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Goal: 7,500 or fewer Stub-Class articles
[edit]I have been wondering if it would be beneficial to have something like a project subpage or taskforce page to assist with the goal of expanding stub articles to get them to start or better. I feel like it would help have such a centralized place to list the stub articles with the most potential in terms of how many sources have been found online but are not currently being used (or used much) in the article.
For example:
- Sources are listed on the talk page or in the External links
- Sources are noted on trusted external websites such as MobyGames or World of Spectrum
- Sources are listed in a reviews table in the article but not anywhere else
- Sources were found in a previous AFD or merge discussion
This would specifically list just the stubs where known sources have been identified and found online but not yet put to use, which would help any users with the time and interest in building up articles (especially if they don't find the sources themselves) and such a list would give users a direction to focus on.
I for one would be super extra happy to start forming such a list, checking to see which stub articles for games have sources that need to be implemented and thereby de-stub the articles. BOZ (talk) 14:41, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- So to give an idea of what I am looking for, I started looking through the stub articles and found that the following articles about games have sources listed on the talk page or in the article itself, sufficient enough to easily expand the article beyond stub class or better:
- 2 Fast 4 Gnomz
- 2XL ATV Offroad
- 3 in 1 College & Pro Football
- 3D Railroad Master
- 4 Soccer Simulators
- 4x4 Off-Road Racing
- 5th Gear (video game)
- 7 Sins (video game)
- 9 Elefants
- 90 Minutes
- 99 Levels to Hell
- 100 Rogues
- 187 Ride or Die
- 500 cc Grand Prix
- 911 Fire Rescue
- 1869 (video game)
- 1914 Shells of Fury
- 1993 Space Machine
- 2088: The Cryllan Mission
- I already stated that I wouldn't mind creating such a list, but the question is what would be the most helpful way to organize it? Alphabetically? By publication date? Platform? Something else? BOZ (talk) 08:10, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- I actually made a for-funsies list of articles I was interested in improving as part of de-stubbification for whenever I'm in the mood for it: [1] - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 10:05, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Oh nice, so a list like this could definitely be useful then. :) I'll construct it as I find the time, probably on a user page for now. BOZ (talk) 14:21, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- I'm not sure why I was expecting anything other than lust on the cover for 7 Sins... I opened it... currently in a sanctuary...
- By platform seems the most helpful because I find people target articles to work on based on that parameter, but cross-platform and PC releases make this impossible to track. I suggest by publication date, which should give a rough idea to the user what generation of consoles they're in for example.
- I like taking on stubs sometimes only if it's possible to greatly expand, because that's the most fun part for me. Games like Good Job! and Animal Crossing Plaza are games I have never played but were intriguing enough for me to work on. If a list were to exist I would definitely browse it, and whether or not I pick up something is up to what's there. I understand you're an absolute machine when it comes to this stuff BOZ, and like the machine you are you don't mind the labor(!, this would drive me nuts), but if I can help with anything let me know. We ought to give you a hand for all the work you do for the project. Panini! • 🥪 14:28, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- OK sounds good, I will aim towards listing them by age because some people definitely have a preferred focus on that. :) It may take some time to put this together, but we'll see. Thank you for the kind words! Good luck with the Donkey Kong GA review! BOZ (talk) 15:24, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- I created User:BOZ/vg stubs to use as a sandbox page, listing the games in order by date of initial release, which would help draw people to the eras they are most comfortable working in. Anyone can feel free to make reasonable edits to this page. When I have finished it, whenever that is, I can make a page more like the one that Hahnchen listed below, and maybe we can link both from the main page or some other highly noticeable area? BOZ (talk) 06:18, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- I went through the Nintendo Task Force stubs and added the articles with sources on their talk pages. Most of them don't, so from that point I'll probably go back around and add the source lists myself before adding the entries to your list. Panini! • 🥪 17:29, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Awesome! :) Thanks! BOZ (talk) 18:39, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- I found tons of sources for Action Fighter, added them to the talk page. BOZ (talk) 13:01, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
- I've gone through the first 200 pages in the stub category, and added 72 of them to my sandbox page User:BOZ/vg stubs. Hopefully that gives an idea of what kinds of short articles can be more readily expanded versus those where hunting for more sources would be required. BOZ (talk) 22:27, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
- I went through the Nintendo Task Force stubs and added the articles with sources on their talk pages. Most of them don't, so from that point I'll probably go back around and add the source lists myself before adding the entries to your list. Panini! • 🥪 17:29, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Oh nice, so a list like this could definitely be useful then. :) I'll construct it as I find the time, probably on a user page for now. BOZ (talk) 14:21, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- I actually made a for-funsies list of articles I was interested in improving as part of de-stubbification for whenever I'm in the mood for it: [1] - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 10:05, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
High traffic stubs
[edit]I published a list of the most popular video game stub articles over the last month at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/High traffic stubs.
I recently returned to Wikipedia (not committing to anything, just dabbling again) and was thinking of where contributions would have most impact. Stubs seemed to be low hanging fruit, and coupled with traffic statistics - we can see where our readers want our attention to be. A lot of articles on that list probably aren't even stubs any more, so there should be some easy wins for a bit of admin. There's a lot of WP:RECENTISM in that list, but I'm sure there are some perennially popular pages that could do with some attention. For someone without clear editing goals, I think the list could be useful.
I probably won't maintain it, but if it's helpful, I hope someone can just refresh the numbers every month. Why not add it to the mostly empty left hand side of Template:WPVG announcements? - hahnchen 21:52, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- That's a good idea too. :) BOZ (talk) 02:50, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
Another page worth publishing periodically would be the largest pages in Category:Stub-Class video game articles. This would require Wikipedia:Database queries which I am not familiar with. - hahnchen 17:10, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- That's something to consider. BOZ (talk) 16:44, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
New Articles (September 23 to September 29)
[edit]A listing of all articles newly added to the Video Games Wikiproject (regardless of creation date). Generated by v3.20 of the RecentVGArticles script and posted by PresN. Bug reports and feature requests are appreciated. --PresN 11:55, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Articles deleted/removed: B-Dup, FXOpen eSports, Jizzy B., List of characters in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Luma3DS, Minecraft@Home, Ran Fa Li, Zero (Grand Theft Auto), Kingdom hearts kari, Major All Stars, Major All Stars Season 1, D1 Cup
- Drafts deleted/removed: Draft:Gombas, Draft:Let's Dance 1, Draft:Mira (esports player), Draft:Rap Rat (1992 video board game), Draft:Skyrim, Draft:Call to Arms - Gates of Hell, Draft:Combat Wings, Draft:SIMAGIC, Draft:Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure, Draft:Yatoro, Draft:Dark Deception (videogame), Draft:Grand Theft Auto Role-Playing, Draft:Impact items, Draft:R2Beat, Draft:KnottedGD, Draft:Redcheeks, Draft:BluBox Studios
- Articles redirected: SuperBot Entertainment, Alvin and the Chipmunks (video game), Dead or Alive Xtreme Venus Vacation, List of Pokémon special episodes, Roblox Studio, Bidoof, .io games, Danish Academy of Digital, Interactive Entertainment, Project V13, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan, Super Mario War
- Articles moved to draft space: Kirby (novel series)
- Categories deleted/removed: De Blob, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic characters, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic novels, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic video games, Video games with alternative versions, Emergent gameplay, Video game boot disks, Video games about nanotechnology
- New categories: Disney Interactive Studios games — (Oinkers42), Drecom games — Waxworker, Games Workshop video games — CoolingGibbon, Realms of Fantasy games — Waxworker, Varcon Systems games — Waxworker, Video games based on Blade — AHI-3000 (newly tagged - originally created 5 months ago), Warhammer Age of Sigmar video games — CoolingGibbon, Synergy (video game company) games — Waxworker, CD Projekt — Nagae Iku, Kuro Games — Nagae Iku, Boltrend Games games — Waxworker, Suspicious Developments games — Waxworker, Vektor Grafix games — Waxworker
- New templates: {{Digital Eclipse video games}} — Andrzejbanas
September 23
- — Sceeegt (was previously a redirect)
September 24
- — Tintor2 (was previously a redirect)
- — Rhain (previously a draft)
- — Kung Fu Man (was previously a redirect)
September 25
- — MrKaraRocks (was previously a redirect)
- — Andrzejbanas (previously a draft: undrafted by original creator)
- — Dn9ahx (was previously a redirect)
- — OceanHok (was previously a redirect)
- — Sr1jj
September 26
- — TrademarkedTWOrantula (previously a draft: accepted AfC submission)
- — Themoviea (previously a draft: undrafted by original creator)
- — Kung Fu Man (was previously a redirect)
- — The boss 1904 (previously a draft: accepted AfC submission)
- — Favre1fan93 (was previously a redirect – un-redirected 1 month ago)
- Wikipedia:Good topics/Panzer Dragoon series (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) — NovemBot
September 27
- — Yogurt moon123 (previously a draft: accepted AfC submission)
- — Nodicenomasters
September 28
- — Kung Fu Man (was previously a redirect)
- — Zoq-Fot-Pik (newly tagged – originally created 2 months ago)
- — Kuba Jakubowicz (previously a userpage – moved out 2 months ago: undrafted by original creator)
- — FMecha (was previously a redirect)
- — Prayerie (newly tagged – originally created 4 months ago)
- — Tintor2
- — SummerPocket (newly tagged – originally created 3 months ago)
September 29
- You don't see articles on game consoles and video game publications all that often; good work Sceeegt, and Favre1fan93 and Trailblazer101! Panini! • 🥪 17:16, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
Review Thread: Help Wanted Edition
[edit]We are on edition number 50somethingsomething of review thread time! These are all of our outstanding reviews written out, and any reviews to lower the backlog would be greatly appreciated. A lot of them are really cool articles, too!
FAC
- Ada Wong (review)
- The Sims 4 (review)
- Smash Hit (review)
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted (review)
GAN
Donkey Kong- Puff-puff (onomatopoeia)
- Tina Armstrong
- Kim Kitsuragi
- Miner 2049er
- Pixel Piracy
- Ether One
- Dr Disrespect
- Pokémon Sword and Shield Expansion Pass
- Async Corp.
- Hotline Miami
- Pokémon fan games
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures- The Outer Worlds
- River Raid
- The Great Giana Sisters
Pikachu- Visions of Mana
- Mario Party: Island Tour
Meltan- Bejeweled (video game)
Kleavor
Peer reviews
I usually make these expecting a quid pro quo on my article, because I'm selfish, but I don't have one this time. I encourage people with outstanding reviews to give another user a review in return.
I will be taking on Donkey Kong before TheJoeBro goes ape. It won't be good for the project if that happens again. Panini! • 🥪 14:43, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- Normally I would scoop some of these up in a heartbeat, but I'm super busy this week. If there's still any of these not taken in the coming weeks I'll see if I can try hitting up a few of them. Has one ever considered Magneton? Pokelego999 (talk) 01:27, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- I've been really busy lately too. But I am excited to see so many of these articles being improved. I will have more time for GA again soon. Shooterwalker (talk) 15:26, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- Done Lego Indy. One down. --ProtoDrake (talk) 14:25, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
- Wanted to do that one next but whatever Panini! • 🥪 16:42, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
Okay, in case anyone is still able to, I need help. The GAN for Shin Megami Tensei V has thoroughly stalled. The current reviewer Cukie Gherkin is steering clear of the story section as they haven't played it, but due to no-one else taking it up, the GAN is in limbo. --ProtoDrake (talk) 23:04, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- @ProtoDrake:I did a check regarding the GA review for SMT V. It seems that Cukie and their friend (who played the game as well) came to the conclusion that the plot summary section is well done. Roberth Martinez (talk) 23:34, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
I am willing to help review an article in exchange for a review of Puff-puff (onomatopoeia) - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 23:29, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
Question regarding a questionable Redirect
[edit]The redirect WP:POKEMON currently redirects to Wikipedia:Pokémon test, an essay on the subject of the history of Pokémon species article notability. While other redirects to this essay are valid and non-conflicting, I do feel WP:POKEMON redirecting to this essay and not the actual WikiProject feels slightly bizarre. One would assume a decently active WikiProject covering and maintaining the articles on a particular franchise would take precedent over an essay (Especially in-line with other franchise WikiProjects: See examples like Wikipedia:DOCTORWHO, Wikipedia:STARTREK, or Wikipedia:BIGBROTHER). Given the essay's historical nature, I felt this worthwhile to discuss here before I took any BOLD action, but I strongly feel as though this particular redirect is better served actually linking to the respective WikiProject, as the essay's use for an editor looking for ways to contribute to Pokémon-related subject articles is rather minimal given the essay's lack of actual influence on discussion, especially in the present day. Has one ever considered Magneton? Pokelego999 (talk) 01:26, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- Honestly I agree. It hasn't been used in some time, and while I realize the Pokemon Test redirect has some history on pages, it's actually not as many as it sounds in the grand scheme of things, to the point I could sit through in less than an hour and adjust every usage to use something like WP:POKETEST instead.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 01:59, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- POKETEST makes sense as a redirect to the essay. Redirecting the main POKEMON link to the wikiproject makes more sense. Shooterwalker (talk) 15:24, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- I agree, it shouldn't redirect to "Pokemon test". Even as someone who is skeptical about the notability of many current Pokemon articles, it is not helpful for such a prominent shortcut to go to a defunct essay. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 15:32, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- Now that all of the links have been fixed, I think it makes sense to retarget this to the Pokémon WikiProject. QuicoleJR (talk) 00:44, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
- And done!--Kung Fu Man (talk) 00:59, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for Kirby's Dream Land
[edit]Kirby's Dream Land has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 01:19, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
Invitation to WikiProject Council
[edit]The Wikipedia:WikiProject Council is a group that talks about how to organize and support WikiProjects. If you are interested in helping WikiProjects, please put that page on your watchlist and join the discussions there. Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:42, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- Gentlemen, we've made it. Panini! • 🥪 18:55, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
New Articles (September 30 to October 7)
[edit]A listing of all articles newly added to the Video Games Wikiproject (regardless of creation date). Generated by v3.20 of the RecentVGArticles script and posted by PresN. Bug reports and feature requests are appreciated. --PresN 21:36, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- Articles deleted/removed: Cranberry Station, GeneRally, Johnny Sindacco, How (video game), Bulbagarden, T-Bone Mendez, T Bone Mendez
- Drafts deleted/removed: Draft:Broken Wheel Studios, Draft:Goosebumps HorrorLand (2008 video game), Draft:NEXARDA, Draft:Redstone Mine, Draft:1-Jikan de Wakaru Kabushiki Toushi, Draft:Be A Kid (game), Draft:Colin Sandquist, Draft:Grand Voyage, Draft:Highway Drifter: Hajwala SImulator, Draft:X.Sanctus, Draft:List of Songs in Synth Riders, Draft:Mark Baldwin (game designer), Draft:Sailwind Items List, Draft:Takeshi Yamazaki, Draft:Yorkshire Gubbins
- Articles redirected: X-Plane Airliner, Legend: Legacy of the Dragons, Chica (character), Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side Taisen Puzzle-Dama, SuperBot Entertainment
- Categories deleted/removed: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Video games about ships and boats, Video games set in libraries, Nijisanji
- Templates deleted/removed: {{IGDB person}}
- New categories: Pokémon with regional variants — (Oinkers42), Platformer characters — QuantumFoam66, Pokémon with Mega Evolutions — Cukie Gherkin, The 8th Day games — Waxworker, Linel games — Mika1h, Pokémon species introduced in Pokémon Gold and Silver — Pokelego999, Glodia games — Waxworker, Innonics games — Waxworker, Jaeger Software games — Waxworker, Source Research & Development games — Waxworker, Team Ladybug games — Waxworker, Ybarra Productions games — Waxworker, Blue Manchu games — Waxworker, HeroQuest video games — CoolingGibbon, Mi'pu'mi Games games — Waxworker, Clockwork Games games — Mika1h, Lunatic Software games — Mika1h, The Blues Brothers video games — Trivialist (newly tagged - originally created 1 month ago), Cheat cartridges — QuantumFoam66, Aprinet games — Waxworker, Group SNE games — RadRedRooster
September 30
- — 136.169.151.125 (was previously a redirect)
- — Mika1h
- — Stevencocoboy (was previously a redirect – un-redirected 20 days ago)
- — RyujinxProject (previously a draft: accepted AfC submission)
October 1
- — Cukie Gherkin (was previously a redirect)
- — Zxcvbnm (was previously a redirect – un-redirected 4 years ago)
- — Zxcvbnm
- — Benmite (previously a userpage: undrafted by original creator)
- — Http iosue (previously a draft – moved out 4 months ago: accepted AfC submission)
- — Http iosue (newly tagged – originally created 4 months ago)
- — JalenBarks
- — Http iosue (newly tagged – originally created 5 months ago)
- — Streazy
October 2
- — Oopsidaysy (previously a draft: accepted AfC submission)
- — Xsolla Rep SR (previously a draft – moved out 1 month ago: accepted AfC submission)
- — Tintor2
- — Ahri Boy
- — MKsLifeInANutshell (previously a draft – moved out 3 months ago: accepted AfC submission)
October 3
- — Connection459986517 (was previously a redirect)
- — Captain Galaxy (was previously a redirect)
- — TechnoSquirrel69 (was previously a redirect)
- — Wrangler1981
- — Yeoutie (previously a draft: accepted AfC submission)
- — Abishe
- — Nall
- — Ganryuu (newly tagged – originally created 18 years ago)
October 4
- — Kung Fu Man (was previously a redirect)
October 5
October 6
- — Ranma9617 (newly tagged – originally created 20 years ago)
- — Zoq-Fot-Pik
- — 35.141.142.199 (was previously a redirect)
October 7
- — 178.214.254.114 (was previously a redirect, AfD)
- — 178.214.254.114 (was previously a redirect, AfD)
- — Artanisen
- — Voltaic181
- — Cukie Gherkin (was previously a redirect)
- — Bluethricecreamman
- — BestDaysofMusic (previously a draft: undrafted by original creator)
- Perhaps we can use Alex Higgins' World Snooker as a lure to get Lee Vilenski involved with our wikiproject. Panini! • 🥪 21:55, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- I hope Lee forgives me now for AfD'ing Virtual Pool 4. --Mika1h (talk) 23:14, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Can I get another set of eyes on exA-Arcadia?
[edit]Hopefully this isn't canvassing, but I'm not really sure where else I should do or where I should ask for help. There are pretty glaring issues throughout the entire article, they have been raised on the article's talk page, but I'm not sure that the article's author understands what the problem is, and we are approaching 3RR over a {{promo}} template. miranda :3 21:10, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:List of Pokémon#Requested move 9 October 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:List of Pokémon#Requested move 9 October 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Web-julio (talk) 23:51, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
I opened a discussion there with some concerns and insights that could use some additional input, as the current wording on the WP:VG/S page compared to the mentality towards the sources is causing a bit of a disconnect in practice. If anyone would like to weigh in, the discussion can be found here. Kung Fu Man (talk) 16:04, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
Highly unusual error at Knuckles the Echidna
[edit]I'm totally lost on how to fix this or where to go to get it fixed, so I thought I'd start here and see if anyone knows what's up. At Knuckles the Echidna, there appears to be a massive error in the Nihongo foot template at the top of the article that reads: "Lua error in Module:Lang at line 1422: attempt to concatenate a nil value." Placing my mouse over it gives some technical detail about the error, but going through the page history it's now showing up in tons of revisions going back, so I think it's something about the coding. It's not in any other nihongo foot templates I see on other pages, so I don't know what about this one is making it break. Red Phoenix talk 15:41, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Red Phoenix: It appears to be happening to all articles which use that template. This definitely needs to be fixed ASAP. QuicoleJR (talk) 15:51, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
- Update: This has been fixed. QuicoleJR (talk) 16:12, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
- I personally haven't seen your name in a while, @Red Phoenix. Huge fan of your work as always! Good luck with the Amy article. Panini! • 🥪 23:04, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
- Update: This has been fixed. QuicoleJR (talk) 16:12, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
This page was apparently once used to help deal with all of the character lists in the project. It has not been edited since 2016, making it extremely outdated, and its job is done better by the character task force and the index of articles that they maintain. Should we mark it historical or do something else with it? QuicoleJR (talk) 16:11, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
- I definitely feel it should be tagged under VGCHAR and marked historical. Many of those lists no longer exist, so it's not really beneficial to the task force, especially when we have a much higher quality and more rigorously updated index that covers more articles than that one. Has one ever considered Magneton? Pokelego999 (talk) 18:36, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
New Articles (October 8 to October 13)
[edit]A listing of all articles newly added to the Video Games Wikiproject (regardless of creation date). Generated by v3.20 of the RecentVGArticles script and posted by PresN. Bug reports and feature requests are appreciated. --PresN 03:13, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- Articles deleted/removed: List of Dota 2 Heroes, Jimmy Hernandez, List of characters in the Suikoden series, Lists of characters in the Suikoden series, Lance "Ryder" Wilson, DcVD, Melvin "Big Smoke" Harris, Blonde Haired Kid, Straight Right
- Drafts deleted/removed: Draft:Jutsu Games, Draft:The Lost Village (video game), Draft:Pleh!, Draft:Violet Saturn, Draft:Origin Developments, Draft:Red Harlow, Draft:Declin The Ghost, Draft:Fortress Games, Draft:Children of the Sun (video game), Draft:List of video games considered the hardest
- Articles redirected: Minetest, Contrail (company), Project Sora, Sora Ltd., Aston Martin DP-100, Laguna Loire, List of Gizmondo games, Teemo (League of Legends)
- Categories deleted/removed: Grand Theft Auto mods, Video games based on Guardians of the Galaxy, Video games based on Thor (Marvel Comics)
- New categories: Celeris games — Waxworker, Psionic Systems games — Waxworker, Twitch livestreams — QuantumFoam66, Video games set in 2028 — (Oinkers42), Video games set in 2029 — (Oinkers42), Pokémon species introduced in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire — Web-julio, Video games about bounty hunters — Ding Chavez, Nekki games — Waxworker
- New templates: {{Traveller's Tales}} — Cat's Tuxedo
October 8
October 9
- — Cukie Gherkin (was previously a redirect)
- — Captain Galaxy (was previously a redirect)
- — Soccer Tees (previously a draft: accepted AfC submission)
- — Ersene
- — Ersene
- — Sr1jj (was previously a redirect)
October 10
- — Emiya Mulzomdao
- — Di (they-them)
- Wikipedia:Featured topics/List of generation IX Pokémon (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) — NovemBot
- — Zxcvbnm
- — OceanHok
- — Zxcvbnm
- — CanonNi
- — Kung Fu Man (was previously a redirect)
October 11
- — TechnicalNewt (was previously a redirect)
- — Fangz
- — 2600:1700:209c:c120:f5b1:f406:33b9:43c4 (was previously a redirect)
- — MinionsFan1998 (was previously a redirect)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/High traffic stubs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) — Hahnchen
October 12
- — MimirIsSmart
- — Arusaviour7 (newly tagged – originally created 3 months ago)
October 13
Dr. Mario has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 03:56, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage!
[edit]Good afternoon. I ask experienced users to look at the debates surrounding the article Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage!. The fact is that the game has a popular otokonoko character, whose gender was expectedly the cause of frequent discusions and fan theories. And recently it caught fire with renewed vigor after a new Japanese event confirmed that the character was indeed a biological male. Now an anonymous user 50.122.124.241 is persistently adding an LGBTQ category to the article, considering it obvious and having read but ignored my attempts to start a discussion on his talk page (user pointedly called Mizuki an LGBTQ character despite my mentioning that we need more details and a response from the creators to make such conclusions), although all information about the event is known based on fan translations and interpretations, while any comments from the creators are either unknown, or simply missing (suffice it to say that this is controversial even among the fans themselves, since the event has not yet been translated into English and does not contain detailed information, opening up the possibility of interpretation and debates). In fact, there is so little accurate information that initially I even thought that the category was added because of fan ships and realized that we were talking about Mizuki only thanks to another user’s comment on the article’s talk page.
- Considering that the anonymous author is ignoring the discussion and the dispute risks turning into a war of edits with a discussion through comments on rollbacks, I reverted my last edit (I don’t know how true the words about “one character is enough” are, so I don’t dispute this) and want to know what other project users think about it. My position is that given the nature of the information, such edits constitute original research and require sources as non-obvious information. This, as expected, is not mentioned in any way in the text of the article itself, both due to the lack of an official translation and the lack of sources as such. But I won’t mind if other users show me that I’m wrong or really cite authoritative sources that clarify the issue. Solaire the knight (talk) 10:23, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
- So what should I or we do? Should I contact any of the active project users? I'm afraid that with the lack of response here and the lack of desire of the other user to somehow participate in the discussion while maintaining his version of the article, it will simply stagnate at the current status quo. Solaire the knight (talk) 15:57, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Categories are a wasteland and full of CATDEF violations, and a lot of prominent editors are probably simply burnt out on trying to keep them tidy and applied correctly (Even before you take into account numerous LTAs that focus on pop culture and fiction categories near exclusively, endlessly dividing them into ever more granular groups). In theory this one should only be tagged to articles for games that have a very explicit theme and focus on LGBTQ topics. In practice, people throw it on any video game where any character, however minor or brief, is not cisgender heteronormative. Or is even suggested to not be. In short, I think your time is spent better elsewhere, let them have it. -- ferret (talk) 22:27, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- I'm just a little upset about this. Both because I really dislike unfinished business, and because I actually am not against this category if we get the necessary authoritative sources. As you can see, the context of the development of the plot fully suggests such a possibility... But in this form, this is simply a very speculative original research from fan translation, which, moreover, is not mentioned in any way in the article itself (if you look at the history of edits, this has already happened with the addition of the “memes” category without any edits to the article itself). Not to mention the fact that people from the outside may perceive this as confirmation of some game ships (as I myself thought due to the lack of context in the first edit). But thanks for the answer, maybe we should at least wait for the event to appear in the global version. Solaire the knight (talk) 22:48, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Categories are a wasteland and full of CATDEF violations, and a lot of prominent editors are probably simply burnt out on trying to keep them tidy and applied correctly (Even before you take into account numerous LTAs that focus on pop culture and fiction categories near exclusively, endlessly dividing them into ever more granular groups). In theory this one should only be tagged to articles for games that have a very explicit theme and focus on LGBTQ topics. In practice, people throw it on any video game where any character, however minor or brief, is not cisgender heteronormative. Or is even suggested to not be. In short, I think your time is spent better elsewhere, let them have it. -- ferret (talk) 22:27, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
Soundtrack sections
[edit]Hey guys, I'm just wondering what the situation is on soundtracks getting sizable sections in game articles. I'm specificially thinking of here, where the soundtrack seems non-notable, and at least one of the three references is from a user-generated site. I've read the MoS section on this subject, and it seems like that section in the article is without merit as per the guidelines, but I wanted to be 100% sure. Cheers. Bertaut (talk) 06:11, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Soundtrack subsections are often fine, but full tracklists (and especially full credits) should be omitted in game articles per WP:VGSCOPE#15. I've trimmed and merged the Rygar section. – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 09:12, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for that. Much appreciated. Bertaut (talk) 22:52, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Supercell (video game company)#Requested move 16 October 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Supercell (video game company)#Requested move 16 October 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 𝚈𝚘𝚟𝚝 (𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚟𝚝) 15:30, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Carl Johnson (Grand Theft Auto)#Requested move 16 October 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Carl Johnson (Grand Theft Auto)#Requested move 16 October 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 𝚈𝚘𝚟𝚝 (𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚟𝚝) 22:20, 16 October 2024 (UTC)