Wikipedia:WikiProject Gambling

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to gambling and the gaming industry. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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

Title[edit]

WikiProject on Gambling

Scope[edit]

To provide a place for editors interested in editing gambling related articles to discuss issues related to those articles, to encourage editors to improve these articles and to organize collaboration on these articles. This includes working to standardize the use of terms and phrases in the various articles.

The project is interested in the following areas:

The practice of gambling
Companies in the gaming industry
Games of chance
Gaming devices

Article alerts[edit]

Proposed deletions

05 Apr 2019 – Jim Albrecht (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Meszzy2 (t · c) was deleted

Redirects for discussion

12 Apr 2019 – Michael "The Wizard of Odds" Shackleford ( (talk · edit · hist) →Michael Shackleford was RfDed by PC78 (t · c); see discussion

Featured list candidates

31 Mar 2019 – List of poker hands (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by Hpesoj00 (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

16 Apr 2019 – Mooncake Festival Dice Game (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by Lord Belbury (t · c); see discussion

Participants[edit]

wilkesalex - focusing on related companies and organisations
2005
Rray
toms2866
Kzollman (Kevin Zollman)
Accurizer
Vegaswikian
Torimadi
Idealweb
Tamgoose
Roastytoast
rjljr2
Mandermagic
Ernstblumberg
Zul32 - focusing on articles relating to casinos and casino chip collecting
Hazir
Tetobigbro
Yelim suryc
MelbourneStar1
The Gnome
Christopher Connor
Coolguy22468
Risky Trader
Henry Brown
Shane Prendergast
Rob Pullen
James Knight
Bingo Boys
Poker Edd
Peaky76 - mainly concerned with betting on horses
SavageCoco
Clifffonte
Turbo-Larbo - mainly interested in live casino, table games & bonuses
David1768 - mainly concerned with USA Casino law and statistics & live casino blackjack surveys
Surv1v4l1st — mainly interested in table games and US-base casinos
Balintawak – mainly concerned with Native American gaming
Gprscrippers - mainly concerned with lotteries

Userbox[edit]

For code that can be added to your userpage to create a userbox, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Gambling/Userbox

Goals[edit]

To provide a central location where discussions involving multiple gambling articles can take place.
To improve Wikipedia's coverage of gambling topics in general.
To organize and standardize the basic structure of project articles.
To keep articles free of spam while maintaining quality sources, references and appropriate external linking in project articles.
To generally raise the quality of notes and references in project articles.
The majority of articles within the gambling category are poker articles, which after discussion at the WikiProject Poker are generally structured one way. A goal then is to bring the rest of the gambling articles to a similar quality and style.

Attacks/Spam[edit]

Articles recently or generally prone to repeated vandalization or spam.

Tasks[edit]

Current collaborations:

Improve an article to FA

Improve an article to A

Help with the Gambling articles needing attention.
Tag the talk pages of Gambling-related articles with the {{WikiProject Gambling}} banner.
The link to the Missouri gambling site is now out of date and needs to be updated.
Japan section reads as though it was written by the gambling industry - quotes of 160% returns are 'citation needed'.