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NOTICE: Feel free to edit the content in the portal. The portal is interesting if people change the content often. I might have created the template, but I have little time to keep updating this page. Jacoplane 23:26, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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A New Idea We should put walkthroughs to games on wikipedia! Well, that's all, but its a great idea no?

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Somebody has deleted the Characters section as well as the music , magazines and retail section! Is there some troglodyte that needs to be stopped or what?

It seems they never had any content, they don't seem to have a history. Or do categories not have history pages? Jacoplane 23:26, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Categories do have history pages... but not if they are deleted. The mentioned pages were moved for consistency with other category names, therefore the old categories were deleted. I've directed the pages to the new categories now, though. --TheDotGamer ^Talk June 30, 2005 03:57 (UTC)

Ok cool, thanks! Jacoplane 30 June 2005 04:09 (UTC)

Contents 1 When do you link to this portal from a computer game article and when do you not? 2 PSP 3 Purge link needs a home 4 Ubisoft Screenshots 5 Am I allowed to do this? 6 Featured VG article template 7 External links 8 Moby Games? 9 The-underdogs 10 Fair-use image 11 Selected articles/pictures are rarely updated, so here's an idea 12 Did you know box problem 13 Deletion Issue

[edit] When do you link to this portal from a computer game article and when do you not?

I saw this Computer and video games portal linked from one game article, so edit-added it to another, only to have it promptly reverted with an "unnecessary" comment. Is there disagreement over awareness and use of this portal? A curious newcomer -- Sitearm | Talk 17:38, 2005 August 8 (UTC)

I think it's only proper to link on Computer and video games (which has a box) and the category. K1Bond007 17:55, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

You said: I think it's only proper to link on Computer and video games

I read the introductory descriptions on WikiProject:Computer and video games and WikiPortal:Computer and video games and it seems to me that Computer and video game and genre articles may well include a link to WikiPortal:Computer and video games because Unlike WikiProjects, WikiPortals are meant to be used both by editors and by readers of Wikipedia.. Readers reading about one particular game or genre may find the portal a good start point to learn more about similar games, genres, or games in general. I know I do.

I would agree that WikiProject:Computer and video games would be better linked to from a narrower set of pages such as Computer and video games because A WikiProject is... a resource to help coordinate and organize article writing. It is a resource for editors.

Might we agree that if a contributer wants to add a game portal link to a game article, the addition be respected? -- Sitearm | Talk 19:28, 2005 August 14 (UTC)

[edit] PSP

I thought the PSP in the UK was the fastest selling console so far? -- Thorpe ^talk 21:43, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Purge link needs a home

I don't know where it can go, but it looks lost down at the bottom there. Garrett^Talk 13:04, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

I put it at the top. I didn't even see it down there! Thunderbrand 01:47, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ubisoft Screenshots

Please note commons:User:Avatar/Ubisoft. --Avatar-en 12:05, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Am I allowed to do this?

Am I allowed to mention the video game wiki Encyclopedia Gamia here in the talk page?

[edit] Featured VG article template

I've created a template with which to identify the selected articles of this WikiProject. I thought that it would be useful, especially to serve as recognition to good VG articles that haven't (yet) been promoted to featured article on the main page. The template is accessible via {{Featured_VG}}{{Selected CVG}} and looks like this:

Of course, it can probably use some improvements in the linkage. --Michiel Sikma 10:22, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

I've migrated this template to {{Selected CVG}} to reflect the fact that the article is selected, not featured, and to use the standard CVG initialism instead of VG. --Pagrashtak 04:52, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Template has since been intergrated into {{cvgproj}} Hbdragon88 04:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External links

What is the suggested limit for external links on a page? Jedi6 17:46, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

As many as are strictly relevant to the topic at hand and notable enough to appear in a reasonably sized list. If you're making an article about Sim City, then Maxis's site must be on there, but "SimDude8090's GeoCities Strat Guide" must not. --Michiel Sikma 06:32, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Moby Games?

What's the deal with all the external links to "blank" at Moby Games... is that standard practice of CVG articles or just some guy going round trying to promote moby games?Qeee1 18:00, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

That is strange. No game entries will appear on Mobygames until they actually get released. So there's no point linking to there on Portal for a few more months. Maybe some wiki editor was just trying to leave a space for the links? --WildKard 00:09, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The-underdogs

I noticed that what was once http://www.the-underdogs.org is now defunt and points to generic advertizing rubbish. Several game entries such as Robot Odyssey have a link to what was once the game's entry in this site - is there a possibility to write a bot to remove these on a global level? Eldar 00:07, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

I think the new domain is http://www.the-underdogs.info . You might be able to do this using the Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser. You're probably better off asking these kinds of questions on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computer and video games -- that page is watched by many more people. jaco♫plane 00:10, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I cannot use autowikibrowser myself (being a Linux person) but I will post this issue to the video games project as per your suggestion. Eldar 22:21, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair-use image

I've removed the Half-Life 2 game cover image from the selected article section as it violates Wikipedia's fair use policy. Please remember that fair use images are only allowed in the article mainspace (though the Main Page is an exception).--☆TBC☆ (aka Tree Biting Conspiracy) 10:02, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Selected articles/pictures are rarely updated, so here's an idea

The selected articles/pictures rarely seem to get updated. The current selected article has been there nearly two months and the selected picture about a month and a half. To improve variety, I think it would be a good idea if we create a few pages, each with either a selected article or selected picture and then set them up to be included in the portal based on a certain time.

It would work in a similar way to featured pictures and articles on the main page. But I feel we should run it on a looping system instead, so that it would run perfectly fine without anyone updating it, but people could change it if they wanted to.

This could be done by creating seven selected articles and seven selected pictures. Each day a different one would be included based on the day of the week. For example:

• Monday 12th: Game 1
• Tuesday 13th: Game 2
• Wednesday 14th: Game 3
• Thursday 15th: Game 4
• Friday 16th: Game 5
• Saturday 17th: Game 6
• Sunday 18th: Game 7
• Monday 19th: Game 1
• Tuesday 20th: Game 2

And so on. This way we would have a different game each day. The pages with each game on could be changed at any time. So if Game 3 was NetHack, I could come along and change that to BZFlag, then in the future, it would show that instead.

I think this may require the page to be purged, but there's a big link for that at the top, so I'm sure someone presses it. Even if it doesn't get clicked for a little while, this method still has a lot more variety than the current method.

If people think this is a good idea, I'm happy to make the pages and add in descriptions for seven selected articles and pictures. Anyone can change them in the future. I'll make a page which shows all seven features articles and another which shows all seven featured pictures, so that it's easy for people to change them. Icey 14:00, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

That'd be cool, I'm tired of seeing BZFlag and that random game's picture. --PresN 01:34, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Works for me ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 01:37, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know box problem

There's a well visible problem with Did you know box in Mozilla browser. It overlaps with the others, being displayed directly under the WikiProjects box. I'm not sure how to fix it in a good way. I made a quick fix with br-clear so it displays correctly, but possibly it needs more specific attention. Please report if there are any problems with display now. CP/M ^comm |Wikipedia Neutrality Project| 12:07, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion Issue

Hi there, I've just created an article about an Online Game named Regnum Online, and I have an issue with a user (User:Pan Dan) who insists the article is about web content and insists on deleting it. The article is written in a similar fashion as Lineage II or World of Warcraft, so I don't see why it is inappropriate. If you could lend me a hand in this matter I would be grateful.

Thanks! Jcpetruzza 15:01, 28 November 2006 (UTC)