Wikipedia:Gaming Collaboration of the week

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Each week a Gaming Collaboration of the week will be picked using this page. This is a specific computer or video game-related topic which initially either has no article, has only a basic stub-like page, or is in need of more information. The aim of this project is to improve the quality of Wikipedia's computer and video game articles through widespread cooperative editing. It is our hope that some of these will go on to become featured articles. For a discussion on the correct format of computer and video game articles, please see WikiProject Computer and video games.

The project is also used to fill gaps in Wikipedia, to give users a focus, and to give us all something to be proud of. Any registered user can nominate an article and can vote for any number of the nominated articles. Every Monday, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for a week to potential contributors.

The current Gaming Collaboration of the week is "X-Men vs. Street Fighter". The next winner will be selected on Monday, December 18, 2006. Last week's article was Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together — see how it improved (before | after)

Previous collaborations can be found at /History.
Removed nominations can be found at /Removed.

Collaborations
Article Creation and Improvement Drive Article Referencing Drive Core topics Good articles Join in! Maintenance Spanish translation
Arts & entertainment
Anime and Manga Architecture Cinema Comics Novels
Games & sports
Football (soccer) Formula One Gaming (stubs) Rugby union
Geography & places
Africa Australia  Canada  India Indonesia  NZ USA  Vancouver
Government & politics
Military history U.S. Congress
Religion
Catholic Hinduism Judaism Orthodox Judaism Rabbis Mormon Zen
Science & technology
Airports new Cetaceans Chemistry Dentistry Dinosaurs History of science Mathematics Medicine Molecular and Cellular Biology Neuroscience Science Sharks
Miscellaneous
Numismatics Inactive collaborations v • d • e

Contents 1 Selecting the next Gaming Collaboration of the week 1.1 Considerations for nominations 1.2 Voting 1.3 Ties 1.4 Nominations 1.5 Pruning 2 The current time and date is 04:06, 16 December 2006 (UTC). 3 Candidates for next week 3.1 Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire 3.2 Time Traveler (video game) 3.3 Guilty Gear (series) 4 Game-related articles nominated on other COTWs 5 How to nominate an article

[edit] Selecting the next Gaming Collaboration of the week

[edit] Considerations for nominations

• Giving reasons why an article should become the GCOTW may convince others to support your nomination.
• Can the wider gaming community easily contribute to the article? Or is it something only a small number of people will know about?
• Is the article a stub or very small? Or would the article fare better in a CVG Peer Review?
• A good place to look for articles that might be worthy of a nomination is the Computer and video game stubs category.
• Another good place to look for articles is the new CVG article creation log. New articles are mostly stubs and are therefore viable nominations for the GCOTW.

[edit] Voting

A vote or a show of support for an article shows your commitment to support and aid in collaborating on that specific article if it is chosen. Although you are not required to fulfill that commitment, we ask that you only support articles that you are able to contribute to so that this collaboration's goals of expanding and improving articles can adequately be achieved. Feel free to vote for as many candidates as you like.

Any registered user is encouraged to vote so long as you abide by the policies of Wikipedia, specifically Wikipedia:Sockpuppets.

Please add only support votes. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see Approval voting).

To vote for a nomination, edit the nomination and add the following to the bottom of the Support section:

# ~~~~

This adds your username and a time stamp to the numbered list item. The vote will look like this:

1. Username 08:59, Jul 1 2005 (UTC)

If you wish to withdraw your vote, do not remove your vote; instead, add an asterisk and strike-through tags to your vote as shown:

#* <s>[[User:Username|Username]] 08:59, Jul 1 2005 (UTC)</s>

This allows Wikipedia to correctly calculate the remaining votes and will appear like this:

1. Username 08:39, 1 July 2005 (UTC)
   • Username 08:59, 1 July 2005 (UTC)
2. Username 08:39, 2 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ties

In case of a tie, voting will be extended for 24 hours. If there is still a tie, the candidate that was nominated first wins. During the extended voting period the old collaboration should still be active. In the case of extended voting, the collaboration period will be reduced to 6 days.

[edit] Nominations

New nominations may be made at any time and should be added at the end of this page. Please use the provided template.

If the page you are nominating already exists, please add the parameter GCOTW=yes to the {{cvgproj}} template at the top of its talk page.

If the article is selected as the Gaming Collaboration of the week, please add {{Current-GCOTW}} to the top of the article page. This expands to:

This is the current Gaming Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia computer and video game article.

[edit] Pruning

Nominations will be moved to /Removed if they have not received 3 votes after 7 days on the list, 6 votes after 14 days, 9 votes after 21 days, and so on.

[edit] The current time and date is 04:06, 16 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Candidates for next week

[edit] Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire

Nominated December 9; needs 6 votes by December 23 (minimum 3 votes per week)

Support:

1. Super Ranger 22:59, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
2. --Havermayer 05:23, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
3. DocDragon 22:53, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

• This should be the Gaming Collaboration for being "shovelware of the highest order".

[edit] Time Traveler (video game)

Nominated December 10; needs 3 votes by December 17 (minimum 3 votes per week)

Support:

1. Zytron 16:27, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

• This is an article that could really use expanding. It was a leap forward in arcade cabinet and laserdisc technology. Was also oddly profitable despite its critically failed plot and gameplay for this reason.

[edit] Guilty Gear (series)

Nominated December 11; needs 3 votes by December 18 (minimum 3 votes per week)

Support:

1. --Havermayer 04:34, 11 December 2006 (UTC) 04:33, 11 December 2006 (UTC)]

Comments:

• The Guilty Gear series is amazing, and deserves a better article than this one. It may need to be split since there isn't any articles describing any of the individual games in the series, just the series as a whole. Also the article needs massive clean-up, and should make reference to game's many soundtracks.

[edit] Game-related articles nominated on other COTWs

[edit] How to nominate an article

===[[article name with double-brackets surrounding it]]===   
:''Nominated [[ [Date] ]]; needs 3 votes by [[ [Date + 7 days] ]] (minimum 3 votes per week)''  
    
'''Support:'''
# [your user name--use '~~~~']
    
'''Comments:'''  
*[a short description explaining why the article should be the Gaming Collaboration of the week]