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

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:

1. 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:

1. Username 08:39, 1 July 2005 (UTC)
   • Username 08:59, 1 July 2005 (UTC)
2. 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 should still be active. In the case of extended voting, the collaboration period will be reduced to 6 days.

Nominations

New nominations may be made at any time and should be added at the end of this page. Please use the provided template.

If the page you are nominating already exists, please add {{GCOTW}} to the top of its talk page. This expands to: Template:GCOTW

If the article is selected as the Gaming Collaboration of the week, please add {{Current-GCOTW}} to the top of the article page. This expands to: Template:Current-GCOTW

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.

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.

Promotion

It is also possible to remind people that they voted for an article that has become the current GCOTW. To do this add {{subst:GCOTWvoter}} to the bottom of their talk page. Use ===A suitable header===. The template expands to:

Gaming Collaboration of the week

You showed support for Gaming Collaboration of the week. This week Wikipedia:Gaming Collaboration of the week/current was selected to be improved to featured article status. Hope you can help.

Candidates for next week

Finishing move

Nominated June 25, 2006; needs 3 votes by July 2 (minimum 3 votes per week)

Support:

1. Pece Kocovski 00:40, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

• This article is short, need of work. Basically that. It is well known among Mortal Kombat fans surely,(note: This is my second nomination for an article, sorry if i didn't do it right.) Also, there are no other nominees, so might as well have one nominee to work on. Plus it would be well known to users that like Unreal Championship 2, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, ETC.

In-game advertising

Nominated June 30; needs 3 votes by July 7 (minimum 3 votes per week)

Support:

1. Hahnchen 23:50, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

• This is a pretty interesting topic, not just to gamers but to anyone interested in advertising and media. We could highlight cases like SWAT 4 and Massive Incorporated (see http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2005/08/10/swat4_adware/). There's also the case with Counter-Strike at http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/subway-cs.ars and http://www.shacknews.com/docs/press/021606_valveiga.x to look at. The article could also highlight things like sponsorship deals in computer games like you see in Crazy Taxi and explain how free games such as Kuma\War are financed. - Hahnchen 23:50, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

How to nominate an article

Note to contributors:

To add a new nomination, please:

(1) Copy the template below

(2) Paste it at the bottom of the list of nominations

(3) Replace "[Date]" with the correct date and "[Date + 7 days]" with the date, plus seven days. For both, the year is not necessary.

(4) Sign your user name with the directions in the template and add a comment for why the article should be nominated.

(5) Please preview your addition to make it sure all information is properly filled in and the links are working.

After nominating an article please place {{GCOTW}} on the article's discussion page.

===[[article name with double-brackets surrounding it]]===   
:''Nominated [[ [Date] ]]; needs 3 votes by [[ [Date + 7 days] ]] (minimum 3 votes per week)''  
    
'''Support:'''
# [your user name--use '~~~~']
    
'''Comments:'''  
*[a short description explaining why the article should be the Gaming Collaboration of the week]