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:I'd just put them for brief snippets, to go along with a transcript. Having a long clip would just interrupt the flow of the article. [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 21:09, 20 November 2012 (EST) | :I'd just put them for brief snippets, to go along with a transcript. Having a long clip would just interrupt the flow of the article. [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 21:09, 20 November 2012 (EST) | ||
::Having seen them in action in [[Epilogue (Halo 4 level)|Epilogue]], I have to say that gifs look incredibly distracting in the article body. Not just that, but for me their excessive use gives off an unprofessional impression - this is an encyclopedia, not someone's Tumblr feed. I have no problem with using gifs with discretion (as I interpreted the original proposal), mostly for things that are best demonstrated by animations (e.g. the Forerunner weapons' assembly animations or the like), but having a gif of every shot out there that might as well be portrayed by a static image (like the Chief walking in slow motion) comes across as gimmicky and quite frankly, completely unnecessary. It doesn't help if the gifs are of a quality that would get them deleted if they were normal static images. --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 09:56, 17 December 2012 (EST) | |||