Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games#GT/FT plans for the Sakura Wars series

I think we should probably hold a discussion on making the Mario Party series a potential Good (or Featured) Topic and get the relevant articles up to GA and/or FA statuses.

Some of my suggestions include expanding on the development sections with interviews from the developers, adding legacy sections as needed, expanding on some reception and gameplay sections, and so on, using other GAs and FAs from the Mario, Sonic and Final Fantasy series as models. Also, some of the GAs for Mario Party (i.e. Mario Party 4 and Mario Party 5, which were nominated back in 2008) don't come close to meeting modern-day GA standards, but I could be wrong.

If there are any other suggestions or thoughts about this proposal, please let me know here. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 21:37, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

:I did my share. But if multiple editors organize something specific I'd happily join in tackling one or two more. Panini! • 🥪 00:04, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

:I did my civic duty and checked whether Mario Party-e had the sources to have an article, and I only found two reviews, so it won't need an article for the topic. - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 00:39, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

::I thought I would work on a project to take all 12 main Mario Party games as listed below up to GA and/or FA status while updating some of them to current standards and then make the main series a GT or an FT. Here's a template on how we should organize them:

{{Featured topic box

| title=Mario Party

| lead={{icon|C}} Mario Party

| count=12

| image=Mario Party Logo (MPSuperstars).png

| imagesize=60

| column1=

: {{icon|C}} Mario Party

: {{icon|B}} Mario Party 2

: {{icon|B}} Mario Party 3

: {{icon|GA}} Mario Party 4

|column2=

: {{icon|GA}} Mario Party 5

: {{icon|C}} Mario Party 6

: {{icon|GA}} Mario Party 7

: {{icon|B}} Mario Party 8

|column3=

: {{icon|C}} Mario Party 9

: {{icon|GA}} Mario Party 10

: {{icon|C}} Super Mario Party

: {{icon|C}} Super Mario Party Jamboree

}}

::Based on this template, we have four GAs, three B-class articles and six C-class articles (including the main series one). Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 01:48, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

:::I feel like we may as well include all Mario Party games, as doing so would add two FAs, one GA, and two non-GA/FAs, which would make it a lot easier to potentially get the topic from GT to FT. - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 04:47, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

::::I agree. There really isn't much of a difference between the mainline games and most of the spin-offs anyway. QuicoleJR (talk) 16:16, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

:I should note that Mario Party 4 and Mario Party 5 are GAs from 2008 and probably need to be cleaned up to reach today's standards. The latter also has several CN tags, while both have references in the lede. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 12:22, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

::While I'm currently busy in real life, coordinating the GAN Backlog Drive, and have some Wiki articles that I want to work on, at some point I'll take a look at these two articles and try to get more to GA status. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 12:28, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

• If y'all follow through on this topic (with spinoffs?) to the halfway point, I'm good for one or two. Same for the other Mario series. czar 22:01, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi all, I'm currently planning to rewrite the article for Jonatan Söderström soon, with the goal to make it into a GA. However, I don't have much experience writing BLPs (I've made a few before but they weren't super detailed), let alone ones on video game developers. And I don't know how far the examples of biographies on developers currently listed at WP:GA/VG would get me considering a lot of them are fairly old (the closest example to Söderström there is probably Phil Fish which was promoted eleven years ago) and the standards for quality articles on Wikipedia is always changing. MOS:VG and MOS:BLP aren't of much help, either, besides the latter's examples of what not to do with writing biographies in general.

Anyways, I'm primarily looking for section specific advice. Life and career (as the same section, there's almost no coverage of Söderström's personal life to warrant the two being separate) I think will be straight forward for me to write. I know a lot about Söderström and his works and a certain one (two) of them has been one of my pet projects on this site since I joined. But what's getting me is how to handle a "Artistry and influences" section and what exactly it should cover, if "Legacy" sections belong in BLPs about video game developers, and if a "Works" section should be called either that or Gameography. Furthermore, should the last part include only games that are mentioned in reliable sources or should it strive to be as complete as possible and include primary sourcing (e.g. his blog posts)? Should the section be written as a table that mentions the release year and the genre of each game if applicable? And yes, there is enough sourcing about his career to warrant all of these hypothetical sections and also establish WP:NBIO (the current version of the article doesn't necessary do him any favors). I just don't know what belongs in each section. Any advice or feedback is appreciated. λ NegativeMP1 04:19, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

:I don't really write video game designer bios, but I have written a lot of bios on academics (...albeit not ones I put up for GA or anything). With that disclaimer out of the way...

:"Influences" in the sense of predecessors are fine to mostly primary source. Just be careful not to end up in a WP:PEACOCK-violating self-congratulation fest. One asterisk is that the kind of people who write about a person's artistry tend to be a self-selected group who think there's artistry to be found, which can color things too positively if you're not careful. Similarly, be sure to qualify any comparisons - a designer saying he was inspired by Star Wars is fine. A designer saying his work equals the grand scope and scale of Star Wars but better, presented without the "designer saying" part as fact, is problematic. Or I guess David Lynch for a better example in this case.

:"Legacy" is rather high-falutin' for living people. Shigeru Miyamoto uses "Impact" which is probably better, although it has a vague activist vibe. If you find that you're stretching for material, probably better to merge this section with something else though, I would wager that most designers probably don't merit such a section.

:I would say "Works" is fine. "Gameography" isn't wrong but that's a rare word. Some people love tables but the simple, classic bulleted list is often just fine and actually better, like cast lists. If he did a lot of small works, then bulleted lists also compress to a multi-column view easily. The more-complete version is probably fine, as long as it's not ridiculous (e.g. unpublished college projects or the like). It may also be worth separating out works by the kind of contribution, at least if it varied. SnowFire (talk) 20:54, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

::Agree with all of this. To add, having properly formatted references (if using a cite template) and including things like images (if possible) and more minor things like portals and additional categories can make articles seem more well-written, even if it's more in the background. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 00:03, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

::Thank you both for the advice, although this does raise a couple more things:

::* With Söderström's works, he was highlighted for making works of so many different genres in a short amount of time. So that's why I'm split on whether or not a table that lists the game, the year it was made, and its genre should be used. The genre and release year of each game could significantly improve a readers understanding of the topic at hand. But on the flip side, finding a sourced genre for every game would probably be very hard. I do agree that a basic bulleted list would be cleaner.

::* I could probably merge any hypothetical "Impact" / "Legacy" section into his career, although if I recall correctly, I did find coverage about how he was revered by critics and other aspiring game developers. And one of his works, Hotline Miami, was critically acclaimed and fairly influential. Obviously, this kind of stuff wouldn't be elaborated on too much - due weight and all, his career goes far beyond just that game. But these are the kinds of things that I feel could warrant a section of the sort.

::λ NegativeMP1 00:00, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

:::I'm in a bit of a rush right now, but Neil Druckmann is a good sample article. I'm certain Rhain keeps an eye on it. Quick responses:

:::* Gameography is fine. "Works" better defines a list of things that include more types of media (and video games is just one type). SnowFires comment is noted, but I disagree, because I just do idk. More later

:::* I'm certain you won't need a legacy, since he hasn't had a broad influence or impact on the medium (even if he was a major player in top-down shooters, that's still rather niche in the larger scope of the field). Any achievement you can likely merge into his career

:::* Just like a musician article will list all of their unknown EPs prior to their breakthrough album, you too can list his small stuff (to the extent that it's mentioned somewhere; in a primary source at the very least)

:::* A table or not is your preference I'd say. But I would organize the game list into timeline order instead of alphabetical

:::Artistry and influence is a must, but right now I've got like 8 minutes and realllly gotta go. I know you're genuinely going to work on this so I'll definitely come back and give more specific and detailed advice at a later date. Panini! • 🥪 12:24, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

::::I forgot to add that "Works" is preferred over "Gameography" per a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Archive_221#Use_of_%22Gameography%22_vs_%22Ludography%22_in_headings_for_biographies 2021 discussion]. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 01:59, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

:::::boo👎 Panini! • 🥪 00:43, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

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There are currently 3 video game related RFCs if anyone wants to participate: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Forspoken#Follow-up_RFC_on_Japan_sales Forspoken], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dragon_Age:_The_Veilguard#Content_for_lead_inclusion Dragon Age Veilguard 1], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dragon_Age:_The_Veilguard#First_paragraph Dragon Age Veilguard 2] 2A00:FBC:EEE0:76E3:EDDB:357F:5AAE:3E73 (talk) 10:01, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

Ember Sword was taken offline, after its Early Access began last December. My question is: how do we lead it? Do we say "Ember Sword was a planned MMORPG" or do we say "Ember Sword was an MMORPG" - considering that it was at least partially released prior to cancellation? BOTTO _(T•C) 14:15, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

:If it didn't make it to a full release (here, it got to an open early access state), I think "planned" is right, because they clearly didn't finish their plan. Of course, I can also see the logic that since it had some type of public release in the form of the early access, its hard to say that as being only a "planned" game. Think it is an edge case that happens so often its hard to set a precedent for. Masem (t) 14:22, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

::{{Reply|Masem}} You're a diamond for giving me this feedback. I went ahead and added "planned", to reflect that the game as a whole wasn't released. BOTTO _(T•C) 01:51, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

:::I think that reads right. Its a odd situation that could go either way. Masem (t) 02:07, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

Is it OK to create an independent Pokémon articles? Because, as you guys know, I absolutely love Pokémon so much. Sparkschu Itai (talk) 13:27, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

:Absolutely, it's just that it has to be supported by reliable secondary sources that provide significant coverage on the topic. The significant coverage can occur in articles not primarily about the Pokémon, but it's expected that any coverage you cite for reception should be fairly substantial. I.e., you should not cite a source that just says a Pokémon is "cool" and does nothing to elaborate on that. It's also important that a Pokémon have a lot of coverage in reliable sources, at least a few strong sources discussing them to a significant capacity to start. - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 13:34, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

::So you mean I can't make an articles, just for saying "this Pokémon is so cute!!". Instead, I need to find a trust-worthy articles to create a page about my favorite Pokémon. I get it now... Sparkschu Itai (talk) 13:44, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

:By now most Pokemon that are notable already have pages, and most that aren't have been merged. It will be very difficult to create a new standalone page that can survive AfD, and usually just wastes a great deal of people's time including the author's. If making notable articles was a ski slope, a Pokemon article would be black diamond difficultly. It's possible, but you have to make sure you have a full and total understanding of notability before attempting it. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 13:43, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

::So in conclusion, I just can't make a random Pokémon articles without any reliable resources. I understand now. Thanks! :D Sparkschu Itai (talk) 13:50, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

:::If you feel like working on a Pokémon article, hit me up and I'll tell you what I think the likelihood of its notability is (as I've looked into a lot of them already). - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 15:30, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

::::Ooohhh!! That sounds interesting!! Sparkschu Itai (talk) 15:32, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

Not sure if this is the most appropriate forum for this, but wanted to have a discussion before starting a formal RM.

Marvel's Spider-Man is currently a disambiguation page linking to the character, a 2017 TV series, and the video games. I'm struggling to believe that Spider-Man (video game series) is not the WP:PRIMARY TOPIC for the title Marvel's Spider-Man. I am aware that there have been numerous discussions about this in the past, with the most recent one I could find being this RM in December 2023. I will address some the concerns already raised there.

There was debate about where Marvel's Spider-Man is the common name for the games. As far as I can tell, the games are commonly referred to both with and without "Marvel's" in their title. One editor brought up WP:NATURAL, which states that {{tqq|Using an alternative name that the subject is also commonly called in English reliable sources, albeit not as commonly as the preferred-but-ambiguous title, is sometimes preferred}}. This favours using the full title.

There were concerns that Marvel's Spider-Man is ambiguous as it could refer to anything related to Spider-Man, including the character itself, therefore causing confusion; however, I'd say it's very unnatural and unlikely for someone to use that term to search for just the character, and the only other item mentioned in the dab is the TV series. I think the video game series is clearly the primary topic over the obscure TV series.

Some editors brought up the point that there is precedent set by articles such as Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy and Marvel's Avengers (video game) to use Marvel's in the title. There is even such precedent within the same franchise as the Spider-Man games — Marvel's Wolverine.

I propose that all the Insomniac Spider-Man articles (Spider-Man (video game series), Spider-Man (2018 video game), Spider-Man 2 (2023 video game)) should be moved to titles with Marvel's as more natural disambiguation. This also aligns with WP:CONSISTENT with the other games mentioned above, the article List of accolades received by Marvel's Spider-Man (referring to the 2018 game), as well as Template:Marvel's Spider-Man and :Category:Marvel's Spider-Man. Additionally, all the articles always use the full title with Marvel's in prose.

-- 9ninety (talk) 14:28, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

:Look, it's really not our problem that Marvel or the developers did not name it "Spider-Man: The Video Game". It's best to err on the safe side here because "Marvel's Spider-Man" is so incredibly vague. A person who wasn't familiar with the games would not assume it referred to the games, and this is a general encyclopedia, not a comic book fan wiki. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 14:34, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

::I'd say a person not familiar with the games probably wouldn't search such a specific title as Marvel's Spider-Man. How is it incredibly vague? No one would really search for the character with that term, it's completely unnatural; and the only other piece of media it refers to is the 2017 TV series. Between them, the video game series is clearly the primary topic. If Marvel's Spider-Man also refers to other things, that's not shown by the current disambiguation page, nor has anyone brought up what else specifically it could refer to. 9ninety (talk) 14:54, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

:::I think the 2017 TV series is actually a potential alternate primary topic. It's far from obscure, garnering around 500 views/day. That in my opinion completely discounts this entire argument on a policy basis, regardless of what I believe about its vagueness. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 15:51, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

::::Even if the TV series is an alternate primary topic, that doesn't means the games still shouldn't be moved to Marvel's Spider-Man (video game) etc. for all the other reasons I've detailed above. It's better than using the year as disambiguation, and a large amount of the cited sources use the full title.

::::Additionally, searching "Marvel's Spider-Man" on Google returns plenty for results for the video games, while I couldn't find anything about the TV series on at least the first 6 pages. 9ninety (talk) 16:51, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

:: "Readers are stupid so we shouldn't use a thing's name for its article title"? Huh? "We don't use the game's title because we aren't a fan wiki"? Huh? This is silly. WP FILM would have a fit if you tried to change Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 film) to {{blue|Dracula (1992 film)}}. It's not the work's name. That one wracks up 50k views a month, so don't think it's "confusing" anyone. — ImaginesTigers (talk) 08:35, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

: I agree that it should be moved to {{blue|Marvel's Spider Man (video game)}}. It's strange to me that we use the full name in the article; have dozens of references using the full name of the game; but insist from a strange procedural perspective to drop an entire word from the title and add the year. Using the full name is clearer, simpler, and will aid people to recognise the game who come from search engines. Really unusual to see Wikipedia out of step in this way. — ImaginesTigers (talk) 08:32, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

:These absolutely should be at "Marvel's..." as both representing the true title as well as the means to include natural disambiguation (at least, that keeps the disambiguation problem between the games and series and not the comic book character and its own franchise). Masem (t) 12:24, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

:I say go ahead and start a move request. Personally, I think the game series should be moved to {{blue|Marvel's Spider-Man}}, and then that article should have a hatnote, saying:

:{{About|the video game series|the first game in the series|Marvel's Spider Man (video game)|the animated series|Marvel's Spider-Man (TV series)|other uses|Spider-Man (disambiguation)}}

:We don't need a disambiguation at Marvel's Spider-Man, because that specific title only refers to those two things, and anything else it could refer to is adequately covered by the regular Spider-Man disambiguation. Obviously the other related articles should be moved in accordance with this convention. silviaASH (inquire within) 12:24, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

:The arguments against "Marvel's" at the old requested moves (at Talk:Spider-Man (2018 video game) and Talk:Spider-Man_(2018_video_game)/Archive_1#Requested_move_14_June_2017) never made a lick of sense to me - people say it's just "branding", and maybe it is, but who cares? We include "branding" all the time elsewhere when it's part of the name (look at the titles of articles on sports stadiums for one obvious case), and "Marvel's" seems both an official and a common name. But I'm not an expert on the series. Note: If you want a successful RM request, I recommend doing some heavy COMMONNAME analysis - e.g. search Google web / books / news with a neutral search like "Insomniac" + "Spider-Man" and then examine how sources call the game. That should give you a hint for if you're on the right track. SnowFire (talk) 16:13, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

::{{reply|SnowFire}} What sold me was just looking at the article titles in the references. — ImaginesTigers (talk) 18:54, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

:Update: I've now started a formal move request, see here. 9ninety (talk) 15:24, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

:Primary topic shouldn't have 'Marvel's' in the name. 199.255.150.243 (talk) 01:54, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

::Why not? Harryhenry1 (talk) 02:03, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

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Hey, the 1.0 bot broke, so they turned it off, and normally when that happens when it comes back there's a giant backlog of updates that come all at once. In this case that's missing, so I think they're just lost. Feel free to add in your own articles if missing if you care! --PresN 16:02, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

:Gonna make a 2 hour lost media YouTube documentary titled "The May 12-24 Articles That Were Never Found" Panini! • 🥪 18:43, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

::I would watch that. (I once watched a 45 minute video essay on elevators in video games) QuicoleJR (talk) 01:31, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

:::The bot run this evening made a super-long post, so I think they've been found now! --PresN 02:08, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

::::Well there goes my view count momentum, thanks a lot. Panini! • 🥪 04:52, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

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Game developer Jes Negrón has been listed on WP:VG/R for a while. in checking the sources, I have become unsure if she actually meets WP:NPERSON, as much coverage about her appears to involve WP:ONEEVENT. As such, the lawsuit she filed may be the notable topic. While she continued to work on indie games, the coverage after the fact appears to be largely about her game "Good Bones" rather than herself necessarily, and I am not sure it is enough to show that Good Bones is notable. The question is whether she should be removed from the list, replaced with the gender discrimination suit itself as a requested article (though it may just be better to spin out Criticism of Riot Games due to the already WP:UNDUE size of the section in their article) or kept due to coverage not mentioned on the list. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 16:54, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

:Definitely against any "Criticism" articles per WP:CSECTION/WP:POVFORK. (I've never understood how "removing a large section in favor of an entire dedicated article" is supposed to fix an WP:UNDUE issue. The issue doesn't go away just by moving it...) Sergecross73 msg me 17:07, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

::In this case it may be better to spin out the discrimination/harassment allegations rather than all criticism, because those have a very outsized amount of discussion in the media. Maybe Riot Games gender discrimination and sexual harassment controversy, though it's a little wordy of a title. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 17:17, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

:::That...doesn't help with any of my concerns above... Sergecross73 msg me 17:26, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

[https://www.gameinformer.com/announcement/2025/05/29/the-game-informer-magazine-archive-expands] thanks in part from the VGHF Masem (t) 17:10, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

Can more experienced editors take a look at the situation at Sokoban? It's pretty far removed from standards expected by this WikiProject's Manual Of Style. MimirIsSmart (talk) 07:38, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

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Looking for any interested editors to help improve the Saeko: Giantess Dating Sim article. In particular, if there are any interested editors proficient in Japanese who can add or translate additional information from Japanese language-sources already in the article or listed as potential sources on the talk page (particularly to expand the reception section with opinions from Japanese reviewers), and/or double-check that all the information already in the article is properly verified by the sources used, it would be a great help. Thanks in advance! silviaASH (inquire within) 05:56, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

File:Information.svg There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Densetsu no Stafy (video game)#Requested move 25 May 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 09:29, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

This article is out of date because it fails to acknowledge update 2 in its entirety, for example it states that the game has 40 characters when due the aforementioned update 2 it now has 48 characters. For evidence There's a 157% speed run of FNAF world where all characters must be collected, which ends up totaling to 48.

I am asking for help to edit this article because I've played the game using game jolts freeware and I needed help with a section and I did not want to use fandom. I don't know how to edit and would like help.FNaF World 2600:1700:7A72:6A10:60A6:B013:8893:4C99 (talk) 04:33, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

:Update, I was somewhat wrong there is one sentence of update 2. It is minimal and I still wish to improve it because others have expressed the same issue. 2600:1700:7A72:6A10:60A6:B013:8893:4C99 (talk) 04:40, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

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:Its a Featured Article. GamerPro64 04:22, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

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Big list today- May 26 is, I assume, when the 1.0 bot found all the articles it had skipped the week before when it was turned off. --PresN 12:15, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Hello, due to a discussion over at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Video games, I was wondering, why should we have the year in the first sentence of video game articles? 1isall (talk) 22:43, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

:It's fine to get more people commenting, but there's already been a lot of discussion and I'm not really sure what else you're really expecting to hear on the matter beyond what's already been said... Sergecross73 msg me 23:47, 3 June 2025 (UTC)