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Each week a Gaming Collaboration of the week will be picked using this page. This is a specific computer or video game-related topic which initially either has no article, has only a basic stub-like page, or is in need of more information. The aim of this project is to improve the quality of Wikipedia's computer and video game articles through widespread cooperative editing. It is our hope that some of these will go on to become featured articles. For a discussion on the correct format of computer and video game articles, please see WikiProject Computer and video games.

The project is also used to fill gaps in Wikipedia, to give users a focus, and to give us all something to be proud of. Any registered user can nominate an article and can vote for any number of the nominated articles. Every Monday, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for a week to potential contributors.

Template:CurrentGCOTW

Previous collaborations can be found at /History.
Removed nominations can be found at /Removed.

Collaborations
Articles
Science and technology
Miscellaneous

Selecting the Next Gaming Collaboration of the week

Voting

A vote or a show of support for an article shows your commitment to support and aid in collaborating on that specific article if it is chosen. Although you are not required to fulfill that commitment, we ask that you only support articles that you are able to contribute to so that this collaboration's goals of expanding and improving articles can adequately be achieved. Feel free to vote for as many of the following candidates as you like.

Any registered user is encouraged to vote so long as you abide by the policies of Wikipedia, specifically Wikipedia:Sockpuppets.

Please add only support votes. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see Approval voting).

To enter your votes, simply edit the appropriate sections by just inserting a new line with "# ~~~~". This will add your username and a time stamp in a new numbered list item. The vote will look like this:

  1. Username 08:59, Jul 1 2005 (UTC)

If you want to withdraw your votes, don't remove your name and date completely. Instead, place an asterix after the "#" sign and then use the strike-through tags <s>...</s> on your username. A withdrawn vote will appear striked out, yet will allow Wikipedia to accurately calculate votes:

  1. Username 08:39, Jul 1 2005 (UTC)
  2. Username 08:39, Jul 2 2005 (UTC)

Any vote that has been stricken will not be counted.

Tie-breakers

In case of a tie, voting will be extended for 24 hours. If there is still a tie, the candidate that was nominated first wins. During the extended voting period the old collaboration should still be active. In the case of extended voting, the collaboration period will be reduced to 6 days.

Nominations

New nominations can be made at any time and should be added at the end of this page. Please use the provided template.

If the page you are nominating already exists, please add {{GCOTW}} to the top of its talk page. This expands to: Template:GCOTW

If the article is selected as the Gaming Collaboration of the week, please add {{Current-GCOTW}} to the top of the article page. This expands to: Template:Current-GCOTW

Considerations for nominations

  • Giving reasons as to why an article should become the GCOTW may convince others to cast their vote.
  • Can the wider gaming community easily contribute to the article? Or is it something only a small number of people will know about?
  • Is the article a stub or very small? Or would the article fare better in a CVG Peer Review?
  • A good place to look for articles that might be worthy of a nomination is the Computer and video game stubs category.

Pruning

Nominations will be moved to /Removed if they have not received 3 votes after 7 days on the list, 6 votes after 14 days, 9 votes after 21 days, and so on.

The current date and time is 10 November 2024 T 19:29 UTC.

Candidates for next week

Screenshot maps

Nominated September 4; needs 6 votes by September 18 (minimum 3 votes per week)

Support:

  1. Jacoplane 23:10, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  2. --Zxcvbnm 23:33, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  3. --Syrthiss 15:59, September 7, 2005 (UTC)
  4. Y0u (Y0ur talk page) (Y0ur contributions) 20:23, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

Comments:

  • It's an interesting subject, but the quality of the article is poor. I think it is interesting because screenshot maps are good for inclusion in game articles in general, so I think there should be a good article about them.

Umbrella Corporation

Nominated September 5; needs 6 votes by September 19 (minimum 3 votes per week)

Support

  1. User:Morgan695 01:45, September 5, 2005 (UTC).
  2. ><ino 05:17, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Cabutt 19:48, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

  • This article is in dire need of a cleanup. There are far too many headers, the early history is elaborated on far too much, are there is very little late history.
  • This doesn;t really need cleaning, it just needs to be orgainsed, becuase the way all information is packed together, not many people wont feel like reading that, it needs to be broken down in peieces
  • Your right, way too many headers. I think this needs to be re-organized. Badly.
  • Please sign your posts, and remember that GCOTW is for stubs, if you want to improve an article such as this, (something past stub stage), please nominate it at the Game Improvement Drive section, not COTW. The article does need organizing, but this isn't the right venue. Thank you, [[User:Mysekurity|Mysekurity]] [[additions | e-mail]] 20:39, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Just because it's long doesn't mean it isn't a stub. If you were to condense the information and get rid of the headers, there's nothing to it aside from history. - Morgan695

Pop culture references in Warcraft

Nominated September 12; needs 3 votes by September 19 (minimum 3 votes per week)

Support:

  1. Havok (T/C) 11:40, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

Game of the Year

Nominated September 13; needs 3 votes by September 20 (minimum 3 votes per week)

Support:

  1. Jacoplane 12:05, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  2. — Kjammer ⌂ 17:09, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

How to nominate an article

Note to contributors:

To add a new nomination, please:

(1) Copy the template below
(2) Paste it at the bottom of the list of nominations
(3) Replace "[Date]" with the correct date and "[Date + 7 days]" with the date, plus seven days. For both, the year is not necessary.
(4) Sign your user name with the directions in the template and add a comment for why the article should be nominated.
(5) Please preview your addition to make it sure all information is properly filled in and the links are working.

After nominating an article please place {{GCOTW}} on the article's discussion page. 

===[[article name with double-brackets surrounding it]]===   
:''Nominated [[ [Date] ]]; needs 3 votes by [[ [Date + 7 days] ]] (minimum 3 votes per week)''  
    
'''Support:'''
# [your user name--use '~~~~']
    
'''Comments:'''  
*[a short description explaining why the article should be the Gaming Collaboration of the week]
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