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I feel that some female character articles have too strong an emphasis on sexuality. Not that instances of the character's sexuality/sex appeal should be ignored because of what they are, but it feels that some things either go into too great of detail, or are downright vulgar in how the information is presented. Certainly guilty of that myself. I was wondering if anyone would be interested in going over some of these articles and trying to help tweak them. - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 10:08, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
You know what's more important than being PC? Updating the articles. For example of all the SNK characters I think only Mai and Nakoruru are entirely up to date regarding their appearances, and that's only I keep it this way. And the entire articles of, for another example, Warcraft characters (all of them) were just really badly written when I've checked them, and that awful writing extends to their reception sections (as tagged by me in Jaina Proudmoore 4 years ago) but really to everything. SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 15:18, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
If the reception sections focus a lot on the sexual aspects of a character, I highly doubt it’s undue weight. The reality is that’s what the sources involve, and even now it’s rare that many characters in general, especially female ones, get much deep content on that front. Better writing should probably not be spending a lot of time quoting passages and reciting exact placements and rankings in lists or similar, but that’s an issue of clear and concise encyclopedic writing. Without better examples I don’t see how anything is broadly actionable, certainly as “vulgar”. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs (talk) 15:27, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
I would advise to think of the reception as a formal letter. Try focusing one section on the character, personality, or another certain traits appeals to others (gameplay moves, relationships, etc). The sex appeal might fit well in one paragraph unless there is a notable division between positive and negative notes (maybe a character is oversexualized, or maybe the character's sexuality is not appealing). Tintor2 ( talk) 19:29, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Looking at the discussion, there seems to be two separate issues being discussed here:
1) That sexuality/sex appeal character reception in articles is inappropriate/vulgar/politically incorrect - broad consensus seems to be that removing these would be improper as per WP:NOTCENSORED;
2) That "top 10" listicles, sexuality-related or otherwise, don't contribute much of substance towards the article - this is a topic that has been debated ad nauseam on this WikiProject, both on this page and in deletion discussions, so the line between what is acceptable and what isn't shouldn't be too unclear now.
Satellizer el Bridget
(Talk) 10:51, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
I think it'd be worthwhile to form a task force to condense and cleanup content. Would anyone be interested in participating in such a thing? - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 12:31, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
So, there seems to be general agreement that it’s something worth looking into, though with varying degrees of what’s acceptable - which is fine, perhaps the varying viewpoints will keep either side from getting too heavy-handed. So let’s move into a plan for moving forward. How should we do it? I don’t outwardly object to a task force, but it seems like a lot of those fizzle out pretty quickly, and may not be worth the effort to set it up. It might be best to just create a user talk sub-page or something and just go at it. I don’t plan on spearheading the effort, but I’ll be here to help. Sergecross73 msg me 14:13, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
It's really confusing to me since I thought KFM and me are friends, and now I see him telling people I made him quit Wikipedia and that I'm accusing him of being sexist, which was never my intention, and I don't want him to quit and I'm sorry if he felt this way. Officially speaking.
Also since there's a confusion regarding "ownership" of article let me set it straight: I-No is really User: Gabriel Yuji's ( [3] - my entire input was to literally only add 2 categories [4]), the work on all Darkstalkers characters has been shared between me and User:Beemer69 in various portions (she's also the author of the list article that we've been then splitting from), and it was only the (unmentioned above, award-winning and so forth but soon largely forgotten as it was just 1 PC game in 1999 - I also made Morte from the same game, same deal) Annah-of-the-Shadows that I can only actually consider "mine" out of all the articles that got singled out. SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 10:24, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
- My apoligies, and can erase this if it doesn't belong. Is this the correct place to give awareness to a page with broken external reference links? :) Or if someone could check it out and post a writing about it in a correct place for me as i am new to this but wanted it to be known. The 2 external links at the bottom on /info/en/?search=EGO_Game is not directing to the correct place. I also have not found any evidence yet through searching online that Ego still exists. I did not to an extensive search though :P Hope this helps! ;) -Magenet 11:04pm CST 5/11/2019
I'm looking for help with sources for the defunct UK video game magazine Electric Brain (1989–1993). Any help or pointers appreciated! Mattsephton ( talk) 13:53, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I'm here as a representative of Unity Technologies on Wikipedia. I've declared my conflict of interest on the company article's talk page, as well as the Danny Lange, John Riccitiello, and Unity (game engine) talk pages. I've submitted a request at Talk:Danny Lange for editors to review my improved draft about the computer scientist and current Unity employee, which I've saved at User:Matthewpruitt/Danny Lange. An editor assisted with the Riccitiello article, but unfortunately no one has responded to my Lange request yet. Can a WikiProject Video games member please take a look? The current article is poorly written. Also, most of the text is unsourced, and there are lists of speeches, presentations, and publications. Thank you! Matthewpruitt ( talk) 18:00, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
Could someone please update the New Nintendo 2DS XL photo in its article? The current one looks terrible, and it has a glare on the screen. I have found better pictures online, but they may not be allowed to be on Wikipedia. LBDCOM12 ( talk) 18:01, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/990500595/subverse SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 15:52, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
>What is google
https://www.google.com/search?q=subverse+game&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 16:00, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
Make it then. I encourage you to do so as it is an interesting subject. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 15:57, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
Is to arrive this month. It's important because it's currently around #14 ever according to List of video game crowdfunding projects (where it's not). Can't do literally everything on Wikipedia just myself. SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 15:58, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
SNAAAAKE!!, if you think it's notable enough to have an article, then make it, even if it's a stub. It's that simple. You said you were told to "participate in collaborative projects". Making a post telling us that something does not have an article and only posting a link is not participating in collaborative projects. That's just basically telling other people to do the work (not all of us are interested or care about this subject, but you seem to be and seem to know a decent bit about this). Participating in collaborative projects is actually contributing to the development and editing of an article(s). If you do not feel comfortable with creating articles or are unsure of it's notability, what you should have done is made a post to discuss whether or not this subject is notable enough to have an article (with your input included) and if it's decided it should, then discuss on how to create/structure the article. That would be "participating in collaborative projects". -- JDC808 ♫ 06:37, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
So I did and I hope this project will now help expand it in all directions, also the developer StudioFOW needs to be rewritten and updated (I'm copy editing right now but only that). SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 08:32, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
I actually did the StudioFOW rewrite/update. (Not that it can't use more work, but so can everything.) SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 09:25, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
Please check out Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games/Sources#System_16, Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games/Sources#Video_Games_Chronicle, Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games/Sources#Frontline_Gaming_Japan, Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games/Sources#NinDB, Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games/Sources#Subsim and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games/Sources#Armchair_General for the discussions about the reliablity of multiple websites as sources for video games. Regards, Jovanmilic97 ( talk) 12:56, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
Your feedback is requested for a few changes to our MOS guidelines on plot sections, concerning our (lack of) guidance for DLC and episodic games. Axem Titanium ( talk) 20:10, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
I've been diddling with Game & Watch articles a bit for fun, and I was wondering if anyone knew of any print content I could use. Any guidance would be appreciated. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 17:43, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
Just thought I'd let WP:VG know. Hail to the 🐐 JOE BRO 64 01:04, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I am credited in the game SourceForts and have been attempting to update the wikipedia page with modern information, most of the sites that used to publicize the game have died, and I maintain the only archive for the game. I want to help preserve the game and almost dragged myself into a edit war over this and have been told that you guys will be able to help me with getting the page modernized.
I will spend as much time as needed to provide whatever type of information or proof is required to ensure that my past edits are kept and that we can make sure that there is no COI or issues involved.
The game is now Free, the last person other than myself to edit the page has not checked the game out and has been quoting decade old sources and removing description information that was factual.
Please help me with my game.. - — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nick12506 ( talk • contribs) 02:22, 18 May 2019 Nick12506 (UTC)
As per WP:NCVG#Lists, which says "Lists should be named "List of..." (e.g., "List of Final Fantasy titles").", Shrek video games should be called List of Shrek video games, however the latter is a redirect to the former and as such I am unable to move it to its proper name. Thanks in advance. -- Einstein95 ( talk) 11:36, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
Category:Non-white characters in video games has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. ~ Dissident93 ( talk) 17:31, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
There is a discussion on the reliability of Screen Rant on the reliable sources noticeboard. If you're interested, please participate at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § Screen Rant. — Newslinger talk 07:03, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
We have an IP editor that wants to introduced a naunced very of modern roguelikes (aka the "roguelite") in that these games "co-opted" the roguelike name, among other pointy things. The IP is not wholly wrong in that I know this is how a portion of the roguelike community see these games, but its not reflected in RSes to that degree. Unfortunately they're in a slow edit war to retain this POV. Need help convincing them that WP:V is key here , and without sources to back up their position, we can't really change to reflect what they want. -- Masem ( t) 14:24, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
This is a request for assistance regarding the Traitors Gate GAN, which has been inappropriately started (seemingly as a sandbox test) by a now-inactive user under the name Meeply. The WPVG template shows that a review is underway for the article, but you can see here that that isn't the case. I don't have the ability to delete this test page myself, so I'd be very grateful to anyone who could handle this. JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 17:07, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
I feel there's some type of off-site brigading aimed to remove Epic Games and/or Fortnite from various articles, given the amount of content removals over the last few days on those and related pages. (I am guessing it is stemming from community frustration on the Epic Games Store and the connection of EPic to Tencent and to China from that) Nothing that's not out of control, but if you have pages in your watchlist just be aware of this. -- Masem ( t) 14:18, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
Given the first five games of the Sakura Wars series have attained GA status and now Sakura Wars is up for FA status, I think it's probably time for a good or featured topic regarding the main Sakura Wars series. Using the Final Fantasy FT and the List of Final Fantasy video games as models, I'm possibly going to create a List of Sakura Wars video games article before I take it to GT/FT. Any thoughts or ideas before we proceed? Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 08:37, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
You can also nominate Project Sakura Wars for Peer Review and that can be good enough to have the topic be nominated. GamerPro64 14:56, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
Unfortunately, the Did you know nomination for Project Sakura Wars has been declined, so when the time comes to bring it up to GA after the game's release or so, we can nominate it for WP:DYK again. Anyway, I agree the best bet is to focus on getting the main series article up for GA/FA. Thoughts? Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 23:04, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
Could someone look at the above article and wikify whatever is salvagable in the lede. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 14:26, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
I was wondering if anyone would be interested in helping expand Splatoon articles. I feel that a series article could be justified, and an article about the music in the series (or individual games) could be really valuable. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 22:00, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
By any chance does somebody know about critic Hiroki Higashi? I found that he made some analysis in regards to fiction but I guess he is not notable because I can't find an article. I found an analysis about him in the Italian Wikipedia but the source might not be notable. Tintor2 ( talk) 17:11, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi all. I was one of the facilitators at this event: Wikipedia:Meetup/Irvine/Gender equity 2019. A newbie created this article, User:BrunoMLB1/sandbox on Atsuko Nishida. Can someone please review the article and confirm if it meets notability standards within the guidelines of your WikiProject? Thanks. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 15:26, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
See the discussion Talk:Joker (Persona)#Akira Kurusu. I would discuss but I don't have too much knowledge about Persona 5. Tintor2 ( talk) 17:15, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
For anybody who isn't familiar with the character, he does not have a canon given name in the game (players can freely name him, but voicelines refer to him by his codename Joker). Ren Amamiya comes from the game's anime adaptation, and was later officially adapted by Atlus (the original game's developer) in a few recent spinoff games, as well as in a separate spinoff manga series. He is only known as Akira Kurusu in the game's manga adaptation, which is where the weight argument of listing both/only one name is coming from. ~ Dissident93 ( talk) 01:41, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
I'm uploading cover art and adding it into the infobox of the relevant article but wanted to double check that the images I'm uploading conform to all guidelines including using correct fair use statements and licensing. I want to avoid them being removed if I've misunderstood anything or prevent double work to fix them. Would someone be able to check the cover art file on Cyclone (video game) please, and let me know if everything looks OK? Nealbo ( talk) 12:28, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
Now that my poorly thought-out category was deleted, I think it's valuable to talk about a better solution to the problem. Much like we have a category for fictional black people in general (for instance), I think we could justify a category for fictional black video game characters. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 19:46, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
I just rewrote all sections of the Casual game article to bring it from a ~2007 perspective to ~2019, if anybody's interested in reviewing the update. I also created 8 redirects for terms now used in the article.
"Casual game" is a term that has changed since the mid-2000s so it's now wanting material on how "casual" is part of a continuum from "casual" (or, I guess, "hypercasual" now) to "hardcore", which is briefly mentioned in the Gamer article. I'll get to this someday if nobody beats me to it. On Sober Reflection ( talk) 12:39, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2019_May_30#Template:Vgy and Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2019_May_30#Template:Gy TarkusAB talk 12:59, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
After working on some Fate/stay night I wonder if the characters Shirou Emiya and Saber (Fate/stay night) could have mid importance. Saber is also quite the mascot from the series. Both have a big popularity section while Shirou has been studied by some scholars which seems really surprising based on my experience with character articles. The Italian Wikipedia has more analysis of Shirou but I don't know if they are notable although they mention the character has a big impact similar to the first Gundam main character Amuro Ray in regards to how the player can or not be immersed in their stories due to their personalities. Any idea? Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 20:27, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
Belated, but you shouldn't spend any time whatsoever worrying about the "importance" field, which is of itself of no importance. In fact, I'd argue that it should be entirely removed from the template. WP:MILHIST doesn't include importance tags and they've lost nothing.
(For those curious, the original goal behind the importance field is moot - picking which articles appeared on a "Wikipedia CD" intended for computers without Internet, but with access to a CD drive (very rare). The entirety of Wikipedia can easily be transported on a thumb drive these days and Internet penetration is very deep, so this doesn't matter, and to the extent it does matter it's not driven by importance ratings anymore.) SnowFire ( talk) 18:42, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
After an extremely lengthy discussion on the topic, I had thought the consensus settled, but User:SNAAAAKE!! readded puffy ameliorative adjectives like " alleged" as part of a larger edit. After being reverted a number of times, he has settled on "perceived", which has substantively the same effect. Can we please quickly reaffirm that we should follow MOS:VAGUE here? Axem Titanium ( talk) 20:51, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
He’s blocked for a week, but regardless, please keep contributing to the talk page discussion on it. Sergecross73 msg me 23:59, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
I am mass-verifying List of Electronic Arts games, and I look at one of the entries that Electronic Arts is said to have developed or published: Boulder Dash. First of all, according to issue 53 of Retro Gamer on page 35, Electronic Arts did publish (later) versions of the first two games in the series.
Secondly but the reason I am here, the Boulder Dash Wikipedia article is a joke. To name one of the problems, it seems as if its topic is awkwardly alternating from the original video game to the series and then back to the first game. And speaking of series, I am programming a navbox pertaining to the Boulder Dash series for Wikipedia articles about games in the series, but that is where I run into trouble. My experimental navbox contains 9 games that I am positive based on my brief research are notable enough to have their own Wikipedia articles, but only 3 of them are actual links to articles; the rest are either redirects to Boulder Dash or nonexistent articles. A navigational box containing 3 entries is not likely to exist for long, but it is more convincing if there are 9 of them.
If I am right that all the subjects of the given entries in my navbox are notable, a navbox creation seems inevitable, which theoretically means that I could just create the navbox as it is and then create or let others create the articles the entries are red-hyperlinked to. I am hesitant to create the template and add it to its respective articles, and before I obsess about Boulder Dash and lose interest in List of Electronic Arts games (as I did with
SkiFree in favor of that list, though I am still improving it for GA), I need some advice on whether it is appropriate to create navigational boxes containing articles that do not exist but whose subjects are notable enough for inclusion, as well as articles that do exist but alone are not enough for navbox creation. Any advice is appreciated one way or the other.
Gamingforfun
365 03:12, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
The battle cats article was fixed alot and should be resubmited for importance and quality ratings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BattleCatsBro ( talk • contribs) 20:57, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
Today, it was announced that Cuphead was being ported to the Tesla car OS to be run on various models. While this is certainly interesting info for the body, I would not consider the Tesla as a "gaming platform" as for inclusion in the infobox at this point, though some IPs have tried to do so. I think we should be clear that while the OS (like iOS for Apple TV) can be considered a platform, these non-traditional gaming devices should not be included in the infobox. Tesla, the TI-80 calculator, etc. -- Masem ( t) 19:45, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
FYI: Some early issues (1974-80) of the Japanese coin-op magazine Game Machine have been scanned and are now available here. TarkusAB talk 17:26, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
The July 1997 issue of GamePro reports that Interplay announced ClayFighter 63 1/3 would be the first third-party game to support the Rumble Pak. I went to add the source to the article, only to find there's no mention of the Rumble Pak there. Can anyone familiar with the game confirm whether it in fact uses the Rumble Pak or this feature was dropped by the time of release?-- Martin IIIa ( talk) 14:23, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
So we had consensus last year to move all the E3 articles to their common name of E3 YEAR instead of their full official name, but it seems like nobody ever got around to doing it. I'm just bringing this back up in efforts of hopefully getting them all moved before E3 2019 starts, as doing it during the event would just cause a lot of issues. ~ Dissident93 ( talk) 21:32, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
I have created an article on Frank Cirocco, a comics artist and video game designer. Within the comics industry, he is best know as the co-creator of the Alien Legion series for Epic Comics. Cirocco has worked in the video game business for several decades but I have no proper reference sources for his extensive contributions in this field. Anyone who has reliable sources pertaining to him is welcome to expand the new article. Your assistance is greatly appreciated! Mtminchi08 ( talk) 03:52, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
Apple's WDDC is today and they've announced they are splitting the OS for iPad from the normal iOS to its own iPadOS. Obviously far too early for any games unique to it but we should start thinking if this is a platform to list or not. -- Masem ( t) 18:28, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
Notification: there is a discussion at
Category talk:Video game franchises on when best to use it, particularly when it co-exists with
one of its yearly subcategories in articles.
Gamingforfun
365 09:15, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
Just a heads up that print magazines and books are copyrighted materials, and only the rights holder has the right to distribute these magazines. It will take decades for these magazines to enter the public domain. That means that these scanned magazines cannot be linked to, either in references or external links, on Wikipedia. WP:COPYVIOEL is pretty clear on this. Harizotoh9 ( talk) 06:43, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
If you use Special:LinkSearch, you can find hundreds of pages, including quite a few GA rated pages. The internet is pretty loose with copyright, and in practice things are taken down only when someone complains but Wikipedia adheres much closer to the letter of the law. Just look at the hoops you have to go through just to upload game cover art. You could justify a very short quote of copyrighted material, but not linking to an entire scan. Also, Archive.org operates like Youtube in that anyone can upload anything, and it's only taken down if someone complains. Harizotoh9 ( talk) 00:15, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
There's an RFC regarding a possible implementation of character guidelines here. Input from project members would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 18:09, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
Should we be including the number of reviews Metacritic is using to cite their score in the article, even footnoted as shown by the Team Sonic Racing article? Personally, I think it doesn't make a difference if a game had 40 reviews or 45; anybody curious enough can simply click the Metacritic link and check for themselves. Thoughts? ~ Dissident93 ( talk) 03:56, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
Well it seems like there is consensus for it to be included, but I still think that it should be footnoted (like in Team Sonic Racing) just for template readability. Anybody disagree? ~ Dissident93 ( talk) 08:29, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
I'm slowly working through this IP range's contributions. I could use some assistance if anyone needs something to do :) The edits generally pertain to changing platforms around, removing Xbox/PC/Microsoft and replacing with Wii/Wii U, adding categories for various "cancelled platform game" (i.e. saying a game never announced for Wii is a cancelled wii game), etc. I've spotted and blocked this user several times over the years I believe, but this range was active for a while and I haven't had time to fully go through it. There seem to be a tiny handful of good (at least not disruptive) edits mixed in, but there's a lot of unsourced stuff, clearly incorrect stuff, removing sources to replace pro-Nintendo stuff, etc (I've seen multiple cases of removing Xbox as a platform entirely, or replacing it with Wii, in direct contradiction to sources) -- ferret ( talk) 02:09, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
Almost certain there's a way for admins to mass revert vandalism from accounts. Harizotoh9 ( talk) 07:53, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I've been preparing reception/creation sources for existing and potential video game articles. If you are looking for a project or think there might be something you're working on that might be here, you can give it a look. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 09:46, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
So with the larger Stadia reveal today, it is clear that it is a unique platform - its not a streaming subscription service, you are going to have to buy games to play on it (you also pay for the higher-quality stream capabilities). There are at least two Stadia exclusive games.
This begs the quesiton if Stadia (and only Stadia) should be considered a platform for infobox/category purposes. I have a feeling that unlike Onlive or other services (like with Sony's or MS's offerings) that Stadia is unique enough to require it. -- Masem ( t) 17:46, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
How about for infoboxes, we mention "multiplatform", and only list a platform when the game is exclusive to it? Actual release platforms can be in the lede or in the "Release" subsection. Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 19:44, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
I recently created a new article Lone Soldier (video game) with 6 (now 7) supporting sources. I received an alert that the "This article needs additional citations for verification." template has been added to the top of the article. My goal is obviously to put together good quality articles, so my question is, what exactly is a sufficient amount of sources? Looking at the verifiability page it all seems very vague... For a relatively short article I feel like 7 citations are sufficient and that there is nothing "contestable" that does not have an associated source. Also as far as I can tell there are no other good sources of information other than what I've added already so I feel like I'm at a bit of a dead end with this. Nealbo ( talk) 20:07, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
Avoid linking to copyrighted magazines, and use the cite magazine template. Also, get some more re-views. This lists 3 French magazine review scores. Moby games and other sites will list more. There's other sites for german mag review scores. Famitsu likely reviewed it too. The page is also formatted like a game guide right now. Game guides are great sources, but the WP pages shouldn't be formatted like them. There shouldn't be a blow by blow account of the levels and the enemies in them. Look at how some GA articles are formatted, like Shinrei Jusatsushi Tarōmaru. Harizotoh9 ( talk) 01:48, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
It's not much, but I did a quick search.
Abryn ( talk) 06:04, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
Data Design Interactive has a list of 15 games that link to their own articles. A musician is notable for their notable songs, an actor for their notable acting roles, a writer for their notable books, etc. Shouldn't any entertainment company be notable for what it has created? Dream Focus 17:24, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
Greetings, when I was editing the List of home video game consoles page, I encountered a problem when listing the platforms for the First generation, as I knew there were a lot of consoles, but I had no idea about the scale of this task. I wasn't entirely sure on how to list them, so I asked for help, and someone told me it would be near impossible to list them all.
So I tried, and there are MORE THAN 600 I made a prototype page on my sandbox; User:Talkkaris/sandbox
Now, my problem is this;
1- It's Wikipedia so I need reliable sources.
2- Literally almost no one cares about the first generation of consoles, half the consoles on the list I got from blogs and eBay/sales sites.
3- A picture of the darn thing is good proof that it exists, it's harder to ignore it, but only around 80 have a picture, the rest is blank
4- Searching their names online they show up with pictures (some are harder than others), but on Wikipedia there's nothing
So without pictures, how can I source their existence? I think I can't simply link to whatever blog has one, or a YouTube video, or an eBay listing, so I'm a bit stuck. How can I complete this page before creating it? If any of you can help with his it would be very much appreciated. Talkkaris ( talk) 20:07, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
Writeups are going on its page from now on. Zero Serenity ( talk - contributions) 21:39, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
I'm working on this article here and there, but it's a tall order, so I was wondering if anyone was interested in helping with setting up a draft on this. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 09:08, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
Also Sex and nudity in video games, Gender representation in video games, Video game controversies, and possibly more. And I don't think anyone's personal opinions about who and what is either "oversexualized", "undersexualized", or "just fine sexualized" is important to make a separate article about it. There's no Oversexualization of women in literature or Oversexualization of women in film or any other corresponding article, too. In fact, there's no article oversexualization at all. -- SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 12:19, 10 June 2019 (UTC) -- SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 12:32, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
Sal: There's no
Sexualization of women in literature,
Sexualization of women in film, etc. as well. And the "culture and media" section of
Sexualization (which is overall concerning human beings, especially children, not fictional characters) links to
Pornographication as the main article (and which seems to be feminist theory nonsense mentioning "patriarchy" in the lead, and speaking of Clown World Wikipedia a short glance I saw it contains such complete absurdness as "In famous horror films such as Friday the 13th, women are portrayed as weak" while in our reality the survivor who kills Jason
Pamela in the film is a woman,
Alice). --
SNAAAAKE!! (
talk) 12:32, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
That sounds like a WP:POVFORK. We already have multiple articles discussing this topic. Harizotoh9 ( talk) 14:00, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
Its that time again boys and girls. We got articles for review. Here they are now:
And, as always, we still have the Requests Board with a huge backlog that needs assistance. Got three requests left for 2016. We can knock those off before years end if we get some volunteers. GamerPro64 23:59, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
I wrote a new article for World of Warcraft Classic. It's a video game and all the other WoW-related articles are under this WikiProject, so perhaps it should be too. I have no knowledge of this WikiProject and frankly am too lazy to figure out the due process, so please tag the article to be part of the project appropriately. Thanks. — turdas talk - contribs 09:01, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
Hey all, for the past 24 years, Seiken Densetsu 3 has been a unique entity- a relatively well known, underground hit, champion of the SNES RPG era, with no non-Japanese name (it's never "Mana 3") and no official non-Japanese release, but instead just a well-regarded fansub. Until yesterday, that is, when the pre-existing JP-only Seiken Densetsu Collection for Switch was abruptly released in NA as Mana Collection, complete with the renamed Trials of Mana, corresponding with the announcement that a full 3D remake under that title was coming worldwide in early 2020. You'll notice which title I linked- because of course someone has already moved it. Rather than revert, I'm bringing it up to a wider audience: what title should it be under? I personally think that 24 years of articles and discussion in English beats a single one-day-old collection release (though the remake, as it's likely to get its own article, should take "Trials"), which is exactly the decision we made last year that Mother trumped the johnny-come-lately "EarthBound Beginnings", but I acknowledge the added wrinkle this time that the "English" name of the game has been... in Japanese. What are y'all's opinions? -- Pres N 20:09, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
I don't believe I'm probably in the right place to discuss this in detail.
But I want to see if we could start improving game titles. Most of the titles use a colon symbol after a series' name or game. But not every page uses them. I find it very, inaccurate not using them. It just feels wrong and incomplete with these type of lists. Like how Mario Kart uses them, or the whole Super Mario franchise. So, could we use them? It doesn't seem right not to. Zacharyalejandro ( talk) 03:17, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
Remember that if they announce a new game and have NO Details about it (development specifically), try to find a redirect target rather than making a new article (I'm going to try to be on top of that here...) An article that just says the game was announced is not helpful and may be deleted. -- Masem ( t) 19:58, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
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I'm not finished yet, but there is a lot already so I thought I would let you know.
They can be found 2 ways:
1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=500&user=SNAAAAKE%21%21&ilshowall=1 (and following pages)
2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_game_trade_shows
There's a WHOLE LOT more to come so check it on a later date if you want, too. -- SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 09:35, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
Because it's not my work. I'm not being paid. -- SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 09:58, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation employees are being paid, by clueless people who still donate. "My attitude" is nothing compared to people being always assholes just to me. Even where I've been uploading thousands of images you can use to illustrate YOUR OWN articles, but no, it's my job to illustrate even YOUR OWN articles. Okay, it was the last time I ever came here. Also fuck that, since now I'm uploading only the images I'm personally going to use. -- SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 10:06, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
I told myself not to post here anymore but he's been pestering me on Wikimedia Commons: Wikia (Fandom) is literally a part of Wikimedia. SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 12:19, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Yes, it's still free so I just don't understand the problem, that it's an advertisement for them? Wikipedia itself is a money-maker for The Foundation, and of course is privately-owned too, so I don't really see a difference. SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 16:39, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
I mean, you want to crop just the images that are to be used here, right? That much can be done. Also, anyone could just do it instead of complaining, no I don't care about the integrity of their watermarks. SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 16:42, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
You've uploaded more images without careful overview and have again added images that we cannot take as free, SNAKE. You need to stop. This is a blockable offense. -- Masem ( t) 13:40, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
You didn't even explain to me what is the problem. OK, I'm not uploading any galleries anymore. SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 17:15, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi all! While slowly working through the massive backlog at Category:All articles lacking sources, I've run into a number of video games related articles that lack references. Some are probably good candidates for merging or redirects, while others might just need a moment's TLC. If someone with a bit more video game know-how than me could take a look, that would be super. A handful are listed below:
There's about a zillion more for anyone interested, though I'll leave it here for now to avoid being obnoxious. Feel free to edit this post or strike-through entries if you get to them. Thanks in advance! Any help is much appreciated. Happy editing! Ajpolino ( talk) 20:43, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
Collected some sources for Midway Arcade Treasures 3. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 21:17, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
I have been meaning to expand the sections from Yakuza Kiwami but I can't find anything about its making. The article's development information just puts creation information from third party sources. Any idea of an url which I could use? Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 19:39, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
@ Tintor2: In case you didn't catch it on my talk page reply, here's the interviews I found; one with series producer and writer Masayoshi Yokoyama and Kiwami director Koji Yoshida on PlayStation Blog.jp, and a different one with Yokoyama from Inside Games. -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 10:37, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi all. I've been working on a series of older graphic adventure game articles over the last year or two—resulting in a string of GAs ( Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans, Traitors Gate (video game), The Space Bar) and near-GAs ( The Crystal Key, Safecracker (video game), Dracula: Resurrection). Lately, I've been putting a lot of hours into Runaway: A Road Adventure, mostly on the development/release side of things, and I'm hoping to write a solid Development section for it soon.
However, this is where I need help. The largest source for Runaway's development is a 25-minute making-of video that ran on French television in the 2000s, which can be seen in the Internet Archive and on YouTube. (There was also apparently a German dub of this segment, but I haven't found a clean video of it.) While I have no problem dealing with foreign Romance languages in written form, there's no way I'll be able to understand spoken French well enough to transcribe the video—and YouTube's autotranslator gets scrambled on the key parts where Spanish and French voices overlap. I realize that this is a big ask, but if there's anyone in WPVG with a working knowledge of French and a willingness to transcribe 25 minutes of audio into text, I'd be willing to help with whatever article you're working on. I specialize in source-finding for games from the '90s through the mid-'00s, or, if you're working outside that range, in copyediting. Both of these skills have helped to bring articles successfully to FA in the past. Depending on the subject, I might be able to help in other capacities as well. Anyway, thanks for reading, and here's hoping someone out there is interested! JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 23:08, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
If anyone could provide some input here regarding the WP:LEAD at Hyrule Warriors, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks! Sergecross73 msg me 22:41, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion in Talk:Protagonist (Persona 3)#Seconded change to Makoto Yuki (Persona) in regards to moving an the article. It might need better opinions than me. I said about organizing it like the main character from Mass Effect but more opinions might be more helpful. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 20:50, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
There's a discussion regarding a potential WP:MOS on all fictional characters. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Manual of Style for fictional characters?. Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 22:49, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
I've seen at least one case where a cited source is a "cut-scene" from a game. Last time I asked about this, it wasn't clear if actual game play can be used as a reliable source. One issue brought up the last time I asked about this mentioned cases where obtaining the game and/or platform required to play the game was difficult due to the game and/or platform no longer being made or sold. In some cases, media based games with certain types of media based copy protection can't be played on Windows 10 (without some type of hack), because Windows 10 prevents the installation of the device drivers used to verify media. Rcgldr ( talk) 17:06, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Some games don't include any manual, such as the last 3 Tomb Raider games. They don't even include install instructions since they're downloaded by Steam. How to move the main character in the game is only revealed during game play, usually something like an introduction level. The characters and storyline in the game are only revealed during game play, and the actors involved with the game are only shown in the credits. When purchasing these particular Tomb Raider games, there's a bundle option that includes a game guide in addition to the game, but the newer guides try to explain how to progress through the game, while trying to minimize giving away the actual storyline. Need For Speed games are similar, except the newer ones are downloaded from Origin. In some cases, special editions of a game include video based media, that includes how the game was developed. Some games may post trailers or developer created media on youtube. In other cases, the only external source for a game is a youtube video showing actual game play by a player or reviewer. Rcgldr ( talk) 17:06, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Just to ask, what is the policy on acknowledging a game's presence on the series? Not to say "this is what the character thought of it" as much as "this game appeared on this show." - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 00:35, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
Agree with Masem’s reading here. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs talk 19:03, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
After a rest from Yakuza, I decided to expand Tekken 6 since I feel the article lacked more coverage on its making and reception. I expanded those section and referenced some parts from gameplay and plot. Still, besides cleaning up the grammar, do you think the reception section needs more rearranging? I'm not used to making these big reception sections since we have to separate subject and I think the only one I tried as big as possible is Devil May Cry 4. Any advice? Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 18:00, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi all. Sega, a Top-importance article as rated by the project, is currently at FAC. More feedback is currently needed, as the FAC has been open for a while and could be archived due to a lack of feedback on the article. Editors willing to provide feedback and comments are asked to do so at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sega/archive1. Thank you. Red Phoenix talk 00:24, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
So while checking the Super Robot Wars series, I have found a lot of these have questionable notability to meet WP:GNG, like 2nd Super Robot Wars, 3rd Super Robot Wars, 4th Super Robot Wars, Super Robot Wars 64, and especially Super Robot Wars Gaiden: Masō Kishin – The Lord Of Elemental. Looking into their Japanese articles, I am not able to find convincing sourcing (though they are much, much better content wise). I have thought about WP:BOLD redirecting it to a great article List of Super Robot Wars video games. But I found it too WP:BOLD without consulting with someone else (in this case people in the WikiProject). Hoping to get some feedback and thoughts on this, thanks in advance. Jovanmilic97 ( talk) 16:43, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
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Something's terribly wrong! I was looking for an AllGame review on Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color, to look for the Agetec link, when all of a sudden the AllGame link on Shadow Tower had vanished! I looked for another way through the AllGame link on Armored Core: Project Phantasma when that too vanished! It seems that all of the days we've tried so hard to save the AllGame review links for all the games are for nothing, as all of the archived game reviews have vanished without a trace forever, replaced by redirects or simply disappeared! Now what? Since there are no more AllGame link reviews, I suppose you will have to remove "AllGame" from the Template:Video game reviews chart then, huh? I'm so depressed right now. -- Angeldeb82 ( talk) 18:48, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
Angel, you need to stop being so reactionary. Calling for Allgame to be removed from the Video game reviews template is really pushing it and it as counterproductive as your threads claiming website links are down but aren't. Just stop. GamerPro64 20:49, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
Does anyone here have any interest in Archer Maclean's Mercury and Mercury Meltdown? I've improved both articles to C-class and they have a good chance of becoming GA soon. Unfortunately, I burned myself out pretty quickly and need a short break for a couple days. I don't want the momentum to be lost, so I'm asking if anyone wants to assist me with these two articles. I would appreciate any help on this. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 22:01, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
I've had discussions with an admin Yamla that, after Minecraftgamerpc69 was blocked, when through and deleted several images that Minecraftgamerpc69 had touched on claiming they were NFCC violations. I've talked to them about hastily doing this (There's a proper process for this, instant deletion was not appropriate), and they said they will restore the images but if they aren't then fixed for NFCC, will renominate them for deletion. The images in questions are those deleted in a block around 21:20 on June 25 from this list [12].
Because the images were uploaded with the Upload Wizard, they will likely be lacking NFCC#1 and #2 rataionals (that is, will have n.a. for those fields). These will be need to filled out. The #2 is easy as these images aren't coming from commercial press sources, so something like "Not a commercial press image" is sufficient to explain. #1 is about no free equivalent, so most of these will be "Cover art, no free cover art equivalent is possible).
Also, they've been deleted long enough to have been removed off their articles by a bot, so they will have to be restored.
There's only about 15 of these but still would need help to complete it efficiently. -- Masem ( t) 00:00, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
Hey all. Salvidrim very kindly helped me out with the French translation I needed recently for Runaway: A Road Adventure, but now I've got another problem on a related article I'm working on, Hollywood Monsters (video game). Like before, it's an audio recording with no subtitles beyond YouTube's automatic speech-to-text function, only this time it's in Spanish. I've already transcribed the entire recording, but there are a few passages that came out too scrambled to use reliably as sources. If there are any Spanish speakers in WPVG who'd be willing to transcribe these sections into Spanish (I can use Google Translate to handle the English translation once they're in text form), I'd really appreciate it! I've timestamped the passages below alongside my attempts to transcribe them. There's also an Internet Archive upload of the audio if that's more useful for some reason.
The first one starts at this timestamp and ends at 20:58:
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como surgio la idea de que "La Union" mision a la musica fuisteis vosotros e ellos Dinamic o se
Hizo por el Dinamic fueron los que realmente llegaron con la idea de escoger un grupo y bueno. al principio no se tenia claro que el grupo -- en que grupo pensar para hacer la musica pero, pero bueno se penso luego en "La Union" y que bueno que podrian hacer un buen trabajo ademas el estilo entonces contactaron con la casa discografica y todo fue muy bien y nos entendimos muy bien muy bien. pues nada vamos con el juego que ya que lleva a ir dos se que llevais mucho tiempre desarrollandolo pero podeis hacernos un breve resumen de lo que ha pasado en todo este tiempo todo el proceso desde que partes de una pequena idea hasta el juego acabado que ya esta en la calle? Si, bueno. El proceso empezo ahora proximamente dos anos y medio bueno habiamos acabado nuestro primer juego que se llama Igor: Objetivo Uikokahonia. Y empezamos a pensar en ideas tuvimos la idea asi por encima de que queriamos hacer un juego sobre los monstruos clasicos un poco ambientado en la epoca dorada de hollywood los anos 40 50. Y tambien tuvimos la idea de darle un poco la vuelta a todo lo que las ideas que se tenian preconcebidas sobre, sobre estos monstruos entonces nos desarrollamos un guion tuvimos entre 3 y 6 meses cerrando el guion pensando dialogos, puzzles, que habia que hacer objetos en cada pantalla. Y una vez cerrado eso empezamos a lo que es el primero estuve buscando tanto grafistas como gente para fondos. Y tal buscar un estilo de fondo es algo que nos convenciera. Y cuando lo encontramos, fue empezar la produccion de pantallas de bueno. Primero tuvimos tambien que mejorar el engine que utilizamos en Igor estuvo bastante tiempo. Y luego ya pues un proceso de produccion que ha sido muy largo porque era un juego muy grande |
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Con el guion estuvimos de 3 a 6 meses despues hubo un periodo y estuvimos los tres totalmente involucrados en esa tarea no hicimos nada aparte de eso. Despues estuvimos pues unos cuantos meses tambien haremos exactamente desarrollando lo que seria link del juego, y bueno dejar un poco central se salvase. Hubo una parte tambien de diseno de escenarios -- de diseno de cada pantalla los objetos que obligatoriamente tenia que venir a la pantalla, todo eso tambien segun tiempo. Y luego ya se paso a la produccion de pantallas que ha llevado en torno a un ano aproximadamente. En cualquier caso si hubieramos contado con mas gente podia haber hecho mucho menos tiempo, pero el problema es que no era impossible contar con la --
La ventaja de que al hacerlo en grupo está muy claro de la idea que cuales y de un poco -- Si No, no, nosotros siempre tratamos de llegar a un acuerdo en todo, sabes, los tres tenemos la misma poder de decision por decirlo asi. Y como tenemos los gustos bastante paracidos pues solemos encontrar bastante rapido la que buscamos vamos. Bien. A nivel de como lo habeis desarrollado abrir partidos las de el juego anterior o si--? Si, partimos de ella, aunque esta re escrita totalmente. De hecho digo lo hicimos en pascal. Y bueno la historia lo hemos pasado todo hace ese registro totalmente y -- estamos bastante contentos con la forma que hemos conseguido trabajar. De hecho el engine este fue el original, aunque a lo largo de toda la produccion [something] como dos veces totalmente engine, porque no acaba de comer |
Thanks again if there's anyone who can help. JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 02:18, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
I created this article after seeing it on the Request Board and I do think it has a chance on being a higher quality article. However, I have never played the game before so I have no clue what the plot of the game is. Has anyone here played the game and can help fill in the section? I believe beyond that and expanding the Gameplay section that this would be able to at least become a Good Article. GamerPro64 14:21, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello! A few days ago I nominated Go Vacation as a FAC, and I would appreciate any comments y'all could give. Thanks, TheAwesome Hwyh 19:17, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
I was wondering what is the correct way to reference information found on the back of a game's box - plot or high level features of the game mainly. Should I be using the cite video game template or is there a more accepted way of doing this? Nealbo ( talk) 19:10, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi there. I was meaning to expand the plot development section of Devil May Cry 5 but it appears that writer Bingo Morihashi hasn't commented in English sources. I tried searching him in Japanese but I always end with the prologue light novel he wrote for the game. By the way, I created Bingo Morihashi thanks to an artbook from the Devil May Cry series but according to his Japanese Wikipedia article and his twitter, he is also known for writing multiple types of light novels so that article might need an expansion too. I searched for the DMC5 artbook but I found nothing about Morihashi. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 22:41, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
Hey everyone! I've currently got Super Mario All-Stars up at FAC (see here). However, I'm going to be gone for the next week and will not have internet access, so I won't be able to respond to any comments until the 30th. If someone could keep an eye on the article and the FAC page for me, that'd be great. You'll have my eternal gratitude and I'll be willing to do a favor for you in the future. JOE BRO 64 15:36, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
This needs major cleanup and possibly should be nominated for deletion. It appears to have been written by the founder of the company and has a tone completely inconsistent with Wikipedia's tone. It also sprinkles external links into the prose, which should each be removed or turned into citations. Retro ( talk | contribs) 12:03, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
So hey, long time editor here even though I'm more in and out of things, but I kinda wanted to discuss something that's been on my mind too: the growing disdain of 'lists' in character articles for reception. There seems to be a growing mindset that somehow lists like the ones GamesRadar used to do where they would discuss so and so items related to a topic and give their feedback are inherently bad for wikipedia. I think a huge culprit here are incidents where an entire character's article has been propped up on them but nothing's actually said in any of the lists: the character or game is simply given a 'rank' and just put there. But I think there's a huge gap between that and lists where actual reception is given towards a subject as to why it's there and their thoughts on it, and the latter should be a valid point for notability. I would argue too that if a subject appears on enough lists of a certain type and of a decent scope that can also count towards notability, though more to augment existing discussion going on regarding the character. My main point is that I really think this subject should be handled a lot smarter and as a case by case basis instead of a wholesale litmus test as some seem to regard it. If there's reception we should be using it to make these articles better, and condemning all lists feels like it'll remove a valuable resource to editors here within reason.-- Kung Fu Man ( talk) 19:43, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
I gathered sources for a number of requested articles, but I'm a little burned out right now with writing articles, so if anyone would like to help, that would be more than appreciated. User:Abryn/Game reception
The games in question are:
There's also Ever, Jane, but I actually am really interested in writing that article myself. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 18:54, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
Topic. Thanks! Axem Titanium ( talk) 07:10, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
We seem to be reaching an impasse at Women and video games. The argument that is being made is that the article is overly "gynocentric". Third parties, other participants, and extra eyes would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. - Thibbs ( talk) 21:17, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
@ Atsme and Alex Shih: You may need to be aware of this, though it sounds like it will be moving to AN. -- ferret ( talk) 14:36, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
Topic ban requests at AN are live. All comments are welcome. See here. Damien Linnane ( talk) 15:59, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
There is something I've been wondering about the article Vergil (Devil May Cry). In the latest game, the character appeared but had two alteregos who were basically split parts until they both disappeared and Vergil returned. Should them be covered in Vergil's article or they would instead be their own separate sections in the character list. I'm confused about this. Tintor2 ( talk) 23:34, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
I scanned
this article briefly, and I must say that I am shocked by its quality. There are numerous problems that need to be dealt with. Copyright is just one of them (good grief, there even is a gallery of copyrighted screenshots). My main concern is whether the subject is notable enough for inclusion on Wikipedia. I only need to say that I was not able to find very many sources about the subject on Google or Archive.org, so I think it is only a fork of
FreeSpace 2.
Gamingforfun
365 02:33, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
I wanted to take a minute and remind anyone new or freshly returned to the project that we have a channel in the unofficial Wikimedia WP:Discord server. A lot of familiar faces have been around over time, and if you're already on Discord as a gamer, please stop by. -- ferret ( talk) 18:45, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
There is a discussion on the reliability of Mammoth Gamers ( mammothgamers.com) on the reliable sources noticeboard. If you're interested, please participate at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § Are articles from Mammoth Gamers considered a reliable source?. — Newslinger talk 04:11, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi. I've recently been doing work on articles within the Shadow Hearts series, including the above music article I created a short time ago. The things missing now are track lists for the three main albums (I've created track lists for the other three). I'd appreciate some help putting them in. Either that, or perhaps remove them if track lists aren't needed, but I feel like including them for thoroughness. I'm planning to nominate the article for GA in the future once it's all settled. --
ProtoDrake (
talk) 19:55, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
So, I'm planning to start expanding the MySims Agents article, and I don't really know how to proceed. Basicly, the Wii version and DS version are completely different games, difrent gameplay, plot, and even review scores. I think it's probably best to split it into two articles, one for Wii and the other for DS, but I'm not sure so I wanted to check here just in case. I think all the other MySims games are like this, where they share the same name but are completely different games, but I'm only really familiar with MySims Agents. TheAwesome Hwyh 01:14, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
A little update: I was able to find plenty of sources for the Wii version (which I am working on in my sandbox over here), but I can't really find anything besides a single IGN review for the DS version (which I am working on right here). So... how do I deal with this? The DS version is a completely difrent game, so it doesn't really make much sense to include it into the article on the Wii version, but if we don't have a article on the DS version, how should I mention it in the article for the Wii one? TheAwesome Hwyh 20:45, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
I feel that it would be a good idea to try and split these out whenever possible, especially in cases where these ports, remakes, and sequels feel tacked on. Of course, not all games will work for that, but if anyone would like to accompany in my effort to deal with this, I think it'd make the main article that much better for it. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 01:42, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
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I feel that some female character articles have too strong an emphasis on sexuality. Not that instances of the character's sexuality/sex appeal should be ignored because of what they are, but it feels that some things either go into too great of detail, or are downright vulgar in how the information is presented. Certainly guilty of that myself. I was wondering if anyone would be interested in going over some of these articles and trying to help tweak them. - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 10:08, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
You know what's more important than being PC? Updating the articles. For example of all the SNK characters I think only Mai and Nakoruru are entirely up to date regarding their appearances, and that's only I keep it this way. And the entire articles of, for another example, Warcraft characters (all of them) were just really badly written when I've checked them, and that awful writing extends to their reception sections (as tagged by me in Jaina Proudmoore 4 years ago) but really to everything. SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 15:18, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
If the reception sections focus a lot on the sexual aspects of a character, I highly doubt it’s undue weight. The reality is that’s what the sources involve, and even now it’s rare that many characters in general, especially female ones, get much deep content on that front. Better writing should probably not be spending a lot of time quoting passages and reciting exact placements and rankings in lists or similar, but that’s an issue of clear and concise encyclopedic writing. Without better examples I don’t see how anything is broadly actionable, certainly as “vulgar”. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs (talk) 15:27, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
I would advise to think of the reception as a formal letter. Try focusing one section on the character, personality, or another certain traits appeals to others (gameplay moves, relationships, etc). The sex appeal might fit well in one paragraph unless there is a notable division between positive and negative notes (maybe a character is oversexualized, or maybe the character's sexuality is not appealing). Tintor2 ( talk) 19:29, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Looking at the discussion, there seems to be two separate issues being discussed here:
1) That sexuality/sex appeal character reception in articles is inappropriate/vulgar/politically incorrect - broad consensus seems to be that removing these would be improper as per WP:NOTCENSORED;
2) That "top 10" listicles, sexuality-related or otherwise, don't contribute much of substance towards the article - this is a topic that has been debated ad nauseam on this WikiProject, both on this page and in deletion discussions, so the line between what is acceptable and what isn't shouldn't be too unclear now.
Satellizer el Bridget
(Talk) 10:51, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
I think it'd be worthwhile to form a task force to condense and cleanup content. Would anyone be interested in participating in such a thing? - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 12:31, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
So, there seems to be general agreement that it’s something worth looking into, though with varying degrees of what’s acceptable - which is fine, perhaps the varying viewpoints will keep either side from getting too heavy-handed. So let’s move into a plan for moving forward. How should we do it? I don’t outwardly object to a task force, but it seems like a lot of those fizzle out pretty quickly, and may not be worth the effort to set it up. It might be best to just create a user talk sub-page or something and just go at it. I don’t plan on spearheading the effort, but I’ll be here to help. Sergecross73 msg me 14:13, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
It's really confusing to me since I thought KFM and me are friends, and now I see him telling people I made him quit Wikipedia and that I'm accusing him of being sexist, which was never my intention, and I don't want him to quit and I'm sorry if he felt this way. Officially speaking.
Also since there's a confusion regarding "ownership" of article let me set it straight: I-No is really User: Gabriel Yuji's ( [3] - my entire input was to literally only add 2 categories [4]), the work on all Darkstalkers characters has been shared between me and User:Beemer69 in various portions (she's also the author of the list article that we've been then splitting from), and it was only the (unmentioned above, award-winning and so forth but soon largely forgotten as it was just 1 PC game in 1999 - I also made Morte from the same game, same deal) Annah-of-the-Shadows that I can only actually consider "mine" out of all the articles that got singled out. SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 10:24, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
- My apoligies, and can erase this if it doesn't belong. Is this the correct place to give awareness to a page with broken external reference links? :) Or if someone could check it out and post a writing about it in a correct place for me as i am new to this but wanted it to be known. The 2 external links at the bottom on /info/en/?search=EGO_Game is not directing to the correct place. I also have not found any evidence yet through searching online that Ego still exists. I did not to an extensive search though :P Hope this helps! ;) -Magenet 11:04pm CST 5/11/2019
I'm looking for help with sources for the defunct UK video game magazine Electric Brain (1989–1993). Any help or pointers appreciated! Mattsephton ( talk) 13:53, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I'm here as a representative of Unity Technologies on Wikipedia. I've declared my conflict of interest on the company article's talk page, as well as the Danny Lange, John Riccitiello, and Unity (game engine) talk pages. I've submitted a request at Talk:Danny Lange for editors to review my improved draft about the computer scientist and current Unity employee, which I've saved at User:Matthewpruitt/Danny Lange. An editor assisted with the Riccitiello article, but unfortunately no one has responded to my Lange request yet. Can a WikiProject Video games member please take a look? The current article is poorly written. Also, most of the text is unsourced, and there are lists of speeches, presentations, and publications. Thank you! Matthewpruitt ( talk) 18:00, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
Could someone please update the New Nintendo 2DS XL photo in its article? The current one looks terrible, and it has a glare on the screen. I have found better pictures online, but they may not be allowed to be on Wikipedia. LBDCOM12 ( talk) 18:01, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/990500595/subverse SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 15:52, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
>What is google
https://www.google.com/search?q=subverse+game&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 16:00, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
Make it then. I encourage you to do so as it is an interesting subject. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 15:57, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
Is to arrive this month. It's important because it's currently around #14 ever according to List of video game crowdfunding projects (where it's not). Can't do literally everything on Wikipedia just myself. SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 15:58, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
SNAAAAKE!!, if you think it's notable enough to have an article, then make it, even if it's a stub. It's that simple. You said you were told to "participate in collaborative projects". Making a post telling us that something does not have an article and only posting a link is not participating in collaborative projects. That's just basically telling other people to do the work (not all of us are interested or care about this subject, but you seem to be and seem to know a decent bit about this). Participating in collaborative projects is actually contributing to the development and editing of an article(s). If you do not feel comfortable with creating articles or are unsure of it's notability, what you should have done is made a post to discuss whether or not this subject is notable enough to have an article (with your input included) and if it's decided it should, then discuss on how to create/structure the article. That would be "participating in collaborative projects". -- JDC808 ♫ 06:37, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
So I did and I hope this project will now help expand it in all directions, also the developer StudioFOW needs to be rewritten and updated (I'm copy editing right now but only that). SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 08:32, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
I actually did the StudioFOW rewrite/update. (Not that it can't use more work, but so can everything.) SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 09:25, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
Please check out Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games/Sources#System_16, Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games/Sources#Video_Games_Chronicle, Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games/Sources#Frontline_Gaming_Japan, Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games/Sources#NinDB, Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games/Sources#Subsim and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games/Sources#Armchair_General for the discussions about the reliablity of multiple websites as sources for video games. Regards, Jovanmilic97 ( talk) 12:56, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
Your feedback is requested for a few changes to our MOS guidelines on plot sections, concerning our (lack of) guidance for DLC and episodic games. Axem Titanium ( talk) 20:10, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
I've been diddling with Game & Watch articles a bit for fun, and I was wondering if anyone knew of any print content I could use. Any guidance would be appreciated. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 17:43, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
Just thought I'd let WP:VG know. Hail to the 🐐 JOE BRO 64 01:04, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I am credited in the game SourceForts and have been attempting to update the wikipedia page with modern information, most of the sites that used to publicize the game have died, and I maintain the only archive for the game. I want to help preserve the game and almost dragged myself into a edit war over this and have been told that you guys will be able to help me with getting the page modernized.
I will spend as much time as needed to provide whatever type of information or proof is required to ensure that my past edits are kept and that we can make sure that there is no COI or issues involved.
The game is now Free, the last person other than myself to edit the page has not checked the game out and has been quoting decade old sources and removing description information that was factual.
Please help me with my game.. - — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nick12506 ( talk • contribs) 02:22, 18 May 2019 Nick12506 (UTC)
As per WP:NCVG#Lists, which says "Lists should be named "List of..." (e.g., "List of Final Fantasy titles").", Shrek video games should be called List of Shrek video games, however the latter is a redirect to the former and as such I am unable to move it to its proper name. Thanks in advance. -- Einstein95 ( talk) 11:36, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
Category:Non-white characters in video games has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. ~ Dissident93 ( talk) 17:31, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
There is a discussion on the reliability of Screen Rant on the reliable sources noticeboard. If you're interested, please participate at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § Screen Rant. — Newslinger talk 07:03, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
We have an IP editor that wants to introduced a naunced very of modern roguelikes (aka the "roguelite") in that these games "co-opted" the roguelike name, among other pointy things. The IP is not wholly wrong in that I know this is how a portion of the roguelike community see these games, but its not reflected in RSes to that degree. Unfortunately they're in a slow edit war to retain this POV. Need help convincing them that WP:V is key here , and without sources to back up their position, we can't really change to reflect what they want. -- Masem ( t) 14:24, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
This is a request for assistance regarding the Traitors Gate GAN, which has been inappropriately started (seemingly as a sandbox test) by a now-inactive user under the name Meeply. The WPVG template shows that a review is underway for the article, but you can see here that that isn't the case. I don't have the ability to delete this test page myself, so I'd be very grateful to anyone who could handle this. JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 17:07, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
I feel there's some type of off-site brigading aimed to remove Epic Games and/or Fortnite from various articles, given the amount of content removals over the last few days on those and related pages. (I am guessing it is stemming from community frustration on the Epic Games Store and the connection of EPic to Tencent and to China from that) Nothing that's not out of control, but if you have pages in your watchlist just be aware of this. -- Masem ( t) 14:18, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
Given the first five games of the Sakura Wars series have attained GA status and now Sakura Wars is up for FA status, I think it's probably time for a good or featured topic regarding the main Sakura Wars series. Using the Final Fantasy FT and the List of Final Fantasy video games as models, I'm possibly going to create a List of Sakura Wars video games article before I take it to GT/FT. Any thoughts or ideas before we proceed? Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 08:37, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
You can also nominate Project Sakura Wars for Peer Review and that can be good enough to have the topic be nominated. GamerPro64 14:56, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
Unfortunately, the Did you know nomination for Project Sakura Wars has been declined, so when the time comes to bring it up to GA after the game's release or so, we can nominate it for WP:DYK again. Anyway, I agree the best bet is to focus on getting the main series article up for GA/FA. Thoughts? Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 23:04, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
Could someone look at the above article and wikify whatever is salvagable in the lede. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 14:26, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
I was wondering if anyone would be interested in helping expand Splatoon articles. I feel that a series article could be justified, and an article about the music in the series (or individual games) could be really valuable. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 22:00, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
By any chance does somebody know about critic Hiroki Higashi? I found that he made some analysis in regards to fiction but I guess he is not notable because I can't find an article. I found an analysis about him in the Italian Wikipedia but the source might not be notable. Tintor2 ( talk) 17:11, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi all. I was one of the facilitators at this event: Wikipedia:Meetup/Irvine/Gender equity 2019. A newbie created this article, User:BrunoMLB1/sandbox on Atsuko Nishida. Can someone please review the article and confirm if it meets notability standards within the guidelines of your WikiProject? Thanks. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 15:26, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
See the discussion Talk:Joker (Persona)#Akira Kurusu. I would discuss but I don't have too much knowledge about Persona 5. Tintor2 ( talk) 17:15, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
For anybody who isn't familiar with the character, he does not have a canon given name in the game (players can freely name him, but voicelines refer to him by his codename Joker). Ren Amamiya comes from the game's anime adaptation, and was later officially adapted by Atlus (the original game's developer) in a few recent spinoff games, as well as in a separate spinoff manga series. He is only known as Akira Kurusu in the game's manga adaptation, which is where the weight argument of listing both/only one name is coming from. ~ Dissident93 ( talk) 01:41, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
I'm uploading cover art and adding it into the infobox of the relevant article but wanted to double check that the images I'm uploading conform to all guidelines including using correct fair use statements and licensing. I want to avoid them being removed if I've misunderstood anything or prevent double work to fix them. Would someone be able to check the cover art file on Cyclone (video game) please, and let me know if everything looks OK? Nealbo ( talk) 12:28, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
Now that my poorly thought-out category was deleted, I think it's valuable to talk about a better solution to the problem. Much like we have a category for fictional black people in general (for instance), I think we could justify a category for fictional black video game characters. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 19:46, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
I just rewrote all sections of the Casual game article to bring it from a ~2007 perspective to ~2019, if anybody's interested in reviewing the update. I also created 8 redirects for terms now used in the article.
"Casual game" is a term that has changed since the mid-2000s so it's now wanting material on how "casual" is part of a continuum from "casual" (or, I guess, "hypercasual" now) to "hardcore", which is briefly mentioned in the Gamer article. I'll get to this someday if nobody beats me to it. On Sober Reflection ( talk) 12:39, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2019_May_30#Template:Vgy and Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2019_May_30#Template:Gy TarkusAB talk 12:59, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
After working on some Fate/stay night I wonder if the characters Shirou Emiya and Saber (Fate/stay night) could have mid importance. Saber is also quite the mascot from the series. Both have a big popularity section while Shirou has been studied by some scholars which seems really surprising based on my experience with character articles. The Italian Wikipedia has more analysis of Shirou but I don't know if they are notable although they mention the character has a big impact similar to the first Gundam main character Amuro Ray in regards to how the player can or not be immersed in their stories due to their personalities. Any idea? Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 20:27, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
Belated, but you shouldn't spend any time whatsoever worrying about the "importance" field, which is of itself of no importance. In fact, I'd argue that it should be entirely removed from the template. WP:MILHIST doesn't include importance tags and they've lost nothing.
(For those curious, the original goal behind the importance field is moot - picking which articles appeared on a "Wikipedia CD" intended for computers without Internet, but with access to a CD drive (very rare). The entirety of Wikipedia can easily be transported on a thumb drive these days and Internet penetration is very deep, so this doesn't matter, and to the extent it does matter it's not driven by importance ratings anymore.) SnowFire ( talk) 18:42, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
After an extremely lengthy discussion on the topic, I had thought the consensus settled, but User:SNAAAAKE!! readded puffy ameliorative adjectives like " alleged" as part of a larger edit. After being reverted a number of times, he has settled on "perceived", which has substantively the same effect. Can we please quickly reaffirm that we should follow MOS:VAGUE here? Axem Titanium ( talk) 20:51, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
He’s blocked for a week, but regardless, please keep contributing to the talk page discussion on it. Sergecross73 msg me 23:59, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
I am mass-verifying List of Electronic Arts games, and I look at one of the entries that Electronic Arts is said to have developed or published: Boulder Dash. First of all, according to issue 53 of Retro Gamer on page 35, Electronic Arts did publish (later) versions of the first two games in the series.
Secondly but the reason I am here, the Boulder Dash Wikipedia article is a joke. To name one of the problems, it seems as if its topic is awkwardly alternating from the original video game to the series and then back to the first game. And speaking of series, I am programming a navbox pertaining to the Boulder Dash series for Wikipedia articles about games in the series, but that is where I run into trouble. My experimental navbox contains 9 games that I am positive based on my brief research are notable enough to have their own Wikipedia articles, but only 3 of them are actual links to articles; the rest are either redirects to Boulder Dash or nonexistent articles. A navigational box containing 3 entries is not likely to exist for long, but it is more convincing if there are 9 of them.
If I am right that all the subjects of the given entries in my navbox are notable, a navbox creation seems inevitable, which theoretically means that I could just create the navbox as it is and then create or let others create the articles the entries are red-hyperlinked to. I am hesitant to create the template and add it to its respective articles, and before I obsess about Boulder Dash and lose interest in List of Electronic Arts games (as I did with
SkiFree in favor of that list, though I am still improving it for GA), I need some advice on whether it is appropriate to create navigational boxes containing articles that do not exist but whose subjects are notable enough for inclusion, as well as articles that do exist but alone are not enough for navbox creation. Any advice is appreciated one way or the other.
Gamingforfun
365 03:12, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
The battle cats article was fixed alot and should be resubmited for importance and quality ratings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BattleCatsBro ( talk • contribs) 20:57, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
Today, it was announced that Cuphead was being ported to the Tesla car OS to be run on various models. While this is certainly interesting info for the body, I would not consider the Tesla as a "gaming platform" as for inclusion in the infobox at this point, though some IPs have tried to do so. I think we should be clear that while the OS (like iOS for Apple TV) can be considered a platform, these non-traditional gaming devices should not be included in the infobox. Tesla, the TI-80 calculator, etc. -- Masem ( t) 19:45, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
FYI: Some early issues (1974-80) of the Japanese coin-op magazine Game Machine have been scanned and are now available here. TarkusAB talk 17:26, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
The July 1997 issue of GamePro reports that Interplay announced ClayFighter 63 1/3 would be the first third-party game to support the Rumble Pak. I went to add the source to the article, only to find there's no mention of the Rumble Pak there. Can anyone familiar with the game confirm whether it in fact uses the Rumble Pak or this feature was dropped by the time of release?-- Martin IIIa ( talk) 14:23, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
So we had consensus last year to move all the E3 articles to their common name of E3 YEAR instead of their full official name, but it seems like nobody ever got around to doing it. I'm just bringing this back up in efforts of hopefully getting them all moved before E3 2019 starts, as doing it during the event would just cause a lot of issues. ~ Dissident93 ( talk) 21:32, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
I have created an article on Frank Cirocco, a comics artist and video game designer. Within the comics industry, he is best know as the co-creator of the Alien Legion series for Epic Comics. Cirocco has worked in the video game business for several decades but I have no proper reference sources for his extensive contributions in this field. Anyone who has reliable sources pertaining to him is welcome to expand the new article. Your assistance is greatly appreciated! Mtminchi08 ( talk) 03:52, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
Apple's WDDC is today and they've announced they are splitting the OS for iPad from the normal iOS to its own iPadOS. Obviously far too early for any games unique to it but we should start thinking if this is a platform to list or not. -- Masem ( t) 18:28, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
Notification: there is a discussion at
Category talk:Video game franchises on when best to use it, particularly when it co-exists with
one of its yearly subcategories in articles.
Gamingforfun
365 09:15, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
Just a heads up that print magazines and books are copyrighted materials, and only the rights holder has the right to distribute these magazines. It will take decades for these magazines to enter the public domain. That means that these scanned magazines cannot be linked to, either in references or external links, on Wikipedia. WP:COPYVIOEL is pretty clear on this. Harizotoh9 ( talk) 06:43, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
If you use Special:LinkSearch, you can find hundreds of pages, including quite a few GA rated pages. The internet is pretty loose with copyright, and in practice things are taken down only when someone complains but Wikipedia adheres much closer to the letter of the law. Just look at the hoops you have to go through just to upload game cover art. You could justify a very short quote of copyrighted material, but not linking to an entire scan. Also, Archive.org operates like Youtube in that anyone can upload anything, and it's only taken down if someone complains. Harizotoh9 ( talk) 00:15, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
There's an RFC regarding a possible implementation of character guidelines here. Input from project members would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 18:09, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
Should we be including the number of reviews Metacritic is using to cite their score in the article, even footnoted as shown by the Team Sonic Racing article? Personally, I think it doesn't make a difference if a game had 40 reviews or 45; anybody curious enough can simply click the Metacritic link and check for themselves. Thoughts? ~ Dissident93 ( talk) 03:56, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
Well it seems like there is consensus for it to be included, but I still think that it should be footnoted (like in Team Sonic Racing) just for template readability. Anybody disagree? ~ Dissident93 ( talk) 08:29, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
I'm slowly working through this IP range's contributions. I could use some assistance if anyone needs something to do :) The edits generally pertain to changing platforms around, removing Xbox/PC/Microsoft and replacing with Wii/Wii U, adding categories for various "cancelled platform game" (i.e. saying a game never announced for Wii is a cancelled wii game), etc. I've spotted and blocked this user several times over the years I believe, but this range was active for a while and I haven't had time to fully go through it. There seem to be a tiny handful of good (at least not disruptive) edits mixed in, but there's a lot of unsourced stuff, clearly incorrect stuff, removing sources to replace pro-Nintendo stuff, etc (I've seen multiple cases of removing Xbox as a platform entirely, or replacing it with Wii, in direct contradiction to sources) -- ferret ( talk) 02:09, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
Almost certain there's a way for admins to mass revert vandalism from accounts. Harizotoh9 ( talk) 07:53, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I've been preparing reception/creation sources for existing and potential video game articles. If you are looking for a project or think there might be something you're working on that might be here, you can give it a look. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 09:46, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
So with the larger Stadia reveal today, it is clear that it is a unique platform - its not a streaming subscription service, you are going to have to buy games to play on it (you also pay for the higher-quality stream capabilities). There are at least two Stadia exclusive games.
This begs the quesiton if Stadia (and only Stadia) should be considered a platform for infobox/category purposes. I have a feeling that unlike Onlive or other services (like with Sony's or MS's offerings) that Stadia is unique enough to require it. -- Masem ( t) 17:46, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
How about for infoboxes, we mention "multiplatform", and only list a platform when the game is exclusive to it? Actual release platforms can be in the lede or in the "Release" subsection. Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 19:44, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
I recently created a new article Lone Soldier (video game) with 6 (now 7) supporting sources. I received an alert that the "This article needs additional citations for verification." template has been added to the top of the article. My goal is obviously to put together good quality articles, so my question is, what exactly is a sufficient amount of sources? Looking at the verifiability page it all seems very vague... For a relatively short article I feel like 7 citations are sufficient and that there is nothing "contestable" that does not have an associated source. Also as far as I can tell there are no other good sources of information other than what I've added already so I feel like I'm at a bit of a dead end with this. Nealbo ( talk) 20:07, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
Avoid linking to copyrighted magazines, and use the cite magazine template. Also, get some more re-views. This lists 3 French magazine review scores. Moby games and other sites will list more. There's other sites for german mag review scores. Famitsu likely reviewed it too. The page is also formatted like a game guide right now. Game guides are great sources, but the WP pages shouldn't be formatted like them. There shouldn't be a blow by blow account of the levels and the enemies in them. Look at how some GA articles are formatted, like Shinrei Jusatsushi Tarōmaru. Harizotoh9 ( talk) 01:48, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
It's not much, but I did a quick search.
Abryn ( talk) 06:04, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
Data Design Interactive has a list of 15 games that link to their own articles. A musician is notable for their notable songs, an actor for their notable acting roles, a writer for their notable books, etc. Shouldn't any entertainment company be notable for what it has created? Dream Focus 17:24, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
Greetings, when I was editing the List of home video game consoles page, I encountered a problem when listing the platforms for the First generation, as I knew there were a lot of consoles, but I had no idea about the scale of this task. I wasn't entirely sure on how to list them, so I asked for help, and someone told me it would be near impossible to list them all.
So I tried, and there are MORE THAN 600 I made a prototype page on my sandbox; User:Talkkaris/sandbox
Now, my problem is this;
1- It's Wikipedia so I need reliable sources.
2- Literally almost no one cares about the first generation of consoles, half the consoles on the list I got from blogs and eBay/sales sites.
3- A picture of the darn thing is good proof that it exists, it's harder to ignore it, but only around 80 have a picture, the rest is blank
4- Searching their names online they show up with pictures (some are harder than others), but on Wikipedia there's nothing
So without pictures, how can I source their existence? I think I can't simply link to whatever blog has one, or a YouTube video, or an eBay listing, so I'm a bit stuck. How can I complete this page before creating it? If any of you can help with his it would be very much appreciated. Talkkaris ( talk) 20:07, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
Writeups are going on its page from now on. Zero Serenity ( talk - contributions) 21:39, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
I'm working on this article here and there, but it's a tall order, so I was wondering if anyone was interested in helping with setting up a draft on this. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 09:08, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
Also Sex and nudity in video games, Gender representation in video games, Video game controversies, and possibly more. And I don't think anyone's personal opinions about who and what is either "oversexualized", "undersexualized", or "just fine sexualized" is important to make a separate article about it. There's no Oversexualization of women in literature or Oversexualization of women in film or any other corresponding article, too. In fact, there's no article oversexualization at all. -- SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 12:19, 10 June 2019 (UTC) -- SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 12:32, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
Sal: There's no
Sexualization of women in literature,
Sexualization of women in film, etc. as well. And the "culture and media" section of
Sexualization (which is overall concerning human beings, especially children, not fictional characters) links to
Pornographication as the main article (and which seems to be feminist theory nonsense mentioning "patriarchy" in the lead, and speaking of Clown World Wikipedia a short glance I saw it contains such complete absurdness as "In famous horror films such as Friday the 13th, women are portrayed as weak" while in our reality the survivor who kills Jason
Pamela in the film is a woman,
Alice). --
SNAAAAKE!! (
talk) 12:32, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
That sounds like a WP:POVFORK. We already have multiple articles discussing this topic. Harizotoh9 ( talk) 14:00, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
Its that time again boys and girls. We got articles for review. Here they are now:
And, as always, we still have the Requests Board with a huge backlog that needs assistance. Got three requests left for 2016. We can knock those off before years end if we get some volunteers. GamerPro64 23:59, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
I wrote a new article for World of Warcraft Classic. It's a video game and all the other WoW-related articles are under this WikiProject, so perhaps it should be too. I have no knowledge of this WikiProject and frankly am too lazy to figure out the due process, so please tag the article to be part of the project appropriately. Thanks. — turdas talk - contribs 09:01, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
Hey all, for the past 24 years, Seiken Densetsu 3 has been a unique entity- a relatively well known, underground hit, champion of the SNES RPG era, with no non-Japanese name (it's never "Mana 3") and no official non-Japanese release, but instead just a well-regarded fansub. Until yesterday, that is, when the pre-existing JP-only Seiken Densetsu Collection for Switch was abruptly released in NA as Mana Collection, complete with the renamed Trials of Mana, corresponding with the announcement that a full 3D remake under that title was coming worldwide in early 2020. You'll notice which title I linked- because of course someone has already moved it. Rather than revert, I'm bringing it up to a wider audience: what title should it be under? I personally think that 24 years of articles and discussion in English beats a single one-day-old collection release (though the remake, as it's likely to get its own article, should take "Trials"), which is exactly the decision we made last year that Mother trumped the johnny-come-lately "EarthBound Beginnings", but I acknowledge the added wrinkle this time that the "English" name of the game has been... in Japanese. What are y'all's opinions? -- Pres N 20:09, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
I don't believe I'm probably in the right place to discuss this in detail.
But I want to see if we could start improving game titles. Most of the titles use a colon symbol after a series' name or game. But not every page uses them. I find it very, inaccurate not using them. It just feels wrong and incomplete with these type of lists. Like how Mario Kart uses them, or the whole Super Mario franchise. So, could we use them? It doesn't seem right not to. Zacharyalejandro ( talk) 03:17, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
Remember that if they announce a new game and have NO Details about it (development specifically), try to find a redirect target rather than making a new article (I'm going to try to be on top of that here...) An article that just says the game was announced is not helpful and may be deleted. -- Masem ( t) 19:58, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I'm not finished yet, but there is a lot already so I thought I would let you know.
They can be found 2 ways:
1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=500&user=SNAAAAKE%21%21&ilshowall=1 (and following pages)
2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_game_trade_shows
There's a WHOLE LOT more to come so check it on a later date if you want, too. -- SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 09:35, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
Because it's not my work. I'm not being paid. -- SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 09:58, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation employees are being paid, by clueless people who still donate. "My attitude" is nothing compared to people being always assholes just to me. Even where I've been uploading thousands of images you can use to illustrate YOUR OWN articles, but no, it's my job to illustrate even YOUR OWN articles. Okay, it was the last time I ever came here. Also fuck that, since now I'm uploading only the images I'm personally going to use. -- SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 10:06, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
I told myself not to post here anymore but he's been pestering me on Wikimedia Commons: Wikia (Fandom) is literally a part of Wikimedia. SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 12:19, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Yes, it's still free so I just don't understand the problem, that it's an advertisement for them? Wikipedia itself is a money-maker for The Foundation, and of course is privately-owned too, so I don't really see a difference. SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 16:39, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
I mean, you want to crop just the images that are to be used here, right? That much can be done. Also, anyone could just do it instead of complaining, no I don't care about the integrity of their watermarks. SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 16:42, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
You've uploaded more images without careful overview and have again added images that we cannot take as free, SNAKE. You need to stop. This is a blockable offense. -- Masem ( t) 13:40, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
You didn't even explain to me what is the problem. OK, I'm not uploading any galleries anymore. SNAAAAKE!! ( talk) 17:15, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi all! While slowly working through the massive backlog at Category:All articles lacking sources, I've run into a number of video games related articles that lack references. Some are probably good candidates for merging or redirects, while others might just need a moment's TLC. If someone with a bit more video game know-how than me could take a look, that would be super. A handful are listed below:
There's about a zillion more for anyone interested, though I'll leave it here for now to avoid being obnoxious. Feel free to edit this post or strike-through entries if you get to them. Thanks in advance! Any help is much appreciated. Happy editing! Ajpolino ( talk) 20:43, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
Collected some sources for Midway Arcade Treasures 3. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 21:17, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
I have been meaning to expand the sections from Yakuza Kiwami but I can't find anything about its making. The article's development information just puts creation information from third party sources. Any idea of an url which I could use? Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 19:39, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
@ Tintor2: In case you didn't catch it on my talk page reply, here's the interviews I found; one with series producer and writer Masayoshi Yokoyama and Kiwami director Koji Yoshida on PlayStation Blog.jp, and a different one with Yokoyama from Inside Games. -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 10:37, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi all. I've been working on a series of older graphic adventure game articles over the last year or two—resulting in a string of GAs ( Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans, Traitors Gate (video game), The Space Bar) and near-GAs ( The Crystal Key, Safecracker (video game), Dracula: Resurrection). Lately, I've been putting a lot of hours into Runaway: A Road Adventure, mostly on the development/release side of things, and I'm hoping to write a solid Development section for it soon.
However, this is where I need help. The largest source for Runaway's development is a 25-minute making-of video that ran on French television in the 2000s, which can be seen in the Internet Archive and on YouTube. (There was also apparently a German dub of this segment, but I haven't found a clean video of it.) While I have no problem dealing with foreign Romance languages in written form, there's no way I'll be able to understand spoken French well enough to transcribe the video—and YouTube's autotranslator gets scrambled on the key parts where Spanish and French voices overlap. I realize that this is a big ask, but if there's anyone in WPVG with a working knowledge of French and a willingness to transcribe 25 minutes of audio into text, I'd be willing to help with whatever article you're working on. I specialize in source-finding for games from the '90s through the mid-'00s, or, if you're working outside that range, in copyediting. Both of these skills have helped to bring articles successfully to FA in the past. Depending on the subject, I might be able to help in other capacities as well. Anyway, thanks for reading, and here's hoping someone out there is interested! JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 23:08, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
If anyone could provide some input here regarding the WP:LEAD at Hyrule Warriors, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks! Sergecross73 msg me 22:41, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion in Talk:Protagonist (Persona 3)#Seconded change to Makoto Yuki (Persona) in regards to moving an the article. It might need better opinions than me. I said about organizing it like the main character from Mass Effect but more opinions might be more helpful. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 20:50, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
There's a discussion regarding a potential WP:MOS on all fictional characters. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Manual of Style for fictional characters?. Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 22:49, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
I've seen at least one case where a cited source is a "cut-scene" from a game. Last time I asked about this, it wasn't clear if actual game play can be used as a reliable source. One issue brought up the last time I asked about this mentioned cases where obtaining the game and/or platform required to play the game was difficult due to the game and/or platform no longer being made or sold. In some cases, media based games with certain types of media based copy protection can't be played on Windows 10 (without some type of hack), because Windows 10 prevents the installation of the device drivers used to verify media. Rcgldr ( talk) 17:06, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Some games don't include any manual, such as the last 3 Tomb Raider games. They don't even include install instructions since they're downloaded by Steam. How to move the main character in the game is only revealed during game play, usually something like an introduction level. The characters and storyline in the game are only revealed during game play, and the actors involved with the game are only shown in the credits. When purchasing these particular Tomb Raider games, there's a bundle option that includes a game guide in addition to the game, but the newer guides try to explain how to progress through the game, while trying to minimize giving away the actual storyline. Need For Speed games are similar, except the newer ones are downloaded from Origin. In some cases, special editions of a game include video based media, that includes how the game was developed. Some games may post trailers or developer created media on youtube. In other cases, the only external source for a game is a youtube video showing actual game play by a player or reviewer. Rcgldr ( talk) 17:06, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Just to ask, what is the policy on acknowledging a game's presence on the series? Not to say "this is what the character thought of it" as much as "this game appeared on this show." - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 00:35, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
Agree with Masem’s reading here. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs talk 19:03, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
After a rest from Yakuza, I decided to expand Tekken 6 since I feel the article lacked more coverage on its making and reception. I expanded those section and referenced some parts from gameplay and plot. Still, besides cleaning up the grammar, do you think the reception section needs more rearranging? I'm not used to making these big reception sections since we have to separate subject and I think the only one I tried as big as possible is Devil May Cry 4. Any advice? Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 18:00, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi all. Sega, a Top-importance article as rated by the project, is currently at FAC. More feedback is currently needed, as the FAC has been open for a while and could be archived due to a lack of feedback on the article. Editors willing to provide feedback and comments are asked to do so at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sega/archive1. Thank you. Red Phoenix talk 00:24, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
So while checking the Super Robot Wars series, I have found a lot of these have questionable notability to meet WP:GNG, like 2nd Super Robot Wars, 3rd Super Robot Wars, 4th Super Robot Wars, Super Robot Wars 64, and especially Super Robot Wars Gaiden: Masō Kishin – The Lord Of Elemental. Looking into their Japanese articles, I am not able to find convincing sourcing (though they are much, much better content wise). I have thought about WP:BOLD redirecting it to a great article List of Super Robot Wars video games. But I found it too WP:BOLD without consulting with someone else (in this case people in the WikiProject). Hoping to get some feedback and thoughts on this, thanks in advance. Jovanmilic97 ( talk) 16:43, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Something's terribly wrong! I was looking for an AllGame review on Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color, to look for the Agetec link, when all of a sudden the AllGame link on Shadow Tower had vanished! I looked for another way through the AllGame link on Armored Core: Project Phantasma when that too vanished! It seems that all of the days we've tried so hard to save the AllGame review links for all the games are for nothing, as all of the archived game reviews have vanished without a trace forever, replaced by redirects or simply disappeared! Now what? Since there are no more AllGame link reviews, I suppose you will have to remove "AllGame" from the Template:Video game reviews chart then, huh? I'm so depressed right now. -- Angeldeb82 ( talk) 18:48, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
Angel, you need to stop being so reactionary. Calling for Allgame to be removed from the Video game reviews template is really pushing it and it as counterproductive as your threads claiming website links are down but aren't. Just stop. GamerPro64 20:49, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
Does anyone here have any interest in Archer Maclean's Mercury and Mercury Meltdown? I've improved both articles to C-class and they have a good chance of becoming GA soon. Unfortunately, I burned myself out pretty quickly and need a short break for a couple days. I don't want the momentum to be lost, so I'm asking if anyone wants to assist me with these two articles. I would appreciate any help on this. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 22:01, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
I've had discussions with an admin Yamla that, after Minecraftgamerpc69 was blocked, when through and deleted several images that Minecraftgamerpc69 had touched on claiming they were NFCC violations. I've talked to them about hastily doing this (There's a proper process for this, instant deletion was not appropriate), and they said they will restore the images but if they aren't then fixed for NFCC, will renominate them for deletion. The images in questions are those deleted in a block around 21:20 on June 25 from this list [12].
Because the images were uploaded with the Upload Wizard, they will likely be lacking NFCC#1 and #2 rataionals (that is, will have n.a. for those fields). These will be need to filled out. The #2 is easy as these images aren't coming from commercial press sources, so something like "Not a commercial press image" is sufficient to explain. #1 is about no free equivalent, so most of these will be "Cover art, no free cover art equivalent is possible).
Also, they've been deleted long enough to have been removed off their articles by a bot, so they will have to be restored.
There's only about 15 of these but still would need help to complete it efficiently. -- Masem ( t) 00:00, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
Hey all. Salvidrim very kindly helped me out with the French translation I needed recently for Runaway: A Road Adventure, but now I've got another problem on a related article I'm working on, Hollywood Monsters (video game). Like before, it's an audio recording with no subtitles beyond YouTube's automatic speech-to-text function, only this time it's in Spanish. I've already transcribed the entire recording, but there are a few passages that came out too scrambled to use reliably as sources. If there are any Spanish speakers in WPVG who'd be willing to transcribe these sections into Spanish (I can use Google Translate to handle the English translation once they're in text form), I'd really appreciate it! I've timestamped the passages below alongside my attempts to transcribe them. There's also an Internet Archive upload of the audio if that's more useful for some reason.
The first one starts at this timestamp and ends at 20:58:
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como surgio la idea de que "La Union" mision a la musica fuisteis vosotros e ellos Dinamic o se
Hizo por el Dinamic fueron los que realmente llegaron con la idea de escoger un grupo y bueno. al principio no se tenia claro que el grupo -- en que grupo pensar para hacer la musica pero, pero bueno se penso luego en "La Union" y que bueno que podrian hacer un buen trabajo ademas el estilo entonces contactaron con la casa discografica y todo fue muy bien y nos entendimos muy bien muy bien. pues nada vamos con el juego que ya que lleva a ir dos se que llevais mucho tiempre desarrollandolo pero podeis hacernos un breve resumen de lo que ha pasado en todo este tiempo todo el proceso desde que partes de una pequena idea hasta el juego acabado que ya esta en la calle? Si, bueno. El proceso empezo ahora proximamente dos anos y medio bueno habiamos acabado nuestro primer juego que se llama Igor: Objetivo Uikokahonia. Y empezamos a pensar en ideas tuvimos la idea asi por encima de que queriamos hacer un juego sobre los monstruos clasicos un poco ambientado en la epoca dorada de hollywood los anos 40 50. Y tambien tuvimos la idea de darle un poco la vuelta a todo lo que las ideas que se tenian preconcebidas sobre, sobre estos monstruos entonces nos desarrollamos un guion tuvimos entre 3 y 6 meses cerrando el guion pensando dialogos, puzzles, que habia que hacer objetos en cada pantalla. Y una vez cerrado eso empezamos a lo que es el primero estuve buscando tanto grafistas como gente para fondos. Y tal buscar un estilo de fondo es algo que nos convenciera. Y cuando lo encontramos, fue empezar la produccion de pantallas de bueno. Primero tuvimos tambien que mejorar el engine que utilizamos en Igor estuvo bastante tiempo. Y luego ya pues un proceso de produccion que ha sido muy largo porque era un juego muy grande |
The second one starts at this timestamp and ends at 27:37:
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Con el guion estuvimos de 3 a 6 meses despues hubo un periodo y estuvimos los tres totalmente involucrados en esa tarea no hicimos nada aparte de eso. Despues estuvimos pues unos cuantos meses tambien haremos exactamente desarrollando lo que seria link del juego, y bueno dejar un poco central se salvase. Hubo una parte tambien de diseno de escenarios -- de diseno de cada pantalla los objetos que obligatoriamente tenia que venir a la pantalla, todo eso tambien segun tiempo. Y luego ya se paso a la produccion de pantallas que ha llevado en torno a un ano aproximadamente. En cualquier caso si hubieramos contado con mas gente podia haber hecho mucho menos tiempo, pero el problema es que no era impossible contar con la --
La ventaja de que al hacerlo en grupo está muy claro de la idea que cuales y de un poco -- Si No, no, nosotros siempre tratamos de llegar a un acuerdo en todo, sabes, los tres tenemos la misma poder de decision por decirlo asi. Y como tenemos los gustos bastante paracidos pues solemos encontrar bastante rapido la que buscamos vamos. Bien. A nivel de como lo habeis desarrollado abrir partidos las de el juego anterior o si--? Si, partimos de ella, aunque esta re escrita totalmente. De hecho digo lo hicimos en pascal. Y bueno la historia lo hemos pasado todo hace ese registro totalmente y -- estamos bastante contentos con la forma que hemos conseguido trabajar. De hecho el engine este fue el original, aunque a lo largo de toda la produccion [something] como dos veces totalmente engine, porque no acaba de comer |
Thanks again if there's anyone who can help. JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 02:18, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
I created this article after seeing it on the Request Board and I do think it has a chance on being a higher quality article. However, I have never played the game before so I have no clue what the plot of the game is. Has anyone here played the game and can help fill in the section? I believe beyond that and expanding the Gameplay section that this would be able to at least become a Good Article. GamerPro64 14:21, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello! A few days ago I nominated Go Vacation as a FAC, and I would appreciate any comments y'all could give. Thanks, TheAwesome Hwyh 19:17, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
I was wondering what is the correct way to reference information found on the back of a game's box - plot or high level features of the game mainly. Should I be using the cite video game template or is there a more accepted way of doing this? Nealbo ( talk) 19:10, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi there. I was meaning to expand the plot development section of Devil May Cry 5 but it appears that writer Bingo Morihashi hasn't commented in English sources. I tried searching him in Japanese but I always end with the prologue light novel he wrote for the game. By the way, I created Bingo Morihashi thanks to an artbook from the Devil May Cry series but according to his Japanese Wikipedia article and his twitter, he is also known for writing multiple types of light novels so that article might need an expansion too. I searched for the DMC5 artbook but I found nothing about Morihashi. Cheers. Tintor2 ( talk) 22:41, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
Hey everyone! I've currently got Super Mario All-Stars up at FAC (see here). However, I'm going to be gone for the next week and will not have internet access, so I won't be able to respond to any comments until the 30th. If someone could keep an eye on the article and the FAC page for me, that'd be great. You'll have my eternal gratitude and I'll be willing to do a favor for you in the future. JOE BRO 64 15:36, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
This needs major cleanup and possibly should be nominated for deletion. It appears to have been written by the founder of the company and has a tone completely inconsistent with Wikipedia's tone. It also sprinkles external links into the prose, which should each be removed or turned into citations. Retro ( talk | contribs) 12:03, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
So hey, long time editor here even though I'm more in and out of things, but I kinda wanted to discuss something that's been on my mind too: the growing disdain of 'lists' in character articles for reception. There seems to be a growing mindset that somehow lists like the ones GamesRadar used to do where they would discuss so and so items related to a topic and give their feedback are inherently bad for wikipedia. I think a huge culprit here are incidents where an entire character's article has been propped up on them but nothing's actually said in any of the lists: the character or game is simply given a 'rank' and just put there. But I think there's a huge gap between that and lists where actual reception is given towards a subject as to why it's there and their thoughts on it, and the latter should be a valid point for notability. I would argue too that if a subject appears on enough lists of a certain type and of a decent scope that can also count towards notability, though more to augment existing discussion going on regarding the character. My main point is that I really think this subject should be handled a lot smarter and as a case by case basis instead of a wholesale litmus test as some seem to regard it. If there's reception we should be using it to make these articles better, and condemning all lists feels like it'll remove a valuable resource to editors here within reason.-- Kung Fu Man ( talk) 19:43, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
I gathered sources for a number of requested articles, but I'm a little burned out right now with writing articles, so if anyone would like to help, that would be more than appreciated. User:Abryn/Game reception
The games in question are:
There's also Ever, Jane, but I actually am really interested in writing that article myself. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 18:54, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
Topic. Thanks! Axem Titanium ( talk) 07:10, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
We seem to be reaching an impasse at Women and video games. The argument that is being made is that the article is overly "gynocentric". Third parties, other participants, and extra eyes would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. - Thibbs ( talk) 21:17, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
@ Atsme and Alex Shih: You may need to be aware of this, though it sounds like it will be moving to AN. -- ferret ( talk) 14:36, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
Topic ban requests at AN are live. All comments are welcome. See here. Damien Linnane ( talk) 15:59, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
There is something I've been wondering about the article Vergil (Devil May Cry). In the latest game, the character appeared but had two alteregos who were basically split parts until they both disappeared and Vergil returned. Should them be covered in Vergil's article or they would instead be their own separate sections in the character list. I'm confused about this. Tintor2 ( talk) 23:34, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
I scanned
this article briefly, and I must say that I am shocked by its quality. There are numerous problems that need to be dealt with. Copyright is just one of them (good grief, there even is a gallery of copyrighted screenshots). My main concern is whether the subject is notable enough for inclusion on Wikipedia. I only need to say that I was not able to find very many sources about the subject on Google or Archive.org, so I think it is only a fork of
FreeSpace 2.
Gamingforfun
365 02:33, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
I wanted to take a minute and remind anyone new or freshly returned to the project that we have a channel in the unofficial Wikimedia WP:Discord server. A lot of familiar faces have been around over time, and if you're already on Discord as a gamer, please stop by. -- ferret ( talk) 18:45, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
There is a discussion on the reliability of Mammoth Gamers ( mammothgamers.com) on the reliable sources noticeboard. If you're interested, please participate at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § Are articles from Mammoth Gamers considered a reliable source?. — Newslinger talk 04:11, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi. I've recently been doing work on articles within the Shadow Hearts series, including the above music article I created a short time ago. The things missing now are track lists for the three main albums (I've created track lists for the other three). I'd appreciate some help putting them in. Either that, or perhaps remove them if track lists aren't needed, but I feel like including them for thoroughness. I'm planning to nominate the article for GA in the future once it's all settled. --
ProtoDrake (
talk) 19:55, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
So, I'm planning to start expanding the MySims Agents article, and I don't really know how to proceed. Basicly, the Wii version and DS version are completely different games, difrent gameplay, plot, and even review scores. I think it's probably best to split it into two articles, one for Wii and the other for DS, but I'm not sure so I wanted to check here just in case. I think all the other MySims games are like this, where they share the same name but are completely different games, but I'm only really familiar with MySims Agents. TheAwesome Hwyh 01:14, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
A little update: I was able to find plenty of sources for the Wii version (which I am working on in my sandbox over here), but I can't really find anything besides a single IGN review for the DS version (which I am working on right here). So... how do I deal with this? The DS version is a completely difrent game, so it doesn't really make much sense to include it into the article on the Wii version, but if we don't have a article on the DS version, how should I mention it in the article for the Wii one? TheAwesome Hwyh 20:45, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
I feel that it would be a good idea to try and split these out whenever possible, especially in cases where these ports, remakes, and sequels feel tacked on. Of course, not all games will work for that, but if anyone would like to accompany in my effort to deal with this, I think it'd make the main article that much better for it. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 01:42, 4 July 2019 (UTC)