Wikipedia:WikiProject Role-playing games/Goals

Standards for Notability
I recommend a goal for developing and promoting standards for notability for when it is appropriate to give a game or a game designer their own page. I have had several pages challenged and deleted due to a challenge on notability. Most recently, today, I prepared a page for Cam Banks with links to his work on Marvel Heroic Roleplaying and Leverage: The Roleplaying Game and to his Dragonlance novel. The page was deleted under the speedy deletion policy while I was reading the notification of the challenge. Wikipedia's existing standards for notability, or at least how they are being strictly applied, appear to be a poor fit for RPGs (i.e. a page on Daredevils, a game from the 80s, was challenged for a lack of recent discussion). Leadership on this issue through this Wikiproject would likely help. AusJeb (talk) 22:25, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Both those are problems with how people are applying the guidelines rather than the guidelines themselves. Daredevils might have been challenged - but the answer is that Wikipedia guidelines are very clear that notability is not temporary.  And that some deletionists are twits - but the problems here aren't the rules, they are that people are ignoring them and that New Pages Patrol might as well be a game of Whac-a-mole - and is tougher than Articles For Creation.  (Cam Banks also deserves a link to the Smallville Roleplaying Game - as the person who wrote both the Leverage and the Smallville articles, Smallville is a clear pass of the GNG whereas Leverage is only just scraping past) - Cam Banks definitely passes wp:AUTHOR on point three. Also I think we'd be in danger of getting the project deleted if we came up with our own definitions of notability from such a tiny project - and I don't think there really are many ways short of Origins or Diana Jones awards that make someone or something presumed notable.  (wp:PORNBIO has enough battles raging around it).  I also don't want the deletionists descending on the project - there's an awful lot that isn't sourced and many pages that could easily be AfD problems (even defending the terminology would be a minor nightmare and for most of that it's "Grab three separate RPGs off our shelves").  There was an attempt for a notability page for the project, but it's about five years dead now. Neonchameleon (talk) 02:23, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Active?
Is this subpage still active? CapnZapp (talk) 08:59, 24 April 2017 (UTC)


 * I think it's safe to say that the subpages are sleeping. Probably all talk should be on the main page, at the current state of the project. Newimpartial (talk) 16:40, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Time for a new list of goals
Since the current list of goals has not changed greatly from what we had 10 years ago today, I decided to rewrite them from scratch and archive the old goals here. BOZ (talk) 05:41, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Short-term goals
''Short-term goals are measurable and achievable in a reasonably short time. Move a goal to reached when it's finished.'' (discussion)

Long-term goals
''Long-term goals are what the project is working towards. Move a goal to short-term to focus on it for a period of time.''
 * 1) Add an infobox with an appropriate image to all RPGs.
 * 2) Catalogue all the notable publishers.
 * 3) Organize and categorize all notable RPG systems (eg. D20, interlock and others), and write decent articles on them.
 * 4) Catalogue notable RPG games.
 * 5) Add other essential RPG-related knowledge to Wikipedia.
 * 6) Flesh out the stubs at Category:Role-playing game stubs to full articles.
 * 7) Get Role-playing game to FA status.
 * 8) Describe terminology that is common to most RPGs.
 * 9) Get more RPG articles to Good article and Featured article status
 * 10) Play some RPG.

Reached goals
Move achieved goals from the other lists here, so we can see if we're making any progress.
 * 1) Find a good mini-image for rpg-stub and userbox RPG.
 * 2) Decide on a Userbox-look.
 * 3) Move published RPGs from Category:Role-playing games to the subcategory Category:Published role-playing games. (discussion)
 * 4) Make a Category: Live-action role-playing games to reduce and organize Category: Role-playing games a bit (see above).
 * 5) Clean up/reduce and organize the Category: Role-playing games, "spiritual home" of this project. Was a major Project effort, discussion archived on the Talk page.
 * 6) Write structure guidelines for articles on the project page.
 * 7) An RPG infobox has been added to articles in the following categories: Indie, GURPS, Horror, World of Darkness, Comedy, Espionage, Superhero, Historical, Science fiction and Fantasy.
 * 8) An image has been added to articles in the following categories: World of Darkness, GURPS, Horror, Comedy, and Espionage, Superhero.
 * 9) Get some RPG articles to Good article status
 * 10) Consistent naming: rename all "Foo (RPG)" and "Foo (Role-playing game)" pages to "Foo (role-playing game)". Note: This assumes 1) that just "Foo", without the parenthetical qualifier, is already used for another article (if it isn't, just use that), and 2) that Foo is a specific role-playing game, not an article about multiple role-playing games, or RPGs in general. The plural, "Foo (role-playing games)", is preferred for those. Category: Role-playing game terms has many examples.