User blog:NOBODY/Request to disable the "Photos" box and "Featured Videos" on the left side of pages

Hi all!

When you look at any article, on the right are three boxes: Recent Wiki Activity, Featured, and Photos. This blog post will cover the Photos part of the right side. This section is particularly bothersome and serves no helpful purpose - it simply shows the most recently uploaded pictures.

This isn't helpful. Furthermore, when a game is released, if someone uploads the ending as an image, it is exposed for everyone to see. Don't want to see it? Well, there isn't any way to shield yourself from it other than not looking at it. But then, that's hard. The fact is, the Photos box is not helpful, it is bothersome, and it's "Add a photo" button is superseded by the regular editor "Add a photo" button - if you want to add a picture, you can go edit a page and click the "Add a photo" button.

So as you can see, the photo box isn't helpful, and all it contains is content superseded by other content. Mind you, the only way to see the most recently uploaded pictures is by the Recent Changes, but then, seeing all the recently uploaded pictures isn't content that is going to break the wiki.

And also, if you want to see all the recently uploaded pictures, you can use the Recent Changes, as it allows for you to see everything happening across the wiki. So what I'm asking is this - do you think the Photos box should be removed?

If I get enough support and the go-ahead to ask, I'll ask the Wikia Staff if they can remove it. If they say no, well, it does not get removed.