Template:WikiProject Video games/sandbox

Video games: Esports / Indie / Nintendo / Sega / Visual novels / Characters C‑class

	project collaboration.
	This article is currently undergoing a peer review.
	This article has had a peer review which is now archived.

Summary of Video games WikiProject open tasks:

Summary of Video games WikiProject open tasks

AfDs

Merge discussions

Other discussions

No major discussions

Featured content candidates

Good article nominations

Setzer Gabbiani (start)
Talim (Soulcalibur) (start)
Fusajiro Yamauchi (nom)
Klefki (nom)
Sobble (start)
Exdeath (start)
Lucky Luna (nom)
Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome (nom)
Pikachu (start)
Reigns (video game) (nom)
Fallout Online (start)
Donkey Kong (start)
Horizon Forbidden West (start)
Surround (video game) (start)
AirCars (start)
Laura Matsuda (start)
Puff-puff (Dragon Quest) (start)
Sands of Destruction (start)
Counter-Strike 2 (start)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (PC video game) (start)
Sorceress (Dragon's Crown) (start)
Yume Nikki: Dream Diary (start)
Hyper Duel (start)
Fortnite Festival (start)
Jacksepticeye (start)
Snorlax (start)
Bonfire (Dark Souls) (nom)
Raymond (Animal Crossing) (start)
Gengar (start)
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (start)
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location (start)

DYK nominations

DarkZero Esports

Reviews and reassessments

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (nom)
Pokémon Channel (nom)
Rain World (rev)
Mario Kart: Double Dash (nom)
Amiga Format (rev)
Kim Kitsuragi (rev)

Articles that need...

This WikiProject banner template uses Module:WikiProject banner, a meta-template for easily creating and maintaining project banners. Please report any errors or feature requests to Module talk:WikiProject banner. Information or warnings about the template are below:

A custom importance mask is in use.
The 6 task forces and/or work groups will automatically collapse if more than 5 of them are displayed. To change this setting, set or update the |TF_COLLAPSE= parameter.
The 10 notes in this template will automatically collapse if more than 2 of them are activated. To change this setting, set or update the |COLLAPSED= parameter.
This banner template includes a link to Portal:Video games, and the accompanying image is File:WPVG icon 2016.svg. See the instructions on how to change this.
Automatic parameter checking is enabled and pages with invalid parameters can be found in the tracking category.

Some of the assessment categories required for Video games do not currently exist, and should to be created to avoid redlinks appearing on talk pages. Alternatively, you may need to set or update the |ASSESSMENT_CAT= parameter in this template.

Category:A-Class video game articles – (create)

Some of the assessment categories required for the esports task force do not currently exist, and should to be created to avoid redlinks appearing on talk pages. Alternatively, you may need to set or update the |TF_2_ASSESSMENT_CAT= parameter in this template.

Category:A-Class Esports articles – (create)

Some of the assessment categories required for the indie task force do not currently exist, and should to be created to avoid redlinks appearing on talk pages. Alternatively, you may need to set or update the |TF_3_ASSESSMENT_CAT= parameter in this template.

Category:A-Class indie game articles – (create)

Some of the assessment categories required for the Nintendo task force do not currently exist, and should to be created to avoid redlinks appearing on talk pages. Alternatively, you may need to set or update the |TF_4_ASSESSMENT_CAT= parameter in this template.

Category:A-Class Nintendo articles – (create)

Some of the assessment categories required for the Sega task force do not currently exist, and should to be created to avoid redlinks appearing on talk pages. Alternatively, you may need to set or update the |TF_6_ASSESSMENT_CAT= parameter in this template.

Category:A-Class Sega articles – (create)

Some of the assessment categories required for the visual novels task force do not currently exist, and should to be created to avoid redlinks appearing on talk pages. Alternatively, you may need to set or update the |TF_8_ASSESSMENT_CAT= parameter in this template.

Category:A-Class visual novel-related articles – (create)

Some of the assessment categories required for the Video game characters task force do not currently exist, and should to be created to avoid redlinks appearing on talk pages. Alternatively, you may need to set or update the |TF_9_ASSESSMENT_CAT= parameter in this template.

Category:A-Class video game characters articles – (create)

This is the

template sandbox page for Template:WikiProject Video games (diff).
See also the companion subpage for test cases

.

Template documentation[view] [edit] [history] [purge]

This template is used on approximately 109,000 pages.
To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

Usage

The {{WikiProject Video games}} project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the project. While the template does not require any additional parameters, it has a number of optional ones that add various extra features to the banner. All pages should include class and importance, when possible. These parameters will put the page into the appropriate subcategory in WikiProject Video games.

Syntax

Shortened version
{{WikiProject Video games \|class = \|importance = \|cover = \|screenshot = \|needs-infobox = }}

Full parameters

{{WikiProject Video games
|class = 
|importance =
|esports = 
|Indie =
|Nintendo = 
|Sega = 
|Visualnovels = 
|Characters = 
|needs-infobox = 
|magazine = 
|cover = 
|GCOTW = 
|old-GCOTW = 
|listas =
|peer = 
|old-peer = 
|screenshot = 
}}

class – valid values are listed in the custom class mask. See the project's quality scale for details. Setting an explicit value of NA is rarely necessary; for this, either leave |class= blank or omit the parameter.
importance – valid values are: top, high, mid, low, na (
case-insensitive). See the project's importance scale
for details. Setting an explicit value of NA is rarely necessary; for this, either leave |importance= blank or omit the parameter.

Task forces

esports – set |esports=yes if the article is supported by the esports task force.
- This parameter populates Category:Esports task force articles, and the relevant subcategory of Category:Esports articles by quality based upon the |class= parameter.
Indie – set |Indie=yes if the article is supported by the indie task force.
- This parameter populates Category:Indie video game task force articles, and the relevant subcategory of Category:indie game articles by quality based upon the |class= parameter.
Nintendo – set |Nintendo=yes if the article is supported by the Nintendo task force.
- This parameter populates Category:Nintendo task force articles, and the relevant subcategory of Category:Nintendo articles by quality based upon the |class= parameter.
Sega – set |Sega=yes if the article is supported by the Sega task force.
- This parameter populates Category:Sega task force articles, and the relevant subcategory of Category:Sega articles by quality based upon the |class= parameter.
Visualnovels – set |Visualnovels=yes if the article is supported by the visual novels task force.
- This parameter populates Category:Visual novels task force articles, and the relevant subcategory of Category:visual novel-related articles by quality based upon the |class= parameter.
Characters – set |Characters=yes if the article is supported by the Video game characters task force.
- This parameter populates Category:Video game characters task force articles, and the relevant subcategory of Category:video game characters articles by quality based upon the |class= parameter.
- characters-importance (only used if |Characters=yes is set; uses the same values as |importance=) – Importance rating within the Video game characters task force
  - This importance rating populates the relevant subcategory of Category:video game characters articles by importance.

Other parameters

reassess – set |reassess=yes This article has been flagged for a reassessment of its current rating.
- This parameter populates Category:Wikipedia video game articles for reassessment.
needs-infobox – set |needs-infobox=yes if the article needs an infobox. Remember that infoboxes are not suitable for all articles, and can overwhelm short articles.
- This parameter populates Category:Video game articles needing infoboxes.
magazine – set |magazine=yes if the article is supported by the Reference Library.
cover – set |cover=yes if the article needs box art or a defining icon.
- This parameter populates Category:Video game articles requesting identifying art.
screenshot – set |screenshot=yes if the article needs a screenshot or image.
- This parameter populates Category:Video game articles requesting screenshots.
- imagedetails – (appears only if |screenshot=yes) Additional details to describe the image that is requested.
needs-photo – set |needs-photo=yes if the article needs a photograph of a person or object.
- This parameter populates Category:Video game articles requesting photos.

peer – set |peer=yes if the article is currently undergoing a peer review, or to request that the peer review process for this page should be begun.
old-peer – set |old-peer=yes if the article has had a peer review which is now archived.
- This parameter populates Category:Old requests for WikiProject Video Games peer review.
- old-peer – if the peer review page exists but is not at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Peer review/{{SUBJECTPAGENAME}}, set this parameter; i.e. if the peer review page is Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Peer review/Foobar, set |old-peer=Foobar

GCOTW – set |GCOTW=yes if the page is currently the
project collaboration
.
old-GCOTW – set |old-GCOTW=yes (or any non-blank value other than "no", "n", "0" or "¬", such as the dates it was part of the collaboration) if the page was a past
project collaboration
.
listas – This parameter, which is the equivalent of the
Wikipedia:Categorization of people § Ordering names in a category.
If the article is using {{WikiProject banner shell
}} then it is preferable to add |listas= to that template instead of a project banner template. Putting the parameter on more than one template is not required.

category – set |category=no if, and only if, a banner is being used for demonstration or testing purposes, to prevent unnecessary or undesirable categorization. Otherwise, omit this parameter.

Aliases

The parameter |eSports= is recognised as an alias for |esports=. If both |esports= and |eSports= are present, |eSports= is ignored.

To avoid needlessly cluttering up talk pages, it is usually appropriate to remove any unused parameters from the template.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:WikiProject Video games in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for WikiProject Video games

Talk page banner for WikiProject Video games

Template parameters[Edit template data]
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
class	`class`	no description	String	suggested
importance	`importance`	no description	String	suggested
esports	`esports` `eSports`	['yes'] Auto value `yes`	Unknown	optional
Indie	`Indie`	['yes'] Auto value `yes`	Unknown	optional
Nintendo	`Nintendo`	['yes'] Auto value `yes`	Unknown	optional
Sega	`Sega`	['yes'] Auto value `yes`	Unknown	optional
Visualnovels	`Visualnovels`	set yes if the article is supported by the visual novels task force. ['yes'] Auto value `yes`	Unknown	optional
Characters	`Characters`	set yes if the article is supported by the video game characters task force. ['yes'] Auto value `yes`	Unknown	optional
characters-importance	`characters-importance`	set to the same possible values as importance to assign an importance rating for the Characters task force	String	suggested
reassess	`reassess`	no description	Unknown	optional
needs-infobox	`needs-infobox`	no description	Unknown	optional
magazine	`magazine`	no description	Unknown	optional
cover	`cover`	no description	Unknown	optional
screenshot	`screenshot`	no description	Unknown	optional
peer	`peer`	no description	Unknown	optional
old-peer	`old-peer`	no description	Unknown	optional
GCOTW	`GCOTW`	no description	Unknown	optional
old-GCOTW	`old-GCOTW`	no description	Unknown	optional
listas	`listas`	no description	Unknown	optional
category	`category`	no description	Unknown	optional
needs-photo	`needs-photo`	no description	Unknown	optional
imagedetails	`imagedetails`	no description	Content	optional

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:WikiProject Video games/doc.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.