Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-29512888-20180103145819/@comment-24264457-20180104135232

Master Hydraffe wrote: The template is there to let users know to find videos with high quality that don't have a watermark. Compare two videos with the same quality -- obviously the one without the watermark would be better, since screenshots won't look as ugly with the watermark absent. That's what this template is trying to achieve.

If a video with a watermark is the only possible high-quality option, then so be it. That's the problem with the template though. A lot of the watermarked videos are stuff that isn't gonna be easily replaceable so the template's just gonna sit there indefinitely. I understand why we don't want watermarked videos, but I can see the following scenarios happening:
 * There is no suitable replacement for the watermarked video and most likely will never be one, causing the template to sit there indefinitely.
 * People just adding the template without actually replacing watermarked videos, or even trying to
 * People trying to replace videos that already follow our current file naming guidelines, and since Fandom refuses to fix the "Upload a new version of this file" function on videos a lot of "-0" videos will start popping up.
 * People not removing the template after all watermarked videos have been replaced

I guess you could say I'm more opposed to the template than to the policy itself.