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Question about The Sims expansion packs

This is semi request for all The Sims expansion packs since there is one or two up. Is this correct since The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 expansion packs are covered and the main series should be represented with obvious changes to the games, i.e. pets in The Sims: Unleashed to Downtown in The Sims: Hot Date to Vacation in The Sims: Vacation (On Holiday in other parts of the world like UK and Ireland). Sundogs ^{Wikia UserPage} 00:23, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Expanded

Sense this project is inactive, any objections to expanding it in to a maxis project. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 23:56, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

I am currently working on The Sims 3 Good Article review request and The Sims 3: Pets tone of not Wikipedia tone and currently looking at other The Sims titles and see if I can work on those. Since The Sims was Maxis creation, I have no objection of dual brand of Maxis takeover of The Sims Project, HOWEVER in the trend of self promotion, I think we should revisit the voting process with notice on the Task Force users talk page to, at least, make his/hers opinion heard and see what the outcome comes to. This is my professional opinion but I haven't been the model user for this task force since I joined. However, as noted moments ago, I am working towards reviving the task force by my contributions and word of mouth, via Twitter / Google+ / Facebook / Blogger / Tumblr / and Podcasts of The Sims brand that I do, and so please check in around summertime for further information on my progress of recruiting the new members of this task force and Wikipedia as well. This is not an overnight thing but it does take time and effort to do. So please hold off from merging the two unless there are no other active by July 1, 2013 at the latest. Sundogs ^{Wikia UserPage} 19:21, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia Standards

As noted on my archived talk page recently, and this is notice to all The Sims Task Force members that Wikia related links are unreliable and untrustworthy to be placed on the article in question since it is fan fiction or fandom of sorts and I to agree with Wikipedia's guidelines to have N.P.O.V. and have them removed. I am going to take this under my wing and look at all The Sims related projects and remove any Wikia related links off the article(s). Also to note, The Sims do apply to My Sims, Sim Animals, and Sim Social / The Sims Online / EA Land are spinoffs to The Sims. However if we logically think, the first use of "Sim" was in Sim City as a N.P.C. so, in my professional opinion, we are technically are allowed to do Sim City and its sequels. This is open for debate but my opinion is that The Sims derived from Sim City, as mentioned in The Sims stories and makers of Sim City, so therefore the scope of The Sims should indeed cover The Sims franchise and Maxis / EA franchise branded games under this title since The Sims are the Best Selling PC Franchise of All Time. Please comment below if you feel otherwise and we can honestly debate whether or not to rebrand this project to a new name (Maxis Project or another Sim related title project. Thanks. Sundogs ^{Wikia UserPage} 19:54, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

The Sims Task Force Rebrand?

Since this has come up before, and due to my disagreeing with this, but, since The Sims Task Force has come down to inactivity as of late. I have been recruiting to other The Sims sites to promote Wikipedia and The Sims Task Force. It has come up that Maxis Project would be best, however, in my professional opinion, we should go to Electronic Arts (EA) Project and or Portal to house more EA related games and the Maxis brand will get a major improvements with EA opposed to Maxis. So, I am notifying everyone and have another concences on this matter. The vote is this, would we re-brand as Electronic Arts Project or Portal to better serve The Sims branded franchise and also getting the Maxis and Electronic Arts franchise brands together to coheavesive unit. This includes the following:

1. The Sims (franchise)
2. SimCity (franchise)
3. All games made by Maxis company (or Maxis Branded Games)
4. All Electronic Arts Games (or EA Games) and its respective games (past to current game releases and currently to future development of games), company (divisions, licenses, and everything under the EA umbrella).

With this being a EA project, we could expand the scope ten fold to have the Maxis and EA Games under one roof and have broader scoop within EA/Maxis umbrella. Please leave comments, concerns, feedback, and vote on this issue. Sundogs ^{talk page sandbox} 02:41, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

EA as a task force may be too broad. I would suggest Maxis games as a suitable expansion. --Izno (talk) 13:56, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

• I vote to restrain scope to games within Sims canon. More explicitly, that is SimCity (1989), SimCity 2000, SimCity 3000, SimCity 4, SimCity Societies, SimCity (2013), The Sims, The Sims Online, The Sims 2, The Sims 3, and The Sims Social. This should also include expansion packs, stuff packs, GPL licensed derivatives, console versions, and other editions of these games. — Supuhstar * — 14:19, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

• I mostly agree with Suphstar, the scope should be limited to Sim/Maxis (pretty much the same thing) games. An EA taskforce might be warranted, but we shouldn't turn this into one. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 02:55, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Tough Supuhstar's list is missing a few Sim games such as SimCity 5 and SimCopter. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 02:58, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

• EA makes a lot of games. This includes FPS/TPS games, Real-Time Strategy games, and Simulation games, which we currently focus on. An EA taskforce would be too broad of a taskforce, and we would technically turn into a subproject. I agree with Supahstar's suggestion. Cbrittain10 (talk|contribs) 00:50, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

• Seems that we have an agreement to make this a Maxis/Sim taskforce. Probably better to call it "Maxis", "Sim" is sometimes used as a generic abbreviation of "Simulation", rather then to refer to the Sim seres specifically. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 05:18, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

• Okay, whomever it was started the Maxis Project should be able to start the process. As noted above, this vote is concluded and all in favor of Maxis Project. Sundogs ^{talk page sandbox} 22:05, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Oppose wikiproject. A task force is one thing, but why a wikiproject? It falls ithin WP:VG's scope 100%.Lucia Black (talk) 22:18, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

• It is a Task Force than a WikiProject but it was my error to call it WikiProject but it is actually a Task Force and you (Lucia Black) after the poll has closed so your vote does not count as within the voting since I have called it in favor of Maxis Task Force. Sundogs ^{talk page sandbox} 22:25, 8 May 2013 (UTC)