Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Collaboration of the month
Each week a Gaming Collaboration of the week will be picked using this page. This is a specific computer or video game-related topic which initially either has no article, has only a basic stub-like page, or is in need of more information. The aim of this project is to improve the quality of Wikipedia's computer and video game articles through widespread cooperative editing. It is our hope that some of these will go on to become featured articles. For a discussion on the correct format of computer and video game articles, please see WikiProject Computer and video games.
The project is also used to fill gaps in Wikipedia, to give users a focus, and to give us all something to be proud of. Any registered user can nominate an article and can vote for any number of the nominated articles. Every Monday, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for a week to potential contributors.
Previous collaborations can be found at /History.
Removed nominations can be found at /Removed.
Selecting the next Gaming Collaboration of the week
Considerations for nominations
- Giving reasons why an article should become the GCOTW may convince others to support your nomination.
- Can the wider gaming community easily contribute to the article? Or is it something only a small number of people will know about?
- Is the article a stub or very small? Or would the article fare better in a CVG Peer Review?
- A good place to look for articles that might be worthy of a nomination is the Computer and video game stubs category.
- Another good place to look for articles is the new CVG article creation log. New articles are mostly stubs and are therefore viable nominations for the GCOTW.
How to nominate
| I | Add nomination
Copy and paste the following template to the bottom of the list of nominations on this page and fill it out. ===Template:SrcLink=== {{GCOTWcount|start=August 8, 2024|votes=1}} <!-- Remember to update the vote counter when you place your vote! --> ; Support: # ~~~~ ; Comments: * (put your reason for nomination) ~~~~ |
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| II | Notify
After submitting the new nomination, go to the nominated article and put {{cvgproj|GCOTW=yes}}{{to do}}
on the top of the article's talk page. Consider filling in the to do list that appears so other contributors can see what work needs to be done. (skip {{to do}} if it's already present on the article's talk page) |
Voting
A vote or a show of support for an article shows your commitment to support and aid in collaborating on that specific article if it is chosen. Although you are not required to fulfill that commitment, we ask that you only support articles that you are able to contribute to so that this collaboration's goals of expanding and improving articles can adequately be achieved. Feel free to vote for as many candidates as you like.
Any registered user is encouraged to vote so long as you abide by the policies of Wikipedia, specifically Wikipedia:Sockpuppets.
Please add only support votes. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see Approval voting).
To vote for a nomination, edit the nomination and add the following to the bottom of the Support section:
# ~~~~
This adds your username and a time stamp to the numbered list item. The vote will look like this:
- Username 08:59, Jul 1 2005 (UTC)
If you wish to withdraw your vote, do not remove your vote; instead, add an asterisk and strike-through tags to your vote as shown:
#* <s>[[User:Username|Username]] 08:59, Jul 1 2005 (UTC)</s>
This allows Wikipedia to correctly calculate the remaining votes and will appear like this:
- Username 08:39, 1 July 2005 (UTC)
Username 08:59, 1 July 2005 (UTC)
- Username 08:39, 2 July 2005 (UTC)
Ties
In case of a tie, voting will be extended for 24 hours. If there is still a tie, the candidate that was nominated first wins. During the extended voting period the old collaboration will still be active. In the case of extended voting, the collaboration period will be reduced to 6 days.
Pruning
Nominations will be moved to /Removed if they have not received 3 votes after 7 days on the list, 6 votes after 14 days, 9 votes after 21 days, and so on.
The current date and time is 8 August 2024 T 05:48 UTC.
Candidates for next week
- 1 vote, Nominated January 9, 2007; needs at least 3 votes by January 16, 2007 Overdue
- Support
- Comments
- Although not on the same level as the "Big Three" (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft), here is one of the most commercially successful educational video game platforms perhaps since the great video game crash. It is a sorry stub as it stands and could probably benefit from merging in related articles as subsections as well as intense expansion. I understand that there is an opinion that edutainment consoles are not true "video games", and I think that sentiment is what has kept this article a stub. But there should be enough information available to create a much higher-quality article. Zytron 23:14, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 vote, Nominated January 13, 2007; needs at least 3 votes by January 20, 2007 Overdue
- Support
- Cheesemeister3k 22:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
- Not quite a stub, but this is such a monumental game that I'll support. JACOPLANE • 2007-01-13 22:46
- Comments
- The article for this game could use some fleshing out relative to other prominent titles in the series. Cheesemeister3k 22:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 vote, Nominated January 14, 2007; needs at least 3 votes by January 21, 2007 Overdue
- Support
- Comments
- Bio with a lot of potential, but not quite there yet. Especially needs some details on his personal life and opinions/design philosophy. Technitai 17:43, 14 January 2007 (UTC)