Yesterday I added two videos to two different articles. The article about the Sweet Cream Cake is an article I wrote. As there wasn’t a video available showing how to make a Sweet Cream Cake, I selected a video showing how to beat eggs to the Ribbon stage. I’ve done this before with other articles when there is an allied video showing a cooking technique used in the recipe. Example: Let’s say I can not find a video showing how to make scrambled eggs, so I decide to insert a video showing how to crack an egg instead. To me this shows an important cooking technique that’s relevant to the article written about. It’s difficult to make scrambled eggs, if you don’t know how to crack the egg. The same could be said concerning the Sweet Cream Cake article. The Sweet Cream Cake is easy to make but it is dependent on getting the amount of lift as there are so few ingredients used. Beating the eggs and sugar to the Ribbon stage is an integral part of this recipe as it ensures the cake will be tender and will have the proper lift to make a light cake. Link to Sweet Cream Cake: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Sweet-Cream-Cake
The second video was one that I NABed. I know that it’s difficult to receive FA status without a video. I chose a video showing what Physical Therapists do, potential income and predicted hiring status. I will admit the end of the video has a small advertising blurb about who to contact. The rest of the video is factual and details what the article is written about. Link to Physical Therapist article: http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Physical-Therapist
Note: On both articles I left an explanation of what the video was about and how it applied to the articles. The explanation was left in the video introduction so the reader clearly knew why the videos were used. If you have time, I would greatly appreciate your opinions. Thank you!
Ttrimm
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I am not sure if you check your watchlist, but you might want to be sure to do that. I have had many videos and images removed that I knew were right for the article that I would then put back.
Teresa, I did just that and the following discussion ensued. Thanks!
I have seen my added images being removed by QC and again approved back when someone else added the same image back again into the article.Those images where perfect as I researched with accordance with how the actual image looks like using Google images.Fed up with how easily the images are removed without being done actual research by the removers I left image adding.(Caution: Talking only about the deserving images! )
Maniac
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Without having explicit rules and instructions on how to use the Quality Guardian tool, we will always have these issues. Voting through this method is too subjective - which is good and bad, depending on the situation. We do
have decent rules for adding videos and images to articles, but they still allow for a lot of personal interpretation.
The question I asked is: Is selecting allied videos to demonstrate a portion of the recipe acceptable? Is selecting a video stating what a PT does and job opportunities within guidelines?
system
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The actual curation guidelines state that a video should provide instructions to help the reader complete the task described in the article. If the video is essential for one section of the task, and there isn’t a better video to help with the whole task, the video should be okay. The main thing is that the video is instructional and helpful to the reader. http://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Video-Curation
Thanks BR for answering my question. I followed your link and read wikiHow’s policy. It seems I was following wikiHow’s policy concerning the videos I inserted in the articles.
system
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Looks fine to me. We can always add a different video later if one comes available.
system
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Ditto
I’d put a small note under the video that its a “related” video to the recipe just to avoid readers stating the obvious on the discussion pages, or the QG people removing it. PS - As it happens I’ve been making this recipe for sweet cream cake for years by coincidence so was really surprised to see it on wikiHow - its a good one.
