Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Square Enix/archive/3

Square Enix importance
I have tried to synthesize the above discussion, so here it is....

Top-importance

 * Square-Enix and all company-related articles
 * Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest
 * Final Fantasy (video game) and Final Fantasy VII
 * Chrono Trigger
 * Kingdom Hearts

High-Importance

 * All other Final Fantasy titles (I'm on the bubble about where Final Fantasy VI and Final Fantasy X should go), Chrono Cross, Kingdom Hearts 2, Xenogears, and whichever Dragon Quest games are the most popular
 * All numbered Final Fantasy games, DQ8, Kingdom Hearts, Chrono Trigger, important people (Yuuji Hori, Ya-something Matsuda, and the people CSW listed) - The bread and butter games and the people who made them.
 * all the actual game articles need to be high importance (if they have sold more than half a million copies). But shouldn't DQI be there as well, as without it there'd be neither Enix nor Square today? Also, what about composers like Koichi Sugiyama who (even though owns his own company) did most of SE music, and had a huge influence over Nobuo Uematsu (and many video game composers afterward)

Mid-Importance

 * All Final Fantasy VII characters and Rikku
 * All articles on main characters
 * Nobuo Uematsu, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Tetsuya Nomura, and Yoshitaka Amano
 * FF and DQ spinoff games released in English, the bulk of Chronicle of FF7, the rest of the DW/DQ games, Xenogears, a Grandia series article (do we have one?) sequels to KH and CT, Akira Toryama, notable collaborators with Square-Enix (Brownie Brown, Quest, and Tri-Ace come to mind) - The core games, the rest of the notable people, and the companies S-E have published for.
 * Mitsuda

Low-Importance

 * All other character articles
 * Masato Kato and Yasunori Mitsuda
 * Any other games, fictional people/places/things from games that are at least High importance, music composers, soundtrack albums from games that are at least High importance - Pretty much everything else, as long as it's something that has some real-world impact on the English-speaking part of the world.
 * Unreleased games, fictional people/places/things from other games, other soundtrack albums - Everything left.
 * mid for Spirits Within, low for other movies
 * low for FMA movies

Discussion
Well, I think things have changed since this was brought up. First of all, there was a fair bit of merger drama so now we're down quite a few characters (for the better) and we'll be down a few more when things are all completely settled. Anyway, it seems kind of weird to put FFVII above other game articles since it isn't nearly as notable as we make it seem inside our video game bubble. Anyway, suggestions: Well, those are my picks. Axem Titanium 01:54, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * FF1 and DQ1 --> top
 * FF series, DQ series and KH series --> top
 * Chrono Trigger could probably be bumped down to high
 * all numbered FFs and DQs --> high, KH games in high
 * hot-shot company producers/execs should be bumped up to top (Uematsu, Sakaguchi, Matsuno, Nomura, Amano, Nojima; some are borderline high instead of top; Uematsu and Sakaguchi are definitely top though)
 * Not sure about Xenogears, mid or high, take your pick
 * All "Characters of", "World of" and "Music of" articles should be mid
 * Gameplay of Final Fantasy (when it starts existing; Final Fantasy battle systems should be merged into that, btw), Monsters/Creatures of Final Fantasy, Common themes of Final Fantasy are mid/high, not sure
 * Individual character articles are probably low
 * Nobody games and random other stuff go into low also (Square's Tom Sawyer, anyone? Rad Racer? ^_^)

I recommend some modifications; I'll get to those in a bit. &mdash; Deckiller 02:07, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Ok.


 * Top Importance:
 * Main Square Enix page
 * Series/franchise articles


 * High Importance:
 * All "greatest hits" games and likewise


 * Mid importance:
 * All non-"greatest hits" games
 * Major designers/creators


 * Low importance:
 * Subarticles
 * Extremely minor games
 * Minor designers/creators

&mdash; Deckiller 02:10, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I guess we can start initiating this now, right? Seems pretty straight foreword. Judgesurreal777 21:27, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Initiate what? Kariteh 21:32, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * The changing of the Square enix importance ratings to conform to this discussion...Judgesurreal777 21:38, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Changing the ratings in the VGproj tag or adding ratings in the SEproj tag? Either way seems fine, although the latter may be tedious. Kariteh 22:50, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I thought the square enix ones....Isn't that the point of this discussion? :) Judgesurreal777 22:59, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh well, okay. Kariteh 07:56, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I've added the importance function to the SEproj template and started rating some articles. Kariteh 09:50, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * However, I can't get the bot to create the table stuff and stats; it seems we can't rate only by importance, we have to rate by quality too, even though we shouldn't need to since quality ratings are the same for all projects and VGproj already does it for SEproj... Kariteh 10:56, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * It works now. Just repeat the VGproj quality rating everytime. Kariteh 14:21, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * All quality ratings done. --PresN 05:01, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Purely out of interest, why is VII in the High Importance bracket? Gavin Scott (talk) 23:26, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

I believe, there is one spinoff of Final Fantasy that should be on high importance but is actually labeled as mid-importance: Secret of Mana. At least in Europe there is still a huge fanbase. --Constructor 15:02, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree, I changed it to High-importance. --Mika1h (talk) 17:35, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

List of Final Fantasy media
List of Final Fantasy media is being proposed for demotion here. ~ JohnnyMrNinja  06:38, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Redesign of the project page
Recently, Wikiproject Simpsons and now WikiProject Harry Potter have been redesigned to be more accessible and navigation friendly. I think it would be a great improvement to go over to that kind of format. What say we do? Judgesurreal777 17:02, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I still think this is a good idea....anyone out there? Judgesurreal777 00:15, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and redesigned it- any thoughts? --PresN 14:15, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Looks nice.HadesDragon 15:22, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much! Much better looking now, I feel more motivated already! Judgesurreal777 20:33, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Currently, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars has two lists pertaining to it (List of characters in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, and List of locations in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars). User:TTN decided it would be best to merge the lists into the main article and split Smithy Gang into those articles. I recently merged Smithy Gang into the list of chatacters by removing the non-notable characters, and I have asserted that a cameo section in the list of characters is valid, per Trivia sections and Handling trivia that uses Alex Trebek as a good example. I have suggested that we rename the articles per Requested moves to something along the lines of Characters of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and World of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars or Mushroom Kingdom (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars) just like Characters of Final Fantasy VIII and World of Final Fantasy VI or Gaia (Final Fantasy VII). I believe if these articles are to evolve beyond a non-notable list, they should be renamed. For example, List of Final Fantasy VII locations was merged into Gaia (Final Fantasy VII), because a World article is notable, but a simple list of locations is not. That is why there are other secions of the article to make it a World article. It simply has not been renamed yet.

TTN believes the citations in the development and reception sections of the list of locations, books and magazines, are trivial sources. When I added that the 3D perspective of the game is reminicent of Equinox to the main article, TTN removed it since my souce was "the opinions of the Nintendo Power player's guide writers". Although it was actually Nintendo Power magazine, I do believe a magazine is a reliable source, and I gave a page from Next Generation Magazine which also said the same thing. In addition, I was surprized that TTN said that it was from the players guide, since he claims to own the players guide for the game. He has not verified this, since I asked him for citations in May, "Could you look in the back of the Player's Guide and tell me what “types” of … Magic? I forgot what they call it in the game … well, anyways, what types of Special Attack or whatever it is (actually, could you find out what it's called?) there are? I remember some vaguely when I owned the guide like “Fire”, “Jump”, “Electricity?”, etc. Could you provide a citation, like the page number with a quote in context?" TTN replied that he was going to "get to it" (User talk:TTN/Archive 5). TTN claims the player's guide is "at the bottom of a box that's behind at least five others in a cramped space". Seeing that TTN did not recognize that the page was not from the player's guide when I provided a scan of the page in question from Nintendo Power shocked me. However, I have continued to assume good faith by not questioning TTN's honesty.

Per Consensus, I have offered five different reasonable, temporary compromises that might integrate my idea with TTN's. TTN rejected my compromise because it still keeps the articles. I agreed I would consider a redirect, but Article size does not allow that, since the list of locations is currently 82 KB long. Instead, I agreed to help cut down the geography section that is the bulk of the article, but TTN rejected that as well because TTN states, "I am not interested in working on the article in regards to improving it." and "get past this "having sources automatically means that this information is good" mentality." TTN states, "I don't think they have or will ever assert notability." I have replied with, "Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, so if you don't think the articles will ever assert notability, we cannot yet know this, per Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions.
 * 1) Go over the list of characters so we can delete non–notable characters
 * 2) Rename the articles by following the steps at Requested moves.
 * 3) Cut down the geography section list of locations by cutting it into the regional maps the adventures use when traveling from one to another. I can get pictures and write the fair use rationals, and someone can cut down the text that has no citation and does not allude to other media.
 * 4) Write the concept and creation and reception sections for the list of characters
 * 5) Write the concept and creation section for the main article

Would you please take a look at Talk:Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and give us your thoughts? Taric25 00:32, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Dragon Quest articles
It might just be me, but I've noticed that the Dragon Quest articles have been recieving a lot of vandalism lately. I know they typically don't recieve a lot of attention here, but thanks to anyone who has reverted any of it and anyone who does in the future. Oh and I might as well mention that the Dragon Quest article (as well as several other articles) are waiting to be reviewed for good status. I wish i could help, but I've been busy lately. Evaunit  666 02:53, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Wii Games
I'm curious, maybe someone would know this. Is Square Enix making any games beyond the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicle games? -- ZeWrestler  Talk 02:05, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I think so. If I recall correctly, there's this Chocobo game, and a DQ as well, though I'm not sure.HadesDragon 14:34, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

List of locations in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
At Talk:List of locations in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, we're currently discussing a new name for the article, since it's no longer a list of locations. This article is also the current focus of WikiProject Video games/Cleanup, so any help is greatly welcome. Thank you! Taric25 (talk) 02:41, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

For in-universe content
In case anyone is wondering, I have acquired a wikia to cater specially for the subject of Square and Square Enix. If there are any articles that would be deleted for being too in-universe or have little reliable source, I recommend moving them into the Squarewiki. And anyone who would like to expand on the Square Enix subject are welcomed to do so. &mdash; Blue. 05:18, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

WP:FICT has been revised
WP:FICT, the notability guideline for elements within a work of fiction (characters, places, elements, etc) has a new proposal/revision that is now live Everyone is encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page. Ned Scott 22:03, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Notability (serial works)
There is a proposal to split WP:EPISODE into a more general notability guideline, Notability (serial works), and make the rest of WP:EPISODE just a MOS guideline. Please join in at WT:EPISODE and/or Wikipedia talk:Notability (serial works). In addition to episodes, the proposed Notability (serial works) would apply to other works released in a series (when they are not considered stand-alone-topics). -- Ned Scott 22:03, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Mana (series)
If there is anyone out there, this article is back at Featured Article candidacy. Show up and review it! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 21:58, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Final Fantasy V
Is up for featured status!!! If there is anyone out there, come comment on it! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 00:21, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Dragon Quest
Hi, some of the members here may or may not be aware of this but the VG Project has been trying to consolidate/clean up inactive projects related to video games. See project page and talk page for more info.

Anyway, the next one on the list is WikiProject Dragon Quest, which has been tagged as inactive for almost a year now. Rather than delete it, we wanted to see what you guys thought about making it a task force under your project. A similar move was done with the inactive Warcraft Project; now at WikiProject Video games/Warcraft.

The aim is to consolidate resources and make it easier for new members to find a niche; having several inactive projects can make this more difficult. The hope is that it can be restarted down the road more easily as a task force rather than a full project. I'll check back to see what you guys think, or post on the project talk page. (Guyinblack25 talk 15:31, 28 April 2008 (UTC))
 * I've been editing Dragon Quest articles for a while now (I had originally joined the project, but ended up being one of the only ones that was active).Recently, the DQ articles have been recieving more attention, so maybe a taskforce or revival of the project would be a productive thing. Evaunit ♥666♥ 19:36, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Wow, only one response? Surely the SE Project is not becoming inactive too. If there are no objections or any other responses I guess I'll move it to a subpage of this project. I hope this project doesn't fall into disarray like the others. (Guyinblack25 talk 16:56, 5 May 2008 (UTC))
 * Do you think it's worth bringing up at the VG talk page? Evaunit ♥666♥ 20:19, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Honestly, this project is so quiet that it might be worth it to just kill the DQ project and merge it in here, not even making it a sub-project. This project isn't "dead", per se, it's just that we're all still paying attention to the FF wikiproject, and no one's been working on the Chrono or KH series recently. --PresN (talk) 23:02, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Personally, I don't care if you kill the project or not. It never helped anybody. What matters is if people contribute to the articles. Evaunit ♥666♥ 00:18, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Alright, if you guys don't think it's worth keeping, I'll mention that at the project cleanup page. We may end making it a task force under the VG project if it's not deleted. (Guyinblack25 talk 01:08, 6 May 2008 (UTC))

Task Forces
Where the heck are all the task forces. If there is yet to be any...I have a proposal. A Kingdom Hearts Task Force. If you like the idea add: or if you disagree
 * AgreeWith your comments here.
 * DisagreeWith your comments here.
 * Disagree. Why do we need a task force?  This project doesn't get too much attention as it is- there's no need to make a sub-group as well. --PresN (talk) 03:01, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Disagree. Task forces are set up because there's already a good momentum for editing a particular topic and to organize that momentum. They're not created in the hope of generating more momentum; task forces and wikiprojects which have been set up for that purpose have always failed to get any decent activity. If someone wants to edit Kingdom Hearts articles and needs advices etc., they can already do it as part of this Square Enix project. Kariteh (talk) 07:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Lets the votes begin! Gears  Of War  22:34, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Secret of Evermore requested for Peer Review
I've requested Secret of Evermore for Peer Review. Please see this link and help out in anyway you can. I'm sure this article has the potential to be good with a little assistance from the Project.

~ Hibana 20:21, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
 * The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
 * The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
 * A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot  ( Disable )  20:52, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment
We have been talking on WP:VG about the best usage of List-Class recently, and when I saw someone at Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment bring it up, I responded there. I would like a WP-wide standardization of List-Class (just the class itself) and FL to contain lists like List of Square Enix games and to not reasonably contain "lists" like Characters of Kingdom Hearts. Please comment at Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment. Thanks!  JohnnyMrNinja  17:24, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Dead links
At least 117 links of a suspected 281 were detected as dead, found on pages under the umbrella of this project. External links are primarily used in references and should be treated as though the references were missing. See parent message at WP:CVG. —Dispenser 02:19, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Squaresoft Sampler discs / Collector Volumes
At the end of the 90's Square put out several demo discs - and I can find little to no information about them on wikipedia. Does anybody know where to start? Deusfaux (talk) 14:36, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * A bit of research reveals as far as I can see - 6 demo discs, all during the Playstation 1 era:

-Final Fantasy VII Interactive Sampler CD 	SCUS-94961 	1996 (included with Tobal No. 1)

-Final Fantasy VII: SquareSoft On PlayStation Previews 	SCUS-94179 	1997

-SquareSoft On PlayStation Collector's CD	SCUS-94256 	1997

-Squaresoft on PlayStation 1998 Collector's CD Vol.1   SLUS-90028      1998    Squaresoft  (included with Parasite Eve)

-SquareSoft on PlayStation 1998 Collector's CD Vol.2 	SLUS-90029 	1998 	SquareSoft (included with Brave Fencer Musashi)

-SquareSoft on PlayStation 2000 Collector's CD Vol.3 	SLUS-90075 	2000 	SquareSoft (included with Vagrant Story)

I don't have any information on how one obtained the 2nd or 3rd ones though. Deusfaux (talk) 15:18, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Monthly Stencil article?
Are there any plans to ever create an article on Enix's magazine Monthly Stencil? There's a handful of manga articles that refer to it, having run in it. —Quasirandom (talk) 20:22, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 * There isn't any real set plan here. Just feel free to create it if you know something about it. Kariteh (talk) 20:37, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup
Currently, 479 articles are assigned to this project, of which 221, or 46.1%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 2008-07-14.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place a template on your project page.

If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 17:38, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Adding a class to this list
Can we add the status of list and featured list to this projects class rating options? Thanks! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 04:27, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Lightning
I have started this page just to give further info as it is released and then move it to the mainspace when it's done. Help would be appriciated. Gears of War  2 03:13, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Restructuring of the Square Enix article after the Company Split?
I've already posted it on Square Enix's talk page, but I guess I'll ask here too...

As can be seen here:

http://www.square-enix.com/jp/company/e/news/2008/download/20080425en_32.pdf

Square Enix is going to become a Holding Company. You can go to the last page of the PDF file to see the new company structure. My question is, will this article become something like the Sega Sammy Holdings and Namco Bandai Holdings, where the holding companies are listed by themselves, while their subsidiaries (and brands) have their own articles as part of the Square Enix Holdings main article? --Yottamol (talk) 19:35, 18 August 2008 (UTC)


 * UPDATE: I've changed the company name into Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. See:
 * http://www.square-enix.com/eng/index.html
 * Please, would anyone respond to my proposal? Yottamol (talk) 01:45, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Square Enix
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:42, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Help needed with this
Help is needed identifying stable, quality versions of Square-Enix articles at the Video game 0.7 workshop. There are several articles there that fall under the scope of this project. We are in need of editors to check articles to ensure they are vandalism-free and do not have any major problems before they are included in Wikipedia 0.7. If you can, please visit the workshop page and help us identify appropriate revisions (oldids) for inclusion. Thanks,  Pagra shtak  17:16, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Need some assessment assistance
The Black God (manga) article's been updated recently. Need some assessment here. Thanks Ominae (talk) 03:31, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Chrono Trigger FAR
nominated Chrono Trigger for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. じん   ない   22:11, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Working on a possible featured article: Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime
If anyone wants to help, I'm trying to boost this article in quality. What I could use help with is general copyediting and development - specifically, I need help finding an interview that discusses the future of the series. This interview says that if the title sells well in the US, he may make a sequel that may have online play. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 03:18, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. &mdash; Delievered by §hepBot  ( Disable )  on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 06:38, 28 February 2009 (UTC)