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Contents 1 Guidelines, layouts, and advice 1.1 Official guidelines and advice 2 Other WikiProjects 2.1 Parent WikiProjects 2.2 Similar WikiProjects 3 Participants 4 Tasks 5 Recent Changes 6 Related surveys 6.1 Articles for deletion 6.2 Proposed for deletion 6.3 Categories for deletion 7 Related content 7.1 Exemplary articles 7.2 Categories 7.2.1 UC related 7.2.2 CE related 7.3 Lists 7.3.1 UC related 7.3.2 CE related 7.4 Templates 7.4.1 Common 7.4.2 UC related 7.4.3 CE related 7.5 Wikipedia stand point on fictional mechanical units and items 7.5.1 Sample pages 7.5.2 Current sourced real world impact CE mechas 8 References

Welcome to WikiProject Gundam, a WikProject that aims to organize, expand, clean up, and guide Gundam related Gundam articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can simply start by editing any Gundam article, or join the project below and/or contribute to the discussion on the talk page. Be sure to also check out the to-do list for some of the project's ongoing tasks.

If you find or contribute to a Gundam article, please paste {{WikiProject Gundam}} onto the article's talk page, if it is not already there.

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[edit] Guidelines, layouts, and advice

• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gundam For article issues

[edit] Official guidelines and advice

Although we strive to comply with all Wikipedia guidelines, there are a lot of them. The ones here are listed for convenience and also may be particularly helpful when editing Gundam articles:

• Wikipedia:Notability (fiction)
• Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles
• Wikipedia:Trivia
• Wikipedia:Fancruft

[edit] Other WikiProjects

[edit] Parent WikiProjects

In addition to the above guidelines and recommendations, follow the guidelines and recommendations of the following "parent" WikiProjects when they apply:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

Even if not directly Gundam-related, the following WikiProjects that may contain useful advice and information that you can use:

• Pokémon Collaborative Project
• Digimon Systems Update

[edit] Participants

User WP Gundam G This user is a member of WikiProject Gundam.

A list of participants can be found at Category:WikiProject Gundam participants.

Technically speaking, anyone who edits / contributes to Gundam articles is a participant, and there are no requirements other than that. If one wishes they can further identify themselves with the project by listing their name as a participant. This helps spread the word about the project and can help other editors see what types of articles that user is interested in editing.

To add yourself to the project listing add the following to your user page.

[[Category:WikiProject Gundam participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

Or, if you wish to use the userbox, add {{User WP Gundam}} to your user page instead as it includes the above wikicode.

[edit] Tasks

	To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Gundam:	edit - history - watch - purge
	Expand Cosmic Era Mangas: Gundam SEED Astray, Gundam SEED Destiny Astray all articles found in the Cosmic Era stubs category Maintenance / Etc Place {{WikiProject Gundam}} on the top of talk pages of all Gundam-related articles. Find and cite sources (URL, scan, etc) for all images in Category:Cosmic Era images. For help and examples see Wikipedia:Uploading images. Make sure all Cosmic Era-related images are marked with the {{fairusein}} tag. And always check your fiction.

[edit] Recent Changes

[edit] Related surveys

[edit] Articles for deletion

These articles, are nominated for deletion, please follow the links to discuss about them.

• None

[edit] Proposed for deletion

These articles, are propsed to be deleted, feel free to edit them to meet wikipedia's policy so that they will not be nominated for deletion.

• RX-78 Gundam
• MSZ-010 Double Zeta Gundam
• MWS-19051G D Gundam

[edit] Categories for deletion

• None

[edit] Related content

[edit] Exemplary articles

[edit] Categories

[edit] UC related

• Category:Universal Century - main category
• Subcategories:
  • Please link to the main category for the list.

[edit] CE related

• Category:Cosmic Era - main category
• Subcategories:
  • Please link to the main category for the list.
• Category:Cosmic Era images - Cosmic Era-related images and media
• Category:Cosmic Era stubs - articles needing attention and expansion
• Category:WikiProject Mobile Operation System participants

[edit] Lists

[edit] UC related

• Universal Century Characters
• Universal Century Mobile Units
• Universal Century Space Vessels
• Universal Century Superweapons
• Universal Century Nations and Factions

[edit] CE related

• Cosmic Era list of characters
• Cosmic Era Mobile Units
• Cosmic Era episode list
• Warships and spacecraft of the Cosmic Era
• Vehicles and aircraft of the Cosmic Era

[edit] Templates

[edit] Common

• {{WikiProject Gundam}}
• {{Infobox Gundam Character}}

[edit] UC related

• {{UCMobileWeaponsRef}}
  • UC related references, mostly weapon and technology.

{{Early Universal Century Mobile weapons}}

[edit] CE related

• {{Cosmic Era}}
• {{Cosmic Era 2}}
• {{Cosmic Era mobile weapons}}
• {{Cosmic Era ship classes}}
• {{Cosmic Era characters}}
• {{Cosmic Era characters 2}}
• {{cosmiceracharacter}}
• {{Cosmic Era vehicles and aircraft}}
• {{WikiProject CE}}

[edit] Wikipedia stand point on fictional mechanical units and items

• An article should not be created if it contains no real world significance.
  • If it does not contain any real world significant other than being one of the items in the series, the real world impact is by the series itself instead of the mecha.
  • Examples of real world significance are appearance in another series, not dedicated to the original series, preferably not any Gundam series. An exception is something like the SD Gundam G Generation series, and the HG, MG, PG, EX models series which contains different mecha from different Gundam series and is not dedicated to one Gundam series. The MG and EX model series are best sources since they contain mechas from the Patlabor, Aura Battler Dunbine, Yukikaze and Ace Combat series as well.
• A list of mechas is acceptable and should be created per WP:FICT guideline of fictional characters, they are considered minor characters until they recieve enough real world impact and flooded the list to too long.
  • If the list became too long (larger than 32kb and is warned by wiki's editing page), try to separate them into different series and land, sea, air based lists before separating them into fictional nations.

[edit] Sample pages

Here are a few pages that are written to try to follow the guidelines of WP:FICT, the contents containing more real world analysis instead of plot summary. These are not perfect articles still need more work on them but is considered better following wikipedia's policy and guidelines than most of the others:

• MSZ-006 Zeta Plus
• MSZ-006 Zeta Gundam
• FX-550 Skygrasper
  • Notices the designs should include impacts on later productions, specifically stating who is the designer and why the design influenced later designs. Real world impacts should be stated, like production of model in a different series and apperance in a non Gundam related series. Instead of having a page with just technical specification and plot summary.

[edit] Current sourced real world impact CE mechas

• Strike, Skygrasper, Freedom, having not only appearance in the Super Robot Wars series, but the two MS are featured in a 3D modeling technique book and modeling review in Dengeki Hobby and Hobby Japan magazines. First two are the only CE mecha appearing in the PG model series and the latter is the only unit appearing in the MG series other than the first two and Strike Freedom. Also impacted later production and design of the Strike Noir, Cosmograsper and Strike Freedom.

[edit] References