Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games/Improvement drive

message: I have created a template, based on the Gaming Collaboration of the week voter template, to be used to remind voters for This week's computer and video games improvement drive that they showed support and that their participation in the project would be appreciated. The template's name is  and it produces the following message:
You showed support for This week's computer and video games improvement drive.This week N/A was selected to be improved to featured article status.Hope you can help.
Grumpy Troll (talk) 13:14, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Excuse my ignorance for I had not noticed such a template had already been created under the name . Grumpy Troll (talk) 13:18, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''This week's computer and video games improvement drive'' voter template 

message: I think for articles that we elect in this improvement drive we should make a concerted effort to try and get them to be Featured articles. With the GCOTW, we work on it and then everyone kind of forgets about the article, so it never quite reaches greatness. So I'm thinking that every article we have for this improvement drive should go through this process:
# The improvement drive
# A CVG Peer review
# A Wikipedia:Peer review
# A Featured article candidature
This seems to have worked well for Wario, which was not close to being a featured article not long ago. It had the CVG Peer review, the WP:Peer review, and is now well on it's way of becoming a featured article. I think this process should perhaps be formalised in the description page of this page, or perhaps the general Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer and video games page. In that case, add having a WP:GCOTW to the top of the list.
There seem to be a lot of people helping out in this project now, we have 45 participants listed. I think we can pull this off and increase the number of CVG Featured articles exponentially... Thoughts?? Jacoplane 01:04, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I also think articles picked for this improvement drive we could attempt to push to Featured Article status. As you have said, we are not lacking manpower to do so, with 45 alleged participants in WikiProject Computer and video games. The process you describe is a coherent one, and it would be more so if articles were first picked for the GCOTW, as you suggest. I too believe it should be formalised, as it would remove any ambiguity as to the purpose of each procedure (i.e. GCOTW, IDOTW and Peer review). Overall, I see only advantages to this method of collaboration. Grumpy Troll (talk) 10:07, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm gonna get back on this in a few days. Having some personal issues right now. watch this space. Jacoplane 01:03, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pushing to FA 

message: I want to suggest changing the name of this from "Wikipedia:This week's computer and video games improvement drive" to "Wikipedia:Computer and video games improvement drive".
Update I think we all know where this is going, so we might as well move it right now. Havok (T/C) 20:00, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I moved the page and fixed double redirects. Grumpy Troll (talk) 20:10, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poll: Name change 

message: * Havok (T/C) 18:01, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Yes

message: Why were several nominations removed that were not yet over for voting, such as Escape Velocity (computer game) that I nominated ? — Wackymacs 09:31, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removals 

message: I think a toplevel article like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_%28first_generation%29 would be easy to expand and would generate some more time in the spotlight for the project.--Technosphere83 20:23, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Push for more top level articles?