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I can't figure out how to Wiki-add my name to the participants section. Also, I don't quite get the 'lucrative' description. Does it really apply to G.I.Joe that strongly? Lots42 20:15, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
I just want to give a warning to anyone working on this project because of experiences I've had on wikipedia: make sure that all articles have as many independent sources to establish notability as possible.
For example, a very persistent deletionist has been plaguing WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons (and a number of other fan-supported fiction-based wikiprojects) for the last few weeks, tagging articles with as many tags as he can think of, and nominating articles for deletion when he thinks he can get away with it. So far although he seems determined to single-handedly dismantle the project, he has been little more than an annoying hassle to the editors on that project; however if enough people begin listening to his arguments about notability, that could change. And he's not the first one to try this, just the most persistent so far; even if he fails, others will try again later.
So, to reiterate, make sure you add as many independent sources from books, magazines, TV specials, etc (preferably not from Hasbro or any licensee) to as many articles as possible to establish notability as soon as you can, to avoid this sort of unwanted scrutiny. You'll thank yourself later! BOZ 14:49, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
I think the Cover Girl page could benefit from a lot more people/an expert working on it. Lots42 08:59, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
I've found a wikia dedicated to G.I. Joe and there are templates that, I believe, we can use for the improvement of the G.I. Joe Wikipedia. The fan wikia can be located at gijoe.wikia.com. I have always envied how Transformers have articles that are more or less consistent in Wikipedia. This is one resource we can utilize. -- Destron Commander ( talk) 12:58, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Also, regarding templates, does anyone know of, or know how to make, a Joe-specific infobox, that would include statistical info (code name, real name, aliases, SN, specialties, year first figure released, etc) that could be included on each character's article? i.e. like the ones used for fictional characters. Salamurai ( talk) 14:05, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
Issues have been raised by more than one person regarding the length of sections of this article and the absence of citations. It would be greatly helpful if project members would pitch in and try to get this article under control. One major point is the section Marvel (Volume 1). The section should be a much briefer summary of the plot, rather than a nearly step by step retelling of the plot. Other sections need work as well. Thanks. Wildhartlivie ( talk) 00:01, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Since filming has begun, per WP:NFF, I've established the film article at G.I. Joe (film). I think this titling is most appropriate because of the setup of Transformers (film) and The Transformers: The Movie. Hopefully, we don't need to rehash titling arguments, especially with hatnotes at G.I. Joe and G.I. Joe: The Movie. However, a note to all about adding production information -- movie websites that provide scoop reports are not reliable sources. If they got news publicly from filmmakers and reported it, they can be cited. See the References section at the film article to understand what's verifiable enough to use. — Erik ( talk • contrib) - 23:50, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
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I just recently joined this project an decide as my first contribution to design an Userbox for members and one to post on the talk pages of articles related to G.I. Joe. What do you think of them?
Steve (
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22:09, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
May God Bless You All Always!
I need help from some who understands HTML and web pages better than I do. The templates used for G.I. Joe Character need some maintenance and I do not understand what is wrong. Take a look at the character template for Duke.
Duke | |
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G.I. Joe character | |
Voiced by | Michael Bell |
In-universe information | |
Affiliation | G.I. Joe |
Specialty | Current G.I. Joe field commander and second-in-command (America's Elite), G.I. Joe commander (Sigma 6) |
Birth place | St. Louis, Missouri |
Subgroups | Tiger Force, Star Brigade |
Series | G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 |
Now look at the Template for Transformers' Character Hot Rod.
Hot Rod/Rodimus Major/Rodimus | |
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Transformers character | |
Voiced by (English) | Judd Nelson (movie), Richard Gautier (post movie episodes) |
Voiced by (Japanese) | Hiroya Ishimaru |
In-universe information | |
Affiliation | Autobot |
Japanese name | Hot Rodimus |
Sub-group | Autobot Cars Deluxe Vehicles Targetmasters Micromasters Wreckers |
Function | Cavalier Matrix Templar Warrior |
Rank | 10 (original) 5 (Targetmaster) |
Partner | Firebolt (Sparks in the Marvel Comics series) |
Motto | "My actions speak louder than my words." "Action is my middle name." (Classics) "Wisdom will always defeat firepower." (Alternators) |
Alternate modes |
Dome Zero Ford GT |
Now here is the same Transformer's Template except that I put "G.I. Joe character" where "Transformer's Character" was.
Hot Rod/Rodimus Major/Rodimus | |
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G.I. Joe character | |
In-universe information | |
Affiliation | Autobot |
Specialty | Cavalier Matrix Templar Warrior |
Rank | 10 (original) 5 (Targetmaster) |
Subgroups | Autobot Cars Deluxe Vehicles Targetmasters Micromasters Wreckers |
Series |
Transformers: Generation 1 Transformers: Classics Transformers: Titanium |
So what is the problem? Can anyone tell me and show me how to fix it? ( Steve ( talk) 02:32, 12 March 2008 (UTC))
Do we have G.I. Joe Barnstar? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.127.116.51 ( talk) 13:14, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Dear WikiProject G.I. Joe participants... WikiProject Media franchises needs some help from other projects which are similar. Media franchises' scope deals primarily with the coordination of articles within the hundreds if not thousands of media franchises which exist. Sometimes a franchise might just need color coordination of the various templates used; it could mean creating an article for the franchise as a jump off point for the children of it; or the creation of a new templating system for media franchise articles. The project primarily focuses on multimedia franchises. It would be great if some of this project's participants would come over and help the project get back on solid footing. Also, if you know of similar projects which have not received this, let Lady Aleena ( talk · contribs) know. Please come and take a look at the project and see if you wish to lend a hand. You can sign up here if you wish. Thank you. LA @ 21:34, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Dear WikiProject G.I. Joe participants... WikiProject Media franchises is currently discussing a naming convention for franchise articles. Since this may affect one or more articles in your project, we would like to get the opinions of all related projects before implimenting any sweeping changes. Please come and help us decide. Thanks! LA ( T) @ 22:39, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
{{
FreeContentMeta}}, which is used in the {{
JoeWiki}} template, is under discussion. Please see
template talk:FreeContentMeta#Inline or floating to participate in this discussion.
Chris Cunningham (not at work) -
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09:14, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
There is a move request: Feel free to discuss it at Talk:October Guard#Requested move. Greetings. Sebastian scha. ( talk) 05:25, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey there. Just wondering, but has this project ever thought about adding an assessment scheme? Without it, articles from this project won't be featured in Wikipedia releases, such as the upcoming 0.7 and eventual 1.0. BOZ ( talk) 04:48, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Terrordrome has been sent to WP:PROD by someone for deletion. 76.66.198.171 ( talk) 06:33, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
May God Bless You Always!
I know I have not been here for a while, but my life has gotten busy. Anyway, I have been working on a re-write for the Bazooka (G.I. Joe) article. I will try to have it up as soon as possible. ( Steve ( talk) 21:49, 26 February 2009 (UTC))
Seems that most of them have outdated citations. Just a heads up. I'd like to do it, but my hands could be full in the next few days. Ominae ( talk) 10:58, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
I believe we need to establish a Conventions page similar to what the Automobiles Project uses. We need to standardize things like how character pages are named, filenames are typed in infoboxes, etc. Thoughts?-- Flash176 (soon to be rechristened as Ridge Runner) ( talk) 05:16, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I think we definitely need to standardize page layout. If we look at three popular character pages, Snake-Eyes, Hawk (G.I. Joe) and Scarlett (G.I. Joe), the layout and section titles are completely different for each page. Something like this would be very helpful IMO. Cerebellum ( talk) 17:46, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Forgot to mention, we should also standardize the External Links sections. I think that at a minimum, each character page should link to the Joepedia article, the applicable YoJoe pages, and applicable Myuselessknowledge page. Cerebellum ( talk) 17:47, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I've always heard 3 3/4 myself. Cerebellum ( talk) 21:37, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Should we also work something up on article structure? (see my link two posts above) BOZ ( talk) 13:16, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Only thing I would add is a separate are in comics for Alternate Continuities, which is anything that is made by a comic company that does not fit in their established continuity at that time. Such as the G.I. Joe vs. Transformers series, and Transformers/G.I. Joe books. Might be more as IDW continues. As for the Sunbow/DIC part, I think the G.I. Joe The Movie should go in there as well, as it is a Sunbow production. I like the idea of keeping everything related to Sigma Six/Lost Missions separate, since the figures were different size, and the animated series and comic were separate from all other continuities, even though there is a stretch that they follow some of the events of the previous direct to DVD movies. I would like to put the year of the G.I. JOE Rise of Cobra Movie characters first appearance as the year that they first appeared in the movie, so that if a sequel comes out with new characters, there is a way to show when they came out. One thing I wondered, how do you want to handle the people in the movie figure line that are not in the movie, but may appear in the game or toy line? And, yeah, BOZ, I think in the general character overview, can say things that are consistent for all incarnations, or the most well know, like all versions of Snake Eyes have face covered and mute, and that all versions of Scarlett have Red Hair. Sgetz ( talk) 15:59, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Why?-- Ridge Runner (formerly known as Flash176) ( talk) 05:18, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
A user keeps adding back the [ Snake Eyes Tribute Site] to the Snake Eyes (G.I. Joe) Page. Above the ruling seemed to be no external fan sites. Thoughts on this case? Sgetz ( talk) 17:24, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Started with
with the implication that there will be more to come. FYI 24.148.0.83 ( talk) 18:58, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Barbecue (G.I. Joe) and Mainframe (G.I. Joe) have been listed at Articles for Deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barbecue (G.I. Joe) and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mainframe (G.I. Joe). Cerebellum ( talk) 18:59, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Many heroic Joes are based on real people, like Tunnel Rat-Larry Hama. But many villains are based on real people. This -might- run afoul of Wikipedia's rules against making negative comparisons involving living people. Can't hurt to be extra careful. Lots42 ( talk) 04:20, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
If you want to help me add on the years to the G.I.Joe Marvel issue references, I collated a list that should be here --- > http://lots42.livejournal.com/2077906.html Enjoy. Lots42 ( talk) 15:34, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
Sometimes it's tough to find sources for articles on G.I. Joe comics. I've put together a list of some helpful links (mostly interviews with creators) at User:Cerebellum/G.I. Joe. Please add more links if you find them. Thanks, -- Cerebellum ( talk) 01:25, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
![]() | G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel Comics publication) → G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel Comics) — Standard disambiguation per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics)#Between publications of different publishers. The article also needs to be added to the watchlist at Wikipedia:WikiProject G.I. Joe. Fortdj33 ( talk) 22:26, 28 April 2010 (UTC) |
He/she keeps deleting and adding wrong info on the G.I. Joe Scarlett page and never gives any explanation as to why [4]
To explain what is going on the page as best as I can... he/she keeps stating on the page that there was it implied that Scarlett was romantically involved with the character Duke and then goes on to say that they were together... now that doesn’t make any sense since implied is not an answer and yet in the Relationships section, it says that they were together. There's no source or episode from that cartoon show to prove that. I'm trying to be as accurate as I can on that page and I have listed which episode and have written out the scenes that explain that. But looking at that person's history page, that user goes on to remove any info that says otherwise no matter what and gives no reasons too any of this or that he/she will listen or stop and it seems that very little control goes on over there. Again I'm sorry to be a bother, but I thought someone should know of this. That person just keeps doing that.
This person is out to delete information just because he/she doesn't agree with it. [5]
Something needs to be done. 75.60.208.208 75.60.208.208 ( talk) 10:38, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
I modified the userbox to auto-include categories, just like the ones for the Transformers project. (I happened to notice that the TF userbox on my user page added a cat but GIJoe did not.) I also created the Category:WikiProject G.I. Joe members to go with it. These aren't important, but why not afford a little more legitimacy to the project. How is the project these days, anyway? I've been doing other things. - Salamurai ( talk) 03:30, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
There is an comicbook inbox for Dreadnoks could someone fix the picture for it I dunno how to do it. Dwanyewest ( talk) 03:05, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Right, sorry I didn't report this sooner, I didn't notice this WikiProject existed.
I have AFDed the following articles:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MOBAT (G.I. Joe)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ROCC
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Conquest X-30
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/S.H.A.R.C.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dragonfly (G.I. Joe)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/F.A.N.G.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/H.I.S.S.
Once again, I apologize. -- Divebomb ( talk) 15:44, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey guys, I have modified the project banner to allow for article assessment by quality and added some info to the project page. If I have broken anything, please let me know. -- Cerebellum ( talk) 17:49, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
In other news, I've nominated G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel Comics) for Good Article status. Please take a look and improve the page if you can. -- Cerebellum ( talk) 20:12, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
I think it may be best if you merge many character articles into a list of characters because they are not properley sourced. Some are fine, most are not. You also need to assess them on your own WP quality sclae and WP Fictional Character's. RAIN*the*ONE BAM 16:45, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
You need to make sure all the articles in Category:G.I. Joe characters meet the notability guideline by making sure they are "significantly covered"(this means actual coverage, not just a passing mention or a spot on a list) "in third party reliable sources". If you don't, these articles may face a mass deletion, or a simple redirect to List of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero characters. Predacon (G.I. Joe) is an example of a bad article. It doesn't show notability. Why does this character deserve to be in an encyclopedia? If you can't show this, then redirect it to where it is most relevant, and save yourselves the trouble of a mass deletion. Thanks, Blake ( Talk· Edits) 16:52, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hoping everyone on the project watches this page. I am thinking of modifying the G.I. Joe Character infobox to be consistent with other templates; please see Template talk:Infobox G.I. Joe character#Name formatting. Jist is, we don't match other articles, probably to our detriment, what do you think? - Salamurai ( talk) 00:28, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
There is currently a proposal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/2011/March#G.I. Joe stub for consolidating all the G.I.Joe stub articles into one category. Please check it out and voice your opinions! Fortdj33 ( talk) 02:02, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello everyone, there is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fictional characters#Wikipedia:WikiProject G.I. Joe Concern which pertains to this project. -- Cerebellum ( talk) 12:32, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
To address Jake's talk of a merge: I would caution against any sort of "grouping" of characters based on any kind of theme, as this may be subjective and confusing. Certain sub-teams may work well, such as the Lunartix and Sky Patrol merges. For the rest, I think a series of lists either by initial year of release, or alphabetically would work best. This would best be accomplished by coming up with a series of "skeletons" (maybe best done in user space before the merging), and then deciding what gets merged in on a case-by-case basis. I personally prefer alphabetical, although I understand that there is a good case for chronological, and the format should be decided before any action is taken.
As far as a list of "must-keeps", I'd estimate that there are at least a dozen, if not 20-30, that should absolutely be kept as articles. Some are just too popular, even with a current lack of meeting the GNG, to consider redirecting. Look at the AFD for Bumblebee (Transformers), for example; I recall it being a snow keep despite the lack of good sourcing. To add to Jake's list, I'd say that some villains such as Destro and Zartan should also be for-sure keeps, and I think it's safe to say that Baroness and Storm Shadow are good to go, and I'm sure a case could be made for characters like Dr Mindbender, Serpentor, Major Bludd, Tomax & Xamot, Zarana, and Firefly, among others. As for the Joes, I'd add Flint, Roadblock, and Shipwreck at the very least. The best way to do it might be to merge all the "low-hanging fruit" articles first, and then for the few dozen or so remaining questionable cases we could hold "merge or keep" discussions, maybe in smaller groups. BOZ ( talk) 18:02, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
See here is the problem BOZ. That discussion you cited, luckily for them they had a lot of votes to keep from editors who do not understand Wikipedia on a whole. They think because this character is so popular, it has to stay. Not the case. However, if they are so popular surely there are buckets of sources around the place. Just because this character is popular in the series, is it just as popular in the real world or in the case of a universal encyclopedia. It probably is the case with some. You know, for the articles you mentioned why not do a quick ref search, place them on the talk page, get the ball rolling. These things are a good way of getting people motivated to improving things again. However when nothing happens, and it stays that way when people have asked for change, I've seen articles go for deletion, mass deletion.. Which is a shame because it is preventable. The list ideas you have are just perfect, you seem to have the know how and idea how to pull it off. RAIN*the*ONE BAM 19:45, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
All of BOZ's ideas seem really good. I merged some articles to Sky Patrol (G.I. Joe), but I do agree that an alphabetical list is the best way to go. Jake, you've put a whole lot of effort into List of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero characters, what do you think should be done? I'm thinking that maybe every character would be on the list, with main article links for those that have stand-alone articles as well. How about the G.I. Joe infoboxes? Should we incorporate them into the list? The same question goes for the table at List of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero characters. Should we keep it or not? -- Cerebellum ( talk) 01:35, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
A 8
B 21
C 22
D 12
E 1
F 9
G 11
H 8
I 3
J 1
K 2
L 12
M 12
N 3
O 4
P 4
Q 1
R 15
S 33
T 10
U 1
V 3
W 6
X 0
Y 0
Someone brought up Pokemon in the other thread, and I think the situation with species of Pokemon is very similar to ours. Maybe we can learn from what has been done at List of Pokémon? -- Cerebellum ( talk) 01:39, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Cerebellum good ideas, the infobox is a good idea when there is some OOU information which some may have. The link to the main article is a great idea, quite a few lists do this. Adds more notability to the list too. One thing though, Yojoe is not a reliable references and should be avoided really. RAIN*the*ONE BAM 01:44, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
OK, I've created five new pages:
We can start merging stuff in now, but let's try to do the low-hanging fruit first, as BOZ said above, so that we don't merge article which could be standalone. I'd recommend that any characters listed in G.I. Joe vs. Cobra: The Essential Guide be kept standalone, but we can debate that after we merge the clearly non-notable articles and see what we have left.
Right now I think a separate List of Cobra characters would be better than throwing the Cobras in with the Joes, but it's not a huge deal either way. -- Cerebellum ( talk) 11:56, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Since there are already separate articles for Dreadnoks and Iron Grenadiers, do we just merge character articles into those, similar to what Fortdj33 did for the Lunartix Empire, or do we create a separate "List of ..." for them as well? -- Jake fuersturm ( talk) 14:09, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
In the interests of specificity, shouldn't the new articles be along the lines of (for example):
The merging project seems to be moving along steadily. With the exception of any Stub-class articles that still need to be merged, the rest of the G.I. Joe characters that have their own articles should all have a link on one of the alphabetical lists that Cerebellum created. As discussed, I have also created a List of Cobra characters, and have limited it to just the the unique Cobra characters that have their own articles. There are still some Cobra stubs that need to be merged, and I propose that any Cobra-La, Dreadnok or Iron Grenadiers articles should be merged into their respective parent articles. Keep up the good work! Fortdj33 ( talk) 16:36, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey guys, great job on the merges! Sorry I haven't helped out with that, but with the two of you on it so quickly, I figured that I'd be spoiling the proverbial soup by adding an unneeded chef. Plus I've been working on another project (Cerebellum knows about it). Let me know if there is any additional editing you need/want me to do. Cheers. -- Jake fuersturm ( talk) 18:09, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Folks:
I've been working on a rewrite of
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel Comics) in the hopes of getting it from its current GA rating to an A and eventually (dare we dream!) FA rating. The draft can be found at
User:Jake fuersturm/Work-in-Progress-1.
The draft has added several new sections covering plot, characters, and relation to the Sunbow cartoon, and I've also tried to find additional cite refs to support the content. The rationale for working on the draft on my userpage is that it involved a fair bit of restructuring and I didn't want to impact the existing article (and its GA rating) while its still largely a work-in-progress.
I think its in pretty good shape now, and I'd really appreciate it if you could provide some comments on the WiP and suggestions on how to make it better. In particular, if you feel inclined to copy edit and/or peer review the article, that would be super (there's quite a backlog on those requests, and it would also be nice to get someone who isn't automatically biased against the subject matter).
Thanks! --
Jake fuersturm (
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21:28, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
On Duke's page I have removed the fansite references. There are no online sources, they now are basically primary sources. Can anyone find some online ones, it would be daft to have to merge it into a list - But it has been tagged for a few years now. It just needs a little bit of work and could do with some attention from you guys. Rain the 1 BAM 20:52, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
All: I just wanted the wikiproject members (and anyone else who may be interested, but haven't officially joined) to know that Raintheone has resurfaced and is giving us a hard time on the Joe articles. Except that instead of having the courtesy to give us a heads up on this page, he's decided to post it elsewhere (I wouldn't have noticed it except that I was looking something up on an unrelated matter): Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fictional characters#GI Joe part 2. -- Jake Fuersturm ( talk) 20:49, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
I don't think that Yojoe is a reliable source (I've removed it on a few occasions), but I'm wondering whether it could be a good external link. Any thoughts? Harry Blue5 ( talk) 20:55, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Head's up FYI: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zartan (2nd nomination) -- Jake Fuersturm ( talk) 17:18, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
You might be able to use yojoe,com as an external link under Wikipedia:ELMAYBE#Links_to_be_considered section 4. "4.Sites that fail to meet criteria for reliable sources yet still contain information about the subject of the article from knowledgeable sources." Mathewignash ( talk) 13:47, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
I was at Barns & Nobel today and i saw abook called Totally Tubular 80s (Bellomo, Mark (2010). Totally Tubular '80s. Krause Publications.), it has 6 color picture pages devoted to GI joe toys of the 80s, and some text about them. Maybe check it out. Mathewignash ( talk) 18:42, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
The GA-rated article G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel Comics) has been submitted for GA reassessment. An earlier (somewhat tangential) discussion took place here -- Jake Fuersturm ( talk) 04:16, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Greetings! A stub template or category which you created has been nominated for renaming or deletion at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion. The stub type most likely doesn't meet Wikipedia requirements for a stub type, through failure to meet standards relating to the name, scope, current stub hierarchy or likely size, as explained at Wikipedia:Stub. Please feel free to make any comments at WP:SFD regarding this stub type, and in future, please consider proposing new stub types first at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals! This message is a boilerplate, left here as a courtesy, and should not be considered personal in nature.
This is a credit to your team. We try to keep stub article categories between 60 - 800 articles. The recent activity improving your articles has dropped the stub article count very low. Keep up the good work! Dawynn ( talk) 13:32, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
I know there has been some hubub here about citing yojoe.com as a source, since it's technically an unreliable fan site by Wikipedia standards. We have similar citations at the Transformers Wikipedia project for citing tru.info and other sites which archive pictures of the instructions and the boxes as sources. Thing it it's not REALLY yojoe.com that should be cited, since it's unreliable, it's the BOX or INSTRUCTIONS themselves that's being cited for information, the yojoe.com link is just there as a reference that the instructions say something. Citing the box or instructions of a toy or fictional character is reliable, as it a primary source for fiction. So what's the best way to cite it in a way that does not violate Wikipedia policy? For instance can we write up a citation that cites the Ally Viper's box as a source for information on him, instead of pointing to a yojoe scan of him and calling it a source? Perhaps the file card for a toy can be considered a "short story", and we could cite it like any other piece of fiction? While boxes and instructions are not proof of notability, they are reliable sources and should be treated as such, if we can agree on the best way to cite them. Mathewignash ( talk) 19:27, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
The three books that many of the character lists seem to reference, are:
I am also in the process of trying to locate these books, so that specific pages can be referenced in the character articles. In the meantime, there is also a trade paperback of the Order of Battle mini-series that Marvel published, which contains the same information that is on the filecards for most of those characters. The references could be modified to use that book as a source, instead of the images at yojoe.com. Fortdj33 ( talk) 18:13, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
First, can I just say well done on merging so many characters so far. Secondly, I'm not sure that General Flagg is notable enough for his own article. Harry Blue5 ( talk) 21:38, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
FYI...the merging of character articles is pretty much done. There are a few that still need to be merged, but I am confident that all of the character articles left, are notable enough to stand on their own. To that end, I am still in the process of adding citations from several books, specifically G.I. Joe vs. Cobra, G.I. Joe: Order of Battle, and G.I. Joe: Battle Files. If anyone is interested in debating the notability of any character articles not covered by those sources, please let me know and I will provide a list for us to come to a consensus on...
In the meantime, I've created several new maintenance categories, in the interest of expanding the G.I. Joe article coverage on Wikipedia. There are now separate categories for Category-class, Disambig-class, Redirect-class and Template-class G.I. Joe articles. Specifically, any article that has been merged, has now been re-added to the WikiProject under the Redirect-class. I don't think that it's necessary to create a redirect for EVERY G.I. Joe character ever created, but if any additional articles are merged, they can remain part of the project by updating their classification on the article's talk page. You can see all the articles broken down by quality status here, or by clicking on the quality status of any G.I. Joe article's talk page, and see all the status categories in the table of contents at the top of the page.
In addition, I have made sure that all of the G.I. Joe articles are now classified by importance in addition to quality. Please feel free to let me know if you think that I've assessed an article incorrectly, but the statistics table has been added to the WikiProject G.I. Joe assessment page, and it has been updated with all of the necessary importance categories. You can see all of the articles broken down by importance here, or by clicking on the importance status of any G.I. Joe article's talk page, and see all the importance categories in the table of contents at the top of the page.
There is also a log of everything that has been updated here, which is maintained by the WP 1.0 bot. I'm happy that the articles of Wikiproject G.I. Joe are now fully part of Wikipedia:Version 1.0, and I look forward to using the quality and importance guides to improve the coverage of G.I. Joe articles on Wikipedia. Fortdj33 ( talk) 05:27, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
After a recent request, I added WikiProject G.I. Joe to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject G.I. Joe/Popular pages.
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Greeting, I am a coordinator for WikiProject Animation. A B-Class checklist has been added to the project banner, along with the work group text, including the importance function. The B-Class checklist will include 6 point parameters to assess against the criteria. If you have any questions, please discuss at our talk page. Thank for your time. JJ98 ( Talk / Contributions) 21:55, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
You might want to check out the CBC video archives for some nice sources to cite on characters. Heck on this video http://archives.cbc.ca/lifestyle/leisure/clips/16902/ a reporter quotes Major Bludd's bio card! That's pretty notable. In his video they interview a collector of older style Joes from Canada. http://archives.cbc.ca/lifestyle/leisure/clips/16999/ Mathewignash ( talk) 03:20, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
I would like to say that I have been following and updating the page G.I. Joe (IDW Publishing) for the last year or so. And, although I have done much to update the article, it lacks one major thing. The plot/storyline of the comic. So I am requesting that someone, who is familiar with the IDW storyline, write the plot for the article, like there is already one over at the IDW Transformers article, although that one also has not been updated for the last year and should maybe also need a writing to be up-to-date. Plastelin ( talk) 23:42, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello everyone! It would be great if we could get G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel Comics) to GA status once again, so I have started a discussion at Talk:G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel Comics)#Recent edits with some suggestions for improvement. Please chime in with your opinion if you are interested. -- Cerebellum ( talk) 19:05, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
As I had done with the merged and deleted Transformers articles, I have started to make copies of the merged and deleted G.I. Joe articles off site on Wikialpha. As an example, I copied the article for the Joe Airwave there. I also cleaned it up a bit and added a new picture. Please feel free to move any deleted articles you want to continue to develop there. http://en.wikialpha.org/wiki/Airwave_(G.I._Joe) Mathewignash ( talk) 13:42, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
It's been brought to my attention that the {{ G.I. Joe}} template is not functioning as intended, because the primary purpose of a navbox, is for navigating around the related articles that are included in the template. Right now, the navbox is included on ALL G.I. Joe articles. To correct this, ether the template should be modified, so that every article using the navbox is also included as a link in the navbox, or the navbox should be removed from G.I. Joe articles that aren't included in the template. Any suggestions? Fortdj33 ( talk) 02:24, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Please consider joining the discussion at Talk:Jinx (G.I. Joe)#Jinx quote box, regarding whether a quote about the character in G.I. Joe: Retaliation needs to be in a quote box or not. Thank you. Fortdj33 ( talk) 15:51, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Animation#Hasbro, Claster, Sunbow, 80s.
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Please consider offering your opinion at Talk:G.I. Joe: Retaliation#Pared down cast list, regarding whether certain characters should be included in the article or not. Thanks! Fortdj33 ( talk) 19:22, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
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Please consider adding your opinion to this discussion, about the movie-character infoboxes for G.I. Joe characters. Thanks! Fortdj33 ( talk) 15:36, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
I don't understand how Larry Hama can be considered a low-importance article in the context of this project. Without him, there would almost certainly be no G.I. Joe franchise today that went beyond the 12-inch dolls. There is literally no-one who could be considered more important to the franchise. 50.72.201.97 ( talk) 10:41, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
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Hey everyone, I signed us up to get an automated listing of articles in our project that need cleanup. You can find it here: [9]. -- Cerebellum ( talk) 23:18, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
I proposed The Coil for deletion, because I couldn't find any good sources for it. Can anyone think of a good alternative for deletion for this article? Could we merge it somewhere? -- Cerebellum ( talk) 12:39, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, I have been working on recommending new members for your project for a while, and have sent some lists to Fortdj33 who was willing to help invite those recommended editors. I wonder if you mind me sending invitations directly for WikiProject G.I. Joe on your behalf to save time and efforts of yours? Thank you! Bobo.03 ( talk) 17:05, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
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Greetings, I need your help to expand this articles, as I recognise you people know a lot more about G.I. Joe, because I'm a novice. Therefore, I need your help this pages:
Anyway, thank you so much. F. E. Puricelli ( talk) 14:26, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
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I can't figure out how to Wiki-add my name to the participants section. Also, I don't quite get the 'lucrative' description. Does it really apply to G.I.Joe that strongly? Lots42 20:15, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
I just want to give a warning to anyone working on this project because of experiences I've had on wikipedia: make sure that all articles have as many independent sources to establish notability as possible.
For example, a very persistent deletionist has been plaguing WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons (and a number of other fan-supported fiction-based wikiprojects) for the last few weeks, tagging articles with as many tags as he can think of, and nominating articles for deletion when he thinks he can get away with it. So far although he seems determined to single-handedly dismantle the project, he has been little more than an annoying hassle to the editors on that project; however if enough people begin listening to his arguments about notability, that could change. And he's not the first one to try this, just the most persistent so far; even if he fails, others will try again later.
So, to reiterate, make sure you add as many independent sources from books, magazines, TV specials, etc (preferably not from Hasbro or any licensee) to as many articles as possible to establish notability as soon as you can, to avoid this sort of unwanted scrutiny. You'll thank yourself later! BOZ 14:49, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
I think the Cover Girl page could benefit from a lot more people/an expert working on it. Lots42 08:59, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
I've found a wikia dedicated to G.I. Joe and there are templates that, I believe, we can use for the improvement of the G.I. Joe Wikipedia. The fan wikia can be located at gijoe.wikia.com. I have always envied how Transformers have articles that are more or less consistent in Wikipedia. This is one resource we can utilize. -- Destron Commander ( talk) 12:58, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Also, regarding templates, does anyone know of, or know how to make, a Joe-specific infobox, that would include statistical info (code name, real name, aliases, SN, specialties, year first figure released, etc) that could be included on each character's article? i.e. like the ones used for fictional characters. Salamurai ( talk) 14:05, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
Issues have been raised by more than one person regarding the length of sections of this article and the absence of citations. It would be greatly helpful if project members would pitch in and try to get this article under control. One major point is the section Marvel (Volume 1). The section should be a much briefer summary of the plot, rather than a nearly step by step retelling of the plot. Other sections need work as well. Thanks. Wildhartlivie ( talk) 00:01, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Since filming has begun, per WP:NFF, I've established the film article at G.I. Joe (film). I think this titling is most appropriate because of the setup of Transformers (film) and The Transformers: The Movie. Hopefully, we don't need to rehash titling arguments, especially with hatnotes at G.I. Joe and G.I. Joe: The Movie. However, a note to all about adding production information -- movie websites that provide scoop reports are not reliable sources. If they got news publicly from filmmakers and reported it, they can be cited. See the References section at the film article to understand what's verifiable enough to use. — Erik ( talk • contrib) - 23:50, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
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I just recently joined this project an decide as my first contribution to design an Userbox for members and one to post on the talk pages of articles related to G.I. Joe. What do you think of them?
Steve (
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22:09, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
May God Bless You All Always!
I need help from some who understands HTML and web pages better than I do. The templates used for G.I. Joe Character need some maintenance and I do not understand what is wrong. Take a look at the character template for Duke.
Duke | |
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G.I. Joe character | |
Voiced by | Michael Bell |
In-universe information | |
Affiliation | G.I. Joe |
Specialty | Current G.I. Joe field commander and second-in-command (America's Elite), G.I. Joe commander (Sigma 6) |
Birth place | St. Louis, Missouri |
Subgroups | Tiger Force, Star Brigade |
Series | G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 |
Now look at the Template for Transformers' Character Hot Rod.
Hot Rod/Rodimus Major/Rodimus | |
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Transformers character | |
Voiced by (English) | Judd Nelson (movie), Richard Gautier (post movie episodes) |
Voiced by (Japanese) | Hiroya Ishimaru |
In-universe information | |
Affiliation | Autobot |
Japanese name | Hot Rodimus |
Sub-group | Autobot Cars Deluxe Vehicles Targetmasters Micromasters Wreckers |
Function | Cavalier Matrix Templar Warrior |
Rank | 10 (original) 5 (Targetmaster) |
Partner | Firebolt (Sparks in the Marvel Comics series) |
Motto | "My actions speak louder than my words." "Action is my middle name." (Classics) "Wisdom will always defeat firepower." (Alternators) |
Alternate modes |
Dome Zero Ford GT |
Now here is the same Transformer's Template except that I put "G.I. Joe character" where "Transformer's Character" was.
Hot Rod/Rodimus Major/Rodimus | |
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G.I. Joe character | |
In-universe information | |
Affiliation | Autobot |
Specialty | Cavalier Matrix Templar Warrior |
Rank | 10 (original) 5 (Targetmaster) |
Subgroups | Autobot Cars Deluxe Vehicles Targetmasters Micromasters Wreckers |
Series |
Transformers: Generation 1 Transformers: Classics Transformers: Titanium |
So what is the problem? Can anyone tell me and show me how to fix it? ( Steve ( talk) 02:32, 12 March 2008 (UTC))
Do we have G.I. Joe Barnstar? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.127.116.51 ( talk) 13:14, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Dear WikiProject G.I. Joe participants... WikiProject Media franchises needs some help from other projects which are similar. Media franchises' scope deals primarily with the coordination of articles within the hundreds if not thousands of media franchises which exist. Sometimes a franchise might just need color coordination of the various templates used; it could mean creating an article for the franchise as a jump off point for the children of it; or the creation of a new templating system for media franchise articles. The project primarily focuses on multimedia franchises. It would be great if some of this project's participants would come over and help the project get back on solid footing. Also, if you know of similar projects which have not received this, let Lady Aleena ( talk · contribs) know. Please come and take a look at the project and see if you wish to lend a hand. You can sign up here if you wish. Thank you. LA @ 21:34, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Dear WikiProject G.I. Joe participants... WikiProject Media franchises is currently discussing a naming convention for franchise articles. Since this may affect one or more articles in your project, we would like to get the opinions of all related projects before implimenting any sweeping changes. Please come and help us decide. Thanks! LA ( T) @ 22:39, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
{{
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JoeWiki}} template, is under discussion. Please see
template talk:FreeContentMeta#Inline or floating to participate in this discussion.
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There is a move request: Feel free to discuss it at Talk:October Guard#Requested move. Greetings. Sebastian scha. ( talk) 05:25, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey there. Just wondering, but has this project ever thought about adding an assessment scheme? Without it, articles from this project won't be featured in Wikipedia releases, such as the upcoming 0.7 and eventual 1.0. BOZ ( talk) 04:48, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Terrordrome has been sent to WP:PROD by someone for deletion. 76.66.198.171 ( talk) 06:33, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
May God Bless You Always!
I know I have not been here for a while, but my life has gotten busy. Anyway, I have been working on a re-write for the Bazooka (G.I. Joe) article. I will try to have it up as soon as possible. ( Steve ( talk) 21:49, 26 February 2009 (UTC))
Seems that most of them have outdated citations. Just a heads up. I'd like to do it, but my hands could be full in the next few days. Ominae ( talk) 10:58, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
I believe we need to establish a Conventions page similar to what the Automobiles Project uses. We need to standardize things like how character pages are named, filenames are typed in infoboxes, etc. Thoughts?-- Flash176 (soon to be rechristened as Ridge Runner) ( talk) 05:16, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I think we definitely need to standardize page layout. If we look at three popular character pages, Snake-Eyes, Hawk (G.I. Joe) and Scarlett (G.I. Joe), the layout and section titles are completely different for each page. Something like this would be very helpful IMO. Cerebellum ( talk) 17:46, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Forgot to mention, we should also standardize the External Links sections. I think that at a minimum, each character page should link to the Joepedia article, the applicable YoJoe pages, and applicable Myuselessknowledge page. Cerebellum ( talk) 17:47, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I've always heard 3 3/4 myself. Cerebellum ( talk) 21:37, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Should we also work something up on article structure? (see my link two posts above) BOZ ( talk) 13:16, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Only thing I would add is a separate are in comics for Alternate Continuities, which is anything that is made by a comic company that does not fit in their established continuity at that time. Such as the G.I. Joe vs. Transformers series, and Transformers/G.I. Joe books. Might be more as IDW continues. As for the Sunbow/DIC part, I think the G.I. Joe The Movie should go in there as well, as it is a Sunbow production. I like the idea of keeping everything related to Sigma Six/Lost Missions separate, since the figures were different size, and the animated series and comic were separate from all other continuities, even though there is a stretch that they follow some of the events of the previous direct to DVD movies. I would like to put the year of the G.I. JOE Rise of Cobra Movie characters first appearance as the year that they first appeared in the movie, so that if a sequel comes out with new characters, there is a way to show when they came out. One thing I wondered, how do you want to handle the people in the movie figure line that are not in the movie, but may appear in the game or toy line? And, yeah, BOZ, I think in the general character overview, can say things that are consistent for all incarnations, or the most well know, like all versions of Snake Eyes have face covered and mute, and that all versions of Scarlett have Red Hair. Sgetz ( talk) 15:59, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Why?-- Ridge Runner (formerly known as Flash176) ( talk) 05:18, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
A user keeps adding back the [ Snake Eyes Tribute Site] to the Snake Eyes (G.I. Joe) Page. Above the ruling seemed to be no external fan sites. Thoughts on this case? Sgetz ( talk) 17:24, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Started with
with the implication that there will be more to come. FYI 24.148.0.83 ( talk) 18:58, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Barbecue (G.I. Joe) and Mainframe (G.I. Joe) have been listed at Articles for Deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barbecue (G.I. Joe) and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mainframe (G.I. Joe). Cerebellum ( talk) 18:59, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Many heroic Joes are based on real people, like Tunnel Rat-Larry Hama. But many villains are based on real people. This -might- run afoul of Wikipedia's rules against making negative comparisons involving living people. Can't hurt to be extra careful. Lots42 ( talk) 04:20, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
If you want to help me add on the years to the G.I.Joe Marvel issue references, I collated a list that should be here --- > http://lots42.livejournal.com/2077906.html Enjoy. Lots42 ( talk) 15:34, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
Sometimes it's tough to find sources for articles on G.I. Joe comics. I've put together a list of some helpful links (mostly interviews with creators) at User:Cerebellum/G.I. Joe. Please add more links if you find them. Thanks, -- Cerebellum ( talk) 01:25, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
![]() | G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel Comics publication) → G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel Comics) — Standard disambiguation per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics)#Between publications of different publishers. The article also needs to be added to the watchlist at Wikipedia:WikiProject G.I. Joe. Fortdj33 ( talk) 22:26, 28 April 2010 (UTC) |
He/she keeps deleting and adding wrong info on the G.I. Joe Scarlett page and never gives any explanation as to why [4]
To explain what is going on the page as best as I can... he/she keeps stating on the page that there was it implied that Scarlett was romantically involved with the character Duke and then goes on to say that they were together... now that doesn’t make any sense since implied is not an answer and yet in the Relationships section, it says that they were together. There's no source or episode from that cartoon show to prove that. I'm trying to be as accurate as I can on that page and I have listed which episode and have written out the scenes that explain that. But looking at that person's history page, that user goes on to remove any info that says otherwise no matter what and gives no reasons too any of this or that he/she will listen or stop and it seems that very little control goes on over there. Again I'm sorry to be a bother, but I thought someone should know of this. That person just keeps doing that.
This person is out to delete information just because he/she doesn't agree with it. [5]
Something needs to be done. 75.60.208.208 75.60.208.208 ( talk) 10:38, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
I modified the userbox to auto-include categories, just like the ones for the Transformers project. (I happened to notice that the TF userbox on my user page added a cat but GIJoe did not.) I also created the Category:WikiProject G.I. Joe members to go with it. These aren't important, but why not afford a little more legitimacy to the project. How is the project these days, anyway? I've been doing other things. - Salamurai ( talk) 03:30, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
There is an comicbook inbox for Dreadnoks could someone fix the picture for it I dunno how to do it. Dwanyewest ( talk) 03:05, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Right, sorry I didn't report this sooner, I didn't notice this WikiProject existed.
I have AFDed the following articles:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MOBAT (G.I. Joe)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ROCC
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Conquest X-30
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/S.H.A.R.C.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dragonfly (G.I. Joe)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/F.A.N.G.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/H.I.S.S.
Once again, I apologize. -- Divebomb ( talk) 15:44, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey guys, I have modified the project banner to allow for article assessment by quality and added some info to the project page. If I have broken anything, please let me know. -- Cerebellum ( talk) 17:49, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
In other news, I've nominated G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel Comics) for Good Article status. Please take a look and improve the page if you can. -- Cerebellum ( talk) 20:12, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
I think it may be best if you merge many character articles into a list of characters because they are not properley sourced. Some are fine, most are not. You also need to assess them on your own WP quality sclae and WP Fictional Character's. RAIN*the*ONE BAM 16:45, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
You need to make sure all the articles in Category:G.I. Joe characters meet the notability guideline by making sure they are "significantly covered"(this means actual coverage, not just a passing mention or a spot on a list) "in third party reliable sources". If you don't, these articles may face a mass deletion, or a simple redirect to List of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero characters. Predacon (G.I. Joe) is an example of a bad article. It doesn't show notability. Why does this character deserve to be in an encyclopedia? If you can't show this, then redirect it to where it is most relevant, and save yourselves the trouble of a mass deletion. Thanks, Blake ( Talk· Edits) 16:52, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hoping everyone on the project watches this page. I am thinking of modifying the G.I. Joe Character infobox to be consistent with other templates; please see Template talk:Infobox G.I. Joe character#Name formatting. Jist is, we don't match other articles, probably to our detriment, what do you think? - Salamurai ( talk) 00:28, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
There is currently a proposal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/2011/March#G.I. Joe stub for consolidating all the G.I.Joe stub articles into one category. Please check it out and voice your opinions! Fortdj33 ( talk) 02:02, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello everyone, there is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fictional characters#Wikipedia:WikiProject G.I. Joe Concern which pertains to this project. -- Cerebellum ( talk) 12:32, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
To address Jake's talk of a merge: I would caution against any sort of "grouping" of characters based on any kind of theme, as this may be subjective and confusing. Certain sub-teams may work well, such as the Lunartix and Sky Patrol merges. For the rest, I think a series of lists either by initial year of release, or alphabetically would work best. This would best be accomplished by coming up with a series of "skeletons" (maybe best done in user space before the merging), and then deciding what gets merged in on a case-by-case basis. I personally prefer alphabetical, although I understand that there is a good case for chronological, and the format should be decided before any action is taken.
As far as a list of "must-keeps", I'd estimate that there are at least a dozen, if not 20-30, that should absolutely be kept as articles. Some are just too popular, even with a current lack of meeting the GNG, to consider redirecting. Look at the AFD for Bumblebee (Transformers), for example; I recall it being a snow keep despite the lack of good sourcing. To add to Jake's list, I'd say that some villains such as Destro and Zartan should also be for-sure keeps, and I think it's safe to say that Baroness and Storm Shadow are good to go, and I'm sure a case could be made for characters like Dr Mindbender, Serpentor, Major Bludd, Tomax & Xamot, Zarana, and Firefly, among others. As for the Joes, I'd add Flint, Roadblock, and Shipwreck at the very least. The best way to do it might be to merge all the "low-hanging fruit" articles first, and then for the few dozen or so remaining questionable cases we could hold "merge or keep" discussions, maybe in smaller groups. BOZ ( talk) 18:02, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
See here is the problem BOZ. That discussion you cited, luckily for them they had a lot of votes to keep from editors who do not understand Wikipedia on a whole. They think because this character is so popular, it has to stay. Not the case. However, if they are so popular surely there are buckets of sources around the place. Just because this character is popular in the series, is it just as popular in the real world or in the case of a universal encyclopedia. It probably is the case with some. You know, for the articles you mentioned why not do a quick ref search, place them on the talk page, get the ball rolling. These things are a good way of getting people motivated to improving things again. However when nothing happens, and it stays that way when people have asked for change, I've seen articles go for deletion, mass deletion.. Which is a shame because it is preventable. The list ideas you have are just perfect, you seem to have the know how and idea how to pull it off. RAIN*the*ONE BAM 19:45, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
All of BOZ's ideas seem really good. I merged some articles to Sky Patrol (G.I. Joe), but I do agree that an alphabetical list is the best way to go. Jake, you've put a whole lot of effort into List of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero characters, what do you think should be done? I'm thinking that maybe every character would be on the list, with main article links for those that have stand-alone articles as well. How about the G.I. Joe infoboxes? Should we incorporate them into the list? The same question goes for the table at List of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero characters. Should we keep it or not? -- Cerebellum ( talk) 01:35, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
A 8
B 21
C 22
D 12
E 1
F 9
G 11
H 8
I 3
J 1
K 2
L 12
M 12
N 3
O 4
P 4
Q 1
R 15
S 33
T 10
U 1
V 3
W 6
X 0
Y 0
Someone brought up Pokemon in the other thread, and I think the situation with species of Pokemon is very similar to ours. Maybe we can learn from what has been done at List of Pokémon? -- Cerebellum ( talk) 01:39, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Cerebellum good ideas, the infobox is a good idea when there is some OOU information which some may have. The link to the main article is a great idea, quite a few lists do this. Adds more notability to the list too. One thing though, Yojoe is not a reliable references and should be avoided really. RAIN*the*ONE BAM 01:44, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
OK, I've created five new pages:
We can start merging stuff in now, but let's try to do the low-hanging fruit first, as BOZ said above, so that we don't merge article which could be standalone. I'd recommend that any characters listed in G.I. Joe vs. Cobra: The Essential Guide be kept standalone, but we can debate that after we merge the clearly non-notable articles and see what we have left.
Right now I think a separate List of Cobra characters would be better than throwing the Cobras in with the Joes, but it's not a huge deal either way. -- Cerebellum ( talk) 11:56, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Since there are already separate articles for Dreadnoks and Iron Grenadiers, do we just merge character articles into those, similar to what Fortdj33 did for the Lunartix Empire, or do we create a separate "List of ..." for them as well? -- Jake fuersturm ( talk) 14:09, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
In the interests of specificity, shouldn't the new articles be along the lines of (for example):
The merging project seems to be moving along steadily. With the exception of any Stub-class articles that still need to be merged, the rest of the G.I. Joe characters that have their own articles should all have a link on one of the alphabetical lists that Cerebellum created. As discussed, I have also created a List of Cobra characters, and have limited it to just the the unique Cobra characters that have their own articles. There are still some Cobra stubs that need to be merged, and I propose that any Cobra-La, Dreadnok or Iron Grenadiers articles should be merged into their respective parent articles. Keep up the good work! Fortdj33 ( talk) 16:36, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey guys, great job on the merges! Sorry I haven't helped out with that, but with the two of you on it so quickly, I figured that I'd be spoiling the proverbial soup by adding an unneeded chef. Plus I've been working on another project (Cerebellum knows about it). Let me know if there is any additional editing you need/want me to do. Cheers. -- Jake fuersturm ( talk) 18:09, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Folks:
I've been working on a rewrite of
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel Comics) in the hopes of getting it from its current GA rating to an A and eventually (dare we dream!) FA rating. The draft can be found at
User:Jake fuersturm/Work-in-Progress-1.
The draft has added several new sections covering plot, characters, and relation to the Sunbow cartoon, and I've also tried to find additional cite refs to support the content. The rationale for working on the draft on my userpage is that it involved a fair bit of restructuring and I didn't want to impact the existing article (and its GA rating) while its still largely a work-in-progress.
I think its in pretty good shape now, and I'd really appreciate it if you could provide some comments on the WiP and suggestions on how to make it better. In particular, if you feel inclined to copy edit and/or peer review the article, that would be super (there's quite a backlog on those requests, and it would also be nice to get someone who isn't automatically biased against the subject matter).
Thanks! --
Jake fuersturm (
talk)
21:28, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
On Duke's page I have removed the fansite references. There are no online sources, they now are basically primary sources. Can anyone find some online ones, it would be daft to have to merge it into a list - But it has been tagged for a few years now. It just needs a little bit of work and could do with some attention from you guys. Rain the 1 BAM 20:52, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
All: I just wanted the wikiproject members (and anyone else who may be interested, but haven't officially joined) to know that Raintheone has resurfaced and is giving us a hard time on the Joe articles. Except that instead of having the courtesy to give us a heads up on this page, he's decided to post it elsewhere (I wouldn't have noticed it except that I was looking something up on an unrelated matter): Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fictional characters#GI Joe part 2. -- Jake Fuersturm ( talk) 20:49, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
I don't think that Yojoe is a reliable source (I've removed it on a few occasions), but I'm wondering whether it could be a good external link. Any thoughts? Harry Blue5 ( talk) 20:55, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Head's up FYI: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zartan (2nd nomination) -- Jake Fuersturm ( talk) 17:18, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
You might be able to use yojoe,com as an external link under Wikipedia:ELMAYBE#Links_to_be_considered section 4. "4.Sites that fail to meet criteria for reliable sources yet still contain information about the subject of the article from knowledgeable sources." Mathewignash ( talk) 13:47, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
I was at Barns & Nobel today and i saw abook called Totally Tubular 80s (Bellomo, Mark (2010). Totally Tubular '80s. Krause Publications.), it has 6 color picture pages devoted to GI joe toys of the 80s, and some text about them. Maybe check it out. Mathewignash ( talk) 18:42, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
The GA-rated article G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel Comics) has been submitted for GA reassessment. An earlier (somewhat tangential) discussion took place here -- Jake Fuersturm ( talk) 04:16, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
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I know there has been some hubub here about citing yojoe.com as a source, since it's technically an unreliable fan site by Wikipedia standards. We have similar citations at the Transformers Wikipedia project for citing tru.info and other sites which archive pictures of the instructions and the boxes as sources. Thing it it's not REALLY yojoe.com that should be cited, since it's unreliable, it's the BOX or INSTRUCTIONS themselves that's being cited for information, the yojoe.com link is just there as a reference that the instructions say something. Citing the box or instructions of a toy or fictional character is reliable, as it a primary source for fiction. So what's the best way to cite it in a way that does not violate Wikipedia policy? For instance can we write up a citation that cites the Ally Viper's box as a source for information on him, instead of pointing to a yojoe scan of him and calling it a source? Perhaps the file card for a toy can be considered a "short story", and we could cite it like any other piece of fiction? While boxes and instructions are not proof of notability, they are reliable sources and should be treated as such, if we can agree on the best way to cite them. Mathewignash ( talk) 19:27, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
The three books that many of the character lists seem to reference, are:
I am also in the process of trying to locate these books, so that specific pages can be referenced in the character articles. In the meantime, there is also a trade paperback of the Order of Battle mini-series that Marvel published, which contains the same information that is on the filecards for most of those characters. The references could be modified to use that book as a source, instead of the images at yojoe.com. Fortdj33 ( talk) 18:13, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
First, can I just say well done on merging so many characters so far. Secondly, I'm not sure that General Flagg is notable enough for his own article. Harry Blue5 ( talk) 21:38, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
FYI...the merging of character articles is pretty much done. There are a few that still need to be merged, but I am confident that all of the character articles left, are notable enough to stand on their own. To that end, I am still in the process of adding citations from several books, specifically G.I. Joe vs. Cobra, G.I. Joe: Order of Battle, and G.I. Joe: Battle Files. If anyone is interested in debating the notability of any character articles not covered by those sources, please let me know and I will provide a list for us to come to a consensus on...
In the meantime, I've created several new maintenance categories, in the interest of expanding the G.I. Joe article coverage on Wikipedia. There are now separate categories for Category-class, Disambig-class, Redirect-class and Template-class G.I. Joe articles. Specifically, any article that has been merged, has now been re-added to the WikiProject under the Redirect-class. I don't think that it's necessary to create a redirect for EVERY G.I. Joe character ever created, but if any additional articles are merged, they can remain part of the project by updating their classification on the article's talk page. You can see all the articles broken down by quality status here, or by clicking on the quality status of any G.I. Joe article's talk page, and see all the status categories in the table of contents at the top of the page.
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There is also a log of everything that has been updated here, which is maintained by the WP 1.0 bot. I'm happy that the articles of Wikiproject G.I. Joe are now fully part of Wikipedia:Version 1.0, and I look forward to using the quality and importance guides to improve the coverage of G.I. Joe articles on Wikipedia. Fortdj33 ( talk) 05:27, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
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You might want to check out the CBC video archives for some nice sources to cite on characters. Heck on this video http://archives.cbc.ca/lifestyle/leisure/clips/16902/ a reporter quotes Major Bludd's bio card! That's pretty notable. In his video they interview a collector of older style Joes from Canada. http://archives.cbc.ca/lifestyle/leisure/clips/16999/ Mathewignash ( talk) 03:20, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
I would like to say that I have been following and updating the page G.I. Joe (IDW Publishing) for the last year or so. And, although I have done much to update the article, it lacks one major thing. The plot/storyline of the comic. So I am requesting that someone, who is familiar with the IDW storyline, write the plot for the article, like there is already one over at the IDW Transformers article, although that one also has not been updated for the last year and should maybe also need a writing to be up-to-date. Plastelin ( talk) 23:42, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello everyone! It would be great if we could get G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel Comics) to GA status once again, so I have started a discussion at Talk:G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel Comics)#Recent edits with some suggestions for improvement. Please chime in with your opinion if you are interested. -- Cerebellum ( talk) 19:05, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
As I had done with the merged and deleted Transformers articles, I have started to make copies of the merged and deleted G.I. Joe articles off site on Wikialpha. As an example, I copied the article for the Joe Airwave there. I also cleaned it up a bit and added a new picture. Please feel free to move any deleted articles you want to continue to develop there. http://en.wikialpha.org/wiki/Airwave_(G.I._Joe) Mathewignash ( talk) 13:42, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
It's been brought to my attention that the {{ G.I. Joe}} template is not functioning as intended, because the primary purpose of a navbox, is for navigating around the related articles that are included in the template. Right now, the navbox is included on ALL G.I. Joe articles. To correct this, ether the template should be modified, so that every article using the navbox is also included as a link in the navbox, or the navbox should be removed from G.I. Joe articles that aren't included in the template. Any suggestions? Fortdj33 ( talk) 02:24, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Please consider joining the discussion at Talk:Jinx (G.I. Joe)#Jinx quote box, regarding whether a quote about the character in G.I. Joe: Retaliation needs to be in a quote box or not. Thank you. Fortdj33 ( talk) 15:51, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
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Please consider offering your opinion at Talk:G.I. Joe: Retaliation#Pared down cast list, regarding whether certain characters should be included in the article or not. Thanks! Fortdj33 ( talk) 19:22, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
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I proposed The Coil for deletion, because I couldn't find any good sources for it. Can anyone think of a good alternative for deletion for this article? Could we merge it somewhere? -- Cerebellum ( talk) 12:39, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
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