User blog comment:Gsimenas/Update on "Fandom" videos/@comment-168424-20181026182122/@comment-6697950-20181026190146

>it's just that FANDOM does a very poor job of informing communities

That's practically one of our biggest issues with them. A lot of the issues we've had could have easily been avoided if they had just taken the time to actually contact us beforehand, rather than just pushing their stuff without any prior notice.

>They also are very bad at cooperating with communities... which you've seen.

We have more than enough examples of this on various issues. There's a reason why I used quotes for "Fandom". They have the one thing they care about least as their new company name, as far as I can tell from our experiences with them. The actual fandoms are quite frequently the last thing on their minds when they make certain decisions.

>See this blog for details: How You Can Participate in FANDOM's Community Video Program by Brandon Rhea October 24, 2017.

We were informed of something of the sort in what amounted to an automated response by Fandom when we first contacted them. The problem is that the "control" they're offering is basically "If you want control over your content, you're gonna have to look into how you can do our work for us". The first thing they should have done when they pushed out their videos was to contact us beforehand to review these scripts, rather than counting on us to come to them to review their stuff when we didn't even know that the videos would be pushed out on our wiki. We even shared specific examples of what we felt was wrong with the videos, but have yet to see any interest in improving the existing videos from their side. And since we have no control over existing videos, we weren't keen on making scripts for them so that they could just push out even more videos without fixing all the other issues we have with them. As Kaan said, the script for the videos is just one of the many things we have issues with.