Wikipedia:WikiProject Pinball

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Welcome to WikiProject Pinball, a WikiProject formed to become a source for improved Wikipedia coverage of the great pastime of pinball. Please consider participating if you have any interest in the game and wish to help us help Wikipedia cover this great game.

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[edit] Goals and scope

Goals
  • Make Wikipedia a quality source for information about pinball.
  • Create guidelines for articles about pinball, to improve article consistency and make article creation and editing easier.
Scope
  • Arcade pinball machines, notable home (small-scale) pinball machines, video game pinball simulators, pinball-related devices or equipment.
  • Individual biographies with a strong association with pinball, including those of pinball developers, designers, artists, champions, etc.
  • Companies, organizations, publications and other non-individuals with a strong association with pinball
  • Games ancestral or closely related to pinball, including pachinko and bagatelle (some of which may also be within the scope of WP:WikiProject Cue sports)
  • Video simulation games of pinball (also within the scope of WP:WikiProject Video Games)
  • All articles with a strong association with pinball, even if it is not the primary topic of the article, which may be within the scope of other projects as well (e.g., Tommy (rock opera)).


[edit] Open tasks

edit · history · watch · refresh Stock post message.svg To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Pinball:
Top-priority article tasks


Top-priority admin tasks
  • {{Wikiproject Pinball}} banner needs to be applied to all relevant articles (machines, manufacturers, designers, publications, pinball game video games, etc.); this has not been done systemically since March 1, 2007.
  • The {{arcade-stub}} tag as used on many pinball game articles is wrong; it is for arcade-format video games and needs to be replaced with {{pinball-stub}}.
  • Tag all pinball stub articles with new stub tag (this is, sadly, almost all pinball articles). Make sure every stub's talk page banner(s) use |class=stub.
  • Find and cite industry and reviewer sources. The number 1 way to prevent article (especially stub) deletion at WP:AFD is to cite 2 or more sources (other than blogs or other personal homepages). There must be some kind of magazine, or major online site (GameSpy for pinball?). It needs to be editorially controlled, i.e. not a wiki or other community-built tertiary source.


General article tasks
  • Split up any article containing more than one topic into separate articles. Examples include: O. D. Jennings, Stern (game company) and at least one game article.
  • Expand existing pinball stubs.
  • Improve main pinball article.
  • Find images to use for existing articles.
  • Add more machines with articles already to List of pinball machines, and remove all redlinks from that page.
  • Disambiguate (via DAB pages or hatnotes) articles to account for existing pinball articles. Example: Judge Dredd.
  • Create more manufacturer articles, with at least 2 sources
  • Create more designer/industry-person articles, with at least 2 sources.
  • Create more tournament/league/organization/event articles, with at least 2 sources
  • Low priority: Make more pinball machine stubs. Use data at IPDB to create new pages, but include another non-wiki, non-forum, non-user-contrib-database source. Improving existing stubs is more important.
  • Low priority: Create redirects for slightly-typo'd article names
  • Lowest priority: Start creating "YEAR in pinball" lists (e.g. 1995 in pinball), and begin changing links appropriately to point to them


General admin tasks
  • Develop criteria for "the ideal pinball article". Start with our best articles as models.
  • Create a "beginner's guide to making a new pinball machine stub" page
  • Continue assessing existing articles for quality, importance


Bot-generated list of articles needing cleanup
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Priority 1 (top)

[edit] Completed tasks

  • Featured key articles in new section on the project page. — December 22, 2009
  • Totally revamped Category:Pinball and subcategory structure, with relationship to other categories. — December 22, 2009
  • All in-scope articles are now properly categorizedl; most were formerly just dumped into Category:Pinball games even if not game articles. — December 22, 2009
  • Proposed new {{pinball-stub}} at WP:WSS/P. — December 22, 2009
  • Made sure all disambiguated pinball articles use the standardized disambiguator "(pinball)" — December 22, 2009
  • Overhauled project page. — December 22, 2009
  • {{User WikiProject Pinball}} userbox, created (categorizes participants). — December 22, 2009
  • {{Wikiproject Pinball}} banner completed, and added to all machine, manufacturer, designer and computer pinball game pages as of March 1, 2007.

[edit] Assessment

Pinball articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
GA 1 1 2
B 3 1 2 1 7
C 2 2 2 6
Start 6 21 25 18 70
Stub 5 14 59 62 7 147
List 2 1 3
NA 59 59
Assessed 18 39 87 84 59 7 294
Unassessed 1 10 11
Total 18 39 88 84 59 17 305


[edit] Key articles

General
Games
Companies
People
Technologies
Video game simulations

[edit] Categories

Pinball
Pinball machines
Pinball electronics
► Pinball manufacturers
Pinball media
Pinball people
Pinball video games
► Pinball stubs
► Pinball templates


[edit] Templates

[edit] Participants

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Feel free to sign up as a named participant in this project, and add yourself manually or with the userbox above to Category:WikiProject Pinball participants.

  1. Fractalchez - Longtime pinball player and enthusiast, current league & tournament organizer
  2. DuoDeathscyther 02 - Casual pinball player; created or improved these pinball articles
  3. David Pro - Longtime pinball player and enthusiast, has created these pinball articles
  4. Twilightofmymind - Novice Pinball player and Novice/Apprentice Tech.
  5. Rich Fife - Longtime collector and enthusiast.
  6. StanleyTHOMAS54G- Interested in the hobby.
  7. A Nobody- I am really getting into pinball as of late.
  8. SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 20:12, 21 December 2009 (UTC) – Joined to perform a bunch of cleanup and keep an eye on things. I'm one of the more active editors in WP:SPORTS and WP:GAMES. I'm now pretty much done with my overhaul, as of 11:08, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
  9. SarahStierch long time pinball enthusiast and will lend a hand when possible to articles (especially the pinball article itself.
  10. The Bachmann Editor Overdrive - I just started my first pinball related article for this site at The Pinball Arcade!

[edit] Relation to other WikiProjects

Parent project
Related projects

[edit] External watchlist

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