User:Zomic13/sandbox/Wikitendo Portal

''WikiProject Nintendo has been pretty inactive recently. To get WPN going strong again, let's focus on cleaning up and adding to the To-Do List as well as the Collaboration of the Week, and then working on articles in those sections. 'If you are interested in helping out with a specific series, see the new section, Articles Needing Work By Series, in which many major Nintendo series will have a designated article to work on until it is improved, when a new one will replace it. This will allow for any Wikipedia user knowledgeable and interested in a certain Nintendo series to be able to help out as much as possible.

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Nintendo. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list here

For more information on WikiProjects, please see WikiProjects and WikiProject best practices.

Also, please note that this WikiProject focuses only on Nintendo owned characters, games, and systems. However, this does exclude Super Mario RPG related articles which, though owned by Square Enix, features Nintendo related characters.

WikiProject:Nintendo's associated portal is Portal:Nintendo. It is a descendant project of WikiProject Video Games. If you'd like to join, just add your name to the members list below.

Title
The WikiProject Nintendo (WP:NES for short)

Goals

 * Organize all Nintendo related articles through the usage of templates, categories, and stubs.
 * Improve on Nintendo related articles to featured article status (or at the very least to good article status).
 * Create new articles relating to Nintendo.

Parent and descendant WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Games
 * WikiProject Video games
 * WikiProject Nintendo (this project)
 * Wikiproject Pokemon Adoption Center (Defunct)
 * WikiProject Pokémon
 * Pokémon Adoption Center 2 (sub project)
 * WikiProject The Legend of Zelda series

Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Final Fantasy
 * WikiProject Digimon Systems Update
 * WikiProject Mortal Kombat
 * WikiProject Tycoon Computer Games
 * The Elder Scrolls

Members
Anyone can become a member of WikiProject Nintendo. Just add your name to the list (please follow the directions on the page) and add , or  to your userpage. This will add your user page to the WikiProject Nintendo members category.

Current requests and votes
Editors of Nintendo-related articles are encouraged to list Requests for Peer Review, Good Article Candidates (GAC), Featured Article Candidates (FAC), Articles for Deletion votes (AfD) and other votes or requests here:

Collaboration of the Week
See Collaboration of the Week. Originally the "Collaboration of the Fortnight", but now the "Collaboration of the Week". Each week, a Nintend-related article will be selected for us to focus on and improve greatly. To nominate articles, go to the Collaboration of the Week'' page.

Nintendo Meetups

 * Next meetup has not yet been decided. Please discuss on the talk page.

General strategy and discussion forums

 * /General
 * /Strategy
 * WikiProject Nintendo/Vital - A list of major topics relating to Nintendo and their quality etc.


 * I know that this is what wikibooks is for, but wouldn't it be cool to have strategies on WP? They would be much more comprehensive due to WP's large userbase. Jake34567 06:30, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Writing articles
See WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines

Brief overview of Guide to writing better articles:

Layout

 * Introductory material: Good articles should start with a brief lead section which introduces the reader to the topic.
 * Size:Articles should be kept relatively short with mostly only necessary information. When articles grow past this amount of readable text, they should be broken up to improve readability and ease of editing.
 * Paragraphs: Remember that paragraphs should be relatively short to reduce eyestrain, but not too short. If it does manage to become too long, divide it up into separate paragraphs with similar themes.
 * Headings: Headings can help clarify articles and compose the table of contents. For more information, see Section.
 * Images: If the article can be illustrated with pictures, find an appropriate place to position these images, where they relate closely to text they illustrate.
 * Standard appendices: Other optional sections can be included as well. This includes quotations, related topics, references, and external links (also called further reading).
 * Also, please see Long article layout or Article size if the article manages to become too large.

Think of the reader

 * State the obvious, which is usually done at the first sentence or two of the article.
 * Have a lead section, a section before the first heading. It should establish significances, large implications and why we should care.
 * Use other languages sparingly, and make sure it is used only as extra information, not something the reader needs to know to understand the article. However, in the English-language Wikipedia, the English form does not always have to come first, sometimes the non-English word is better as the main text with the English in parentheses or set off by commas after it, and sometimes not.
 * Use colour sparingly, as too many colours on one page make them look cluttered and unencyclopedic.

Use clear, precise and accurate terms

 * Use short sentences and lists with only necessary words, and sometimes using periods rather than commas (though this does not mean one should use fewer words).
 * Use the principle of least astonishment. Be sure to plan your pages and links so that everything appears reasonable and makes sense.
 * The phrase refers to should usually be found near the beginning of Wikipedia articles.
 * Check your facts and make sure everything is true, usually through citing good sources. Also avoid blanket terms unless you have verified them and stay on topic (avoid irrelevant information). When dealing with fiction (such as Nintendo characters) you should be sure to clearly distinguish fact and fiction as well.
 * Be sure to pay attention to spelling and grammar, especially of new page names.
 * Avoid peacock and weasel terms that show off the subject or expresses opinions.
 * When making an article, make omissions explicit and always aim for completeness.

Other issues

 * Do not use honorifics or titles such as Mr, Ms, Rev, Doctor, etc.
 * Avoid inappropriate subjects. Please remember Wikipedia is not an advertising medium or home page service.
 * Avoid making your articles orphans and be sure to add links. However when you do create links, link only one or a few instances of the same term; don't link all instances of it. See also: Links.
 * For issues involving pronouns, see Quest for gender-neutral pronouns and the discussion.
 * Remember to integrate changes. For example, when you make a change to some text, rather than appending the new text you'd like to see included at the bottom of the page, if you feel so motivated, please place and edit your comments so that they flow seamlessly with the present text.
 * Be sure to remember that unimportant things are important, too.
 * Everyone makes mistakes, though try to avoid making common mistakes.
 * It is best to make a personal copy of an article, just in case you get into some sort of edit war or a revert war. However, be sure to stay cool.

Featured

 * Featured articles
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] Donkey Kong (video game)
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] F-Zero GX
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] Link (The Legend of Zelda)
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] Nintendo Entertainment System
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] Perfect Dark
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] Super Nintendo Entertainment System
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] Wii


 * Featured lists
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] List of F-Zero titles
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] List of Nintendo 64 games
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] List of Virtual Boy games


 * Featured article candidates
 * [[Image:Cscr-candidate.svg|16px]] Nintendo DS

Good articles

 * 1080° Snowboarding
 * Duck Hunt
 * Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
 * Fire Emblem
 * Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
 * Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
 * Fire Emblem series
 * Game Boy Micro
 * Geist
 * GoldenEye 007
 * Golden Sun
 * Golduck
 * Iridion 3D
 * Kirby (Nintendo)
 * Kirby's Dream Land
 * Metroid Prime
 * Mewtwo
 * Nintendo DS
 * Paras (Pokémon)


 * Pikachu
 * Pokémon
 * Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
 * Solid Snake
 * Star Fox 64
 * Star Fox Adventures
 * Star Fox Command
 * Star Fox: Assault
 * Super Mario Bros.
 * Super Mario Land
 * Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
 * The Legend of Zelda
 * The Legend of Zelda series
 * The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
 * The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
 * Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd.
 * Yoshi Touch & Go
 * Yoshi's Island DS
 * Zero


 * Good article candidates

General

 * Nintendo developers
 * Nintendo hardware
 * non-free game screenshot (use when providing copyright information for a game screenshot)
 * Nintendo.com (use to link to Nintendo's main website)
 * Nintendo.com news

Sister Project links
fi:Wikipedia:Wikiprojekti Nintendo