Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Esports


 * The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The proposed WikiProject was created as WikiProject Video games/Esports

UnitedStatesian (talk) 16:44, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Description
Electronic sports, or esports, has grown beyond being simply included as just another section of video gaming culture. Tens of millions of people watch tournaments and competitions. An entire industry has grown behind it, and Wikipedia seems to be greatly lacking in material describing any of it. The scope of the Wikiproject would be to cover the different people, places, organizations and topics that constitute esports. Solomonarius (talk) 04:41, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

List of important pages and categories for this proposed group
 * electronic_sports
 * competitive_video_gaming
 * electronic_sports_games
 * electronic_sports_competitions
 * electronic_sports_teams (number of pages in the category: )
 * electronic_sports_players (number of pages in the category: )
 * electronic_sports_players (number of pages in the category: )


 * List of WikiProjects currently on the talk pages of those articles
 * Please invite these and any other similar groups to join the discussion about this proposal. See WikiProject_Council/Directory to find similar WikiProjects.




 * Why do you want to start a new group, instead of joining one of these existing groups?

Electronic sports and competitive video gaming has become a legitimate industry with tens of millions of followers. However, Wikipedia has little to no content on any of it. There are thousands of notable players, hundreds of teams, major competitions and tournaments that are televised or streamed online, official casters and commentators, competitive gaming organizations and many more things that remain poorly documented on Wikipedia. The goal of the WikiProject would be to better organize all available information related to electronic sports and competitive video gaming.

Support
Also, specify whether or not you would join the project.
 * 1) Solomonarius (talk) 04:41, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1) Oppose because this is too small of a subject, instead, this should be a part of the video gameWikiProject and be a subsection, similar to the indie one.

Discussion
The fact that you said "Wikipedia has little to no content on any of it." also suggests to me that Wikipedia has little to no editors who are interested in it, and, in turn, not enough members to support a whole WikiProject. I'd normally say "This would be much better off as a Task Force under WikiProject Video games", but the problem is that that task force has died twice already, most recently at the start of the year. Just edit the articles and take part with WP:VG. The Task Force, banner and inevitable "We need a logo" rubbish can come later.- X201 (talk) 08:27, 18 August 2014 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.