Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Animation/Machinima work group

Yomary Cruz and Nathan Zellner
Does anyone have an opinion on what to do with these articles? WP:BIO is a bit open on entertainment personalities, in that it allows for a "cult" following (which the entirety of Red vs. Blue is, at least). Should they be officially tagged as part of the project? They've both done significant work outside of Red vs. Blue, but I wonder whether, as the latter heads more and more towards mainstream (Halo 3 Legendary Edition, anyone?), whether our criterion of being "primarily" known for machinima roles holds. Thoughts? — TKD::Talk 11:14, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * In the absence of any other opinions, I've tagged both articles, for now, as falling within the scope of WikiProject Machinima, the main rationale being that it is quite possible that anyone who can expand their articles may likely have heard of them through Red vs. Blue. — TKD::Talk 04:45, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

wikiproject films
hey it says on our project page that the wikiproject films is our parent project, but we're not listed as one of their decendant projects. shouldn't we be. Any thoughts?????

peace - Three  ways  round  00:47, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Church GA
Church is now a GA, and is in the category machinima GA articles, but it isn't changed on our rateing scale thingy, i'm not sure how to change it so could somebody else do it? thanx

peace out- Three ways  round  20:17, 11 April 2007 (UTC)


 * There is a bot that picks up changes to ratings about once a day. It's reflected in the statistics now. — TKD::Talk 16:05, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Template:year in machinima
I was bold and decided to rewrite the year in machinima template that's used on the "XYZ in machinima" year-based articles. The design was originally based off of that of year in cvg, but I grew to find that layout a bit confusing. For reference, here's what the template used to look like. Comments welcome. — TKD::Talk 07:06, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Main Page heads-up
I don't know whether anyone else still watches this page, but Halo: Combat Evolved has been scheduled for November 15 as the featured article for that day. Red vs. Blue is mentioned and linked to from that blurb, so that article might see additional traffic. — TKD:: Talk  12:07, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

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Inactivity
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 * I know some of these people are still active; does anyone read this? I support the moving this project to a task force under WP:VG, as will give the project a lot more attention and give it use of the existing support structure (peer review, assessment, etc.). User:TKD I think is really the make-or-break on this one. ▫  Johnny Mr Nin ja  17:34, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, it looks I am going to convert into a work group of WP:ANIMATION since it is no longer active. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  21:43, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

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 * Note: I've set this up for this WikiProject. — TKD:: {talk}  13:02, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Source reliability
I just drafted WikiProject Machinima/Sources for information on reliability of sources in machinima-related articles, particularly for less generally known cases for which questions may arise, since scrutiny of sources has increased at GAN/FAC. Let me know if there is any disagreement. — TKD:: {talk}  12:49, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Category:Machinima productions
I've proposed that Category:Machinima productions be renamed to Category:Machinima works at Categories for discussion/Log/2009 March 23. Comments are welcome. — TKD:: {talk}  10:15, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Copyedit request: machinima
In case people other than and me are still watching this talk page, the GA nomination for machinima is on hold, partly because a copyedit for flow, among other things, may be beneficial, particularly by someone unfamiliar with the text. If someone is up for combing through about 4,600 words of prose, I would appreciate it. — TKD:: {talk}  00:54, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

The French Democracy
Hello; I've put The French Democracy up for peer review here, in preparation to send the article to FAC soon. Comments and suggestions would be most appreciated. —TKD  [talk]  [c] 08:19, 2 June 2009

Are there enough articles on this subject to justify an Outline of machinima?
By the way, here's a relevant discussion about subject development you might find interesting.

Now back to the question...

The Transhumanist 01:26, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

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Machinima articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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B-Class checklist
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Red vs. Blue FAR
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Proposed merge Machinima & Machinima: Virtual Filmmaking
Hey there! Machinima: Virtual Filmmaking & Machinima currently have proposed merge tags on their respective talk pages. From a look over they seem to have the same scope making them duplicate articles. Therefore it would be benefical to merge the two pages together or change the scope of Machinima: Virtual Filmmaking. In either case, would be great if someone gave it a look over! Thanks. -- D ark C row Caw 17:02, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Educational assignment
A number of students working with me (as their tutor) are currently involved in a course to explore ways to improve machinima related pages. Details about the course are available here. Eventually they will also be producing short pieces of machinima in Second Life for assessment. I look forward to members of this working group engaging with some of the work the students on this course are doing on Wikipedia. They will benefit greatly from your experience and good spirit! --ToniSant (talk) 14:27, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

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Monty Oum
Hey guys! I saw a video recently about Mounty Oum, and I thought I'd look him up. The article really wasn't holding up your guidelines and I wanted to remove the template from the top, so I made a lot of changes. I've taken out anything that wasn't a reliable source and tried to tie it together a bit better. I replaced a dead, but perfectly good link with an archived version. I think it’s looking good now. Was pretty moved by the video honestly — seems like he was a really talented guy. Hopefully he'll be mentioned in a book at some stage to add some more stuff in. If that does happen, I hope one of you lets me know. ImaginesTigers (talk) 04:19, 23 December 2020 (UTC)