this on cod wiki" and I asked that commenter if the video was posted for the sole reason of advertisement. My comment was later removed by the author of the video. While it's not a bad video about Valkyrie Rockets, it bugs me that he put it up here for the views.

Video 2

The comments speak for themselves.

"thumbs up if wiki brought you here"

- FunnyGuy5051

"Haha came﻿ here through wiki"

- nextgenvids

"Thumbs this comment up if CODwiki brought you﻿ here"

- ligerx45

"Subscribe if﻿ wiki brougth you here :)"

- EctopicMike (the author of the video)

The video isn't great itself, either.

So that's it. I'm not proposing anything, just sharing my thoughts on the matter. What do you think?

-- 13:01, December 29, 2010 (UTC)

Remove such videos on sight. This isn't some sort of advertising site, for anything. We block for site advertising, so we can remove videos which are for the sole purpose of advertising. 13:12, December 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * I completely agree. -- 13:18, December 29, 2010 (UTC)

Videos are meant to be a more visual way of getting the information in an article better understood to the reader. A video that depicts the effectiveness of Flak Jacket is fine (ex., despite the name); what is not supposed to be in an article is a commentated video of someone going 23-5 with Flak Jacket. 13:32, December 29, 2010 (UTC)