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The WPVG Newsletter (September 2008)

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Video Games Newsletter

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume I, No. 7 - September 2008

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Project At a Glance

As of September 2008, the project has:

Changes to Featured and Good articles, lists, and topics

Promoted FA/FL:

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, Mario Power Tennis, Myst IV: Revelation, Space Invaders, The World Ends with You

Promoted FT:

Guitar Hero series

Demoted FA/FL/FT:

None

Promoted GA:

Anarchy Online, Codename: Gordon, Concerned, Hotel Mario, I Love Bees, Kyo Kusanagi, Species of StarCraft, StarCraft (series), Super Mario Strikers

Promoted GT:

Final Fantasy XII, StarCraft titles

Demoted GA/GT:

None

News

There were 192 new articles in September 2008
Inactive project cleanup
Proposal to consolidate inactive projects and taskforces. Project page can be found here.
- Wikiproject Red Faction has been deleted.
- WikiProject Nintendo moved to page under WP:VG See new Nintendo task force page.
- Two Nintendo task forces have become Video game task forces: Mega Man task force and Super Smash Bros. task force
- WikiProject Castlevania moved to page under WP:VG See new Castlevania task force page.
- WikiProject Kingdom Hearts has been deleted.
VG Wikipedia 0.7 workshop
Workshop page to coordinate preparation of articles to be included in Wikipedia 0.7.
- 39 of 393 articles have been prepared and submitted.
  Come help us prepare more at the workshop page.

Feature: Wikipedia 0.7

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of articles taken from the English version of Wikipedia, compiled by the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team. It is designed for a DVD release, and the selection was put together using a Selection Bot, based on the quality and importance assigned by WikiProjects.

The Video games Project and its daughter projects have multiple articles among the selection and are currently working on cleaning up the articles to improve their presentation. A workshop page has been set up that is designed to assist and coordinate the effort. The status of and recommendations for articles is listed on the table. Discussion about which articles should be kept and removed from the list have been taking place on the talk page.

If you have assisted in working on and improving a current Featured article, Good article, or A-Class article, please check the workshop page to see if the article is recommended for inclusion.

Articles will need an id version submitted to ensure it is included. They will also need to be cleaned up if maintenance tags and other issues are present. Participation is not restricted, and if you can assist with the preparation effort, it would be greatly appreciated.

Things to remember for preparation

The workshop page has a notes section for each article. Clean up suggestions have been left for some articles.
Do a light sweep of the article to address any vandalism andclean up tags: citation needed, more references, lengthy plot, etc.
If you need help with an article, post on the talk page.
Because some articles were promoted over a year ago, they may need to undergo Featured article review or Good article review.
Be sure to list the oldid on the workshop page and User:SelectionBot/0.7/V-3.
Articles need to be prepared by October 20.
Articles that do not have an id submitted may not be included in the release.

See original notification on WT:VG for more details.

Things you can help with:

Summary of Video games WikiProject open tasks

AfDs

Train simulator (disambiguation) (3 participants)
Preston Arsement (2 participants)
Jackpot World (1 participant)
Bejeweled Stars (5 participants)
Melee (game terminology) (5 participants)
Godzilla: Monster of Monsters (5 participants; relisted)
Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters (5 participants; relisted)
Crazy Bus (14 participants; relisted)

Merge discussions

Other discussions

No major discussions

StarCraft: Ghost FAC

Ik heb mijn positie veranderd wat betreft de SC:Ghost FAC. Aangezien je mijn argument noemde, zie je misschien ook een reden om jou positie te herzien. Groet, JACO PLANE • 2008-10-9 03:20

Orphaned non-free media (Image:QuantumTunnel.jpg)

Thanks for uploading Image:QuantumTunnel.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 03:07, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Amsterdam history

Re. yr recent edit of Amsterdam's history: Read the nu.nl article, Ons Amsterdam's September index doesn't show de Bont's article, anyway, from reading nu.nl it seems that de Bont comes to a conclusion rather than having primary evidence of settlement around 1000. Caution seems to be in order. Cheers. -- Iterator12n ^Talk 16:07, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

And I have nothing in particular to say...

...but thank you for your presence and continued contributions. In these fat and stable days we sometimes forget that Wikipedia is an insane endeavour, and it's the work of people like you that has let us get away with it. :-) --Kiz o r 08:03, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks :) Haven't been active much lately, sadly. User:Krator (t c) 12:09, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Request for peer review

Hello, if you can please take a look at this video game-related peer review. Thanks. --MrStalker ^(talk) 19:29, 31 October 2008 (UTC)