Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Board and table games

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Lexicant#Requested move 5 April 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Valorrr (lets chat) 03:02, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request to create a page for a Miniatures Game

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Hi there, I was advised to seek an editor here. I would like to create an article page for a Historical Miniatures Game called Blood & Plunder by the publisher Firelock Games. Since I work for the company, I was told there is a COI clause in wikipedia therefore it's best to seek an editor here to do the job instead of doing it myself.
I do, however, have plenty of references to the game in the form of Articles, Reviews and Youtube videos. I hope I posted in the right place.
Thank you in advanced to whomever takes interest in this request. Blundermonkey (talk) 15:14, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for reaching out! I'm willing to look into this game and check out at any references you have. I did some quick searching and found a couple of promising things, so I'll start a draft, but I cannot guarantee anything. Feel free to contact me here or at my talk page. Salem Ander (talk) 23:08, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Salem Ander If you could link all the sources you found, it would help. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:06, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I published Blood & Plunder as an article but anything you can add to it would be great. Blundermonkey gave me this list of sources and I also found these two magazine articles: Irregular, Wargames Soldiers and Strategy Salem Ander (talk) 12:46, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Salem Ander Looks ok-ish for now (feel free to nominate it for front page exposure, see WP:DYK). Would be good to expand reception, if there's any more non-social media/self-published coverage. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:21, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please add reliable sources to this article. Bearian (talk) 23:42, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Bearian There's already a template for it. If you think the article has been ignored for too long and fails inclusion criteria, including WP:V/WP:OR, WP:AFD can be started at any time. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:05, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If I bluntly say I'm warning you that I'm going to AfD, then I'll get flamed out on my talk page —but yes. Bearian (talk) 09:52, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Bearian Not by me... sorry you had to face some inclusionist wrath - if they cross the rules, bring them to AN. Or tell me, I don't mind being a busy body and giving someone a warning for violating WP:CIV/WP:NPA. In either case, I'll likely support deletion - I just did BEFORE on this and got nothing except blogs and social media, so this fails WP:V and WP:GNG IMHO. Also, likely WP:COI issue - creator is one User:Bob Cordery, inactive since 2010, while the article stays "developed by Tim Gow (with the assistance of Bob Cordery)". Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:24, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Monopoly in video games#Requested move 14 July 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPathtalk 04:56, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Potential biographies for industry people who are no longer with us

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I found a pair of threads on BGG several months ago that lists anyone involved in tabletop game design or art who has died: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/33218/gaming-icons-rip?page=13 (up through 2019) and https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/350035/gaming-icons-rip-since-the-year-2020 (for 2020 and beyond). It is incredibly useful! It does list ordinary forum members too, as well as designers of non-commercial games, game and toy company executives (except for some cases with hobby game companies), game show hosts, chess players, poker and bridge and other card game players, go and backgammon and other board game players, authors whose books or directors whose films were adapted into or inspired games, and other people that are really outside of the scope of Wikipedia's interest in tabletop gaming. :) So maybe close to half of it does contain people we could cover if they are found to be notable!

(You may of course peruse these threads yourself to see if I actually did miss anyone worth looking at! I did skip a lot of people that designed only one or two games, or appeared to have other very short or incidental gaming careers.)

I went through the list and found quite a few people that do not have articles, so I am of course wondering if any of them *should* have articles. Can we find the sources to do something with any of these folks? I started at 1970 because, honestly the games I work with would not likely involve people who died before 1970, and also because 1970 in games is the oldest article in that set. :)

I mostly avoided people who are listed as only designing one or two games, unless those games were particularly popular and enduring over time. I also largely avoided artists whose work had generally been reproduced from other sources or through licensing arrangements.

Any blue links you see are just straight redirects. I have been working on my own project related to bio articles, trying to restore and build up abandoned drafts, redirected articles and deleted articles, but I did not include any of those here.

I know that most of these subjects are probably not suitable for articles, but I bet that a few of them are! Certainly they are not bound by any WP:BLP restrictions, although we do need sources for notability. What can we find?

BOZ (talk) 01:13, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Card games capitalization inconsistencies

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Is there a justification for articles like Poker, Pinochle, and Contract bridge to treat their subjects as common nouns, not capitalized but for Skat (card game), History of Skat, and Euchre to consistently capitalize the names of those respective games? In the same vein, I note that in some cases both the rank and suit of cards is capitalized, even inconsistently so within the Skat and Euchre articles, at the least: "Ten", "Jack", "Ace". I don't see that any of these should be capitalized when not at the beginning of a sentence. Should these all be changed? Largoplazo (talk) 16:49, 20 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Largoplazo I'm not sure about card games, but at least for the cards themselves, I think we should follow the MOS of both:
that is, the ranks and suits should be lowercase Planettop92 (talk) 04:00, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]