Wikipedia:WikiProject Warcraft

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What this page is (and what this page isn't):

A few Wikipedians, united by their interest in Blizzard's popular Warcraft series of computer games, pooled their talents to make various suggestions as to how we might best organize data regarding the series. These are only suggestions, a means to provide focus and get prospective editors going, and no one should feel at all obligated to follow them. Beyond that, this project is designed as a place where both veteran and neophyte editors can compare notes, discuss future goals, and address issues of a general scope. In short, because we want you to write articles, we're trying to make it as easy as possible for you to do so!

Announcements for WikiProject Warcraft
Edit!	1 June: Consensus for the Corrupted Blood AfD was keep! 28 May: Corrupted Blood has been nominated for a AfD, go and give us your vote! 28 May: This WikiProject is created! Note to all participants: Please check you have signed this month's role call! You know you want to.

1 Scope
2 Goals
- 2.1 What do we include?
3 Sample articles
4 Achievements
5 Parentage
6 Participants
7 Recognition
8 General strategy and discussion forums
9 Collaborations
10 Tools
11 Deletion
- 11.1 Open
- 11.2 Closed

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims to create articles relating to everything Warcraft, related and future information, and to standardize the content and format of data in those articles. In addition, this WikiProject aims to provide some degree of damage control for poorly written or extraneous Warcraft articles.

[edit] Goals

To create a consensus on what should be included.
To create a consistent look and style for each type of page: games, characters, places, races, lore and so on.
To be a community of editors who like to focus on the improvement of Warcraft-related articles
To improve articles using our To do list

[edit] What do we include?

The main criteria for inclusion, as it is for Wikipedia as a whole, is notability. Although Wikipedia is not bound by the size constraints of the printed page, too much detailed information can be daunting to the uninitiated, who may not want anything more than a general overview.

That being said, it's not always easy to judge what is notable and what isn't. We're not GameFAQs: we don't need to have detailed statistics for every character and enemy in the series. We also aren't in the business of providing gameplay strategies. Ideally, a good article should consist of at least two paragraphs of essential information. Anything less than that should probably be included within a larger article or list.

[edit] Sample articles

The following articles represent examples of content quality and the desired layout and formatting for articles of their type.

[edit] Achievements

The following is a list of current featured articles directly related to the Warcraft series:

[edit] Parentage

The parents of this WikiProject are WikiProject Computer and video games.

[edit] Participants

Join us! You know you want to, but please don't edit this section to do so. Instead click the Add yourself! link, below. Once you join, please check in on the Community talk page.

Add yourself!

Zikomadrid
Altair 18:59, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

		The Warcraft Barnstar
		Warcraft Rocks!

Catzrthecoolest
Chiguayante
Claidheamohmor
Chossenji
Coderx 06:37, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Dread Lord CyberSkull
David Fuchs 16:28, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Deiaemeth Deiaemeth 23:18, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Drizzt Do'Urden11 Drizzt Do'Urden11 07:54, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Drizzt
Dragonskin29 Dragonskin29
Ed! (talk) (contribs)
Ellethwen
Frozen Ice 10:52, 12th September 2006 (AEST)
GamblinMonkey
GrimRepr39 (talk)
JohnnyMcJohnJohn

(contribs)

Havok (T/C/c) 14:27, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Htmlism 18:50, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Hyde v 22:21, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Ifrit 07:37, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
JimboMaloi
Jirziczerny
Luis1972 18:36, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Mattie TK 20:32, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
mikelr
Must_WIN
Nicholastbark
User:Kibbles and Bits
OrcShaman42 2:19, 12 July 2006
Pariand29 1:37PM, 1 September 2006 (AEST)
Quezacolt 09:38, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
RLE64 13:11, 2 Janurary 2007 (UTC)
Richielin 20:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Sekhui 06 June 2006
ShadowKinght(talk)
ShadowZach 23:41, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Shandris^the ^azylean 15:39, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
XadinRe
SubwayEater
Yurei-eggtart 15:57, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
zak 00:53, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Zero R 11:09, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Rowens72 10:49, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
M&NCenarius 15:05, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Walter Humala - Emperor of West Wikipedia

|wanna Talk? 06:28, 1 December 2006 (UTC) I only played Warcraft I and II, (1999).

Tonker83

[edit] Recognition

You can award the Warcraft Barnstar to those users you feel have gone the extra mile to improve Warcraft-related articles. Here is an award template: {{subst:Barnstar_Warcraft|text on award}}

Users can also add a userbox to their pages.

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

We have two main discussion pages:

The Project discussion page for issues relating to specific articles; creation, update, queries and comments.
The Community discussion page for topics relating to wider Wiki issues, project management, housekeeping and the project's participants.

There's also an IRC chatroom which can be found at irc.efnet.org/wikiwarcraft, however rarely used it may be.

[edit] Collaborations

The following collaborations are associated with this WikiProject.

Wikipedia:Gaming Collaboration of the week — Get others outside the project to help improve the articles.

The current Gaming Collaboration of the week is "Kirby Super Star".
The next winner will be selected on Monday, April 2, 2007.
Last week's article was Tetris (Game Boy) — see how it improved (before | after)

[edit] Tools

The following are useful tools that can help improve the quality of articles.

Style and How-to Directory — General Wikipedia style guidelines
Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer and video games/Peer review — Peer review specifically meant for gaming. Although still new, this can be very useful for developing articles.

[edit] Deletion

Warcraft articles, templates & categories currently listed for deletion.

Please use {{afdl|article}} to list debates on this page. If the article has been nominated for deletion before, please use {{afdl|article|article's AfD name}} instead. Please add the following to the debate when listing it here:
{{subst:warcraft deletion}}

[edit] Open

Vek'nilash at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vek'nilash

I'm not sure whether or not mobs have been discussed before - and whether they merit a page or need to be merged into a larger article. If this gets speedily deleted, i'll merge it into the wider article on Warcraft realms. Personally, I think this article should be kept - it's not only a realm but a mob.
- I have placed a speedy tag on it. That type of article will make people angry, and has no place on Wikipedia. I would suggest making this article on WoWWiki.com if it's not already there. Havok (T/C/e/c) 10:02, 1 December 2006 (UTC)