Wikipedia:WikiProject Games

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First, an important note for everyone to remember:

A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about games. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

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Contents 1 Title 2 Scope 3 Parentage 4 Descendant Wikiprojects 5 Similar Wikiprojects 6 Participants 7 Structure 8 Hierarchy Definition 9 General Strategy and Discussion forum 10 Template

[edit] Title

Wikiproject on Games

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to provide guidelines as to what content belongs in an article about a game, and how to structure that information.

Each game will have a page, as well a broad categories of games, such as Card games. Each category will have either an internal list of games of the type, or a link to an external link to such a list.

[edit] Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Leisure.

[edit] Descendant Wikiprojects

The descendant WikiProjects are WikiProject Arcade games, WikiProject Chess, WikiProject Computer and video games and WikiProject Role-playing games

[edit] Similar Wikiprojects

The similar WikiProjects include the WikiProject Sports.

[edit] Participants

• f 22
• Gentgeen
• Kevin Saff
• Netoholic
• Yekrats
• Alex Nisnevich (talk)
• Alai
• MiracleMat
• McGeddon
• Parsingphase
• Rindis

[edit] Structure

WikiProject Games
{{{image_link}}}
Players	{{{players}}}
Setup time	{{{setup_time}}}
Playing time	{{{playing_time}}}
Random chance	{{{random_chance}}}
Skills required	{{{skills}}}

Each article should have these main sections and paragraphs.

• Front matter (above the table of contents)
  1. Infobox template {{Template:Infobox Game}} (plus parameters) - see mock-up at right and Template_talk:Infobox Game for full usage information
  2. One or two paragraphs giving a brief record of the game's significance. Remember, on a print-out, this is the information on page #1.
• History - initial version, variants, current producer or status
• Game play - NOT a rulebook, but a few paragraphs briefly overviewing the game. If some mechanics (like shuffling) are not unique to the game, link the term to a generic article, but no need to go into detail.
• References (with cited sources)
• See also
• External links

[edit] Hierarchy Definition

Games can be classified into Board Games, Card Games, Word Games, Role Playing Games, War Games, Strategy Games, Casino Games, Parlor Games, and others. Each game can be listed in one or more classifications.

See this example on dividing a topic into a hierarchy.

[edit] General Strategy and Discussion forum

• /General
• /Strategy

[edit] Template

The template has yet to be defined