Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Collaboration of the month
Each week a Gaming Collaboration of the week will be picked using this page. This is a specific computer or video game-related topic which initially either has no article, has only a basic stub-like page, or is in need of more information. The aim of this project is to improve the quality of Wikipedia's computer and video game articles through widespread cooperative editing. It is our hope that some of these will go on to become featured articles. For a discussion on the correct format of computer and video game articles, please see WikiProject Computer and video games.
The project is also used to fill gaps in Wikipedia, to give users a focus, and to give us all something to be proud of. Any registered user can nominate an article and can vote for any number of the nominated articles. Every Monday, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for a week to potential contributors.
Previous collaborations can be found at /History.
Removed nominations can be found at /Removed.
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Selecting the Next Gaming Collaboration of the week
Voting
A vote or a show of support for an article shows your commitment to support and aid in collaborating on that specific article if it is chosen. Although you are not required to fulfill that commitment, we ask that you only support articles that you are able to contribute to so that this collaboration's goals of expanding and improving articles can adequately be achieved. Feel free to vote for as many of the following candidates as you like.
Any registered user is encouraged to vote so long as you abide by the policies of Wikipedia, specifically Wikipedia:Sockpuppets.
Please add only support votes. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see Approval voting).
To enter your votes, simply edit the appropriate sections by just inserting a new line with "# ~~~~". This will add your username and a time stamp in a new numbered list item. The vote will look like this:
- Username 08:59, Jul 1 2005 (UTC)
If you want to withdraw your votes, don't remove your name and date completely. Instead, place an asterix after the "#" sign and then use the strike-through tags <s>...</s> on your username. A withdrawn vote will appear striked out, yet will allow Wikipedia to accurately calculate votes:
Any vote that has been stricken will not be counted.
Tie-breakers
In case of a tie, voting will be extended for 24 hours. If there is still a tie, the candidate that was nominated first wins. During the extended voting period the old collaboration should still be active. In the case of extended voting, the collaboration period will be reduced to 6 days.
Nominations
New nominations can be made at any time and should be added at the end of this page. Please use the provided template.
If the page you are nominating already exists, please add {{GCOTW}} to the top of its talk page. This expands to: Template:GCOTW
If the article is selected as the Gaming Collaboration of the week, please add {{Current-GCOTW}} to the top of the article page. This expands to: Template:Current-GCOTW
Considerations for nominations
- Giving reasons as to why an article should become the GCOTW may convince others to cast their vote.
- Can the wider gaming community easily contribute to the article? Or is it something only a small number of people will know about?
- Is the article a stub or very small? Or would the article fare better in a CVG Peer Review?
- A good place to look for articles that might be worthy of a nomination is the Computer and video game stubs category.
Pruning
Nominations will be moved to /Removed if they have not received 3 votes after 7 days on the list, 6 votes after 14 days, 9 votes after 21 days, and so on.
The current date and time is 2 September 2025 T 19:12 UTC.
Candidates for next week
- Nominated December 8; needs 6 votes by December 22 (minimum 3 votes per week)
Support:
- -- jeffthejiff (talk) 09:16, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
- Nick R 12:33, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
- I could help out with this one, being that it's a game I have some respect for. We should split the article up and have a separate article for each game, I could probably knock up something reasonable. - Hahnchen 03:03, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Comments:
- A fairly popular game series. This article needs a lot more information on each game in the series, rather than the massive amount of largely irrelevant biog information on the characters (which i fear might be copied from somewhere). Some general cleaning up wouldnt go amiss either.
- Yes, the article does need improving quite a lot. --Nick R 12:33, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
- Nominated December 22; needs 3 votes by December 29 (minimum 3 votes per week)
Support:
Comments:
- For an article that covers a large portion what the gaming community plays, I'm shock to find that the article is still in dire need of major improvements. The history section is not well written and requires knowledgeable editors to look into and revise if necessary. Secondly, I see little details on past computer games and computer platforms, beside more contemporary and popular variations (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and Linux). The article also mentions nothing about the modding community, the PC's advantage of better supporting user-made modifications, and the significance of the PC's connectivity to the Internet, which aids in keeping the modding communities afloat. I also see the lack of information about console-PC ports and the viability for game developers to do so. In addition, there is a lack of explanation in the future and potential problems facing PC games: Is it declining or increasing in popularity in a region? Why? How are PC games vulnerable to software piracy and warez distribution? What measures are taken against such activities? ╫ 25 ring-a-ding 19:36, 22 December 2005 (UTC) ╫
Game-related articles nominated on other COTWs
How to nominate an article
To add a new nomination, please:
- (1) Copy the template below
- (2) Paste it at the bottom of the list of nominations
- (3) Replace "[Date]" with the correct date and "[Date + 7 days]" with the date, plus seven days. For both, the year is not necessary.
- (4) Sign your user name with the directions in the template and add a comment for why the article should be nominated.
- (5) Please preview your addition to make it sure all information is properly filled in and the links are working.
After nominating an article please place {{GCOTW}} on the article's discussion page.
===[[article name with double-brackets surrounding it]]===
:''Nominated [[ [Date] ]]; needs 3 votes by [[ [Date + 7 days] ]] (minimum 3 votes per week)''
'''Support:'''
# [your user name--use '~~~~']
'''Comments:'''
*[a short description explaining why the article should be the Gaming Collaboration of the week]