Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/The 1000 Challenge

Aiming to reach 1000 article improvements and creations video games long term from general independent article contribution, based on the Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. All editors from WikiProject Video Games and elsewhere are encouraged to contribute towards this as I think seeing 1000 article improvements/creations on one list would really be worth working towards long term and help build esteem on English Wikipedia, to really show what progress we're making. Anybody can contribute any article to video games, from biographies to development and video games themselves, so please feel free to add to this list independently whenever you feel like it and if you have worked on an article related to WP:VG's scope. Article cleanup and basic referencing improvements, expansions, new articles, DYKs, Good Articles, Featured Articles etc, are all welcome. The general focus is on quality, expansions or minimum start class articles are preferred, but meatier stubs provided that they are well-sourced and useful are also welcome.

Note that this 1000 Challenge is not a contest in itself. It's too early to talk about contests, but if support and participation in this took off there's always the possibility of involving other areas of the video game project and staging some potential contests to fuel production on this and even surpass 1000 articles. Overall the main aim with this is to improve existing articles and make new articles consistently of reasonable quality. It would be appreciated if people could help spread the word on this, invite potential contributors who often work on articles related to the project and we can see what can be achieved.

• Improve the quality of existing articles related to video games, and to encourage more editors to improve general article quality and sourcing. Try to ensure that no article created or existing is unsourced, and try to ensure that every article has no unsourced statements and that Wikipedia:Citations are neatly drawn up and consistently formatted. The most important goal of the challenge is to try to see an overall improvement in quality and more consistency in articles in any category.
• To encourage the creation of missing content and build a highly comprehensive coverage of video games on the English Wikipedia.
• To make existing articles on video games consistently of a minimum quality, with the ultimate goal of having 75% of articles covered by WP:VG Start-Class or better.
• Help cleanup existing articles, particularly stubs or high importance Start-Class articles.
• To generate a strong momentum for video game-orientated contests/editathons which fuel growth and attract people to develop articles which might not otherwise get much attention.
• If this challenge is successful, there might be the possibility of WMF funded contests like Wikipedia:WikiProject Video Games/The Video Game De-Stubathon or Wikipedia:WikiProject Video Games/The Video Game Core Contest. Similarly funded contests like Awaken the Dragon and the The West Country Challenge have proved to have been very successful in improving a large range of articles rapidly, but we'll see how this goes first.

See

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Backlog
• Category:Stub-Class video game articles

1. JAGUAR  17:20, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
2. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:38, 23 October 2016 (UTC) Not really into video games any longer haha but I'll certainly help with the framework or GA reviewing if I can.[reply]
3. Anarchyte (work | talk) 21:20, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
4. — Gestrid (talk) 23:19, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
5. Sergecross73 msg me 18:14, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
6. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 00:24, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
7. Satellizer el Bridget ^(Talk), mainly focusing on creating and expanding articles on Japan-only video games as 1) it's fun and 2) solves WP:BIAS.
8. samspadeaus
9. Quance
10. Cognissonance
11. JTP ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:32, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
12. Dissident93 ^(talk) 19:38, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
13. Bryn (talk) (contributions) 00:10, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
14. Namcokid47 (talk) 03:34, 11 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
15. Roberth Martinez (talk) 23:29, 11 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
16. Lxxl (talk) 04:07, 7 September 2019 (UTC) Mainly CS:GO related articles[reply]
17. MrCheese76 (talk) 03:42, 7 September 2019 (UTC) Mostly esports articles, but willing to do almost anything[reply]
18. CentreLeftRight ✉ 04:09, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Invite

Use the following templates to invite:

• {{subst:WikiProject Video Games/The 1000 Challenge Invite}}

Please list articles you have improved here, place newer entries at the bottom of the list. You are free to list any article you wish related to video games. State whether it's a new article/stub/a destubbing, an article cleanup/expansion/ref improvement, Good/Featured Article etc, and credit yourself after it. Add entries to the list below with a # so the numbers will count. See the article list on the original 10,000 Challenge for how to list correctly. I hope that people can focus a lot on improving existing article quality on this, destubbing and cleanup, not just new articles. Please try to ensure that all entries are sourced with formatted citations and that there are no unsourced claims. Don't worry about italicising titles!