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Thanks for signing my guestbook! :D

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		- Jameson L. Tai's Guestbook Barnstar
		For signing my guestbook - I, - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ guestbook ♦ contribs}, hereby present Lympathy with this award. Cheers! -- - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ guestbook ♦ contribs} 17:33, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

The WPVG Newsletter (November 2008)

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The Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games Newsletter

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume I, No. 9 - November 2008

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Project At a Glance

As of November 2008, the project has:

Changes to Featured and Good articles, lists, and topics

Promoted FA/FL:

Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game, Ico, List of One Piece video games, List of songs in Guitar Hero World Tour, List of StarCraft media, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Myst V: End of Ages

Promoted FT:

None

Demoted FA/FL/FT:

None

Promoted GA:

Characters of Myst, Combine (Half-Life), Crash: Mind over Mutant, F-Zero, Half-Life: Blue Shift, Half-Life: Decay, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, Halo 3 marketing, Ico, Iori Yagami, Jim Raynor, LittleBigPlanet, Marble Madness, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Myst (series), Sam & Max Hit the Road, Silent Hill Homecoming, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst

Promoted GT:

None

Demoted GA/GT:

Call of Duty 2, Fate/stay night, Make Love, Not Warcraft

News

There were 275 new articles in November 2008
Inactive project cleanup: Proposal to consolidate inactive projects and taskforces. Project page can be found here.
- WikiProject Test Drive has been deleted
- WikiProject Sega has been moved to a page under WP:VG. See the new Sega task force page.
- A Sega task force has become a Video game task force: Sonic task force.
- WikiProject Sims has been moved to a page under WP:VG. See the new The Sims task force page.

Feature: Article Importance

Article importance is an assessment of a topic's importance in understanding a specific higher level topic. Assessments are maintained by WikiProjects and reflect the project's view of what is essential to understanding their scope. In the VG Project's case, all importance scales are in terms of understanding video games.

A video game article's importance is listed and set in the {{WikiProject Video games}} template on its talk page. An assessment of importance can be done by the Assessment Department by submitting a request.

Recent discussions at the VG Project's talk page have called for revisions to the practice of assigning article importance. The discussion began in mid-November with the goal of clarifying what level of importance should be assigned to certain type of articles. It eventually expanded to creating a standardized table of importance to serve as a guide for current and future editors.

The discussion has focused on and shifted to several topics including flaws of previous practices, new ways to view assessment, other project practices to emulate, and specific articles which are exceptions to proposed guidelines. A brief pole and discussion determined most editors felt that the bulk of some topics—specifically individual video game, series, and character articles—were not essential to understanding video games, making them ineligible for top importance. The discussion then shifted to tweaking the wording and layout of the table.

The current proposed table is being discussed on the project's talk page, and the issue of whether some topics—specifically character articles—should be allowed to be rated importance has also been brought up. As always, member are encouraged to voice their opinions and engage in discussion to determine consensus so the new assessment scale can be implemented.

See past newsletter feature for more information about the Assessment Department.

Things you can help with:

Summary of Video games WikiProject open tasks

AfDs

Merge discussions

Other discussions

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Hello Lympathy/Archives/2008!

Can you nominate me to sysop?

Thanks a lot!

Vitorbraziledit (talk) 20:17, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Are you a sysop?

Vitorbraziledit (talk) 17:56, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

- What do i need to do to be a SYSOP?

Vitorbraziledit (talk) 19:15, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

WikiCup notice

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The 2009 WikiCup will begin on January 1, 2009. The first round will run through March 31, 2009. For more information on this tournament, read the "about" section on the main WikiCup page.

This year, we have a different system in calculating points. At User:Garden/WikiCup/Submissions, you will find information about submitting your article (and other) work to earn points. Each contestant will have their own individual subpage for submitting completed work to us.

This year, User:ST47 will also be running one of his bots to calculate mainspace edits and read your submission subpages to calculate the point values you receive based on our scoring chart.

Questions or comment? Ask at the talk page or go directly to Garden or IMatthew's talk page. Good luck and Happy Holidays! -- aye matthew ✡ and Garden. 14:06, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

WikiCup

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Begins tomorrow! at 0:00 (UTC)

Some quick reminders and amendments

This year a bot will be tallying the scores for the tournament. This bot will be run by ST47 and will count edits–at 0.1 points each (major edits only, see below)–and submissions at the scores listed in the tables.
You must submit any work that you manage to promote in each period on your submissions page. Your page is located here. Rules and instructions are here for submitting.
Due to the massive influx of Huggle users, and because this is a content contest rather than an editcountitis extravaganza, minor edits will be scored at only 0.01 points. If you are a Huggle user your edits must be marked as minor or you will be disqualified. If you are unsure, check your contributions.
If you wish to drop out before the tournament begins, please do so as soon as possible, but not later than January 5.

Most importantly, good luck! Happy New Years, Garden. and aye matthew 20: 49, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Delivered by neuro^(talk) for Garden and aye matthew at 20:49, 31 December 2008 (UTC)