Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lego/Archive 1

Archive 1

Articles for sets

Is it too much to have an article about each lego set? Or even just every major lego set? Each article could have an infobox with set #, series, year first produced, a picture of the set etc? What do you guys think? Timkovski 21:56, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

• I disagree and agree. There are thousands of individualsets, even making the major sets would be an issue, still dozens and what would it be? a few sentences? if we just use the infoboxes you could still give info without putting thousands of articles that are tiny. I am greatat making infoboxes, so I can help out with that. Mocha2007 (talk) 15:29, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

• I agree. The sets should be listed on their "theme" and/or "subtheme" page. -AMK152 23:30, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

• Great, is anyone any good at making infoboxes, templates? I will give it a go later and post it here to see what you guys think. Timkovski 08:59, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
• In my view listing every set here is not a good idea. There might be 10 sets that would pass an AfD here, if that, most of them are completely unencyclopedic (you'd have to show relevance and impact on culture or society I think). BrickWiki is a better place for that sort of thing and already has a lot of that set up. As for templates and the like, I've some facility. See {{WPBeatles}} which I had no small part in getting to where it is now. If this project wants to participate in WP 1.0 article grading I can modify the article talk template to pick up rankings and I can create the categories etc, as was done for WP:Beatles. ++Lar: t/c 13:14, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
• After actually realising how many different lego sets there are, I agree with you Lar, I propose a separate page for each theme and subtheme. Each page could give details about the story behind the theme, minifigs associated with the theme, list of sets in the theme and perhaps sections about the theme's main sets eg the royal castle set from the royal knights theme? Timkovski 13:21, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Each theme perhaps... and I think some of those exist already. (for instance Lego_train which is in the Category:Lego_themes) Subthemes I think need merely be mentioned in the theme, unless they are really significant. (some of the subthemes there now in the category, I would merge) Sorry if I'm sounding like a wet blanket but the last thing I want to see is people put a lot of work into articles and have them get deleted. Again, BrickWiki is the place for detail, and every article should link to the corresponding BrickWiki article(s) for more info... ++Lar: t/c 14:55, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Using the Lego themes page, each theme should have their own page, with a list of subthemes and descriptions. In the discriptions, there should be info on the sets. That's what I think. -AMK152 17:40, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
• Well, no. We could do articles concerning LEGO themes like Star Wars, but there are MILLIONS of sets, so NO. I wouldn't suggest it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by The warlord of music (talk • contribs) 00:48, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

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Brickwiki Is an open LEGO encyclopedia powered by MediaWiki. You may want to copy content Back and forth (Both are under the GNU). And if any LEGO Article is up for Deletion (For being too trivial) it can be moved to brickwiki. Before you create a new LEGO article you may want to check both ours and theirs sights first.--E-Bod 01:44, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Project talkpage box {{WikiProject_Lego}}

The project box {{tl|WikiProject_Lego}) contains the LEGO logo. That's probably not a good idea as the logo is copyrighted (LEGO's permission for certain liminted use notwithstanding) and therefore fair use and therefore by WikiMedia foundation policy, should be used ONLY on article pages directly related, and not for decoration. WP:Beatles ran into this too. I'll fix it and we can discuss it in that talk page if there's a problem ++Lar: t/c 15:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Project Title

Shouldn't this be Wikiproject LEGO instead of Wikiproject Lego? Should another goal be to have appropriate capitalization of LEGO thoughout all articles? timrem 03:18, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

The manual of style suggests that whatever corporations may actually want, the style is to capitalise only the first letter of proper names including corporate ones, so there may be some resistance to going with LEGO (although it's my personal preference) There have been revert wars over trying to get LEGO to stick. ++Lar: t/c 06:50, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I do think that it should be LEGO, because that is how it is written, basically everywhere. I wasn't sure about it when i started the project. -AMK152 18:50, 16 July 2006 (UTC).

That is my preference. And for the project it could be OK. But if it's put into articles it will start revert wars. That's all I'm saying. Not that I agree. ++Lar: t/c 02:27, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps if we get a lot of people to agree with this idea, then we could possibly go through with it. I prefer LEGO also. -AMK152 03:07, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't care what we do to the name User: Squirrelmassacre

Lego

Lego is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy 21:08, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

It isn't any more though 'I didn't meet current standards' Gran2 21:27, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Products problem

Help me! All users put information of probabily future sets of Bionicle theme, to from of germany Amazon. All of products are not official confirmed to released. What our opinion and solution of this? Antidermis2319 02:45, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey, hey, hey. Originally YOU were the one that put them on the Star Wars page, I said not to, and then when you did, I removed them, but you put it on again. So I just gave in. So first off don't blame other users for that one. But as for your point, in an ideal world we wouldn't put them on, but its doing no harm, they are practically confirmed anyway, we can just add more information when Lego releases it. Gran2 07:59, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry. Before I don't understand you, and now a real problem as Bionicle page. Ah, now I understand your advice. Antidermis2319 16:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Shortcut

Created! Dfrg.msc File:DFRG. MSC.jpg 02:24, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I created the WT:LEGO one for here and placed a shortcut box at the top of this page, and I see you placed a shortcut box at the top of the WP:LEGO page as well. Excellent

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Quasi-Newb needy

Hey, I'm not really a newbie - I just haven't done the whole Project stuff before. I just want to make sure that if one wished to join, one would simply add their name to the list, right? I just don't want screams of 'Hey, who's this guy?' and the like. --Arkracer 21:50, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Yep that's all. But this isn't the most lively of projects, so I don't think many would mind if you just started a discussion without formally joining. Gran2 22:03, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

AfD Proposal: Lego Duplo Thomas & Friends

Greetings from WP:THOMAS!

Article 'Lego Duplo Thomas & Friends' has been slated for deletion, along with a stack of other 'merchandise' pages, most of which are simply undetailed lists. As someone has identified the page as being part of WP:LEGO, I thought I should draw your attention to the AfD, which has been running for quite a few days now. (My apologies: none of the active WP:THOMAS members have any knowledge, nor much inclination, concerning 'Thomas' merchandise! It's never been top of the ToDo list!!)

The delete discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Tomy Wind Ups.

The original view of WP:THOMAS members was for all articles to be kept. However, we have now secured a new home for them at a fledgling enthusiast Wiki site:Train Spotting World, so the project viewpoint is that we will not oppose the AfD after all. If WP:LEGO wishes to keep the page, someone will need to start shouting on the AfD page very soon!

Regards, on behalf of WP:THOMAS. -- EdJogg 01:14, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Incidentally, having just looked-up Thomas & Friends at brickwiki, you may be interested to know that that wiki has NO information about the 'Thomas' sets yet. So this may be an ideal chance for someone to add it. :o) EdJogg 01:30, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Lego Board Games article

I have created a Lego Board Games article, but it still needs a lot of work.

Replacement for brick picture in templates

New LEGO brick picture

I've made a render of a red 2x4 LEGO brick for possible use in templates and such, instead of the current low-quality photo. What do you all think, should I upload it to Wikipedia and replace the current pic? I've made both SVG and PNG versions.

PNG
SVG
-HotWheels(53) ^Talk 18:05, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I certainly like it - I say go ahead, it's better than what's being used at the moment. TheIslander 11:29, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I uploaded the PNG version (for some reason Firefox won't load the SVG) and replaced the brick picture in the main Lego article and the WikiProject LEGO template. I think it would look better with a transparent background, so I'll change that as soon as I can get to a computer with Photoshop. HotWheels(53) ^Talk 15:29, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

I meant to say that actually - I agree it'd look better with a transparent background. Also a tad smaller, perhaps. The userbox icon will also need changing. TheIslander 15:33, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Pull the camera back so the perspective isn't so forced, please.. I like this version's perspective better although the image itself isn't as good... ++Lar: t/c 11:39, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Sprawling lists

Would it not be better to convert the very long lists of Lego Town, Lego Space & Lego Castle to a tabular format?

I've done so for a few lists in Lego Town & Lego Space.

I've used the folowing format:

Number	Name	Released	Minifigures	Notes
<The number of the set>	<Name of set>	<Year set was 1st released>	<Minifigs>	<Notes, such as number of elements, special attributes, etc>

Can anyone help in cleaning up these articles?

Aeons | Talk 18:55, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

I sarted this in the licensed theme articles a while back, see List of Lego Star Wars sets, good that someone is carrying it on. Gran² 18:57, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Conversion for Lego Space has been completed. Aeons | Talk 12:45, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

More sprawling lists

Found this one which has more advanced tables: LEGO Rock Raiders

The following also have sprawling lists which may also need conversion to a tabular format:

• Lego Aquazone
• Lego Time Travels
• Lego Adventurers
• Lego Wild West
• Aqua Raiders
• Lego Studios
• Lego Sports
• Lego Alpha Team
• Lego Spider-Man
• Lego Make & Create
• Lego Batman
• Lego Dino Attack
• Lego Exo-Force
• Lego Vikings
• Lego Pirates

There are many, so please, help out.

Aeons | Talk 13:25, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

LEGO Digital Designer

Why do LDraw and MLCAD have articles but not LEGO Digital Designer? LEGO Digital Designer should have an aritcle. --209.247.5.74 13:46, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Ratings

Who rates the articles? I've just rewritten the Legoland Windsor article (see it's talk page), and believe that it's now worth more than a 'start'. TheIslander 11:26, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Lego Template Ugly

Can we get something more aesthetically pleasing than fully saturated red? It "pops" way too much and clashes with the subdued WikiPedia graphical style. And it makes my articles look ugly.

Legoland Windsor Peer Review

Don't know if anyone here's interested, but after having done a huge amount of work towards the Legoland Windsor guide, I have now submitted it for peer review, in the hope of eventually gaining a GA or FA status. Take a look - all comments appreciated ;). _TheIslander 23:29, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

See also sections

see user_talk:AMK152#removal_of_See_Also_sections... I think see alsos and the template serve different purposes. Discussion probably would be better here. ++Lar: t/c 11:40, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Minifig Customization

I have created this article suggested on the main page of this Wikiproject. Definitely still needs work though. Jukilum 17:32, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletions (WP:PROD)

• 5 September - expires 10 September
  • Lego Arctic (PROD by User:Jaranda; "Lego Arctic are a collective theme of Lego toys released in 2000.") --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 13:39, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

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Bionicle

Why are all of the major bionicle articles being removed, by doing so the knowledge of the entire community is being depleted. So I say that the deletion of these articles is nothing but decremental —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.62.226.101 (talk) 14:43, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Lego Portal

I think there should be a good self standing page for this.

Also of some benefit would be a page for each worthwhile site. For some examples: peeron and brickshelf and bricklink and lugnet (among others.) Ill create them because I happen to have been around the online Lego world for quite some time and have gathered much information. If anyone with better wiki-authoring skills would like to create/edit them that would be better. I can supply content and information but not proper grammar/wiki formatting. If you are interested in this, then please say so on my talk page. If I do not get any creation offers, people might just start seeing pages pop up authored by me about lego fan created sites. Or I'll get too busy again and others will have to create them if they want them. Stoneagegeek (talk) 20:49, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

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Who thinks we should have a Bionicle Task force? I will create one when we have a few members. Tutthoth-Ankhre (talk) 18:11, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

1. Tutthoth-Ankhre

I agree, and I will join. I hope the Bionicle section can be improved here on Wiki, and this is the best way to do so. Lesovikk1996 (talk) 18:21, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

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Infobox

I was just wondering if anyone here has ever considered making up an infobox for the seperate themes articles (eg. Lego Power Miners). I made a rough infobox for the Power Miners article on my user page using the generic infobox but fell short of what should be included within the box. So i was wondering if anyone was interested in either making one up or helping me add things to the generic one i started.

So in short any ideas on what should be included within an infobox about a Lego theme? Salavat (talk) 12:12, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

I've created a quick Infobox template: {{Infobox Lego theme}}. Happy to take suggestions on what should be included. Frankie Roberto (talk) 17:03, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Looks great. One suggestion is that you might want to add some documentation so people know how to use use it and what parameters it contains. Salavat (talk) 01:09, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Good idea. I've added some documentation now, including an example and a 'blank' template that you can use to copy and paste into articles. Frankie Roberto (talk) 10:10, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

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I just majorly changed the page layout based on Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games style so if anyone has any comments or questions regarding the change, shoot away. Salavat (talk) 17:59, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

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Hero Factory is up for deletion

Hero Factory is currently at AFD and has already been relisted once. Salavat (talk) 15:52, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Result was that it was closed with no consensus. Salavat (talk) 05:40, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

I was just wondering if there was a WikiProject Lego Barnstar yet; I've seen a few users recently who I'd say have helped out enough to deserve one. If there isn't, I'd be happy to make one. EW_ikist^Talk 15:14, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

I dont think we have one, it would be under participation on the main page if there was one. Salavat (talk) 16:28, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

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Using sortable tables when converting lists of sets

I'm in the process of changing the List of Lego Star Wars sets page from regular tables to sortable tables (it's not a tough thing to do). I think it would be good to do that as default for all the set list pages. The SW page also has the piece count for the set, is it worth adding that to other lists if they don't have it? Grahamwest (talk) 22:38, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Ive used this format for these four articles, seems to work pretty well: Lego Games, Hero Factory, Lego Prince of Persia, Lego Toy Story. Obvisously it would be great to have tables with piece counts on all the theme pages, but its just the fact of getting around to it. Salavat (talk) 15:08, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

LEGO Hero Factory (TV show) prodded for deletion

LEGO Hero Factory (the TV series article) has been prodded for deletion for being non-notable. If you can improve its notable please add to the article. Salavat (talk) 08:35, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Lego themes licensed from Disney

Should there be a category for these themes? The following articles are in both Category:Disney merchandise and Category:Lego themes:

• Lego Mickey Mouse
• Lego Pirates of the Caribbean
• Lego Prince of Persia
• Lego Toy Story

Also, this category would contain the themes Lego Cars and Lego Winnie the Pooh, were articles to be created on them. gz³³ (talk) 01:51, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Sounds appropriate as there is enough articles for the category. Dont know what the name would be though. "Lego themes based on Disney licenses"? Salavat (talk) 03:49, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

"Lego themes licensed from Disney"? gz³³ (talk) 04:18, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Also works, I have no problem with the naming either way. Salavat (talk) 08:03, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Themes infobox

Hi, I've made an altered version of Template:Infobox Lego theme, which allows for an extra interval of availability. See the talk page. gz³³ (talk) 05:08, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

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Should we combine articles on individual Lego sets and themes into omnibus articles or lists? If so, what form should these articles take? 20:08, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

• Rationale from proposer: During the recent discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lego Monster Fighters, it was pointed out that this was one of many such articles. Rather than have a more deletion discussions it seems appropriate to discuss omnibus articles of some sort that deal with the sets and themes in large groups. Most if not all of them are not individually notable and would be deleted at AFD because of the lack of sources. However, the overall topic of Lego sets and themes is notable. Since there is little to say about each set or theme it should be relatively easy to group them into larger articles of some kind, with existing and future articles on individual themes and sets redirecting to them. The main decision to my mind is how those articles should be organized.

Three possible options:

• Alphabeticaly
• chronologicaly
• By related themes

Also, should the articles be organized as simple lists, or should they have a section for each set or theme? Beeblebrox (talk) 20:08, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

• Yes, we should merge articles that are unexpandable beyond perma-stub, and we should not be trying to exhaustively list all purchasable sets.
• With a sortable-table, all 3 organization options are possible at once; picking the default would be the only choice (chronological is my preference for that).
• We're definitely not trying to replicate Brickset's directory or lugnut's directory, nor even wikia:lego:List of themes. (And those resources should be prominently noted as the locations for completist listings.)
• Quantity: Need a clearer list of what content is being considered for inclusion/merging, before weighing in on whether an article or a list is more appropriate. Could you (or someone) sketch out some rough numbers/examples, from the content within Template:Lego (current and discontinued themes), and Category:Lego themes? (I assume 90% of that content, or so?)
• Quality: Which articles are the current best representations of usable prose? Lego Modular Houses (GA) according to the statistics. Lego Atlantis also looks quite well written, from just a glance around. At the other extreme are articles like Belville (Lego) which seems almost unexpandable (i tried googling, but found very little).
• Merging the unexpandable perma-stubs, into a full-featured list (ie, making List of Lego themes a Featured list eventually) might be ideal. A few sets/themes warrant separate articles, but not all. (These other featured lists (eg) might be helpful reference models.)

HTH. —Quiddity (talk) 19:01, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

I am planning to try and tag all articles that would be affected by this, but at the moment I have to go to work. Looks like about 65 articles give or take, may be able to get to it later today. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:05, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, may take a moment to determine the full list of proposed mergers. I have discovered we already have a list article at List of Lego themes, as well as Category:Lego themes. I'm thinking a quick review of every entry in the category to insure it is the type of article we are talking about here, that is a single theme with no real notability unto itself. Once we have a comprehensive list I'll either begin the tagging or try to get an WP:AWB user to do it all at once. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:38, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Certainly sounds a good idea, merging the articles, but don't get carried away. I think themes like Ninjago, Bionicle and Hero Factory deserve to have their own articles. So, my opinion is: good idea in principle, might well work, but don't get carried away. --ProtoDrake (talk) 09:58, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

So, how would we define which ones are "deserving" of their own articles? When I looked at Lego Castle my initial reaction was that here is a nice long article, with lots of detail, on a theme that has carried from the seventies right through to the present. Then I took a look at the sources. They are garbage as far as establishing notability. As are the sources on almost all Lego theme articles.

They mostly seem to fall into these categories:

Brickset pages

other fan sites

catalogs or other sales materials

Books about Legos such as the "Lego Star Wars character encyclopedia"

While these may be ok sources for verification purposes, they are worthless as far as notability is concerned. As that is the standard for having a Wikipedia aricle I think we will find going forward that in fact the sat majority of themes are justifiable candidates for merging. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:26, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

I believe it would be a very big page, which would be unwieldy to navigate. I'm against it. Can someone come up with a good source considering notability? 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 15:47, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

That is rather the whole point. Generally there are not reliable, independent sources that discuss toy themes in detail. Many of these articles have been here for years and have either no sources at all or links to retail websites that sell toys. The other option as I see it is to delete most of them. Keeping them as stand-alone articles is not really a tenable position. Yes, it will be a long list. I am certainly open to the possibility of breaking it up by which decade the theme premiered or a simple alphabetical splitting. Beeblebrox (talk) 16:47, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

I vote for a combination of chronological-listing and related theme-listing. It seems the best way, to me. Although I also see the perks of having it in alphabetical order. And, in answer to Wakuran, I have had experience of large list-like articles and I have learnt to navigate them. Other users can to. --ProtoDrake (talk) 19:41, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

I think Lego Technics is very different to normal lego sets and should retain it's own article. 82.46.109.233 (talk) 12:49, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

example entry

I thought it might be good to take one of the candidate pages and use this section to sandbox how it might look when merged. I'm not an expert at tables so I'm hoping someone with more knowledge of that area can help out. More or less at random I picked Lego Aqua Raiders to serve as an example. For reference here is the article body as it exists right now (17:39, 4 October 2012 (UTC)) minus the merge tag, navbox, and categories:

Extended content

Aqua Raiders Subject Treasure Hunting Availability 2006–2008 Total sets 7 Aqua Raiders was one of the Lego Group's new themes for 2007. The setting is in the Bermuda Triangle. A group of divers go down with high tech submarines and other equipment to look for lost treasure and shipwrecks. ==Aqua Raiders Team== The Aqua Raiders team was the only team that was brave enough to fight the depths of the Bermuda Triangle. Equipped with the latest technology, they were sent to recover a treasure from an ancient king. In the Trench game, one of the Aqua Raiders spoke, and he had a strong Australian accent, leading to believe that the Aqua Raiders are of Australian origin. ==Sea Monsters== When they start the mission to go under the depths, they are attacked by several underwater creatures within a matter of seconds. Sea Snakes Giant Crabs Giant Lobsters Giant Angler fish Giant Tiger Sharks Giant squid ==Vehicles and Weapons== The Aqua Raiders have a variety of weapons and vehicles, which, according to the Aqua Raiders website, is the latest technology developed for undersea exploration. ===Vehicles=== A mini-sub A one-man underwater boat A shark-killer sub A giant sub A treasure sub Another unnamed submarine that resembles a helicopter ===Weapons=== Both the vehicles and men carry weapons around to fend off the creatures. A spear gun A drill A harpoon cannon Several small turrets ==Set list== Here is a list of the sets. 7770-Deep Sea Treasure Hunter- Includes 2 sea snakes, diver, rocks, and sea scooter. 7771-Angler Ambush- Includes Angler fish, 2 divers, sea scooter, and rock formation. 7772-Lobster Strike- Includes giant lobster, 2 divers, and a rover. 7773-Tiger Shark Attack- Includes tiger shark, 2 divers, submarine, and large harpoon gun. 7774-Crab Crusher- Includes giant crab, 2 divers, large submarine, 1 mini sub, and a robitic exploration device. 7775-Aquabase Invasion- Includes giant squid, submarine, sea scooter, 4 divers, and the aquabase. 7776-The Shipwreck- Includes 2 sea snakes, shipwreck, 2 divers, a skeleton and submarine. ==External links== Official Site

actually this is a good example of the very lowest end of the spectrum of proposed mergers. No reliable sources, absurd levels of crafty details, and downright silliness like "The Aqua Raiders team was the only team that was brave enough to fight the depths of the Bermuda Triangle." This could easily be slimmed down into a simple entry in a table. Something like this

Name
dates of production
description

Lego Aqua Raiders
2006-2008
Bermuda Triangle/underwater exploration

Only properly formatted as a table of course, we'll get to that. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:39, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

better example entry

Hi, what about something like this...

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Name Subject Sub-themes Licensed Availability Bionicle Bionicle Lego 2001–2010 Lego Batman Batman DC Comics 2006–2009; 2012–present Lego Castle Castle Black Falcons Lion Knights Forestmen Black Knights Wolfpack Renegades Dragon Masters Royal Knights Dark Forest Fright Knights Ninja Knights’ Kingdom Castle Kingdoms Lego 1978–Present Lego Harry Potter Harry Potter Philosopher's Stone Chamber of Secrets Prisoner of Azkaban Goblet of Fire Order of the Phoenix Half-Blood Prince Deathly Hallows Warner Bros. 2001–2007, 2010-2011 Lego Indiana Jones Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark Temple of Doom The Last Crusade Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Lucasfilm Ltd. 2008–2009 Lego Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse Disney 2000–2002 Lego Spider-Man Spider-Man Spider-Man 2 Columbia Pictures 2002–2004 Lego Star Wars Star Wars The Phantom Menace Attack Of The Clones The Clone Wars Revenge Of The Sith A New Hope The Empire Strikes Back Return of the Jedi Disney 1999–present Lego Super Heroes Super heroes DC Comics, Marvel Comics 2012-present Lego The Hobbit The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey The Desolation of Smaug There and Back Again Warner Bros. 2012-present Lego The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers The Return of the King Warner Bros. 2012-present Lego Toy Story Toy Story Disney 2009–2010

User:2nyte 4:39, 19 October 2012 (AEST)

I was really, really hoping somebody who was good with making tables would come along. That looks great. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:56, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

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Implementation: redirect now or merge more content first?

In implementing the decision above, would it be appropriate to simply redirect Lego Exo-Force to the list article, or are there some details that still need to be incorporated into the list first? (This article came to my attention when I nominated a related article at Wikiquote for deletion, unsuccessfully.) ~ Ningauble (talk) 16:42, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

• I would think that anything that is already mentioned in the target article can be redirected, if more content is desirable it can easily be pulled from the page history. Anyone doing that should be sure to mention what article they are merging in their edit sumarry so that proper attribution is kept. Beeblebrox (talk) 16:51, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

I don't understand. Has it been decided in this brief discussion that not a single Lego set is notable? Merge tags have been added to over 60 articles; has an effort been made to determine the notability, or lack thereof, of every one of these articles? Because it looks to me like the prevailing logic is that some of them aren't notable, therefore none of them are. DoctorKubla (talk) 12:09, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

If it's not too late I would like to dispute this merge. Sources and the contents of the Lego Star Wars franchise say this is notable enough for a separate article. CRRaysHead90 | ^{Get Some!} 10:03, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Agree. A mass merge is not the way to go. Each theme should be assessed seperatly. Try to find info like reviews on the various themes and then merge if nothing arises. Salavat (talk) 12:32, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Comment from closer: Formal closures are intended to draw a line under disputes to allow the community to move on. Over 60 articles tagged and an RfC being called is about as much exposure as a merge discussion can get. In other words, merge opponents have had more than enough opportunity to speak up and provide evidence that at least some of the sets meet notability requirements. Unless someone wants to dispute the accuracy of the closure (as opposed to the result of the discussion), my suggestion to merge opponents is to start separate ("unmerge") discussions for individual sets they believe meet notability requirements. (Further reading: Wikipedia:Closing discussions.) Goodraise 18:07, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

I am also confused as to why it took several months for these objections to surface. Most of the alleged sources attached to these articles are either from Lego websites or fan sites, not reliable sources. I would suggest that the easiest way to proceed is to do pretty much all the merges, excepting any that have two or more references from actual independent reliable sources. If, when that is done, there are themes merged that a user thinks should have it's own article they should propose splitting it back off on the main article talk page and provide the sources at that time. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:23, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

I do dispute the accuracy of the closure. Six people participated in the discussion. Beeblebrox obviously supported the proposal. Two users, Quiddity and ProtoDrake, supported merging some of the articles – they both expressed the opinion, however, that each article should be assessed on its own merits, and that a blanket merge was not the way to go. Wakuran was against the proposal. The anonymous IP said that the Lego Technic article should be retained, so we can put him down as being against a blanket merge. 2nyte didn't offer an opinion, but is presumably in favour of the proposal.

So that's two people supporting the proposal as stated, two (maybe three) people suggesting that only some of the articles be merged, and one person who flat out opposes the proposal. The outcome of that discussion should not have been "merge all articles". I'd call that a "no consensus" at best. DoctorKubla (talk) 21:22, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

I'll grant you that had this been an AfD, it should have been closed as "no consensus" (i.e. "insufficiently strong consensus to delete") because of the higher skates (i.e. the articles' edit histories), but it was a merge discussion, which is an entirely different animal. Merge decisions reached outside of an AfD can easily be overturned by subsequent discussions and, unlike deletions, merges can be reverted without an administrator's toolbox. Suggesting that each article should be examined for notability individually loses, as an argument, a lot of teeth when during a month long discussion not a single article is shown to meet notability requirements. There was plenty of time to do that, and there still is. Especially in the light of this post-close opposition, I'm wondering if anyone actually wants to do the research necessary to demonstrate these articles' notability or whether what is happening here is a symptom of editors' being content with seeing the decision making process dragged out indefinitely (or at least until merge advocates lose interest or give up). Having weighed the arguments for their merits, rather than counting votes, I believe the closure to be reasonable. If you disagree, feel free to ask for reevaluation at the administrators' noticeboard. Goodraise 23:50, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

This merge opponent didn't comment because he didn't find the discussion until this morning when he commented. CRRaysHead90 | ^{Get Some!} 03:57, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

dont merge. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.232.9.14 (talk) 04:16, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Review of merge

Its now been over six months and the merge has clearly not been completed. The above discussion indicates questions over the closure and lack of consensus. I would propose that the current merge be marked as Stale and the merge tags be removed from corresponding articles.

There might be scope for a more focused merged discussions, with articles being treated individually. Some like Lego Technic, Bionicle and Lego Duplo seem to be clearly too large and important to be merged but others like Lego Ninja might be appropriate for merging.

The current list of articles to be merged include:

• List of SpongeBob SquarePants merchandise

--Salix (talk): 09:34, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

• By Wikipedia policy, we can and should merge any article that does not have independent reliable sources. We should not be using Lego's own publications and promotional materials as sources for entire articles. I had meant to work on this but I obviously it slipped my mind at some point. The vast majority of these articles would never survive a deletion discussion, so merging still seems like the easiest road to me. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:10, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

I doubt it is a good idea because Bionicle has developed into such a full-blown franchise, that now we need a separate article to contain all of the information. Sure it may require some extra work maintaining it, but I believe that it is well worth the effort. After all, if Bionicle fans or people interested in the franchise found no main article for it, they would be very disappointed. I know I would. Besides, Wikipedia is one of the very few website with any complete information on Bionicle. LightandDark2000 (talk) 19:17, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Looking at the Bionicle article it is in fact clear that is an exception, because it does have at least a few independent reliable sources, something which is completely absent in the majority of the above listings. I've struck it from the list and will remove the merge tag from the article. Next thing would be to identify other articles that have actual RS like that so they can also be excluded. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:08, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

I have seen these merge tags along with you,Bionicle should be merged with Lego themes,as people will want to know all of the Lego themes.I am fixing merge tags. CoolCDST (talk) 04:54, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

The merge tags have almost been done,I however disagree with *List of SpongeBob SquarePants merchandise by the way I updated your list. CoolCDST (talk) 01:51, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Going forward with merge

@Beeblebrox, LightandDark2000, CoolCDST, ProtoDrake, and Quiddity: @Wakuran, Ningauble, CRRaysHead90, and DoctorKubla: There are a significant number of items that still have merge tags. A review of the current state of the List of Lego themes, the vst majority of this content would not be suitable for a merge with the current structure there. Also, a lot of the content is sourced solely from Brickset.com, which I don't know if it's a reliable source or not. Please advise on the way forward. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 19:05, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

I don't think Brickset is a proper source. Not now, anyway. I've had time to look at it from an outside room. If brickset is the only source for an article, maybe that article should be deleted, because Lego isn't Wikipedia-friendly when it comes to references. --ProtoDrake (talk) 19:12, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

I highly doubt that any of them should be merged; only the minor themes and vague articles should be considered for merging (if any at all). LightandDark2000 (talk) 01:34, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

And that is the crux of this, as I strongly believe anything that only has fan sites as a source can and should be merged. This is still not a toy catalog. WP:N applies to Legos the same it applies to everything else. So, I agree with ProtoDrake, but as I am currently serving on ArbCom quite frankly I just don't have the time for such an undertaking. Beeblebrox (talk) 14:29, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Note After a quick search I added many secondary sources to Lego Architecture. Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 09:25, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Proposal: If a page or a few pages will be merged, I propose that in the table on the List of Lego themes page a short description must be written about the theme. Like for instance a short definition of the theme and why it is was discontinued. See an example below. Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 13:10, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

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Name Subject Sub-themes Licensed Availability Lego Friends Friends Lego 2012–Present Friends is a product range of the Lego construction toy designed to appeal primarily to girls. Introduced in 2012, the theme includes unique "mini-doll" figures, which are about the same size as the traditional minifigures but are more detailed and realistic. The sets include pieces in pink and purple color schemes and depict scenes from suburban life set in the fictional town of Heartlake City. The Friends product range replaces Lego's previous female-oriented theme Lego Belville, which had been in production since 1994, and featured dolls that were much larger than both the mini-dolls and minifigures. Other related product ranges have included Homemaker (1971–1982), Paradisa (1991–1997) and Scala (1997–2001). Hero Factory Hero Factory Lego 2010–Present Hero Factory (stylized as HERO FACTORY) is a line of toys by the LEGO Group marketed primarily at 6 to 12-year-olds. It was created in response to the decision to replace the Bionicle theme in 2010, and then cancelled in 2015 due to Bionicle returning.

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List of Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu episodes listed at Requested moves

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Emmet Brickowski (character) listed at Requested moves

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Need Help

Can anyone help me how to create this 5 new pages such as Lego DC Super Hero Girls, Lego The Lone Ranger, Lego Scooby-Doo!, Lego The Powerpuff Girls and Lego Overwatch ? Oon835 (talk) 06:28, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Lego Modular Buildings Reassessment

Lego Modular Buildings, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. FredModulars (talk) 23:27, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Edits

Yosemiter can you please let me finish, I was in the middle of editing the table when I was referring to other articles. What I was going to do was add on articles with templates and change orientation. However, I guess someone won't let me try to edit anything and immediately deletes what I did 2 seconds after I did it.FredModulars (talk) 23:27, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

@FredModulars: I offered assistance in my edit summary. It was not 2 seconds, the most recent was 14 minutes and the previous was over 90 minutes. Please use an edit summary and perhaps I can help. Such as you are removing |} every time, those are required to finish a table. Are you trying to add a maintenance page similar to Wikipedia:WikiProject Lego/Recognized content? Then create Wikipedia:WikiProject Lego/Maintenance or similar first. I can help you if needed, but I need to know your goal first. Yosemiter (talk) 23:33, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Articles

I made two draft articles and, if possible, was wondering if anyone could offer some feedback on them. Draft:Lego Creator Expert Draft:Lego Ultra Agents FredModulars (talk) 00:57, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

@FredModulars: A reminder, this is essentially a dead page. You will likely find better help elsewhere as I am the only one here. However, I looked them over and I will give some feedback (and please read over the links the follow for a better understanding). In both, there is too much original research and synthetic conclusions, as well as a fail amount of peacocked adjectives that makes it read as unencyclopedic or as promotional. The main goal for a new page is that it must meet Wikipedia's General Notability Guideline, in which it must have multiple independent, reliable sources of significant depth about the subject. Not just set lists or reviews.

Creator Expert has no official "subthemes" as you describe them per the official Lego sites. There are general annual releases, and fans have dubbed them into categories (vehicles, modulars, winter village, landmarks, etc.) but nothing from Lego itself. Creator Expert did not officially exist until 2013. There is a basic concept of advanced model that has always existed under various themes or no no theme at all (1978's USS Constellation comes to mind), but directly stating they are the same theme is Original Research without a good source for it. It seems merging the sourcable content into Lego Creator is a better option.

For Ultra Agents, some of those sources look pretty good but might lack the sustained coverage to indicate a notable theme. The lasting impact might be there though due to the early use by Lego of incorporating apps into builds. Needs heavy editing though to remove the WP:FANCRUFT and WP:CATALOGUE aspects. Named heroes and villains, if independently discussed in other sources, would better be described in prose while removing their set listing entirely.

If you would like, I can add the Articles for Creation template to each page to see what other article reviewers have to say about the pages. When I add the template, there is a button "Submit for review" and it will be added to the reviewers lists to look over. It can take a few weeks (due to backlog), but they generally are helpful in stating why an article is or is not suitable for publishing in its current state. Yosemiter (talk) 14:56, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Recently-added extreme amount of plot detail in Lego Star Wars video game articles

The other day I noticed that the Lego Star Wars video game articles all had recently added sections called "Plot". They had all added by anonymous users within the past few months. The articles read perfectly competently, and much more succinctly, before they were added. I therefore feel they should be removed, or at the very least, heavily condensed.

The synopses are all disproportionately large compared to the rest of each article. In fact, the synopsis for each film represented in the games is as large as the synopsis you can find on the article for that respective film! The Complete Saga's plot synopsis also consists almost entirely of paragraphs copied from the Lego Star Wars: The Video Game and Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy articles.

This is not a Lego Star Wars wiki, and so this much detail strikes me as being inappropriate, and inconsistent with typical video game articles on Wikipedia. The information in these sections also seems completely unreferenced.

I took it upon myself to remove them, but this was quickly reverted by another user. I therefore feel it would be best to obtain opinions from other users, and obtain a consensus before any further action can be taken.

The articles I am referring to are the following:

Lego Star Wars: The Video Game

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga

Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars

Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Zigongosaurus1138 (talk) 22:48, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Formatting sets sections in theme articles

When I was doing some drive-by cleanup on Lego Monkie Kid a question came up on how to format the sets section of articles on Lego themes. Should they be in paragraph form like Lego Toy Story and the old revision of Lego Monkie Kid, or would a bulleted list split into waves make more sense like the current rev of Lego Monkie Kid? jkmartindale (talk) 19:01, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

A-class status for Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes

Could someone assess Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes for A-class status? elijahpepe@wikipedia 18:27, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Requested move

See discussion at Talk:Lego House In ictu oculi (talk)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:21, 12 April 2023 (UTC)