Forum:Gifs in Articles

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So I've found myself visiting Tumblr more often than I think I should, and I find that many of the Halo fans there post up some pretty excellent Halo .gifs. Gifs of the cutscenes, of the gameplay, of important moments, etc. I noticed so far that we keep gifs relegated to solely the gallery sections of articles, and never in-universe parts. And the Image Policy has nothing to say on them.

I think that gifs could be useful in detailing some parts of the articles, especially level and trailer transcripts, since they often have to describe pictures with a thousand words. For some parts, like the Didact's awakening in the level Forerunner, gifs could be useful at parts. On the other hand, on biographies and other descriptions there may be the opinion that they'll look unprofessional there, which I find myself leaning towards. Either way, there are positives and negatives.

So what do you guys say? Yay gifs, or nay gifs?