Talk:Analog Game Studies Journal

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Preparing this Article for Approval

As a peer reviewed academic journal that is open access, Analog Game Studies reaches out to scholarly, industry, and fan audiences. Wikipedia makes sense as a place that all three groups go for information about this resource. It also offers a justification and explanation of Games Studies in general,

The objections flagged for the draft are:

• Notability: See Notability (academic journals)
  • I think some of this can be addressed by leaning into the scholarly aspects of the journal and bringing up more on Games Studies.
• Self-Promotional: See Advertisements masquerading as articles
  • I think a lot of this is addressed by the References to outside sources.This can perhaps be noted more in the body of the text, but I think a lot of this has been addressed.

Here are some examples of other academic journals:

• Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
  • Only a stub. Flagged as possibly not meeting Wikipedia's general notability guideline. It has an introduction and very short history. Its Bibliography box (I know there is a better term but this is what has stuck in my brain) is really well filled out. I wonder how much a JSTOR and Project Muse listing help here. Two of its three references are to the journals it evolved out of.
  • Take Away to apply here: If there are other indexing information, add them. If there is an image, add that too, but most of all, lean more in to the academic studies tags under Discipline
• Critical Inquiry
  • Another stub. The only flag is questioning the fair use of an image. It probably was not flagged for notability or self-promotion because of the links to other Wikipedia entries and the NYT reference.
• Games and Culture
  • I really like how brief this is but still emphasizes what it does. It along with DHQ are models I am using for my first revisions. If we can do Abstracting and indexing or impact factors, that would be great.
• DHQ
  • This is a good attainable model for now. Note how the intro is brief but still highlights the main points of it. This is what I am going to try for in my edits to the entry.
• Organization for Transformative Works and Culture
  • This is a good model to emulate in the future. I think the "Services and platforms" section would be a good model for including Generation Analog.

FaulkTest (talk) 16:51, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Red Analog Games

This link currently leads to nowhere. Is there another term that can substitute here? Otherwise, there should be brief definition. FaulkTest (talk) 16:56, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Open Access Journals

When this is approved, we should probably add this (and some others like Transformative Works and Culture) to the List of Open Access Journals.

There currently isn't a media studies section, so we should perhaps create one or join the existing Humanities one. FaulkTest (talk) 17:05, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Defining Analog

The definition of analog as in analog games does not seem to be on Wikipedia. Here is the current entry for the ways Wikipedia defines the term. FaulkTest (talk) 17:18, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Took a stab at this but others can make it better FaulkTest (talk) 17:40, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Added "Topics Covered" - Please improve it

I am listing some of the topics covered that was originally listed in the introduction. I think this section is needed, but I am not happy with the list or the heading title. FaulkTest (talk) 17:21, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question: Abstract and Indexing; Funding

Does anyone have info on these topics or the willingness to look it up? Impact factors (while I personally don't particularly like) are also useful in this kind of article FaulkTest (talk) 17:35, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Publisher after the first 5 volumes?

The first 5 volumes were published through ETC Press. What is the status now? FaulkTest (talk) 17:38, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind

I realized that the current publisher is Play Story Press Consortium (yes, I know this was in the original draft, but I missed it) FaulkTest (talk) 18:10, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Adding DJA: are there other awards?

Added the Diana Jones Award nomination If there are others, we should add them FaulkTest (talk) 17:56, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Books

How these are published an what makes them accessible would be good to add here. FaulkTest (talk) 18:04, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Add more external links

This can be the YouTube channel and Games in Lab to start FaulkTest (talk) 18:06, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested Projects to Join

Projects this could be added to (as advised after an earlier submission attempt):

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Board_and_table_games
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Role-playing_games
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Academic_Journals

FaulkTest (talk) 18:13, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

These are highlighted above, but I wanted to flag it again. FaulkTest (talk) 18:14, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

gng now satisfied, moving

I've added several academic sources that satisfy the notability requirement for academic journals: Criterion 1: The journal is considered by reliable sources to be influential in its subject area. Criterion 2: The journal is frequently cited by other reliable sources. Criterion 3: The journal is historically important in its subject area. AugusteBlanqui (talk) 14:58, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]