Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games

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WikiProject Video games


Welcome to the Video games WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to video games.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them on our discussion page, or by contacting participants of the project.


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Participation
We welcome everyone who wishes to improve video game articles. You don't need to formally join our project in order to contribute, but feel free to indicate your participation by adding our userbox or advert to your user page. Members are welcome to join our project chat on the unofficial Wikimedia Discord server, please see WP:Discord for more information.

New users who have contributed to video game related articles can be informed about this project by adding the vgproj welcome template to their talk pages.

Members of our project may like to reward other users with a barnstar. The project features the Video Games Barnstar: ''' text on award. ~ ''' Userbox and ribbon alternatives are also available.

Make sure you are familiar with the following pages:
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 * The five pillars of Wikipedia — a quick rundown of the five key rules you should understand before editing.
 * Simplified ruleset — 12 rules of thumb to help you avoid problems.
 * List of policies — a comprehensive list of the 42 official policies.

In addition to the usual policies and guidelines, please make sure you understand the specific guidelines for video game-related articles.



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Project Structure

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 * The assessment department evaluates the quality and importance of video game related articles.
 * The essential articles page identifies the most important topics in the scope of this WikiProject.
 * The reference library is an archive of high-quality sources that may be used to support development history, critical reception, and other sections of articles.
 * We have task forces within our project that provide centralized information and discussion for topics that have a sufficiently large scope, but would not benefit from having a separate WikiProject with all of the associated bureaucracy.
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Tasks


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Notability

 * Video game-related articles are considered notable by this project if they pass Wikipedia's general notability guidelines.
 * Video game-related articles are considered notable by this project if they pass Wikipedia's general notability guidelines.

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Articles

 * This project currently maintains over 0 pages of varying importance and quality, of which over 0 are articles.
 * All pages linked to by this page may be monitored from the project watchlist.
 * The templates page lists all templates useful in writing articles related to video games, including infobox, cleanup, stub, talk page, and external links templates.
 * Statistics on the articles in this project's scope are available.
 * Statistics on the articles in this project's scope are available.


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 * The deletion subpage lists video game-related articles that have been nominated for deletion, and invites users to join the discussion process.
 * The new article announcements subpage lists video game-related articles that have been created recently. An automated list of new video game-related articles can be found here.
 * The requests subpage lists video game-related articles whose creation has been requested.
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 * The requests subpage lists video game-related articles whose creation has been requested.
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