Wikipedia:Gaming Collaboration of the week

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Each week a Gaming Collaboration of the week will be picked using this page. This is a specific 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 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 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.

The current Gaming Collaboration of the week is "N/A". . The last article was Civilization (computer game) — see how it improved (before | after)

Add the above template to your user page by adding: {{CurrentGCOTW}}

Previous collaborations can be found at /History.
Removed nominations can be found at /Removed.

[edit] Selecting the next Gaming Collaboration of the week

[edit] Considerations for nominations

• Giving reasons why an article should become the GCOTW may convince others to support your nomination.
• 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 Video game stubs category.
• Another good place to look for articles is the new CVG article creation log. New articles are mostly stubs and are therefore viable nominations for the GCOTW.

[edit] How to nominate

===[[Article]]===
{{GCOTWcount|start=June 11, 2008|votes=1}}
<!-- Remember to update the vote counter when you place your vote! -->
; Support:
# ~~~~

; Comments:
* (put your reason for nomination) ~~~~

{{cvgproj|GCOTW=yes}}{{to do}}

[edit] How to update

A guide to updating the GCOTW can be found here.

[edit] 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 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 vote for a nomination, edit the nomination and add the following to the bottom of the Support section:

# ~~~~

This adds your username and a time stamp to the numbered list item. The vote will look like this:

1. Username 08:59, Jul 1 2005 (UTC)

If you wish to withdraw your vote, do not remove your vote; instead, add an asterisk and strike-through tags to your vote as shown:

#* <s>[[User:Username|Username]] 08:59, Jul 1 2005 (UTC)</s>

This allows Wikipedia to correctly calculate the remaining votes and will appear like this:

1. Username 08:39, 1 July 2005 (UTC)
   • Username 08:59, 1 July 2005 (UTC)
2. Username 08:39, 2 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ties

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 will still be active. In the case of extended voting, the collaboration period will be reduced to 6 days.

[edit] 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 11 June 2008 T 02:56 UTC.

[edit] Candidates for next week

[edit] Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade

1 vote, Nominated December 16, 2007; needs at least 3 votes by December 23, 2007 Overdue

Support

1. Dumoren (talk) 11:38, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• This can use some tweaking Dumoren (talk) 11:38, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Sims Bustin' Out

1 vote, Nominated December 16, 2007; needs at least 3 votes by December 23, 2007 Overdue

Support

1. Dumoren (talk) 11:38, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• This can be enlarged Dumoren (talk) 11:38, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Serious Sam

1 vote, Nominated December 16, 2007; needs at least 3 votes by December 23, 2007 Overdue

Support

1. Dumoren (talk) 11:38, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• This too, can you some tweaking, some more date, etc. Dumoren (talk) 11:38, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Thing (video game)

1 vote, Nominated December 17, 2007; needs at least 3 votes by December 24, 2007 Overdue

Support

1. Dumoren (talk) 04:16, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• This can be heavily expanded. Dumoren (talk) 04:16, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Game-related articles nominated on other COTWs

[edit] Other collaborations