Wikipedia:WikiProject Games

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Points of interest related to Games on Wikipedia:
Portal – Category – WikiProject – Deletions – Assessment

"WP:GAMES" redirects here. For the video games project see Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games (WP:VG). For the Wikipedia behavioural guideline Wikipedia:Gaming the system (WP:GAME)

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Shortcut: WP:Game

Welcome to the WikiProject Games on the English Wikipedia. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to games.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

Goals

The project aims primarily to:

provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of games
improve Wikipedia's coverage of games by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles
serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to games on Wikipedia
maintain the portal

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Discussion

Issues concerning game related articles and topics are discussed on the main talk page.

Assessment

The Assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's video game related articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. This system will be used in the future to select official A-Class articles.

Cleanup

The Cleanup department focuses on improving the overall quality of Wikipedia's games articles, and their compliancy with the policies and guidelines of Wikipedia. The cleanup effort is meant to reduce the amount of unnecessary content and articles within the WikiProject Games. It also aims to help in the progression of articles that require work to climb up the assessment scale.

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Project Userbox

	This user is a member of WikiProject Games

Anyone can participate in this WikiProject. You may indicate your participation by adding the userbox {{User WPGames}} to your user page, shown on the right. This will add you to Category:WikiProject Games members. Alternatively, if you do not wish to use the userbox, you may add [[Category:WikiProject Games members|{{PAGENAME}}]] to the end of your user page.

Award

A userbox to display this barnstar can be put on your userpage: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Games/Award Userbox}}. A ribbon alternative is also available here.

Welcoming

You can welcome new users who have made good contributions to game-related articles by adding the {{WWGame Welcome}} template to their talk page.

If you would like to join our project, please click here and add your username at the bottom of the list.

Project Banner

Place this banner at the top of the talk pages of all games-related articles (that are not within the scope of a more-specific project) :{{WikiProject Games}}

WikiProject Games

Sports and games portal

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Games, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of game related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.

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This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale.

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WikiProjects

WikiProjects

WikiProject Games

Directory of Game projects and taskforces.

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Peer review: Average (sports), Batting average, Xbox Live Arcade, Blade Runner, List of Pokémon, Project Sylpheed, Ninja Gaiden (NES), Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, 4X, Halo (series), Characters in Resident Evil 4, Guitar Hero III Mobile, List of Nintendo Entertainment System games, Race Driver: Create and Race, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, Wipeout 3 Cleanup: Sport governing body, Field Hockey, List of characters in The King of Fighters series, Hellgate: London, LeChuck, Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon, Lost Odyssey (plot), Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed, Destroy All Humans! 2, Darksiders: Wrath of War, Hellboy: The Science of Evil, Reactor (arcade game) Featured candidates: Alleyway, Midtown Madness, List of songs in Guitar Hero: On Tour (FLC), Conan (2007 video game) Good article nominations: Blue Dragon, Secret of Evermore, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, Guitar Hero: On Tour, League of Legends Article status review: GA Review – GoldenEye 007; FA Review – None; FT Review – None Articles for Deletion: Participate in game related deletion discussions. Images: Add photographs, box-art and screenshots to articles. Make sure to include a valid non-free use rationale. Merges: Lonpos (video game) into Lonpos Monitor the following related changes pages: changes to WP:Game and changes to this to-do list. Announce your new articles. Remember to add `{{WikiProject Games}}` to every game article, template, category, image and project page.
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In addition to the usual policies and guidelines, please make sure you understand the specific guidelines related to video game-related articles. Also make sure you are familiar with: The five pillars of Wikipedia — a quick rundown of the five key rules you need to start editing. Simplified ruleset — 12 rules of thumb to help you avoid problems. List of policies — a comprehensive list of the 42 official policies.
Templates The templates page lists all templates useful in writing articles about video games, including infobox, cleanup, stub, talk page, and external links templates.
Announcements
WikiProject Games has a brand new assessment system and there is more than 12,000 articles recorded down at Category:WikiProject Games articles. Plus thousands of more. We need all the help we can get. Thanks.