My Little Pony Fan Labor Wiki:Guides/Videos

Not all videos lend themselves getting pages of their own. There is no blanket restriction on certain kinds of videos, but you should know that very short articles may be deleted or combined with another pages. The kinds of videos that tend to produce too-short articles because not much can be said about them include most PMVs ("Pony Music Videos"). You can still write about those videos, but you should do so either on a page describing the musician (if he or she is part of the community), or a page describing the video creator. Motion comics - videos made on the basis of pre-existing comics - should be covered on a page created for the comic.

Videos that do lend themselves to being covered on a page include any videos that have a robust narrative: abridged series, sketch videos, parody videos. It can also include "documentary" videos. An article about one of those videos should cover the most important aspects: its title, its creator(s), and what kind of video it is. It should also summarize the story that the video tells and, if there is enough to say, the characters who feature in the video.

If a video has been out for a while, it may be possible to create a section about its reception. This includes average user ratings on the sites the video was published on, news (blog) coverage, and fan projects explicitly inspired by this one. Please provide references if you make a claim about a video's popularity, and always say which day your data is from when citing statistics. Reception can also include praise from other prominent fans or even creators of Friendship is Magic.

If you are writing about a series of videos, you do not have to create a new page for every video. In fact, if individual sections are quite short, summarizing the available information for the individual videos all on one page is preferable. You can use infoboxes for each of the videos in a series.

External link(s)
This section is mandatory if you do not embed the video via the infobox. It should be structured as a series of bullet points with links to other websites. One of these links must lead to the video.
 * This is an example for an external link; it leads to google.com.
 * Other external links are allowed if they are relevant to this page and its topic; a podcast interview with the creators, for instance.
 * Wikia's help page for embedding videos not hosted on YouTube