Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games
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Welcome to the WikiProject Video games on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to video games.
Our goals are to:
- provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of video games;
- improve Wikipedia's coverage of video games by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles; and
- serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to video games on Wikipedia.
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[edit] Article guidelines
- For more details on this topic, see the CVG Article guidelines
In addition to the usual policies and guidelines, please make sure you understand the specific guidelines related to video game-related articles. Also make sure you are familiar with:
- The five pillars of Wikipedia — a quick rundown of the five key rules you need to start editing.
- Simplified ruleset — 16 rules of thumb to help you avoid problems.
- List of policies — a comprehensive list of the 42 official policies.
- Templates
The CVG templates page lists all templates useful in writing articles about video games, including infobox, stub, talk page, and external links templates.
[edit] Project structure
WikiProjects connected with Video games: |
[edit] Assessment
The Assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's video game related articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. This system will be used in the future to select official A-Class articles.
[edit] Collaboration of the week
- Current GCOTW: Imagic.
Each week, a Gaming Collaboration of the week is voted on as a focus for the project's participants. Articles that qualify for the GCOTW include those that have yet to be created, stubs, and underdeveloped articles. Anyone can nominate articles for the GCOTW, so feel free to do so.
[edit] Essential articles
The Essential articles page lists the most important topics related to this WikiProject. The list could be used to select candidates for Wikipedia 1.0, or perhaps even to create a CVG WikiReader. It should also allow us to identify areas that need work. Feel free to fill in the table by rating the quality and importance of articles. If you disagree with a grade, or an important topic is missing, be bold and change it.
[edit] Magazine Archive
The CVG Magazine Archive is designed to help editors find sources for previews, development history, critical reviews, or other information in published material. The Magazines project especially aims to help editors with articles concerning games released before the full advent of the internet for game coverage. If you have relevant magazines or books, please contribute them to the archive.
[edit] Peer Review
There is a CVG Peer Review page that users can use to nominate articles for which they wish to get feedback from other contributors so that they may become featured articles. Please do not nominate stubs or underdeveloped articles, which are handled with the Gaming Collaboration of the week.
[edit] Task forces
Task forces are meant to provide centralized information and discussion for topics that have a sufficiently large scope, but would not benefit from having a separate WikiProject with all the associated bureaucracy that would involve. The current task forces are the Capcom task force, the Devil May Cry task force, the Konami task force, the Sega task force, the Tycoon Games task force, and the Video Games Images task force.
[edit] Participants
User WPVG
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Anyone can participate in this WikiProject. You may indicate your participation by adding the userbox {{User WPVG}} to your user page, shown on the right. This will add you to Category:WikiProject Video games members. Alternatively, if you do not wish to use the userbox, you may add [[Category:WikiProject Video games members|{{PAGENAME}}]] to the end of your user page. If you participate in the magazine project, you can add {{User WPVGm}} to your user page.
[edit] Recognition
You can award the VG Star to those users you feel have gone the extra mile to improve video game related articles. Here is an award template: {{subst:Barnstar CVG|text on award}}
A userbox to display this barnstar can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Award userbox.
[edit] Promotion
You can promote the WikiProject by placing the generic {{Qxz-ads}} template on your userpage, or more specifically just Image:Qxz-ad31.gif, which produces the image to the right. Use the following code:
<imagemap> Image:Qxz-ad31.gif|right|Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games rect 0 0 1000 1000 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games|WikiProject Video games]] desc none </imagemap>
[edit] New articles
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Announce your New CVG articles here, placing newer entries at the bottom of this page.
- Special:Newpages has a log of new articles. Please add video game articles you find there to this page.
- See if the new article satisfies the requirements listed at Template talk:Did you know. Feel free to add something about the article to Portal:Video games/Did you know, which will be displayed on Portal:Video games.
- If the article is still a stub, consider nominating it for the Gaming Collaboration of the week.
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[edit] Requested articles
Click here to request a computer or video game article.
When adding a new title, please provide a URL which includes some information on the article you are requesting. If you cannot find a good source of information, at the very least please provide a short textual description of the article you are requesting. Otherwise your request will be removed. Also, please see Wikipedia:Articles for Creation for more information on what articles are acceptable. Thank you.
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[edit] Deletion
Deletion Debates |
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Articles (by category) |
policy - log - tools |
CVG articles, templates & categories currently listed for deletion. Articles for deletion can be found at Today's Deletion Log.
For the complete list, see the CVG Deletion Archive.
[edit] Listing deletions
Please use {{afdl|article||open date YYYY-MM-DD|close date YYYY-MM-DD|result}} to list debates on this page. If the article has been nominated for deletion before, please use {{afdl|article|article's AfD name|open date YYYY-MM-DD|close date YYYY-MM-DD|result}} instead. Add {{subst:CVG deletion}} to the debate when listing it here. New entries should be placed at the top of the list. Templates nominated for deletion follow the same pattern, but with tfdl instead of afdl.
{{subst:CVG deletion}} can be automatically added by using RandyWang's script, here.
[edit] Open
- Category:Video game music composers at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 April 8#Category:Video game music composers
- RollerCoaster Tycoon (book series) at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/RollerCoaster Tycoon (book series) (2007-04-05 –)
[edit] Closed
- Seraphic Blue at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Seraphic Blue (2007-04-04 – 2007-04-09) delete
- Servers of City of Heroes and City of Villains at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Servers of City of Heroes and City of Villains (2007-04-03 – 2007-04-08) delete
- Pirates at Ocean’s Edge at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pirates at Ocean’s Edge (2007-04-02 – 2007-04-08) Keep
- MAD (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MAD (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) (2007-04-02 – 2007-04-08) No consensus
- Category:Screenshots of video games at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 April 1#Category:Screenshots of video games keep
- Category:Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis games at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 April 1#Category:Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis games rename to Category:Sega Mega Drive games
- Category:Video games with textual graphics at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 April 1#Category:Video games with textual graphics no consensus
- Category:Platform games at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 April 1#Category:Platform games keep
- List of Super Paper Mario Items at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Super Paper Mario Items (2007-04-04 – 2007-04-08) Delete
- Hsien Chang at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hsien Chang (2007-04-04 – 2007-04-08) Delete
- Terraworld Online at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Terraworld Online (2007-04-03 – 2007-04-08) Delete
- Tactics Arena Online at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tactics Arena Online (2007-04-03 – 2007-04-08) Delete
- GameCentral at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GameCentral (2007-04-02 – 2007-04-07) Keep
- AssaultMecha at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AssaultMecha (2007-04-02 – 2007-04-07) Delete
- The Filthy Truth at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Filthy Truth (2007-03-27 – 2007-04-07) Delete
- WSVG at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/World Series of Video Games (2007-03-26 – 2007-04-07) No consensus
- Masks from The Legend of Zelda series at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Masks from The Legend of Zelda series (2007-04-01 – 2006-04-06) Delete
- Freelancer:Combat evolved at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Freelancer:Combat evolved (2007-04-02 – 2007-04-04) Delete per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Freelancer: Combat Evolved
- History of video game consoles (eighth generation) at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of video game consoles (eighth generation) (third nomination) (2007-03-26 – 2007-04-04) Delete and salt.
- PS3-tard, Microtard and Wiitard at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wiitard (2007-04-02 – 2007-04-02) Speedy delete
- List of Mario Party minigames at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Mario Party minigames (2007-03-20 – 2007-03-28) Delete. Endorsed at deletion review
- Sims Productions at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sims Productions (2007-03-28 – 2007-04-02) Delete
- The Vortex at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Vortex (2007-03-28 – 2007-04-02) Delete
- List of Mario Party 3 minigames, List of Mario Party 4 minigames, List of Mario Party 5 minigames, List of Mario Party 6 minigames, List of Mario Party 7 minigames and List of Mario Party 8 minigames at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Mario Party 3 minigames (2007-03-28 – 2007-04-02) Delete all
- Iaido in popular culture at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iaido in popular culture (2007-03-28 – 2007-04-02) Delete
- Gears of War (film) at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gears of War (film) (2007-03-28 – 2007-04-02) Delete. Recreated as a redirect to Gears of War.
- Gamemecca at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gamemecca (2007-03-27 – 2007-04-02) Delete
- Social Gaming at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Social Gaming (2007-03-29 – 2007-04-02) Rewritten as a disambiguation page
- Category:Notable video game failures at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 April 1#Category:Notable video game failures Rename to Category:Video game failures
- Category:DOS games converted into Windows games at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 March 27#Category:DOS games converted into Windows games. Keep
- Category:Handheld electronic games at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 March 26#Category:Handheld electronic games. Keep
- Wacky Waiters at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wacky Waiters (2007-03-26 – 2007-03-31) Keep
- List of Mario Party 2 minigames at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Mario Party 2 minigames (2nd nomination) (2007-03-25 – 2007-03-31) Delete
- Umaril The Unfeathered at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Umaril The Unfeathered (2007-03-24 – 2007-04-02) Merge to Characters of Oblivion
- Super transformation at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Super transformation (2007-03-24 – 2007-04-02) No consensus
- Video game plot and universe clichés at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Video game plot and universe clichés (2007-03-08 – 2007-04-03) Delete
- Category:Pages needing expert attention from Video game experts at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 March 23#Pages needing expert attention subcategories rename to Category:Video game articles needing expert attention
- StarCraft storyline, StarCraft Episode I, StarCraft Episode II, StarCraft Episode III, StarCraft Episode IV, StarCraft Episode V, StarCraft Episode VI, StarCraft Enslavers, and Brood War introduction at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/StarCraft storyline (2007-03-21 – 2007-04-01) Delete all
- Kings of Chaos at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kings of Chaos (2nd nomination) (2007-03-26 – 2007-03-31) Delete
- Hydro Cannon at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hydro Cannon (2007-03-24 – 2007-03-29) Delete
- List of computer and video games not released in the USA at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of computer and video games not released in the USA (2007-03-24 – 2007-03-29) Delete
- List of The Simpsons Hit and Run missions at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of The Simpsons Hit and Run missions (2007-03-27 – 2007-03-27) Speedy delete
- The Fury Within (MOD of Diablo II) at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Fury Within (MOD of Diablo II) (2007-03-22 – 2007-03-27) Delete
- List of Mario Party Advance minigames at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Mario Party Advance minigames (2007-03-22 – 2007-03-27) Delete
[edit] Example articles
[edit] Featured Articles
The featured articles are what Wikipedia editors believe are the best articles in Wikipedia. Before being listed here, articles are reviewed at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates for accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style according to our featured article criteria. Bold article names have been featured on the main page on "Today's featured article".
[edit] External links
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