Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Workshop
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The Computer and video games workshop is a collaborative effort to promote non-stub essential computer and video game articles to good or featured status. Although the workshop is maintained by members of WikiProject Computer and video games, all editors are welcome to participate.
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[edit] What to focus on
- Introductions: Since all the articles listed as essential will be at the minimum used for their lead sections, the introduction is critical. It should provide adequate context for a non-gamer, discuss the historical importance and relevance, and should provide sufficient high level summary per the guidelines at WP:LEAD.
- References: A significant lacking in the Computer and video games category, references are critical. Cite game reviewers for critical impact sections, game design books for legacy, cite game manuals or other first-party sources for story information. See the citation templates for appropriate templates and WP:CITE for guidelines on citing sources.
- Images: Images should all be properly sourced, tagged, and their fair use rationale explained.
- Fancruft: Should be removed as much as possible.
[edit] How to nominate
To nominate a non-stub article for improvement, add the following to the bottom of the list of nominations. Insert the name of the article, as well as the article's priority status and current quality (as taken from the Essential articles page; if it does not have one of these, fill it in). Also add your comments as to why this should be a Workshop collaboration.
==[[name of article]]== '''Support''' # ~~~~ '''Priority''': x<br> '''Quality''': '''Comments''' * add comment here
Also, add {{cvg-workshop-nomination}} to the talk page of the article.
Articles that are stubs or do not exist should not be nominated here, but may be nominated at Gaming Collaboration of the week for improvement. Non-stub articles that have not been identified as essential may be submitted to CVG peer review if they are close to featured status.
[edit] How to support
Supporting an article indicates a willing commitment to aid in the collaboration to improve the article. Although there is no formal requirement, it is suggested that you only support articles to which you can contribute, so that the Workshop's goal of improving articles can be better met.
The CVG workshop uses an approval voting system. Therefore, only support votes are allowed. Any registered user acting in good faith is encouraged to support, but must abide by the policies of Wikipedia, specifically Wikipedia:Sockpuppets. You may support as many articles as you wish by adding
# ~~~~
to the bottom of the appropriate Support section. If you wish to withdraw support, add an asterisk and strike-through tags as shown:
#* <s>[[User:Username|Username]] 08:59, Jul 1 2005 (UTC)</s>
This allows Wikipedia to correctly calculate the remaining support.
When an article has three support votes, it may be moved to the Active subheading. Also, remove the {{cvg-workshop-nomination}} template from the article and replace it with {{cvg-workshop-active}}. When the template has been added in, click the red link inside the template called "Articlename/Members." Put in your username, as well as those of the other collaboration members in list form and save it.
You are free to join active collaborations by adding your name to the /Members list by editing it. Just make sure you are willing to actively contribute to the article's improvement.
[edit] How to improve articles
See the Style and How-to Directory for advice on writing great articles, or look at the discussion of the perfect article and try to reach as close to as many of those ideals as possible. The WikiProject page has guidelines specifically related to CVG articles.
[edit] Templates
- {{cvg-workshop-nomination}} For articles in the nomination stage
- {{cvg-workshop-active}} For active collaborations
[edit] Nominations
[edit] Super Mario Bros. 3
- Nominated July 19
Support:
- gakon5 22:46, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
- SevereTireDamage 05:49, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
- Jjam189 15:52, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Priority: High
Quality: B
Comments: This article seems to be very close to Good. To name a couple sections off the bat, the Trivia and Game Differences sections would do good to be filtered through and chopped down. The article also needs refs, of which there are none. I think the Reception section would be a good place for those. -- gakon5 22:46, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
- Only a single in-line reference right now - the article needs references badly. --SevereTireDamage 05:49, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pac-Man
- Nominated June 18
Support:
- Seahen 13:14, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
- SevereTireDamage 05:49, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
- Jjam189 15:52, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Priority: High
Quality: B
Comments:
- This article concerns one of the most notable games ever. It has over 400 inbound links and a PageRank of 6. Although it is thorough, it needs major cleanup. It currently needs copyediting and more thorough references, and has 11 substantial issues that need to be fixed before it becomes a good article. Seahen 13:14, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
- I've been working on this article for the last month and adding many references. However, there's still a ton of uncited claims, especially about the clones, bootlegs, and pop culture shows and cartoons. There's a lot of good stuff in this article right now, but there might be excessive detail on the Ghost personalities and behavior patterns. I'm not sure if it's encyclopedic or not, though I don't have strong feelings about leaving them in or out - but the it's a large chunk of the article. --SevereTireDamage 05:49, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Personal computer game
Support
- RandyWang (chat/patch) 08:06, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
- I Jethrobot
Priority: Mid
Quality: B
Comments
- This is a pretty important article, detailing in general terms the development of a very large class of video games. It's in an appalling state at the moment, and could certainly do with some work, especially according to the comments already in place at its talk page. 08:06, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
- There's definitely some work to be done under History-- there are a lot of gaps. This article is definitely worth attention. I Jethrobot 06:34, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
