Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Newsletter/20101022/News

WikiProject Video Games Newsletter

Volume 3, No. 2 — 3rd Quarter, 2010

Announcements

• On the website Metacritic all web pages except those from PS3, 360, Wii, DS, PSP, PC, or PS2 games were deleted. Users have been reminded to use WebCite or similar web archiving utilities to backup their online sources, especially for the Featured Content.
• Changes to {{Cite video game}} were proposed but did not achieve consensus to change at that time.
• Website GameDaily merged into Joystiq, meaning that many sources that linked to GameDaily may not work.
• There was a consensus to maintain usage of "future video game" categories; games that have a confirmed full date of release are to be categorized under Category:2010 video games, while those with less that (i.e. month or quarter only) are to be categorized under both Category:Upcoming video games and Category:Upcoming video games scheduled for 2010. Those with unconfirmed release dates or no release dates are to be categorized under Category:Upcoming video games.
• Extensive discussion occurred regarding Japanese video game romaji with no consensus established for any changes.
• A series of concerns with possible conflict of interest by GameZone culminated with several users getting blocked as sock puppets, as confirmed by a CheckUser.
• The Pending Changes trial started in June 2010; RuneScape was the very first article to be protected in the trial, with other articles such as World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Super Smash Bros., Wii, Halo 3, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Pokémon, Battletoads, and other high-priority video game articles also were protected at one point or another during the trial.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines was temporarily detagged from "guideline" status and then retagged.
• {{cite manual}} was proposed for deletion, but no consensus for deletion was achieved.
• Category:Video games featuring female protagonists was proposed for deletion and was deleted per a rough consensus via Categories for discussion.
• This list of video game-related biographies of living people (BLPs) were identified as unreferenced by Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons as part of a drive to eliminate unreferenced BLPs.

On the Main Page

Several video game articles appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page between April and September 2010. Congratulations to the contributing editors.

The following were Today's featured article on the following dates:

• Space Invaders on April 24
• Star Wars: Rogue Squadron on May 14
• The Beatles: Rock Band on June 4
• Crackdown on July 25
• Chrono Cross on August 15
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind on September 15

Facts from the following articles appeared on the Main Page's Did you know? section: