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WikiProjects

Here, I'll be putting information about various WikiProjects that I'm involved in for my own easy access. This will also serve as a "launchpad" for WikiProject work. This page probably won't be of mush use to you, but feel free to take a look around.. For now, this page will simply be a mish-mash of parts from the WikiProject articles: I'm simply cannabilizing the project pages and taking what I need.

WikiProject Good Articles

Wikipedia:Good articles (shortcut WP:GA) is a list of articles which are well written, broad, referenced, neutral and accurate, beyond those which have been rigorously reviewed and identified as the very best of Wikipedia by the featured article process. As the list should eventually contain many thousands of articles, this project has been formed to assist in the maintenance of the page. Tasks which members of this project may wish to assist with include:

  1. Keeping the list at WP:GA in sync with Category:Wikipedia good articles
  2. Updating the numbers in the table on WP:GA
  3. Sweeping through listed entries to ensure they meet the criteria for listing
  4. Reviewing nominations at WP:GAN and adding them to the list if they meet the criteria
  5. Encouraging Wikiprojects to review articles for accuracy where expert input is desirable
  6. Identifying good content and nominating it to WP:GAN
  7. Organizing GAN backlog elimination drives
  8. Maintaining and updating the Good Article Collaboration of the week
  9. Promoting the Good articles list
  10. Reviewing articles listed at WP:GAR and give recommendations for consensus

Templates for use by WP:GA include the following:

  • {{GA}} - added to the talk page of listed articles; automatically places them in Category:Wikipedia good articles
  • {{DelistedGA}} - added to the talk page of delisted articles. An explanation of why an article has been delisted should always be left as well.
  • {{DelistedGAbecause}} - a more subtle version of {{DelistedGA}}, with the syntax {{DelistedGAbecause|reason}}
  • {{FailedGA}} - for articles that fail the self nomination
  • {{ArticleHistory}} - combines the features used by the aforementioned templates into one, single template, which is also designed to work with the peer review and featured article processes as well.

WikiProject Companies

in order to change the Importance scale or Quality level of an article in our banner, do the following:

  1. delete the standard {{WikiProject Companies}} tag.
  2. replace it with {{WikiProject Companies| class=X | importance= X}}. The X should be replaced with whatever importance or quality level is needed.
Article importance grading scheme
Label Criteria Examples
Top Companies of top importance are major, international corporations. Their actions influence the global economy on both a longterm and day to day basis. These companies are both famous and established, often times spurring major cultural shifts and changing the way people run their daily lives. Some companies may not have achieved the global scale of these companies, yet have heavily influenced our way of life and set the standard for a particular field of business may also be included as top companies, Example: Southwest Airlines. These may also include defunct companies such as Bell or TWA. Walmart, Ford, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft
High Companies in the high category are still very important, and are usually found on the Fortune 500 list. These companies are less international then many top companies, but are still very well known and extremely influential on a national level. Walgreens, Halliburton, EA Games, Jet Blue, and Hallmark
Mid Companies of a mid-level importance are large, profitable corporations which exist on a regional level; Or they may be national companies which mainly function in the background and aren't commonly known outside of financial circles. Wegmans, Buffalo News, and Conrail.
Low Companies in this catagory are minor subsidiaries or local small businesses. Mighty Taco

New, current, and defunct companies should all be tagged and ranked. Some of the companies above are of mid importance, some high, and some top. Just because the final, current company is of top importance (att), does not make all of its predecessors such a level.

WikiProject Video Games

Basic usage
{{cvgproj|class=|importance=}}
Standard usage

This should cover recently started articles.

{{cvgproj
|class= Stub
|importance= Low
|screenshot= yes
|cover= yes
}}
Required parameters
class Set to FA, A, GA, B, Start or Stub to rate the article on the Wikipedia 1.0 assessment scale. For templates or other non-article pages, set class=NA.
importance Set to Top, High, Mid, or Low to rate the article's importance within video game articles.
Optional parameters
peer-review Set to yes if the article is undergoing a WikiProject Video games peer review.
tf Set to Devil May Cry if the article is supported by the the Devil May Cry task force. There are several different task forces, such as Animal Crossing, Command & Conquer, Silent Hill, and Suikoden that can also be used. If an article falls into multiple taskforces (up to 3) use tf2 and tf3 as additional parameters.
old-peer-review Set to yes if the article has an archived WikiProject Video games peer review. If the peer review is under a different name due to a page move, set this parameter to the old name. For example, if Super Foo has an old peer review at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Peer review/Bar, set old-peer-review=Bar.
old-GCOTW Set to yes if the article was previously selected for the Gaming Collaboration of the week.
screenshot Set to yes to flag as needing a screenshot of the game. It will add the page to Category:Video game articles requesting screenshots.
cover Set to yes to flag as needing either the game's box art, icon or logo. It will add the page to Category:Video game articles requesting identifying art.

For a generic stub about computer and video games, use {{videogame-stub}}. This will put the article into the Video game stubs category.

Our daughter projects have also created the {{Doom-stub}}, {{MortalKombat-stub}}, {{Poke-stub}} (Pokémon), {{FinalFantasy-stub}}, and {{Warcraft-stub}} templates. These will also put articles into the corresponding stub categories.

Grading scheme