User talk:BattlingApple04

Video Policy
Can I post videos from my channel onto the wiki? I would like to provide players with fun tutorials and activities rather than the regular straight to it redstone tutorials. My videos are clean, professional, and do not contain any spam. It would help the wiki, and it would help my channel. I try my best to make my videos as best as they can be. BattlingApple04 (talk) 18:44, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure. They are helpful but are you aiming for self promotion? Somebody got accused of adding just one video. Since your main contribution is adding videos, i'm scared that it's self promo. I would recommend you to discuss this in MCT:PORTAL.Humiebeetalk contribs 16:32, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I will make sure to only add videos that are actually helpful. I really do not try to clickbait people. I will continue to add videos that are helpful, and provide useful information to new and veteran players alike.
 * BattlingApple04 (talk) 19:33, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't mean by clickbait. What I mean is that your videos are helpful BUT another user (MysticatLive) got all their edits reverted because their only contribution was adding videos, sometimes in the wrong locations. (they also had very similar contributions).Humiebeetalk contribs 23:13, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Ok! I will do my best to place them where they actually need to be! Thanks! BattlingApple04 (talk) 16:44, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I suggest you read MCW:VIDEO over again based on your most recent edits. James Haydon (talk) 14:20, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Why do your edits keep getting reverted?
You seem like a pretty nice guy, and I suspect you don't really understand why we keep reverting most of your edits, so let me take a stab at explaining what's wrong. I think you were probably looking for a way to grow your YouTube channel by sharing your ideas with the community, and you hit on the idea of using the wiki to help you publicize yourself. That's a good marketing plan from a business standpoint, so no fault to you for that. However, the wiki isn't a business and can't participate with you like one, because its "business model" doesn't rely on profit and because it gives itself away to anybody who wants it. Part of that is letting anybody edit here, and the problem with that is that it could easily be subverted to become a free advertising platform for anybody who wants one. We can't let that happen, because our mission to disseminate knowledge about Minecraft would just be suffocated under the weight of all that advertising. So we have a strict policy against self-promotion. Your videos blatantly violate that policy by asking viewers to subscribe, right at the top of the video. So that's the first, and maybe the biggest problem.

Second, you claim that you want to help the wiki, but I don't think that means the same thing to us that it does to you. To us, it means you want to help us improve our articles, which typically involves participating in a lot of editorial chores such as fixing typos, spelling and grammar errors, and awkward or disorganized phrasing, and also updating articles to reflect changes in the game over time. But I don't think that's what you mean; I think what you want is to help the community by sharing your game knowledge and ideas through "fun tutorials and activities". There's certainly a desire for that in the community, and it's the reason there are so many Minecraft content creators on YouTube. But providing tutorials and fun activities is not really the wiki's mission. The wiki's mission is to be an encyclopedia of Minecraft knowledge. It's meant to be formal and factual, not fun. (We have tutorials, yes, but only because we gave up trying to convince people to stop creating them. They're basically vanity essays and we pretty much just stick them in our Tutorials basement to get them out of the way. We don't put much effort into turning them into quality articles because they aren't encyclopedic.)

Finally, if your goal truly is to help improve the wiki, you need to learn more about our guidelines and procedures, because you keep violating them even after we've told you you're not doing it right. This is another reason that you seem to be more interested in building your channel than in improving the wiki. I won't lie, it takes time to learn all the stuff you need to know to become a really good editor here, and it's no shame on you if you don't want to put that much effort into if. But if you do want to, you need to get busy reading the Style guide and Video policy for starters so you won't keep making the same mistakes. And don't be shy about asking for help if you don't understand why something you edited got reverted. That's probably the best way to learn. — Auldrick (talk &middot; contribs) 04:14, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Got it! BattlingApple04 (talk) 16:04, 18 March 2021 (UTC)