Welcome to theVideo games WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! We are agroup dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related tovideo games.
We welcome everyone who wishes to improvevideo game articles. You don't need to formally join our project in order to contribute, but feel free to indicate your participation by addingour userbox,advert ortop icon to your user page. Members are welcome to join our project chat on the unofficial WikimediaDiscord server; please seeWP:Discord for more information.
New users who have contributed to video game related articles can be informed about this project by adding the{{vgproj welcome}} template to their talk pages.
Video Game Barnstar
Members of our project may like to reward other users with abarnstar. The project features the Video Games Barnstar:{{subst:VG Barnstar|text on award. ~~~~}}Userbox andribbon alternatives are also available.
Editing Practices
Make sure you are familiar with the following pages:
Theassessment department evaluates the quality and importance of video game related articles.
Theessential articles page identifies the most important topics in the scope of this WikiProject.
Thereference library is an archive of high-quality sources that may be used to support development history, critical reception, and other sections of articles.
We havetask forces within our project that provide centralized information and discussion for topics that have a sufficiently large scope, but would not benefit from having a separate WikiProject with all of the associated bureaucracy.
All pages linked to by this page may be monitored from theproject watchlist.
Thetemplates page lists all templates useful in writing articles related to video games, including infobox, cleanup, stub, talk page, and external links templates.
Statistics on the articles in this project's scope are available.
27 Nov 2025 –CSPromod(talk · edit · hist) was PRODed byVrxces(t · c):Non-notable game modification. Barely any citations and no coverage from reliable sources.
24 Nov 2025 –Nathalie Cook(talk · edit · hist) was PRODed byAcrom12(t · c):Fails WP:GNG. The subject lacks significant coverage in independent, reliable secondary sources. ↵The only available sources provide trivial or passing mention, and one is a fansite. ↵No in-depth biographical coverage exists to establish notability. ...
Thedeletion subpage lists video game-related articles that have been nominated for deletion, and invites users to join the discussion process.
Thenew article announcements subpage lists video game-related articles that have been created recently. An automated list of new video game-related articles can be foundhere.
Therequests subpage lists video game-related articles whose creation has been requested.
The following video game-related articles have been deemedGood Articles, which places them one tier below Featured Articles. An automated, uncategorized list of good and featured content can be foundhere. This page also includesGood Topics, collections of Good Articles.
The top of the page lists the content that is under review, either to obtain or keep a Good quality rating.