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The WPVG Newsletter (October 2008)

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - October 2008

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Project At a Glance

As of October 2008, the project has:


Changes to Featured and Good articles, lists, and topics

Promoted FA/FL:

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, Crush (video game), Half-Life 2: Episode One, StarCraft: Ghost

Promoted FT:

StarCraft titles

Demoted FA/FL/FT:

None


Promoted GA:

Aether (video game), Chris Metzen, Doom 3, Final Fantasy VII, Half-Life 2: Survivor, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Mega Man 2, Silent Hill 3

Promoted GT:

Key visual novels

Demoted GA/GT:

Final Fantasy (video game)


News
Feature: Partnered reviews

For some time now, the Video games project and the Military history project have been cross listing their articles undergoing peer review in an effort to improve the quality of articles, as well as the copy editing skills of editors. The idea was first proposed by User:Krator as a way to better prepare articles for Featured article candidacy. After being approved by both projects, the idea was implemented under a trial period, and eventually approved as a standard practice.

New, cross listed military history articles are announced on the Video games project talk page, and listed on the Video games Peer review page under a special section. Video game editors are encouraged to leave any type of comments that come to mind. If you don't know anything about military history, that's perfectly fine because that's the point. An editor lacking knowledge about the particular topic can provide a helpful point of view as a general reader—the intended audience.

If you have a video game article undergoing peer review that you think would benefit from an outside view, post the following boilerplate at WT:MILHIST: {{subst:Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/Toolbox/Partner peer review notice|Name of article|Raw link to review|Video games}} ~~~~

Things to remember
  • A peer review process such as this will not work if editors do not give as well as take.
  • Peer reviews are meant to examine not just the prose, but the sources and images used in the article.
  • Feedback can range from brief comments after skimming through a page to a full blown dissection of grammar, structure, and references. Either way, every bit helps.
  • Reviewing another editor's article can help sharpen your writing skills, which in turn can improve the articles you write.

See past discussions for details: VG discussion and MilHist discussion

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The WPVG Newsletter (November 2008)

The Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Video games Newsletter

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume I, No. 9 - November 2008

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Project At a Glance

As of November 2008, the project has:


Changes to Featured and Good articles, lists, and topics

Promoted FA/FL:

Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game, Ico, List of One Piece video games, List of songs in Guitar Hero World Tour, List of StarCraft media, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Myst V: End of Ages

Promoted FT:

None

Demoted FA/FL/FT:

None


Promoted GA:

Characters of Myst, Combine (Half-Life), Crash: Mind over Mutant, F-Zero, Half-Life: Blue Shift, Half-Life: Decay, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, Halo 3 marketing, Ico, Iori Yagami, Jim Raynor, LittleBigPlanet, Marble Madness, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Myst (series), Sam & Max Hit the Road, Silent Hill Homecoming, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst

Promoted GT:

None

Demoted GA/GT:

Call of Duty 2, Fate/stay night, Make Love, Not Warcraft


News
Feature: Article Importance

Article importance is an assessment of a topic's importance in understanding a specific higher level topic. Assessments are maintained by WikiProjects and reflect the project's view of what is essential to understanding their scope. In the VG Project's case, all importance scales are in terms of understanding video games.

A video game article's importance is listed and set in the {{WikiProject Video games}} template on its talk page. An assessment of importance can be done by the Assessment Department by submitting a request.

Recent discussions at the VG Project's talk page have called for revisions to the practice of assigning article importance. The discussion began in mid-November with the goal of clarifying what level of importance should be assigned to certain type of articles. It eventually expanded to creating a standardized table of importance to serve as a guide for current and future editors.

The discussion has focused on and shifted to several topics including flaws of previous practices, new ways to view assessment, other project practices to emulate, and specific articles which are exceptions to proposed guidelines. A brief pole and discussion determined most editors felt that the bulk of some topics—specifically individual video game, series, and character articles—were not essential to understanding video games, making them ineligible for top importance. The discussion then shifted to tweaking the wording and layout of the table.

The current proposed table is being discussed on the project's talk page, and the issue of whether some topics—specifically character articles—should be allowed to be rated importance has also been brought up. As always, member are encouraged to voice their opinions and engage in discussion to determine consensus so the new assessment scale can be implemented.


See past newsletter feature for more information about the Assessment Department.

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The WPVG Newsletter (December 2008)

The WikiProject Video games Newsletter

The WikiProject Video games Newsletter
Volume I, No. 10 - December 2008

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Project At a Glance

As of December 2008, the project has:


Changes to Featured and Good content

Promoted FA/FL:

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, List of Kirby media, Marble Madness, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

Promoted FT:

Half-Life 2 titles

Demoted FA/FL/FT:

None

Promoted AA:

None

Promoted GA:

Guitar Hero World Tour, Half-Life: Opposing Force, Mario Bros., New Super Mario Bros., Sam & Max: Freelance Police, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith

Promoted GT:

None

Demoted GA/GT:

Final Fantasy II, Resident Evil, Super Mario Land


News
  • There were 182 new articles in December 2008
  • Inactive project cleanup: Proposal to consolidate inactive projects and taskforces. Project page can be found here.
    • WikiProject Sports video games has been deleted.
    • WikiProject The Legend of Zelda series has been merged into the VG project's Nintendo task force.
  • Importance scale has been added to Assessment page.
  • A search bar has been added to the archive box on the VG project talk page. Searching the discussion archives is now much easier.
Feature: Video game notability

Video game related articles fall under niche categories on Misplaced Pages: "Culture and the arts" and "Everyday life". Because of this, they are often required to demonstrate notability more than other topics. Misplaced Pages defines notability as "worthy of notice", and considers it distinct from fame, importance, and popularity. Though it is acknowledge to be related to fame and the like, it is important understand that being famous, important, or popular does not mean a video game article should be on Misplaced Pages.

Being notable means that a topic has "received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Misplaced Pages's policy also stipulates that this only presumes to "satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article." This means that though an article may meet the criteria on paper, it is up to the community to decide if a topic truly is notable and/or violates other policies such as WP:NOT. In short, just because a video game, character, or related topic exists, does not mean it should also exist as a Misplaced Pages article.

Dealing with non-notable topics

Articles that do not meet the criteria are either deleted or merged into a relevant topic.

  • WP:Articles for deletion (AfD) handles the deletion of non-notable articles, among other types, and has an established process to begin discussions about reasons for deletion.
  • If an article is a subarticle of a larger topic, merging it into the larger topic article is a more desirable action. For example, the main character of a video may not be notable, but has received some mentions in reviews. It would benefit both topics, the character and its video game, to include the content into the article of the video game; essentially using a small, weaker article to strengthen a larger more notable article.
Things to remember
  • The best way to show notability is to provide reliable sources about the topic.
  • Notability is less about keeping articles out of Misplaced Pages and more about making sure readers are provided articles about significant, quality topics.
  • While you may think a topic is notable, others may disagree. Try to keep a clear perspective when assessing notability so discussions can reach a consensus.
  • AfD is more of a last resort and is not always the best course of action to take.
  • Consider starting a merger discussion first, as some editors may not fully understand why an article they started is not suitable for Misplaced Pages.
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The WPVG Newsletter (January 2009)

The WikiProject Video games Newsletter

The WikiProject Video games Newsletter
Volume II, No. 1 - January 2009

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Project At a Glance

As of January 2009, the project has:


Changes to Featured and Good content

Promoted FA/FL:

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, New Super Mario Bros., The Simpsons Game, The Simpsons Hit & Run, Super Columbine Massacre RPG!

Promoted FT:

None

Demoted FA/FL/FT:

None

Promoted AA:

None

Promoted GA:

Age of Empires (video game), Controversy over the usage of Manchester Cathedral in Resistance: Fall of Man, Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades, Masashi Hamauzu, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Metroid Prime Hunters, Metroid Prime Pinball, Nemesis (Resident Evil), OverClocked ReMix, Reptile (Mortal Kombat), Sam & Max, Sheng Long, The Simpsons Wrestling, Sonic Unleashed, Star Wars: Dark Forces, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Super Mario 64 DS, Super Mario Kart

Promoted GT:

None

Demoted GA/GT:

Rinoa Heartilly


News
Featured editor:

This issue we are trying a new type of newsletter feature: "Featured editor". This is a chance to learn more about the various editors who contribute to the Video games project as well as the roles they fill. If you enjoyed this new feature and would like to see similar interviews in future issues, please drop us a note at the VG newsletter talk page.

David Fuchs (also known as Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs), is a long time video games editor that has written a large number of the project's Featured articles. He has been ranked high on Misplaced Pages:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations, and has assisted in reviewing and editing more many. Recently David has begun to assist with image reviews for Featured article candidates, and branched out into other types of articles in addition to video games. He can normally been seen on the project's talk page offering advice and his input on the various discussion taking place there.

  1. What drew you to Misplaced Pages, and what prompted you to begin editing?
    I got involved due in part to (I believe, my memory is fuzzy) finding the site while doing research for Advanced Placement Europen History during high school. My earliest contributions (in December 2005) were creating topics based on what I learned, as well as creating an article for my high school with another friend. I soon became involved with editing topics related to Halo video game franchise, specifically the article on the parasitic Flood.
  2. What got you involved in writing Featured articles?
    I think for most editors it's a shiny accomplishment you are striving for, and natural for most editors to try and get an FA. I first nominated an article for FA in 2007, after about a year of inactivity onwiki; it didn't pass as it was poorly written and didn't follow our guidelines for writing about fiction; I also took a couple of tries to get my first video game FA (Halo 2).
  3. What article(s) are you most proud of writing or exemplifies your best work?
    I suppose Myst is a sort of accomplishment I can point to; I started work on the article on May 2 2008, when it looked like this, and submitted it to Featured Article Candidates one day later. I think that's some kind of record, but I dunno. In terms of being a good read or something I'm very happy with, however, I'd have to look at my more recent work, specifically Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Bone Wars.
  4. How do you pick the articles you work on?
    Whatever hits me. There's many articles I haven't gotten around to editing and improving as planned because another article has caught my fancy.
  5. What advice would you give to editors seeking to write quality articles?
    In the words of one of my favorite cartoon characters when I was a child, "We must do reeea-search!" Even in video games, online sources don't usually cut it. Even after getting an article to FA, make sure you continually trawl the internet and elsewhere for more information to add to the topic.


Note: This is an abridged version. To read the full interview, click here.

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The WPVG Newsletter (February 2009)

The WikiProject Video games Newsletter

The WikiProject Video games Newsletter
Volume II, No. 2 - February 2009

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Project At a Glance

As of February 2009, the project has:


Changes to Featured and Good content

Promoted FA/FL:

List of Metroid media, Sam & Max: Freelance Police, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

Promoted FT:

Myst series

Demoted FA/FL/FT:

List of Metal Gear Solid characters

Promoted AA:

Super Mario 64 DS, Super Mario Kart

Promoted GA:

Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Alan Kotok, Alisia Dragoon, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, Braid (video game), Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day!, Discography of the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series, Fast inverse square root, Left 4 Dead, Luke Smith (writer), Mario Kart DS, Metroid Fusion, Metroid II: Return of Samus, Metroid: Zero Mission, Myst Online: Uru Live, Pong, Shadow the Hedgehog (video game), Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Metroid, WarioWare: Smooth Moves, What's Cooking? with Jamie Oliver

Promoted GT:

None

Demoted GA/GT:

Crystalis, Duck Hunt, Game Boy Micro, P.N.03, Super Mario RPG, Yoshi Touch & Go


News
Feature: Weekly Collaboration

The VG Project Collaboration of the Week is a new effort to improve important video game articles of low quality. Every week, an article is random selected by AnomieBOT from the Stub-, Start-, and C-class categories that are rated either High- or Top-importance. Such topics can offer a reader a good deal of encyclopedic information about video games, but are often too underdeveloped or lacking the proper level of writing and sourcing to accomplish this.

All editors are welcome and encouraged to participate by offering their insights and suggestions. Having a pool of different editors, both old and new, will help maximize improvements to the articles as well as our editing skills.

History

Collaborative efforts have come and gone within the VG project several times before. The first such effort, the "Gaming collaboration of the week", began in October 2004 as a result of the several other weekly collaborations popping up on Misplaced Pages. It proved to be quite successful at improving articles to meet Misplaced Pages's standard at the time, but the effort eventually saw less and less participation. A second effort, the "Improvement Drive", began in August 2005 with the intent of improving articles to FA-quality. However, few nominations and articles were selected. The decline in participation in the collaborations and peer reviews resulted in a third effort. It began in February 2006 as a workshop, but never got off the ground.

Numerous discussions have taken place on at WT:VG to jump start collaborations and improve the process to prevent its decline again. While previous collaborations selected any video game article, most editors felt focus should be on video game topics more encyclopedic in nature—topics that are also generally in poor shape because of lack of attention. A common problem mentioned was that previous nomination processes were lengthy and hindered participation. The current idea to automate the process was brought up by JohnnyMrNinja, which was further discussed to iron out the details.

Current collaboration

The current collaborative efforts began in mid-January 2009, and several articles have been improved by editors. The random choice is intended to minimize the selection process, which allows editors to focus on article improvement. Improvements include better organization of content, massaging and copy editing the prose, removing excess non-free images, and much more. The random choice is also meant to encourage participation from editors of varying interest and help prevent burnout. If the present selection is not to your liking, wait until next week. Editors are encouraged to add Template:Collab-gaming to their watchlist to see which article is selected. Recently selected articles are:

  1. Week of January 19, 2009:
    Video game genresSee how it improved
  2. Week of January 26, 2009:
    History of video game consoles (fourth generation)See how it improved
  3. Week of February 2, 2009:
    Action-adventure gameSee how it improved
  4. Week of February 9, 2009:
    Ultima Underworld: The Stygian AbyssSee how it improved
  5. Week of February 16, 2009:
    Joust (video game)See how it improved
  6. Week of February 23, 2009:
    Cartridge (electronics)See how it improved
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The WPVG Newsletter (March 2009)

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The WikiProject Video games Newsletter
Volume II, No. 3 - March 2009

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Project At a Glance

As of March 2009, the project has:


Changes to Featured and Good content

Promoted FA/FL:

Sam & Max: Freelance Police, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst

Promoted FT:

None

Demoted FA/FL/FT:

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

Promoted AA:

Pong, Rock Band (video game), Super Mario Bros. 3

Promoted GA:

Dragon kill points, Final Fantasy (video game), First-person shooter, Halo Wars, Joseph Staten, Light gun shooter, LocoRoco, Machinima, Metroid, My French Coach and My Spanish Coach, Ninja Gaiden (NES), Planescape: Torment, Popotan, Shoot 'em up, Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss

Promoted GT:

None

Demoted GA/GT:

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (NES)


News
Reader Poll

The WikiProject Video games Newsletter released its first issue a year ago. The newsletter is meant to help connect editors, keep them up-to-date with the activities of the VG project, and improve the knowledge of our members. We've compiled a list of questions to help gauge the effectiveness of the newsletter's first year.

Answers will be accepted for a three week period following the deliver of the March 2009 issue on Wednesday, April 1, 2009. Just to clarify, this is not an April Fools' Day gag, and we would really appreciate honest criticism. Information obtained from this poll is intend to alter the newsletter for the better. So don't feel you should hold back or give answers similar to everyone else.

Feel free to voice your opinion on the Poll page.




Feature: VG Barnstar
The Video Game Barnstar
The VG Barnstar is an award given to Wikipedians recognized for efforts and contributions to improve and develop video game related articles.

The VG Barnstar is one of many Misplaced Pages Barnstars designed to be given to editors that have helped further the overall quality of Misplaced Pages. It was created in February 2006 by Jacoplane—see past discussion for details—and has been given to numerous editors since. Sometimes editors with multiple Barnstars use an alternative way to display them: ribbons.

Barnstars are designed to be given by anyone, so don't be shy as everyone enjoys appreciation. If you have noticed or have been impressed with the work of an editor, feel free to let them know by placing {{subst:Barnstar VG|"message" ~~~~}} on their talk page. The template uses a parameter to include a message expressing the reasons behind the award.

See also

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A note regarding the WPVG Newsletter

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The WPVG Newsletter (Q2 2009)

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Rollback

Hi Nickin - a conversation is afoot at WP:PERM regarding your request - no biggie but your input would be appreciated. Pedro :  Chat  20:15, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Also, do you own both ShifterBr (talk · contribs) and Nickin (talk · contribs)? –Juliancolton |  20:24, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
Yes, I do. –Nickin/ShifterBr (talk) 20:31, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

This use of rollback is not appropriate, as was explained to you at WP:PERM, because the edit it reverted was not vandalism. If it was a mistake, please be more careful. I've moved your user and talk page to the correct location for now. The bureaucrats will move them back if/when your usurp request goes ahead. Regards, — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:05, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Your Twinkle bot reverted my non-vandalism addition. Because I forgot to add my edit reason? dralezero (talk) 03:15, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Nickin. You have new messages at Misplaced Pages:Changing username/Usurpations.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Javert 01:01, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Please update your status with WP:VG

Dear WikiProject Video games member,

You are receiving this message because you have either Category:WikiProject Video games members or {{User WPVG}} somewhere in your userspace and you have edited Misplaced Pages in recent months.

The Video games project has created a member list to provide a clearer picture of its active membership.

All members have currently been placed in the "Inactive" section by default. Please remove your username from the "Inactive" listing and place it under the "Active" listing if you plan on regularly:

Ideally, members are encouraged to do both, but either one meets our criteria of inclusion. Members still listed inactive at the beginning of November 2009 may be removed. You may re-add yourself to the active list at any time. Thank you for your help, and we look forward to working with you.

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Regarding your reversion of List of melodic death metal bands

I don't think you looked at the citation after I updated it. According to MusicMight, the website that most of the artists are cited by, states that At the Throne of Judgment, is indeed melodeath. --ҚЯĀŽΨÇÉV13 01:55, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

I thought you used Encyclopaedia Metallum as a source (I didn't look well at it). My bad. ӣicҟin\\talk with me\\\\\\\\\\ 02:44, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

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Why did you remove the weapon list from that article? ~Hyper Zergling —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.193.107.80 (talk) 01:51, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

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Why did you get rid of my edit? I did nothing wrong! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr. Oooh Laa laah (talkcontribs) 07:30, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

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Hey dude, i want to be as diplomatic as possible here. mostly because i have been met with tons of hostility in the past regarding these articles, but I'm sure you can see that i only want to do whats best for these articles. I can agree on a lot of points regarding lists but when the content goes hand in hand with the main article something's gotta give. So in closing i changed the source to IMDB which is pretty notable. I'm willing to discuss any and all alternative sources and formats :) Magicianbink (talk) 06:24, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

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Driver: San Francisco release date

hey Nickin, by looking at your contributions, I quickly found that you are a fan of Driver series just like me. I have been following Driver: San Francisco since it's announcement last year and since last year it has been pushed back two times: first to christmas 2010 and then to January-March 2011 and now a later date. I recently found a same release date on two sites that say the game will be released on April 30, 2011. Do you think these two sites are reliable enough to be mentioned in the "Release date(s)" section of the Driver: San Francisco article? see below:

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Hello. I see, but I'm afraid the dates aren't reliable. Ubi themselves haven't announced a specific release date yet, just "FY 2011/2012". It's better to wait a confirmation from Ubisoft to add a release date. nickin/conversation/contribution 08:23, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
ok thanks.JuventiniFan (talk) 05:16, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

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DRM on Driver: San Francisco

Why unnecessary to add? UltimateGTR (talk) 10:28, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't express myself well. It's unnecessary to create a section about it. A small mention in the Development section is okay. Feel free to add it again there. nickin/conversation/contribution 14:41, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

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