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Hope you all are well. :) BOZ ( talk) 14:47, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi people! ;-)
I wonder if the English Wikipedia should have a separate article for every Fate supplement and world? They are quite interesting IMHO, but I am not really sure if, let's say, Romance in the Air in encyclopedic enough?
Also, I have been playing around with Polish Wikipedia and created this template to organize all the articles (which do not exist yet). What do you think?
Best wishes!
-- Kaworu1992 ( talk) 08:19, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
This looks like an independent UK games magazine from the early 1990s that I had not heard of before: [1] Does anyone know if this could be a WP:RS for notability purposes? BOZ ( talk) 17:22, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
In my unending quest to find reviews for existing articles on games, I have found quite a few reviews for games that do not currently have articles (either never started as far as I can tell, or deleted or redirected at some point). Rather than simply let those pass away into nothingness, I’ve been thinking about starting a reviews noticeboard for this project. In other words, list each game by name with a link to any review that I find. Once multiple reviews are found, someone can start the article and remove it from the noticeboard. Does this sound like a good idea, and do you have any suggestions for that? BOZ ( talk) 15:27, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
Heya everybody! Can anyone help me improve my draft article about Avery Alder? ( Draft:Avery_Alder) It got rejected the 1st time so I added more sources but I'm not sure if it's enough. Allcatsarebabes ( talk) 19:58, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
I wrote a Wikipedia article for the Lancer TTRPG. You can see it here. What are your thoughts? Also, it hasn't been approved yet even though I wrote it months ago. What's up with that. Plazma5000 ( talk) 13:38, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
The last maybe 10 years or so (at best) have seen an explosion in WP:RS game websites to provide a wealth of sources to really make tabletop game articles sparkle and shine. I was reminded today that the 10 years or so before that are a much harder time to find sources for; game websites like we have now were still just developing into a thing, and the old reliable sources – games magazines, that is – were dying out. The second version of Pyramid from SJG was published online until 2008 and the third version after that did not review games from other companies; InQuest lasted until 2007; Dragon remained in print form until 2013; German magazine Envoyer ended in 2008; one rare exception is French magazine Casus Belli which (aside from ending in 2006 and starting again in 2010) has continued in production now for over 40 years. I can't speak to how long any of those continued to review games from other companies, but they all did for a substantial portion of their print runs.
I said all that to say that games made in the past 10 years should theoretically be easier to source than those from the early 2000s, in theory. To test my theory, I went to my games deletion list and picked out some more recently deleted game articles and drafts.
If you spot any sources that can be used to restore any of these, let me know! :) BOZ ( talk) 01:18, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at
Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent
Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class=
parameter to {{
WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.
No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{ WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.
However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{
WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom
parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present.
Aymatth2 (
talk) 13:39, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
Draft:Jeeyon Shim needs an AfC reviewer. It's been sitting there for 2 months. It seems to meet all the standards and it's not my article, but I don't meet the reviewer criteria. Nodicenomasters ( talk) 15:47, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Both were published in 1998, by same publisher. These bare-bones articles are lacking substantial content. Wonder if an editor here could help combine?
Doubt if they merit seperate articles. Regards, JoeNMLC ( talk) 15:47, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
I am working on an entry for "legendary Dungeon Master" Stefan Pokorny and will appreciate any thoughts, corrections or additions. Thanks! /info/en/?search=Draft:Stefan_Pokorny_(designer) Kstern999 ( talk) 01:11, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
An article which may be of interest to members of this project— Metagaming (role-playing games)—has been proposed for merging with Metagame. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Sariel Xilo ( talk) 17:41, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
If you don't mind, here is my request. Pick any of the following articles: Call of Cthulhu, Traveller, Cyberpunk, Vampire: The Masquerade, Paranoia, RuneQuest, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Hunter: The Reckoning, Twilight: 2000, Kult, Tunnels & Trolls, Pendragon, Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game, Middle-earth Role Playing, 7th Sea, Castle Falkenstein, James Bond 007, Stormbringer, Toon. Click on the "edit" button and hopefully you will see a little yellow box at the top of the screen. If you find that little box helpful, annoying, confusing, or whatever, please post your feedback at Template talk:Refideas editnotce#Feedback. :) BOZ ( talk) 22:22, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
This keeps coming up every now and then (ex. Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Board_and_table_games/Sources#More_on_Pyramid_and_associated_publications). Pyramid has many articles that could be useful for expanding our articles on various games, role-playing as well as some board and war games ( random example from recent discussion), but it seems nobody I am aware of can access them.
@ JHunterJ who ~15 years ago replied in a way that makes it possible they had/have some access.
If nobody has access, perhaps we could contact the publisher (SJG) and ask for an account for Wikipedia? If that fails, I am thinking of posting a request on social media (reddit) or such to see if someone has access and would be willing to share.
And of course, if anyone knows of more gray way of accessing this (warez...), feel free to say so or email me :P Arguably this would fall under fair use just like requests for sources done at Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:08, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
The problem is that it's inaccessible in general, right. Even if we got some sort of Special Wikipedia Access to their preview-snippet-only articles, we couldn't cite those sources if only we can access them. Same as how I can't cite my grandma's unpublished book, or the post-it note on the side of my monitor. There would need to be some way for readers to access the sources, too.-- Alexandra IDV 02:38, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
WikiProject Role-playing games page. |
|
Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
Role-playing games Project‑class | |||||||
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Daily pageviews of Wikipedia:WikiProject Role-playing games
A graph should have been displayed here but
graphs are temporarily disabled. Until they are enabled again, visit the interactive graph at
pageviews.wmcloud.org |
More specific discussions used to take place on these three pages:
For now, though, please place all discussion on this main Talk page.
Hope you all are well. :) BOZ ( talk) 14:47, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi people! ;-)
I wonder if the English Wikipedia should have a separate article for every Fate supplement and world? They are quite interesting IMHO, but I am not really sure if, let's say, Romance in the Air in encyclopedic enough?
Also, I have been playing around with Polish Wikipedia and created this template to organize all the articles (which do not exist yet). What do you think?
Best wishes!
-- Kaworu1992 ( talk) 08:19, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
This looks like an independent UK games magazine from the early 1990s that I had not heard of before: [1] Does anyone know if this could be a WP:RS for notability purposes? BOZ ( talk) 17:22, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
In my unending quest to find reviews for existing articles on games, I have found quite a few reviews for games that do not currently have articles (either never started as far as I can tell, or deleted or redirected at some point). Rather than simply let those pass away into nothingness, I’ve been thinking about starting a reviews noticeboard for this project. In other words, list each game by name with a link to any review that I find. Once multiple reviews are found, someone can start the article and remove it from the noticeboard. Does this sound like a good idea, and do you have any suggestions for that? BOZ ( talk) 15:27, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
Heya everybody! Can anyone help me improve my draft article about Avery Alder? ( Draft:Avery_Alder) It got rejected the 1st time so I added more sources but I'm not sure if it's enough. Allcatsarebabes ( talk) 19:58, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
I wrote a Wikipedia article for the Lancer TTRPG. You can see it here. What are your thoughts? Also, it hasn't been approved yet even though I wrote it months ago. What's up with that. Plazma5000 ( talk) 13:38, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
The last maybe 10 years or so (at best) have seen an explosion in WP:RS game websites to provide a wealth of sources to really make tabletop game articles sparkle and shine. I was reminded today that the 10 years or so before that are a much harder time to find sources for; game websites like we have now were still just developing into a thing, and the old reliable sources – games magazines, that is – were dying out. The second version of Pyramid from SJG was published online until 2008 and the third version after that did not review games from other companies; InQuest lasted until 2007; Dragon remained in print form until 2013; German magazine Envoyer ended in 2008; one rare exception is French magazine Casus Belli which (aside from ending in 2006 and starting again in 2010) has continued in production now for over 40 years. I can't speak to how long any of those continued to review games from other companies, but they all did for a substantial portion of their print runs.
I said all that to say that games made in the past 10 years should theoretically be easier to source than those from the early 2000s, in theory. To test my theory, I went to my games deletion list and picked out some more recently deleted game articles and drafts.
If you spot any sources that can be used to restore any of these, let me know! :) BOZ ( talk) 01:18, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at
Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent
Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class=
parameter to {{
WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.
No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{ WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.
However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{
WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom
parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present.
Aymatth2 (
talk) 13:39, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
Draft:Jeeyon Shim needs an AfC reviewer. It's been sitting there for 2 months. It seems to meet all the standards and it's not my article, but I don't meet the reviewer criteria. Nodicenomasters ( talk) 15:47, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Both were published in 1998, by same publisher. These bare-bones articles are lacking substantial content. Wonder if an editor here could help combine?
Doubt if they merit seperate articles. Regards, JoeNMLC ( talk) 15:47, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
I am working on an entry for "legendary Dungeon Master" Stefan Pokorny and will appreciate any thoughts, corrections or additions. Thanks! /info/en/?search=Draft:Stefan_Pokorny_(designer) Kstern999 ( talk) 01:11, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
An article which may be of interest to members of this project— Metagaming (role-playing games)—has been proposed for merging with Metagame. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Sariel Xilo ( talk) 17:41, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
If you don't mind, here is my request. Pick any of the following articles: Call of Cthulhu, Traveller, Cyberpunk, Vampire: The Masquerade, Paranoia, RuneQuest, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Hunter: The Reckoning, Twilight: 2000, Kult, Tunnels & Trolls, Pendragon, Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game, Middle-earth Role Playing, 7th Sea, Castle Falkenstein, James Bond 007, Stormbringer, Toon. Click on the "edit" button and hopefully you will see a little yellow box at the top of the screen. If you find that little box helpful, annoying, confusing, or whatever, please post your feedback at Template talk:Refideas editnotce#Feedback. :) BOZ ( talk) 22:22, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
This keeps coming up every now and then (ex. Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Board_and_table_games/Sources#More_on_Pyramid_and_associated_publications). Pyramid has many articles that could be useful for expanding our articles on various games, role-playing as well as some board and war games ( random example from recent discussion), but it seems nobody I am aware of can access them.
@ JHunterJ who ~15 years ago replied in a way that makes it possible they had/have some access.
If nobody has access, perhaps we could contact the publisher (SJG) and ask for an account for Wikipedia? If that fails, I am thinking of posting a request on social media (reddit) or such to see if someone has access and would be willing to share.
And of course, if anyone knows of more gray way of accessing this (warez...), feel free to say so or email me :P Arguably this would fall under fair use just like requests for sources done at Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:08, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
The problem is that it's inaccessible in general, right. Even if we got some sort of Special Wikipedia Access to their preview-snippet-only articles, we couldn't cite those sources if only we can access them. Same as how I can't cite my grandma's unpublished book, or the post-it note on the side of my monitor. There would need to be some way for readers to access the sources, too.-- Alexandra IDV 02:38, 5 May 2024 (UTC)