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In the (resurected!) Signpost, there's an interview with WP:MILHIST, and in it they make the claim that the project has been in "a slow decline over the last few years", as has Wikipedia as a whole. It made me curious about our own project, and since I have both just over 12 years of assessment data at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article statistics and a willingness to make up my own arbitary measurements, I thought I'd give it a try. Here's a table of data for the Marches of 2007-2018:
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The data as chosen doesn't make things look as dire, actually, as MILHIST seems to find it. GA and FA counts keep going up, as do the percentage of total VG articles. VG article count itself started slowing down in 2016, but that was about the point that we started getting aggresive about finding and merging/redirecting new substubs- the sheer size of the 'new articles report' every week doesn't seem to bear out a slowing rate of creation. The main point of concern is that the rate of GAs peaked in 2016 and FAs in 2015, though the trend isn't long or deep enough to be over-alarming (to me, at least). Anyways, I mainly posted this because I spent so long building the table that it seemed a waste not to, so... here you go. -- Pres N 04:17, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
I was just dotting around and noticed something important. There isn't a "Viewtiful Joe (series)" page. There are a total of 4 games, 1 anime, and 1 character pages. IMHO, there is enough information to make a series page. I'm not good at making them yet so I'm requesting here if someone would like to make it. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 19:36, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
The Harvest Moon series was rebranded Story of Seasons some time ago, but continued on as a new series also entitled Harvest Moon. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia of history, changing the name of the former series to Story of Seasons feels incorrect. I think that Story of Seasons should be split - with the old portion going to the more notable Harvest Moon and the current Harvest Moon being moved to Harvest Moon (2007 series) which is somewhat less notable. I would like to see if people agree on this, and if there is a correct naming convention.
Another possibility is to move all the old Harvest Moon games back to Harvest Moon, and prioritize the series name over the owners of said series. ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 09:56, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
^^I really like this proposal. I support this. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 15:31, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
I preferred the old setup. "Harvest Moon" for most people really means the series "Story of Seasons", confusing as that is. I definitely 100% disagree with moving the cash-in neo-Harvest Moon series to just "Harvest Moon" [1]; it is not the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for "Harvest Moon", which is the "old" series, and it violates WP:ASTONISH to see "Harvest Moon" claim to be a series that started in 2007. The confusing redirect, or at worst a disambig page, are the way to go. SnowFire ( talk) 20:51, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
I'm a little late to this discussion, but I wanted to just add a vote to the disambiguation page idea, for the simple reason that there is also a physical phenomenon called "harvest moon", which is the full moon seen nearest to the time of the autumnal equinox. A disambiguation page would allow us to provide a link to an appropriate article on the lunar cycle, which I would expect would cover the timing of that particular full moon, in case someone is looking for that and not the video game. — KieferSkunk ( talk) — 21:11, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Notifying of a deletion discussion: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2018 May 3#Template:Infobox Galgame -- ferret ( talk) 13:18, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
ThiagoSimoes ( talk · contribs) changed the criteria on the List of longest-running video game franchises page so that games should only be included if they have had 25 years pass between the initial release and most recent. I find this silly, and think we should only base it on the initial release, so basically any game (with a dedicated series/franchise page) released in 1993 or earlier would qualify. More discussion would be appreciated on the talk page there. ~ Dissident93 ( talk) 21:09, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
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Hi everyone,
Paragon is no longer playable, its lead tense was changed from "is a" to "was a". I reverted @ OhKayeSierra, but they me pointed on the talk page to, Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Video_games#Verb_tense, which says something else (one of the examples is the revived Star Fox 2!). If I recall correctly, we had a discussion about this thing a while back, but I'm not sure what to search for in the archives.
My thoughts that a game, even if no longer playable, still exists. At one point, it was created and playable. You can have the files on your console or PC for instance, but it might not connect to a required server. What about P.T. for instance, it exists, but it is no longer downloadable. The piece of software is still there. Or to compare a long lost work of art, it *is* a painting that *is* presumed lost. To me, Paragon *is* a game that *is* cancelled. Thoughts? soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 12:21, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
I'm going through Special:LintErrors, and I've found a few dozen high-priority errors in articles tagged by this WikiProject. The wikitext parser is going to change in June, and any page with an error may display strangely.
What's needed right now is for someone to click these links and compare the side-by-side preview of the two parsers. If the "New" page looks okay, then something's maybe technically wrong with the HTML, but there's no immediate worry. If that column looks wrong, then it should be fixed.
The first list is all "deletable table" errors. If you want to know more about how to fix these pages, then see mw:Help:Extension:Linter/deletable-table-tag. Taking the first link as an example, there is highlighting in the wikitext that shows where the lint error is; it's in the ==K== section. Looking at the preview, they don't look the same. I suspect that the problem is that someone removed most, but not all, of the table that was in the ==J== section, so this may be simply a side effect of unnoticed vandalism (unless there have never been any fictional countries whose names start with J?).
This second list is "misnested tags". See
mw:Help:Extension:Linter/html5-misnesting for more information. The highlighting indicates that the problem is in the first words, where it says {{nihongo foot|'''''Chrono Trigger'''''|クロノ・トリガー|Kurono Torigā|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}}
. This probably indicates that the template itself contains tags in the "wrong" order (which is unfortunately not uncommon for language templates). However, the page still looks the same, despite the HTML error, so fixing this one is not an emergency.
For more help, you can ask questions at Wikipedia talk:Linter. Good luck, Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:09, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Congratulations! Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 23:22, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
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structure. Fun.
Reach Out to the Truth 02:58, 4 May 2018 (UTC)I need this article translated. I've already asked on Wikiproject:France, but in case they take too long to respond I wanna ask here. Cognissonance ( talk) 13:32, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
For a couple of weeks, I've noticed something odd happen with articles that have references using the "script-title=ja" documentation in any of its citations. The Japanese text displays, but rather the link being part of the text as per usual, it is shunted to one side and the url appears similar to an external link. Sometimes refreshing a page corrects the fault, but most times it remains. There are also pages more prone to this than others, as some pages still display citations using "script-title=ja" as normal. Normal "title" documentation appears unaffected. I've tried clearing my browser cache and data in case it's a fault at my end, but the issue has persistent. -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 18:11, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
<bdi>...</bdi>
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we would need to invent some sort of mechanism to determine text direction. I think that is a rather lot of work for little reward that would in the end be tossed into the rubbish tip. So, best advice I think, is to accept the MediaWiki (not the templates and not
Module:Citation/CS1) failure until June when Remex comes on line.{{cite web}}
expects that, when |script-title= exists, an appropriately latinized |title= is in place, which is however missing on citations on the pages in question and should be added. Even if that is not the actual problem, they should be added nontheless as they fixed the problem in previews. Furthermore, it might be wise to add |trans-title= parameters with English translations of the citation titles.
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Having difficulty with WP:NFCC and the usage of the Harvest Moon logo in Story of Seasons. there is an active discussion there. I believe the image is vital for understanding of Story of Seasons. Marchjuly says it doesn't reflect what the article says. To be fair, the article is really empty. I did agree i'll add information. Do to a copyright mistake, all the information i added in was removed too. So i dont have the confidence to re-add the information in without a copyright violation. if someone could assist me with that? Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 11:26, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello Everyone, who ever is reading this I need editors to edit my list of Battlefield 1 weapons. It looks like its not reliable and I need help with it. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by XxNTE22xX ( talk • contribs) 16:23, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
When looking at those GamePro magazines, does the "fun factor" count as an overall score? When looking at sites like Game Rankings and Moby Games, the scores given with their GamePro entries seem to reference the "fun factor" score from the GamePro reviews. However, some users here are doubtful. 172.250.44.165 ( talk) 13:39, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
Some games do not have a game manual, or whatever manual exists does not include a description of the game content. There are user generated content Wikia web sites that have taken the actual in game descriptions of content and created web pages with identical descriptions of that content. These are peer reviewed site to ensure that the web site descriptions match the in game descriptions. Here is an example of a list of "driver skills" from a game called Need For Speed World (which was shut down on July 14, 2015, so this is now historical data):
http://nfs.wikia.com/wiki/Need_for_Speed:_World/Driver_Skills
In the case of EA games up to around 2016, all of the publisher's official announcements about game changes were URL links that redirected to the publishers forum (for NFS World, this was forums.ea.com, now gone and without archive), which presents an issue since this is also user generated content, although the users in this case are staff members of the game publisher.
Normally user generated content web sites are not considered as reliable sources, but in this case, the data being referenced in the cases I'm wondering about (description of game content that matches actual in game description) is not opinion based and extremely unlikely to be challenged by anyone. Rcgldr ( talk) 21:42, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
I'm creating a list of potential reference sources. Please add any that you can think of and also if the ones I've listed could be used as references.
The game itself (assuming the game and required platform could still be obtained).
The game's manual or any documentation that is included with the game, or downloaded from an official publisher web site for the game. This would eliminate the need to be able to actually run the game.
Original publisher's promotions or announcements that note content, and dates of importance related to a game.
strategy guide - although as noted in the article, a game could change, so that the guide could be out of date. An online guide could be updated to stay up to date with a game, and also keep an history / archive of prior versions of a game.
Third party game review sites.
Rcgldr ( talk) 04:25, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Reward board#005 and Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request#Draft:005 & The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games may be of interest to members of this wikiproject. Warmest regards, — Godsy ( TALK CONT) 03:54, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
This isn't a Wikipedia question but it could help me with something. I'm working on Edge (video game) and Metacritic has an aggregated score for the iOS version of Edge extended [2]. But it doesn't have an aggregated score for the original Edge game [3]. I thought that was odd because the same review websites for Edge Extended also have reviews for Edge. How do we bring the attention to Metacritic so that they can determine the score for it. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 07:27, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
I recently acquired a large number of issues from the Dutch Gameplay magazine. This monthly commercial gaming magazine that has run since 1994 and is published by "BVBA Tarsonis." See also the Dutch Wikipedia article. The issues I obtained range from November 2010 (#175) to March 2013 (#203). However, I am missing the "end of year" editions. I will be getting more issues for 2013, '14, '15, '16, and '17 in the coming weeks and months. Gameplay has covered all big mainstream releases in this period, as well, as many smaller-scale releases. The magazine covers news stories (sometimes as a blurb or a short article), has a few interviews, and does one "retro review" per issue. Gameplay has always had a bit of a focus on PC gaming, and didn't start covering console gaming until 2010. I am willing to translate articles from these issues upon request. I wouldn't even know yet how to make full list of all of this as I have done thus far at User:Maplestrip/Available sources. Feel free to ask if a certain game has been covered by Gameplay and I'll be happy to look them through! ~ Mable ( chat) 10:02, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
You know me, I love metadata and wikifying, infoboxes, navboxes, WikiProject tagging, dabsolving, etc. -- so the new WP:SHORTDESC are definitely something I'm now looking out for and editing/importing on any page where it hasn't been done yet. Does anyone have any idea how we could generate some sort of "WPVG articles missing shortdescs"? Ideally three classes: existing shortdesc, Wikidata shortdesc (which need reviewing and importing) and missing shortdesc. Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 18:17, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
|genres=
field of the infobox in essence, so perhaps for certain genres a somewhat customized description can be done.
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Does anyone have actual copy of this book? I'm looking at Edge (video game) and I can't find any proof that the game is featured in that book. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 15:15, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
I did that too. No preview options were given when I did that. But based on what Galobtter said, he was able to verify that the game is in the book, that's good enough for me.18:03, 11 May 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk • contribs)
That article is rated as start-class and high-importance. Any editor knows that's a bad combo. I'm not a project member but I came across it and it was...pretty bad to say the least. Almost mention of anything newer than the Nintendo DS/PSP era.
I made an outline for every single section of the article on what to flesh out and what kind of information needs to be put in there. A few volunteers with more expertise than me need to go in, write some rough drafts, source some claims, and clean things up. I am absolutely available and happy to help, but I do my best work editing wording for greater clarity and professional tone. I'm not a great researcher or draft writer. If all you can do is go in there and add a bunch of sloppy (yet well-sourced!) information, I will be happy to do the rest.
If my suggestions are followed I'd easily rate it as a C-class, perhaps as a B-class.
As a side project, it may be important to go into articles on specific games and link to this page. I've noticed that the Pokemon games link to Role-playing video game rather than this article. I don't blame them. It sucks. But you know, I'd say that they are more influential to the handheld market than RPGs as a whole. If you say, "What's your favorite RPG?" no one is going to say a Pokemon game even if they love those games. Point is, this article can be a useful tool if it's fleshed out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prometheus720 ( talk • contribs) 17:27, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
There is a deletion request for List of Harry Potter-related topics if anyone is interested. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 17:20, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
There is a new game called deathgarden would someone ever made that article? 49.148.157.152 02:19, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
Does anyone have an archive link for all things related to Touch-Gen? I don't see them in list of Reliable sources but they seem to be reliable based on Metacritic using them. But i can't access any of their reviews anymore. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 00:53, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
Yo, would someone mind moving Talk:The Dark Knight (video game) to Talk:Batman: The Dark Knight (video game) to match the main article's title? JOE BRO 64 21:27, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
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It is time for Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia to receive its own article. I have made a start. Axl ¤ [Talk] 09:13, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
I thought I'd chip in and give us an update for our review thread.
That's all, folks! JOE BRO 64 20:26, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
I made a request to move Every Extend Extra (single game) to Every Extend (series). You can find the discussion here. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 21:47, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
I've put forward Alpine Games for AfD not sure where to add it for the project deletion process know, Govvy ( talk) 20:00, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
Is there a policy/consensus on whether or not Steam scores/reviews can be used in articles? I've been removing them from Reception sections but now I'm seoncd-guessing myself. The Verified Cactus 100% 21:16, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
Anyone have a clue as to which issue of Cube this feature was in? JOE BRO 64 19:51, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
Ideas on how to clean up this promotional article? (Do not click through to the website, which is now spyware.) Might be able to salvage an article about Antwand Pearman, its founder, based on the sourcing? czar 21:06, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
Hey! So I've noticed that our newsletter is super out of date. Is there anyone that I can talk to about helping out? Or is the current one still under construction? I think it'd be great if we could find a way to automate pieces of it so just one or two editors could work to get it out. Nomader ( talk) 19:32, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
There is over 7 titles for the series and all the non-notable sequels are being redirected to the original game Lumines: Puzzle Fusion. In my opinion, that's a problem. I just started a draft and everyone is welcomed to add and rework. I prefer it to meet C-class before becoming an official article, if that's OK with you. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 09:57, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
Talking about every page pointed to by Lists of Nintendo characters. I felt this was a more appropriate talk for this since it has less to do with the pointing page and more to do with everything being pointed towards, but why are the character lists inconsistent?
Points to dedicated character lists:
Points to general pages with no character list:
Points to general pages with character lists:
Points to nothing yet:
Now whether it goes to a character section or a character page is just a very minor complaint. We have links going to no character lists at all, which is what I'm pointing out and needs to be resolved. The Fire Emblem games, except Thracia 776, all had dedicated lists that have since been replaced with redirections to their general pages that never had and never got character sections. Why was this? Can we roll them back? I can't find anything on this. I know @ ProtoDrake: did most of them so if you could fill me in on why or how it went down back then, please.
On a related note, Wario points to a specific series' characters, WarioWare, and not overall including Wario Land and Master of Disguise characters. I personally feel a separate character list page would benefit way more, for more solidarity without changing or ruining the flow of Wario (franchise). But either reworking the Wario franchise page (which it needs anyways) to have a general character section or pointing to each section from the Lists of Nintendo characters page would work. Most of the character blurbs for Wario Land end up telling the plot and nothing about the character themselves. Also why isn't Wario listed in the Master of Disguise or WarioWare list of characters? Even though it's all on the same page, it doesn't feel organized to me. ~ CFood0 22:39, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
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This FAC is in danger of being archived due to inactivity, so I'd appreciate additional eyes. Always good for my gratitude and a review in exchange on whatever you need down the line :) Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs (talk) 16:49, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi everyone!
I did a lot of work on this article over the past few days and would love it to be onced over by the community in its current state. This series is fascinating to me as it appears to be the only Israeli video gaming series. There's still much more information to be squeezed out of sources, particularly with the Haaretz source, but yeah, just wanted to post this here to get your thoughts. :) (I'm not a Hebrew speaker so I've used Google Translate to understand the sources).-- Coin945 ( talk) 02:19, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
I just added unrefined content to the reception section at Detroit: Become Human. The traffic has died down, but not enough for the Guild of Copy Editors, so I'm asking here - for someone who can look at it with a fresh perspective. (This is the only section that needs copy editing.) Cognissonance ( talk) 17:11, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Atari's co-founder, Ted Dabney, has died, and I'm trying to get his article up to snuff for an ITNR posting. There's a major interview with him in Edge Magazine #200 where he spoke out about his time at Atari which I think may be helpful but cannot find anything online for this. I know its Edge Magazine #200, published 2009. If anyone has any ideas, that would be great. -- Masem ( t) 23:49, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
I've just found this article that appears to mention something about Kazuya Mishima's creation (at least google translate seems to point out) but I don't even know if the content is okay or Japanese. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 17:34, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
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Has anyone got bulk revert privilege to fix this lot in one hit? - X201 ( talk) 07:47, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
I have this computer game where the manual is only included as html file and I'm not sure if i should use template:cite book or template:cite video game. There is no paper version or pdf version of it exist, its only included in the game's files, but its technically not in the actual game. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 06:53, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.
Portals are being redesigned.
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On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.
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Does anyone know where to find sources for Conflict 2500, one of the first computer games released by Avalon Hill? They may or may not have released Lords of Karma and Midway Campaign first, I am not sure. 208.47.202.254 ( talk) 17:49, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
I've only just heard of this book. It's basically a summary of the entire Tomb Raider series with exclusive interviews and concept art. Sadly, I've entirely missed the chance of picking it up for anything less than £100 pounds, which is far more than I'm willing to pay. If anyone here has a copy of the book, then they have an invaluable source for improving the major Tomb Raider articles. I have an interest in this as I'm currently working on a rewrite of Legend with the intent of making it a GA, with an idea of expanding to other Tomb Raider articles and possibly tidying and slightly expanding Angel of Darkness -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 22:11, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
What do you guys think about a Bethesda task force? I think they're a big enough company and have enough articles related to them for their own task force, but I want to know what other people think about it. I'm not quite sure how the whole creation process works or whatever, but I thought suggesting it here was a good place to start. -- LichWizard talk 20:17, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Ah, that seems like a good idea. If I end up thinking making a Bethesda task force is a good idea, I'll probably do that ;) -- LichWizard talk 11:32, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
Me and two other users have gathered some sources over on Team Fortress Classic's talk page for a section on the brief period of time that Team Fortress was updated and renamed Team Fortress 1.5. I began working on a draft for the section in my sandbox and asked for some opinions over there, but didn't get a response. I thought this place might get more traffic, so I've decided to ask for thoughts on how it looks so far over here :)
Cheers,
-- LichWizard talk 18:15, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
I was wondering what qualifiers should be used on this category? Because it could be hugely populated with games, we have Atari games divided into systems which I prefer, I also wondered if we should get rid of this category... Govvy ( talk) 10:06, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
I have been working on most of Kazuya Mishima's sections but I'm not sure if the reception section is well arranged. Should it be trimmed despite having multiple "Best Character of X"? Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 23:32, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
1.General response 2.Characterization 3.Devil form 4. Gameplay 5.Other media Do you think it works better now? Still, I think the section abuses too many quotes. Tintor2 ( talk) 02:31, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
It's June and we got another article coming up as Today's Featured Article. On the 12th of June, Cloud (video game) will be that day's Featured Article. Congrats go out to PresN for getting it to that status. GamerPro64 17:59, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi! I've this question that has been bugging me and more especially since this guy called StraightDown has been causing me problems in the articles I've tried to improve, only to have him appear and basically make a mess and blaming me for "vandalizing" and "altering the truth" when it comes to references i've cited on various articles i've edited and even created. But getting to the point, this is my main question: is the usage of game manuals allowed to be taken as references for video game articles here? As my main basis for citing them is Dino Crisis. Thanks! KGRAMR ( talk) 03:33, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
Talk:Open world#Requested move 4 June 2018, as info. The project's view on "open world" as a game feature versus a genre may be important here. -- ferret ( talk) 13:54, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
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The redirect of List of Xbox Play Anywhere games is a terrible edit. The list is not Xbox One related but both Windows 10 and Xbox One release dates as well as defining the Play Anywhere program. Windows 10 dates are not defined on the mass Xbox One list. Not to mention trying to read about just PA titles in the massive list, even sorted, is extremely difficult, not to mention the references were not merged. It is also useful to reference cancelled PA titles for those still expecting a title to come to the other platform and looking for answers. PA is a distinct platform. Thanks. -- 2603:3023:10B:D100:F81B:97DE:8CD0:E2FF ( talk) 23:09, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
User:Izno asked if there could be a border option for the vertical timeline template navbox. I recently noticed it and a couple of others agreed it should be implemented, including myself. the discussion is here Template talk:Timeline of release years#Borders. Could more people contribute to the discussion and make it a reality? Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 23:22, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
So now we have an article on Dark Souls II's DLC, Dark Souls II: The Lost Crowns (a name that isn't even mentioned by the game). As with Dark Souls: Artorias of the Abyss, I vote that we merge them back into their main articles, as there is no reason we should split info off when the main articles need expansion. There is no real commentary on either DLC either, besides announcement and reception. ~ Dissident93 ( talk) 00:33, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
In Vampyr (video game), I added information about how many worked on it. The source said 70% of their 120 overall staff members. I just used a website to calculate that figure to around 80, but that might just be WP:OR. Is there a template that can automatically convert percentage to numbers, like Template:Convert does with distance? Cognissonance ( talk) 00:25, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
{{percent and number|84|120|suffix= employees}}
gives 70% (84 employees)Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 00:35, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Spring's coming to an end but that's not going to stop us from squeezing in one more review thread for the season. And there's a lot of stuff that hasn't been reviewed.
It's a lot more than last time. JOE BRO 64 20:19, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
I just made the Lumines article, and I need some help with cropping and uploading a non-free image. There's this logo here: [5]. Does anyone here have photo editing skills? I just need it for the infobox but I need the "Remastered" to be removed. I'd appreciate the help. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 20:29, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Let's remember that an announcement of a game is not sufficient for starting a new article, particularly if we have a suitable target article to point to. (Eg, all we know about Fallout 76 is a teaser trailer, not even a release date, so a standalone makes no sense). We should have at minimum a release date/windows, planned platforms, some concept of gameplay and plot, and ideally some development details for a standalone. -- Masem ( t) 19:50, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
Redirects from the names of several characters from the Hitman series that currently target Hitman (franchise) have been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 June 9. Most of these previously targetted List of Hitman video game characters, which has been redirected and unredirected several times over a couple of years, apparently without discussion. I've left a comment with a suggested way forward at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 June 9#Hitman Agent 17. Your comments on the individual redirect discussions and on my linked suggestion are invited. Thryduulf ( talk) 14:19, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#WP:VG_Sources. -- Emir of Wikipedia ( talk) 17:31, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
In trying to update categories for Beat Saber, I found we don't have a category for rhythm game. We do have Category:Music video games, but that seems based on Music video game. I feel we're double-covering things here, since outside of "music creation", everything else in Music video game is essentially covered by Rhythm game. I'm not 100% sure what to do here, but it does need some resolving. -- Masem ( t) 16:52, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
I was out working during EA's bit but from what I heard it was kinda...eh. So, T-90 minutes for this one. See you soon for all the fun! Zero Serenity ( talk - contributions) 18:31, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
And I think we're done. Lots of unexpected surprises and great looking stuff here. Bethesda is tonight. Let the games begin. Zero Serenity ( talk - contributions) 21:43, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
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Hi all,
I've gone through some of our backlog, and have now successfully added an infobox to those in Category:Video game articles needing infoboxes (Awaiting the AfD result for Celeris).
Anyone know what tags etc. cause an article to be listed under Category:Video game cleanup? It seems to be pretty variable. For instance Ghosts 'n Goblins (video game) is listed in the category, but doesn't have any tags, on the talk page, or on the article. Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 15:41, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
I don't know where to post this,. made a peer review request for Edge (video game). if anyone wants to take a look, I'd appreciate it. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 17:38, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
No idea if anyone else needs this, but I just scanned EGM's 2005 award ceremony for another Wikipedian and thought I'd drop the results here, in case anyone has a use for it:
JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 20:02, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
Is Defiance 2050 an upcoming game should be separate article to the current Defiance??? 122.55.51.147 message 03:01, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
I have been uploading some images on video game articles but some of them today disappear and I tried to put it back the image but still can't be put into an article? when the file still exist, I and already tried to put images on the newly uploaded but still can't used the image on article. Mayamaya7 Poke! 06:24, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
A couple other editors and I have been collaborating over on Team Fortress Classic's talk page to try and get the article ready to be submitted for GA review. We're currently working on expanding the gameplay section and doing general cleanup. If you would like to help anything would be appreciated! We've come pretty far already, and I think we're almost there :)
Thanks,
-- LichWizard talk 17:37, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
Okay, I see. I think the bullet points are probably fine considering Team Fortress 2 uses them in a similar way in it's gameplay section, but I'll change the reception section. -- LichWizard talk 19:16, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
Since this has been discussed multiple times in various discussions here, I decided to start up a formal merger discussion.
Should Bloodstain (Souls series) and Bonfire (Dark Souls) be merged into the Souls (series) articles? Please discuss here - please leave input/comments there. Thank you! Sergecross73 msg me 14:26, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
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The title was relaunched on May 8th 2018, following its own reception: http://pr.funcom.com/pressreleases/conan-exiles-out-today-over-1-million-sold-2501619 77.126.27.7 ( talk) 09:11, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
See Template talk:Devil May Cry series#Organization of games about whether or not the reboot DmC deserves its own section. Tintor2 ( talk) 23:09, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
In the past I have typed out sources word by word into Google Translate when the information is within unsearchable content (such as an photo from a Polish gaming magazine). This was the only solution I could think of that didn't require a poor Polish Wikipedian to manually translate the thing. These days I now have a much better solution.
I would recommend that Wikipedia users instead use this (free) website https://ocr.space, which turns an image into text. You choose the language / languages contained in the image, and the algorithm does the rest.
When copy/pasting the output to Google Translate, I've had issues with sentences being broken between lines, so you might have to manually go through each line, deleting the dead space and ensuring the sentences are being translated whole rather than in out-of-context fragments. It may be annoying but it's certainly better than the other way.
Just wanted to throw it out there because it took a bit of sleuthing to come to that solution and I think it should become standard practice here.
-- Coin945 ( talk) 02:43, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
An edit war is presently going on regarding the handling of the term " hero shooter" on Team Fortress 2 and Overwatch. According to Solino, "hero shooter" is a proper genre while others disagree. So to seek clearer consensus, how should we address these games as "hero shooters"? Lordtobi ( ✉) 08:11, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
There are three press conferences planned for today at E3; Square Enix, Ubisoft and Sony. I'm definitely going to cover the Square Enix event, which is happening shortly. I may not be able to cover the others due to time zone differences. If anyone wants to cover the others, they're welcome. -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 15:49, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
And that's it. -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 17:30, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
Why are we in a church? (I'm on this one.) Zero Serenity ( talk - contributions) 01:02, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
Are we done? This presentation style is very confusing. Zero Serenity ( talk - contributions) 02:38, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
(apologies to Dissident, this deserves a higher placement for discussion)
We have Video game remake as a stand-alone article. We also have Remaster#Video games, a section that is poorly written and researched, and is treating the concepts as if synonymous when they are not. (I caught the Video game remake article doing this in a handful of places, too, and fixed it).
We either need to have a Video game remaster article (presently a redir to Remaster#Video games), or a section at Video game remake that is all about remasters in particular and is more detailed and accurate than the WP:SUMMARY material at Remaster#Video games (which needs revision no matter what direction we go in).
See also User talk:Interqwark#Remasters and remakes for some background discussion, stemming from a terminological dispute about this stuff.
PS: The material also needs to distinguish these concepts from a) porting; b) emulation (including packaging of a game inside an emulator as a quick-and-dirty porting alterantive); and c) creation of alternative game engines for original game content (e.g.
OpenMW, which comes with no game content, and uses the original content files of
Morrowind but any of its .EXE, .DLL or other related code).
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Are these lists silly? I thought DirectX was a fairly common API used for Windows games.
TarkusAB talk 02:48, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
At Talk:Fortnite#Making a possible "Fortnite: STW" article?, I offer a solution that may be need to stop an endless string of requests to mark the game as for Switch (when only the Battle Royale version is) and clear up confusing that was created by the naming schemes. It's a bit unusual solution so would like a few extra eyes. -- Masem ( t) 05:39, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
I'm going to add a little bump to this so it can get more attention. it does sound complicated. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 22:28, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
I just found that Udon's artbook for Street Fighter X Tekken has a lot of information about how the staff handled the cast. I am primiraly searching for information of Kazuya Mishima but I managed to find somethings thanks to a blog focused on Nina Williams. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 23:26, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
Hello. Is there a way to add or submit a review for a video game to those sites ? Regards. -- Archimëa ( talk) 17:13, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
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In the (resurected!) Signpost, there's an interview with WP:MILHIST, and in it they make the claim that the project has been in "a slow decline over the last few years", as has Wikipedia as a whole. It made me curious about our own project, and since I have both just over 12 years of assessment data at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article statistics and a willingness to make up my own arbitary measurements, I thought I'd give it a try. Here's a table of data for the Marches of 2007-2018:
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The data as chosen doesn't make things look as dire, actually, as MILHIST seems to find it. GA and FA counts keep going up, as do the percentage of total VG articles. VG article count itself started slowing down in 2016, but that was about the point that we started getting aggresive about finding and merging/redirecting new substubs- the sheer size of the 'new articles report' every week doesn't seem to bear out a slowing rate of creation. The main point of concern is that the rate of GAs peaked in 2016 and FAs in 2015, though the trend isn't long or deep enough to be over-alarming (to me, at least). Anyways, I mainly posted this because I spent so long building the table that it seemed a waste not to, so... here you go. -- Pres N 04:17, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
I was just dotting around and noticed something important. There isn't a "Viewtiful Joe (series)" page. There are a total of 4 games, 1 anime, and 1 character pages. IMHO, there is enough information to make a series page. I'm not good at making them yet so I'm requesting here if someone would like to make it. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 19:36, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
The Harvest Moon series was rebranded Story of Seasons some time ago, but continued on as a new series also entitled Harvest Moon. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia of history, changing the name of the former series to Story of Seasons feels incorrect. I think that Story of Seasons should be split - with the old portion going to the more notable Harvest Moon and the current Harvest Moon being moved to Harvest Moon (2007 series) which is somewhat less notable. I would like to see if people agree on this, and if there is a correct naming convention.
Another possibility is to move all the old Harvest Moon games back to Harvest Moon, and prioritize the series name over the owners of said series. ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 09:56, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
^^I really like this proposal. I support this. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 15:31, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
I preferred the old setup. "Harvest Moon" for most people really means the series "Story of Seasons", confusing as that is. I definitely 100% disagree with moving the cash-in neo-Harvest Moon series to just "Harvest Moon" [1]; it is not the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for "Harvest Moon", which is the "old" series, and it violates WP:ASTONISH to see "Harvest Moon" claim to be a series that started in 2007. The confusing redirect, or at worst a disambig page, are the way to go. SnowFire ( talk) 20:51, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
I'm a little late to this discussion, but I wanted to just add a vote to the disambiguation page idea, for the simple reason that there is also a physical phenomenon called "harvest moon", which is the full moon seen nearest to the time of the autumnal equinox. A disambiguation page would allow us to provide a link to an appropriate article on the lunar cycle, which I would expect would cover the timing of that particular full moon, in case someone is looking for that and not the video game. — KieferSkunk ( talk) — 21:11, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Notifying of a deletion discussion: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2018 May 3#Template:Infobox Galgame -- ferret ( talk) 13:18, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
ThiagoSimoes ( talk · contribs) changed the criteria on the List of longest-running video game franchises page so that games should only be included if they have had 25 years pass between the initial release and most recent. I find this silly, and think we should only base it on the initial release, so basically any game (with a dedicated series/franchise page) released in 1993 or earlier would qualify. More discussion would be appreciated on the talk page there. ~ Dissident93 ( talk) 21:09, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
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Hi everyone,
Paragon is no longer playable, its lead tense was changed from "is a" to "was a". I reverted @ OhKayeSierra, but they me pointed on the talk page to, Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Video_games#Verb_tense, which says something else (one of the examples is the revived Star Fox 2!). If I recall correctly, we had a discussion about this thing a while back, but I'm not sure what to search for in the archives.
My thoughts that a game, even if no longer playable, still exists. At one point, it was created and playable. You can have the files on your console or PC for instance, but it might not connect to a required server. What about P.T. for instance, it exists, but it is no longer downloadable. The piece of software is still there. Or to compare a long lost work of art, it *is* a painting that *is* presumed lost. To me, Paragon *is* a game that *is* cancelled. Thoughts? soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 12:21, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
I'm going through Special:LintErrors, and I've found a few dozen high-priority errors in articles tagged by this WikiProject. The wikitext parser is going to change in June, and any page with an error may display strangely.
What's needed right now is for someone to click these links and compare the side-by-side preview of the two parsers. If the "New" page looks okay, then something's maybe technically wrong with the HTML, but there's no immediate worry. If that column looks wrong, then it should be fixed.
The first list is all "deletable table" errors. If you want to know more about how to fix these pages, then see mw:Help:Extension:Linter/deletable-table-tag. Taking the first link as an example, there is highlighting in the wikitext that shows where the lint error is; it's in the ==K== section. Looking at the preview, they don't look the same. I suspect that the problem is that someone removed most, but not all, of the table that was in the ==J== section, so this may be simply a side effect of unnoticed vandalism (unless there have never been any fictional countries whose names start with J?).
This second list is "misnested tags". See
mw:Help:Extension:Linter/html5-misnesting for more information. The highlighting indicates that the problem is in the first words, where it says {{nihongo foot|'''''Chrono Trigger'''''|クロノ・トリガー|Kurono Torigā|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}}
. This probably indicates that the template itself contains tags in the "wrong" order (which is unfortunately not uncommon for language templates). However, the page still looks the same, despite the HTML error, so fixing this one is not an emergency.
For more help, you can ask questions at Wikipedia talk:Linter. Good luck, Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:09, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Congratulations! Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 23:22, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
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structure. Fun.
Reach Out to the Truth 02:58, 4 May 2018 (UTC)I need this article translated. I've already asked on Wikiproject:France, but in case they take too long to respond I wanna ask here. Cognissonance ( talk) 13:32, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
For a couple of weeks, I've noticed something odd happen with articles that have references using the "script-title=ja" documentation in any of its citations. The Japanese text displays, but rather the link being part of the text as per usual, it is shunted to one side and the url appears similar to an external link. Sometimes refreshing a page corrects the fault, but most times it remains. There are also pages more prone to this than others, as some pages still display citations using "script-title=ja" as normal. Normal "title" documentation appears unaffected. I've tried clearing my browser cache and data in case it's a fault at my end, but the issue has persistent. -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 18:11, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
<bdi>...</bdi>
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with <span>...</span>
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Module:Citation/CS1) failure until June when Remex comes on line.{{cite web}}
expects that, when |script-title= exists, an appropriately latinized |title= is in place, which is however missing on citations on the pages in question and should be added. Even if that is not the actual problem, they should be added nontheless as they fixed the problem in previews. Furthermore, it might be wise to add |trans-title= parameters with English translations of the citation titles.
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Having difficulty with WP:NFCC and the usage of the Harvest Moon logo in Story of Seasons. there is an active discussion there. I believe the image is vital for understanding of Story of Seasons. Marchjuly says it doesn't reflect what the article says. To be fair, the article is really empty. I did agree i'll add information. Do to a copyright mistake, all the information i added in was removed too. So i dont have the confidence to re-add the information in without a copyright violation. if someone could assist me with that? Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 11:26, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello Everyone, who ever is reading this I need editors to edit my list of Battlefield 1 weapons. It looks like its not reliable and I need help with it. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by XxNTE22xX ( talk • contribs) 16:23, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
When looking at those GamePro magazines, does the "fun factor" count as an overall score? When looking at sites like Game Rankings and Moby Games, the scores given with their GamePro entries seem to reference the "fun factor" score from the GamePro reviews. However, some users here are doubtful. 172.250.44.165 ( talk) 13:39, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
Some games do not have a game manual, or whatever manual exists does not include a description of the game content. There are user generated content Wikia web sites that have taken the actual in game descriptions of content and created web pages with identical descriptions of that content. These are peer reviewed site to ensure that the web site descriptions match the in game descriptions. Here is an example of a list of "driver skills" from a game called Need For Speed World (which was shut down on July 14, 2015, so this is now historical data):
http://nfs.wikia.com/wiki/Need_for_Speed:_World/Driver_Skills
In the case of EA games up to around 2016, all of the publisher's official announcements about game changes were URL links that redirected to the publishers forum (for NFS World, this was forums.ea.com, now gone and without archive), which presents an issue since this is also user generated content, although the users in this case are staff members of the game publisher.
Normally user generated content web sites are not considered as reliable sources, but in this case, the data being referenced in the cases I'm wondering about (description of game content that matches actual in game description) is not opinion based and extremely unlikely to be challenged by anyone. Rcgldr ( talk) 21:42, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
I'm creating a list of potential reference sources. Please add any that you can think of and also if the ones I've listed could be used as references.
The game itself (assuming the game and required platform could still be obtained).
The game's manual or any documentation that is included with the game, or downloaded from an official publisher web site for the game. This would eliminate the need to be able to actually run the game.
Original publisher's promotions or announcements that note content, and dates of importance related to a game.
strategy guide - although as noted in the article, a game could change, so that the guide could be out of date. An online guide could be updated to stay up to date with a game, and also keep an history / archive of prior versions of a game.
Third party game review sites.
Rcgldr ( talk) 04:25, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Reward board#005 and Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request#Draft:005 & The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games may be of interest to members of this wikiproject. Warmest regards, — Godsy ( TALK CONT) 03:54, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
This isn't a Wikipedia question but it could help me with something. I'm working on Edge (video game) and Metacritic has an aggregated score for the iOS version of Edge extended [2]. But it doesn't have an aggregated score for the original Edge game [3]. I thought that was odd because the same review websites for Edge Extended also have reviews for Edge. How do we bring the attention to Metacritic so that they can determine the score for it. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 07:27, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
I recently acquired a large number of issues from the Dutch Gameplay magazine. This monthly commercial gaming magazine that has run since 1994 and is published by "BVBA Tarsonis." See also the Dutch Wikipedia article. The issues I obtained range from November 2010 (#175) to March 2013 (#203). However, I am missing the "end of year" editions. I will be getting more issues for 2013, '14, '15, '16, and '17 in the coming weeks and months. Gameplay has covered all big mainstream releases in this period, as well, as many smaller-scale releases. The magazine covers news stories (sometimes as a blurb or a short article), has a few interviews, and does one "retro review" per issue. Gameplay has always had a bit of a focus on PC gaming, and didn't start covering console gaming until 2010. I am willing to translate articles from these issues upon request. I wouldn't even know yet how to make full list of all of this as I have done thus far at User:Maplestrip/Available sources. Feel free to ask if a certain game has been covered by Gameplay and I'll be happy to look them through! ~ Mable ( chat) 10:02, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
You know me, I love metadata and wikifying, infoboxes, navboxes, WikiProject tagging, dabsolving, etc. -- so the new WP:SHORTDESC are definitely something I'm now looking out for and editing/importing on any page where it hasn't been done yet. Does anyone have any idea how we could generate some sort of "WPVG articles missing shortdescs"? Ideally three classes: existing shortdesc, Wikidata shortdesc (which need reviewing and importing) and missing shortdesc. Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 18:17, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
|genres=
field of the infobox in essence, so perhaps for certain genres a somewhat customized description can be done.
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Does anyone have actual copy of this book? I'm looking at Edge (video game) and I can't find any proof that the game is featured in that book. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 15:15, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
I did that too. No preview options were given when I did that. But based on what Galobtter said, he was able to verify that the game is in the book, that's good enough for me.18:03, 11 May 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk • contribs)
That article is rated as start-class and high-importance. Any editor knows that's a bad combo. I'm not a project member but I came across it and it was...pretty bad to say the least. Almost mention of anything newer than the Nintendo DS/PSP era.
I made an outline for every single section of the article on what to flesh out and what kind of information needs to be put in there. A few volunteers with more expertise than me need to go in, write some rough drafts, source some claims, and clean things up. I am absolutely available and happy to help, but I do my best work editing wording for greater clarity and professional tone. I'm not a great researcher or draft writer. If all you can do is go in there and add a bunch of sloppy (yet well-sourced!) information, I will be happy to do the rest.
If my suggestions are followed I'd easily rate it as a C-class, perhaps as a B-class.
As a side project, it may be important to go into articles on specific games and link to this page. I've noticed that the Pokemon games link to Role-playing video game rather than this article. I don't blame them. It sucks. But you know, I'd say that they are more influential to the handheld market than RPGs as a whole. If you say, "What's your favorite RPG?" no one is going to say a Pokemon game even if they love those games. Point is, this article can be a useful tool if it's fleshed out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prometheus720 ( talk • contribs) 17:27, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
There is a deletion request for List of Harry Potter-related topics if anyone is interested. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 17:20, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
There is a new game called deathgarden would someone ever made that article? 49.148.157.152 02:19, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
Does anyone have an archive link for all things related to Touch-Gen? I don't see them in list of Reliable sources but they seem to be reliable based on Metacritic using them. But i can't access any of their reviews anymore. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 00:53, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
Yo, would someone mind moving Talk:The Dark Knight (video game) to Talk:Batman: The Dark Knight (video game) to match the main article's title? JOE BRO 64 21:27, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
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It is time for Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia to receive its own article. I have made a start. Axl ¤ [Talk] 09:13, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
I thought I'd chip in and give us an update for our review thread.
That's all, folks! JOE BRO 64 20:26, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
I made a request to move Every Extend Extra (single game) to Every Extend (series). You can find the discussion here. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 21:47, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
I've put forward Alpine Games for AfD not sure where to add it for the project deletion process know, Govvy ( talk) 20:00, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
Is there a policy/consensus on whether or not Steam scores/reviews can be used in articles? I've been removing them from Reception sections but now I'm seoncd-guessing myself. The Verified Cactus 100% 21:16, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
Anyone have a clue as to which issue of Cube this feature was in? JOE BRO 64 19:51, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
Ideas on how to clean up this promotional article? (Do not click through to the website, which is now spyware.) Might be able to salvage an article about Antwand Pearman, its founder, based on the sourcing? czar 21:06, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
Hey! So I've noticed that our newsletter is super out of date. Is there anyone that I can talk to about helping out? Or is the current one still under construction? I think it'd be great if we could find a way to automate pieces of it so just one or two editors could work to get it out. Nomader ( talk) 19:32, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
There is over 7 titles for the series and all the non-notable sequels are being redirected to the original game Lumines: Puzzle Fusion. In my opinion, that's a problem. I just started a draft and everyone is welcomed to add and rework. I prefer it to meet C-class before becoming an official article, if that's OK with you. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 09:57, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
Talking about every page pointed to by Lists of Nintendo characters. I felt this was a more appropriate talk for this since it has less to do with the pointing page and more to do with everything being pointed towards, but why are the character lists inconsistent?
Points to dedicated character lists:
Points to general pages with no character list:
Points to general pages with character lists:
Points to nothing yet:
Now whether it goes to a character section or a character page is just a very minor complaint. We have links going to no character lists at all, which is what I'm pointing out and needs to be resolved. The Fire Emblem games, except Thracia 776, all had dedicated lists that have since been replaced with redirections to their general pages that never had and never got character sections. Why was this? Can we roll them back? I can't find anything on this. I know @ ProtoDrake: did most of them so if you could fill me in on why or how it went down back then, please.
On a related note, Wario points to a specific series' characters, WarioWare, and not overall including Wario Land and Master of Disguise characters. I personally feel a separate character list page would benefit way more, for more solidarity without changing or ruining the flow of Wario (franchise). But either reworking the Wario franchise page (which it needs anyways) to have a general character section or pointing to each section from the Lists of Nintendo characters page would work. Most of the character blurbs for Wario Land end up telling the plot and nothing about the character themselves. Also why isn't Wario listed in the Master of Disguise or WarioWare list of characters? Even though it's all on the same page, it doesn't feel organized to me. ~ CFood0 22:39, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
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Hi everyone!
I did a lot of work on this article over the past few days and would love it to be onced over by the community in its current state. This series is fascinating to me as it appears to be the only Israeli video gaming series. There's still much more information to be squeezed out of sources, particularly with the Haaretz source, but yeah, just wanted to post this here to get your thoughts. :) (I'm not a Hebrew speaker so I've used Google Translate to understand the sources).-- Coin945 ( talk) 02:19, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
I just added unrefined content to the reception section at Detroit: Become Human. The traffic has died down, but not enough for the Guild of Copy Editors, so I'm asking here - for someone who can look at it with a fresh perspective. (This is the only section that needs copy editing.) Cognissonance ( talk) 17:11, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Atari's co-founder, Ted Dabney, has died, and I'm trying to get his article up to snuff for an ITNR posting. There's a major interview with him in Edge Magazine #200 where he spoke out about his time at Atari which I think may be helpful but cannot find anything online for this. I know its Edge Magazine #200, published 2009. If anyone has any ideas, that would be great. -- Masem ( t) 23:49, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
I've just found this article that appears to mention something about Kazuya Mishima's creation (at least google translate seems to point out) but I don't even know if the content is okay or Japanese. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 17:34, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
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I have this computer game where the manual is only included as html file and I'm not sure if i should use template:cite book or template:cite video game. There is no paper version or pdf version of it exist, its only included in the game's files, but its technically not in the actual game. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 06:53, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.
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On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.
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Does anyone know where to find sources for Conflict 2500, one of the first computer games released by Avalon Hill? They may or may not have released Lords of Karma and Midway Campaign first, I am not sure. 208.47.202.254 ( talk) 17:49, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
I've only just heard of this book. It's basically a summary of the entire Tomb Raider series with exclusive interviews and concept art. Sadly, I've entirely missed the chance of picking it up for anything less than £100 pounds, which is far more than I'm willing to pay. If anyone here has a copy of the book, then they have an invaluable source for improving the major Tomb Raider articles. I have an interest in this as I'm currently working on a rewrite of Legend with the intent of making it a GA, with an idea of expanding to other Tomb Raider articles and possibly tidying and slightly expanding Angel of Darkness -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 22:11, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
What do you guys think about a Bethesda task force? I think they're a big enough company and have enough articles related to them for their own task force, but I want to know what other people think about it. I'm not quite sure how the whole creation process works or whatever, but I thought suggesting it here was a good place to start. -- LichWizard talk 20:17, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Ah, that seems like a good idea. If I end up thinking making a Bethesda task force is a good idea, I'll probably do that ;) -- LichWizard talk 11:32, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
Me and two other users have gathered some sources over on Team Fortress Classic's talk page for a section on the brief period of time that Team Fortress was updated and renamed Team Fortress 1.5. I began working on a draft for the section in my sandbox and asked for some opinions over there, but didn't get a response. I thought this place might get more traffic, so I've decided to ask for thoughts on how it looks so far over here :)
Cheers,
-- LichWizard talk 18:15, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
I was wondering what qualifiers should be used on this category? Because it could be hugely populated with games, we have Atari games divided into systems which I prefer, I also wondered if we should get rid of this category... Govvy ( talk) 10:06, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
I have been working on most of Kazuya Mishima's sections but I'm not sure if the reception section is well arranged. Should it be trimmed despite having multiple "Best Character of X"? Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 23:32, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
1.General response 2.Characterization 3.Devil form 4. Gameplay 5.Other media Do you think it works better now? Still, I think the section abuses too many quotes. Tintor2 ( talk) 02:31, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
It's June and we got another article coming up as Today's Featured Article. On the 12th of June, Cloud (video game) will be that day's Featured Article. Congrats go out to PresN for getting it to that status. GamerPro64 17:59, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi! I've this question that has been bugging me and more especially since this guy called StraightDown has been causing me problems in the articles I've tried to improve, only to have him appear and basically make a mess and blaming me for "vandalizing" and "altering the truth" when it comes to references i've cited on various articles i've edited and even created. But getting to the point, this is my main question: is the usage of game manuals allowed to be taken as references for video game articles here? As my main basis for citing them is Dino Crisis. Thanks! KGRAMR ( talk) 03:33, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
Talk:Open world#Requested move 4 June 2018, as info. The project's view on "open world" as a game feature versus a genre may be important here. -- ferret ( talk) 13:54, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
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The redirect of List of Xbox Play Anywhere games is a terrible edit. The list is not Xbox One related but both Windows 10 and Xbox One release dates as well as defining the Play Anywhere program. Windows 10 dates are not defined on the mass Xbox One list. Not to mention trying to read about just PA titles in the massive list, even sorted, is extremely difficult, not to mention the references were not merged. It is also useful to reference cancelled PA titles for those still expecting a title to come to the other platform and looking for answers. PA is a distinct platform. Thanks. -- 2603:3023:10B:D100:F81B:97DE:8CD0:E2FF ( talk) 23:09, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
User:Izno asked if there could be a border option for the vertical timeline template navbox. I recently noticed it and a couple of others agreed it should be implemented, including myself. the discussion is here Template talk:Timeline of release years#Borders. Could more people contribute to the discussion and make it a reality? Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 23:22, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
So now we have an article on Dark Souls II's DLC, Dark Souls II: The Lost Crowns (a name that isn't even mentioned by the game). As with Dark Souls: Artorias of the Abyss, I vote that we merge them back into their main articles, as there is no reason we should split info off when the main articles need expansion. There is no real commentary on either DLC either, besides announcement and reception. ~ Dissident93 ( talk) 00:33, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
In Vampyr (video game), I added information about how many worked on it. The source said 70% of their 120 overall staff members. I just used a website to calculate that figure to around 80, but that might just be WP:OR. Is there a template that can automatically convert percentage to numbers, like Template:Convert does with distance? Cognissonance ( talk) 00:25, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
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gives 70% (84 employees)Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 00:35, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Spring's coming to an end but that's not going to stop us from squeezing in one more review thread for the season. And there's a lot of stuff that hasn't been reviewed.
It's a lot more than last time. JOE BRO 64 20:19, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
I just made the Lumines article, and I need some help with cropping and uploading a non-free image. There's this logo here: [5]. Does anyone here have photo editing skills? I just need it for the infobox but I need the "Remastered" to be removed. I'd appreciate the help. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 20:29, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Let's remember that an announcement of a game is not sufficient for starting a new article, particularly if we have a suitable target article to point to. (Eg, all we know about Fallout 76 is a teaser trailer, not even a release date, so a standalone makes no sense). We should have at minimum a release date/windows, planned platforms, some concept of gameplay and plot, and ideally some development details for a standalone. -- Masem ( t) 19:50, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
Redirects from the names of several characters from the Hitman series that currently target Hitman (franchise) have been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 June 9. Most of these previously targetted List of Hitman video game characters, which has been redirected and unredirected several times over a couple of years, apparently without discussion. I've left a comment with a suggested way forward at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 June 9#Hitman Agent 17. Your comments on the individual redirect discussions and on my linked suggestion are invited. Thryduulf ( talk) 14:19, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#WP:VG_Sources. -- Emir of Wikipedia ( talk) 17:31, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
In trying to update categories for Beat Saber, I found we don't have a category for rhythm game. We do have Category:Music video games, but that seems based on Music video game. I feel we're double-covering things here, since outside of "music creation", everything else in Music video game is essentially covered by Rhythm game. I'm not 100% sure what to do here, but it does need some resolving. -- Masem ( t) 16:52, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
I was out working during EA's bit but from what I heard it was kinda...eh. So, T-90 minutes for this one. See you soon for all the fun! Zero Serenity ( talk - contributions) 18:31, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
And I think we're done. Lots of unexpected surprises and great looking stuff here. Bethesda is tonight. Let the games begin. Zero Serenity ( talk - contributions) 21:43, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
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Hi all,
I've gone through some of our backlog, and have now successfully added an infobox to those in Category:Video game articles needing infoboxes (Awaiting the AfD result for Celeris).
Anyone know what tags etc. cause an article to be listed under Category:Video game cleanup? It seems to be pretty variable. For instance Ghosts 'n Goblins (video game) is listed in the category, but doesn't have any tags, on the talk page, or on the article. Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 15:41, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
I don't know where to post this,. made a peer review request for Edge (video game). if anyone wants to take a look, I'd appreciate it. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 17:38, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
No idea if anyone else needs this, but I just scanned EGM's 2005 award ceremony for another Wikipedian and thought I'd drop the results here, in case anyone has a use for it:
JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 20:02, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
Is Defiance 2050 an upcoming game should be separate article to the current Defiance??? 122.55.51.147 message 03:01, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
I have been uploading some images on video game articles but some of them today disappear and I tried to put it back the image but still can't be put into an article? when the file still exist, I and already tried to put images on the newly uploaded but still can't used the image on article. Mayamaya7 Poke! 06:24, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
A couple other editors and I have been collaborating over on Team Fortress Classic's talk page to try and get the article ready to be submitted for GA review. We're currently working on expanding the gameplay section and doing general cleanup. If you would like to help anything would be appreciated! We've come pretty far already, and I think we're almost there :)
Thanks,
-- LichWizard talk 17:37, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
Okay, I see. I think the bullet points are probably fine considering Team Fortress 2 uses them in a similar way in it's gameplay section, but I'll change the reception section. -- LichWizard talk 19:16, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
Since this has been discussed multiple times in various discussions here, I decided to start up a formal merger discussion.
Should Bloodstain (Souls series) and Bonfire (Dark Souls) be merged into the Souls (series) articles? Please discuss here - please leave input/comments there. Thank you! Sergecross73 msg me 14:26, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
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The title was relaunched on May 8th 2018, following its own reception: http://pr.funcom.com/pressreleases/conan-exiles-out-today-over-1-million-sold-2501619 77.126.27.7 ( talk) 09:11, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
See Template talk:Devil May Cry series#Organization of games about whether or not the reboot DmC deserves its own section. Tintor2 ( talk) 23:09, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
In the past I have typed out sources word by word into Google Translate when the information is within unsearchable content (such as an photo from a Polish gaming magazine). This was the only solution I could think of that didn't require a poor Polish Wikipedian to manually translate the thing. These days I now have a much better solution.
I would recommend that Wikipedia users instead use this (free) website https://ocr.space, which turns an image into text. You choose the language / languages contained in the image, and the algorithm does the rest.
When copy/pasting the output to Google Translate, I've had issues with sentences being broken between lines, so you might have to manually go through each line, deleting the dead space and ensuring the sentences are being translated whole rather than in out-of-context fragments. It may be annoying but it's certainly better than the other way.
Just wanted to throw it out there because it took a bit of sleuthing to come to that solution and I think it should become standard practice here.
-- Coin945 ( talk) 02:43, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
An edit war is presently going on regarding the handling of the term " hero shooter" on Team Fortress 2 and Overwatch. According to Solino, "hero shooter" is a proper genre while others disagree. So to seek clearer consensus, how should we address these games as "hero shooters"? Lordtobi ( ✉) 08:11, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
There are three press conferences planned for today at E3; Square Enix, Ubisoft and Sony. I'm definitely going to cover the Square Enix event, which is happening shortly. I may not be able to cover the others due to time zone differences. If anyone wants to cover the others, they're welcome. -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 15:49, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
And that's it. -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 17:30, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
Why are we in a church? (I'm on this one.) Zero Serenity ( talk - contributions) 01:02, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
Are we done? This presentation style is very confusing. Zero Serenity ( talk - contributions) 02:38, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
(apologies to Dissident, this deserves a higher placement for discussion)
We have Video game remake as a stand-alone article. We also have Remaster#Video games, a section that is poorly written and researched, and is treating the concepts as if synonymous when they are not. (I caught the Video game remake article doing this in a handful of places, too, and fixed it).
We either need to have a Video game remaster article (presently a redir to Remaster#Video games), or a section at Video game remake that is all about remasters in particular and is more detailed and accurate than the WP:SUMMARY material at Remaster#Video games (which needs revision no matter what direction we go in).
See also User talk:Interqwark#Remasters and remakes for some background discussion, stemming from a terminological dispute about this stuff.
PS: The material also needs to distinguish these concepts from a) porting; b) emulation (including packaging of a game inside an emulator as a quick-and-dirty porting alterantive); and c) creation of alternative game engines for original game content (e.g.
OpenMW, which comes with no game content, and uses the original content files of
Morrowind but any of its .EXE, .DLL or other related code).
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Are these lists silly? I thought DirectX was a fairly common API used for Windows games.
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At Talk:Fortnite#Making a possible "Fortnite: STW" article?, I offer a solution that may be need to stop an endless string of requests to mark the game as for Switch (when only the Battle Royale version is) and clear up confusing that was created by the naming schemes. It's a bit unusual solution so would like a few extra eyes. -- Masem ( t) 05:39, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
I'm going to add a little bump to this so it can get more attention. it does sound complicated. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 22:28, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
I just found that Udon's artbook for Street Fighter X Tekken has a lot of information about how the staff handled the cast. I am primiraly searching for information of Kazuya Mishima but I managed to find somethings thanks to a blog focused on Nina Williams. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 23:26, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
Hello. Is there a way to add or submit a review for a video game to those sites ? Regards. -- Archimëa ( talk) 17:13, 17 June 2018 (UTC)