39 of 393 articles have been prepared and submitted.
Come help us prepare more at the workshop page.
Feature: Wikipedia 0.7
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of articles taken from the English version of Wikipedia, compiled by the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team. It is designed for a DVD release, and the selection was put together using a Selection Bot, based on the quality and importance assigned by WikiProjects.
The Video games Project and its daughter projects have multiple articles among the selection and are currently working on cleaning up the articles to improve their presentation. A workshop page has been set up that is designed to assist and coordinate the effort. The status of and recommendations for articles is listed on the table. Discussion about which articles should be kept and removed from the list have been taking place on the talk page.
If you have assisted in working on and improving a current Featured article, Good article, or A-Class article, please check the workshop page to see if the article is recommended for inclusion.
Articles will need an id version submitted to ensure it is included. They will also need to be cleaned up if maintenance tags and other issues are present. Participation is not restricted, and if you can assist with the preparation effort, it would be greatly appreciated.
Things to remember for preparation
The workshop page has a notes section for each article. Clean up suggestions have been left for some articles.
Do a light sweep of the article to address any vandalism andclean up tags: citation needed, more references, lengthy plot, etc.
If you need help with an article, post on the talk page.
WikiProject Children's and Young Adult Literature Roll Call
Hello Tyciol! WikiProject Children's literature is currently holding a roll call, which we hope to perform annually. Your username is listed on the members list, but we are unsure which editors are still interested in the project. If you still consider yourself to be an active member of the project, please move your name to the Active Members list. If you no longer are interested in this project, please move your name to the Former Members list, and you will no longer receive messages regarding this project.
Deletion of Defensor page
The page Defensor (Transformers) is up for deletion, feel free to go voice your opinion on it and save the page. Mathewignash (talk) 09:21, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
Pokemon unmerge proposal
Hello, this message is being sent to inform you that a proposal to un-merge all Pokemon articles has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pokemon#Pokemon and their rightful place. As a member of WikiProject Pokemon, your input would be much appreciated. 22:49, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Irenee, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Irenee is a redirect page resulting from an implausible typo (CSD R3).
To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Irenee, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click hereCSDWarnBot (talk) 05:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
AfD nomination of Protest Stripper
I have nominated Protest Stripper, an article you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Protest Stripper. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. TTN (talk) 18:22, 9 October 2008 (UTC) TTN (talk) 18:22, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
CHAGI article
Dear Tyciol, I just saw your post in Chagi talk page Talk:Chagi. I have replied to your query. Please see it and give your response. We can make changes basing on info on martial art name Chagi. Thnx Indianprithvi (talk) 17:38, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
The Sega Project Newsletter
Issue 4 - October 21, 2008
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Project News Headlines
This Wikiproject is dying, we need you to be more active or we'll be turned into a task force for WikiProject:Video games. We need you guys to get off your butts and do some editing. This WikiProject was made to help Sega related articles, not curl up in a corner and die. We need you guys to be the best you can be! So get out there! Make Sega articles good, featured and a reliable place to look up information. You are the Sega Project, make Wikipedia proud.
In this segment each issue, the newsletter selects a member who has performed acts of merit for the project or to its respective articles. If you would like to be selected for the Project's Featured Member, please contact Gaogier (talk·contribs), show what acts you have performed that are worthy of merit, and talk a little about yourself; it's for fun!
Gaogier (talk·contribs) is this issue's featured member, for his excellent work for the Sega Project. Our founder, who is fighting to keep our WikiProject going, is one of the few active members we have. He has done well to the Sega Project and deserves out thanks.
For all subsequent issues, the Sega Project is still looking for columnists for the newsletter, to be released roughly every month, though no exact deadline for the newsletter will be set. If you would like to write a column for WikiProject Sega and have it displayed here in the newsletter, please make a note of this at WT:SEGA. Columns can be about anything about Sega (and its related franchises), Wikipedia, or the Sega Project. Thank you for your submissions.
Active Members - Yet Again!
Members of the Sega Project, most of you are inactive around the project, and there is talk of the Sega Project being turned into a task force because of this. While the active members can understand this, we would like more of our members to be active around the project. All you need to do is to use the project's talk page and discuss issues with project members. In return, active project members will help you with any help you might need. So please, we ask all of you to become more active around the project and make use of what you have signed up to become part of. If you have any questions or comments, just bring your comments to WT:SEGA or you can contact Gaogier personally at his talk page.
Sonic the Hedgehog Merge.
Most of the Sonic the Hedgehog character articles have been merged to help clean up fancruft. Further discussion of cleaning is being held here
Hi Tyciol! As part of the memberlist 'cleanup' process on WikiProject Israel, I am sending you this message to ask whether you still wish to be active on the project (not having edited Israel-related articles in a reasonably long time). The project appreciates your past contributions and would like to see you editing its articles again :) Also, I personally urge you to watch the project and talk page in order to be involved in project discussions. On the other hand, if you no longer have an interest in this project, please let me know. Cheers, Ynhockey(Talk) 18:30, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
For some time now, the Video games project and the Military history project have been cross listing their articles undergoing peer review in an effort to improve the quality of articles, as well as the copy editing skills of editors. The idea was first proposed by User:Krator as a way to better prepare articles for Featured article candidacy. After being approved by both projects, the idea was implemented under a trial period, and eventually approved as a standard practice.
New, cross listed military history articles are announced on the Video games project talk page, and listed on the Video games Peer review page under a special section. Video game editors are encouraged to leave any type of comments that come to mind. If you don't know anything about military history, that's perfectly fine because that's the point. An editor lacking knowledge about the particular topic can provide a helpful point of view as a general reader—the intended audience.
A peer review process such as this will not work if editors do not give as well as take.
Peer reviews are meant to examine not just the prose, but the sources and images used in the article.
Feedback can range from brief comments after skimming through a page to a full blown dissection of grammar, structure, and references. Either way, every bit helps.
Reviewing another editor's article can help sharpen your writing skills, which in turn can improve the articles you write.
