Talk:Gaming convention

message: I'm pretty sure that with over 34,000 attendees over 3 days last year PAX is the largest Gaming Con in the United States  .  . and that number is expect to more than double this year. Just thought i'd bring that up and see what people think before i bump gencon down to number 2 in the article. --TimeCruiserMike (talk) 07:20, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As you can see below in the Video Game Conventions topic, there was some question about how events like PAX should be classified which never reached a consensus.  While it has some tabletop gaming, PAX's primary focus is video games.  This topic is focused on conventions whose primary activity is some mix of hobby games, and they tend to work differently (as far as I've been able to research from past PAX websites and forum coverage) from PAX.  My questions would be: how different is it, and should that make a difference? -- Parody (talk) 06:42, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  PAX is the largest gaming convention in the States 

message: I'm from Pittsburgh and we were wondering if GAPScon could be removed as it confuses some looking to attend our Pittsburgh, PA GASPcon, which in November 2007 will meet for the 8th time.  We can safely remove GAPScon from the wikipedia list of gaming conventions and I believe we should remove it from the list of gaming conventions.  If you want to contact Ken Grazier, President of GAPS yourself, his contact info is listed under the GAPS page under "News" here: http://www.clubs.psu.edu/up/gaps/
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Kenneth Grazier <->  Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 4:51 PM  
To: Michael Thompson <->  
Michael,
Unfortunately, GAPS has been shrinking so much that it has taken everything we had at the end of last school year to actually set up officers for this year. Unless we get a giant burst of members, which I doubt will happen, then GAPScon at this point and time will not be happening. 
Thank you for this consideration, and if anything changes, I'll be sure to notify you immediately.
Sincerely,
Kenneth Grazier
President of GAPS   —Preceding unsigned comment added by Razzinplant (talk • contribs) 00:32, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GAPScon no More 

message: I think the list of cons is already getting too long. I think we should either replace it with one organized by locale (for the US, by state), or add such a list and keep the current list for cross-reference. Jiawen 06:57, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorting into locales is a very good idea.  Subsorting by general time of the year would be useful too.  Is it time to promote the list to its own page? -- Parody 17:27, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We now have sortable tables in List of science fiction conventions that allow the user to sort by date, location, or category.  Don't let the title throw you off,  we will probably change the name to something more general that better describes it. I think that gaming cons would be a good fit for it. The value obtained is that the user can sort to his home location and see the entire spectrum of cons at his disposal.--Tbmorgan74 03:06, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I like the list style, but I'd like to see a separate list in addition to or instead of having a large unified list of "fan conventions".  A separate list loads and sorts faster (the list is already pretty long) and can have its "genre" column tuned for gaming: miniatures, video games, LARPs, etc.  Also, a lot of gamers don't go to any other kind of con!  Hopefully you won't mind if I steal the idea and donate back an easy-to-merge table of game conventions. :) -- Parody 03:55, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you keep the column definitions exactly the same, it will be very easy to cross copy content from one to the other.  Notice the format of the date codes is important. Also the double pipes || are critical to have exactly the right number to complete the row of cells to allow sorts. Finally I suggest your genre column content include keyword "game" so that if we do copy rows to other tables, the gaming nature of the event is self evident. "RPG" has game in the acronym, so that is self evident. as well as LARP, because there is no other kind of LARP than a role playing game.  But video,miniature, board, trivia, strategy, all would ideally be followed by "game".  In a table of nothing but games, "video" is self evident. but in a list of all cons, "video" could be confused with "movie", or "movie making", or "short films".--Tbmorgan74 15:45, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I figured someone would do a search-and-replace to "game" from everything else when putting data into the unified table, since you haven't defined a way to indicate subgenres. -- Parody 04:49, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I was going to post another topic, but I think this thread is more appropriate... Perhaps the List of gaming conventions part should be split into another article? It's gonna be a very long list and shouldn't lists be in separate articles?Somecrowd (talk) 06:23, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'd intended to create List of gaming conventions but have never had the time.  It's definitely been needed for a while.  If you're up for it, go right ahead. -- Parody (talk) 06:51, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Locale-based list 

message: The article Cold Wars (gaming) was proposed for deletion on 2009-12-14 14:10 for lack of WP:Notability and may be deleted 2009-12-21 14:10 if the WP:PROD remains. Yappy2bhere (talk) 19:48, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Cold Wars (gaming)]] has been proposed for deletion 

message: Con of the North has been redirected to List_of_gaming_conventions#West_North_Central by User:Explodicle in lieu of deletion for lack of WP:Notability. If you can establish the article's notability with additional sources, please undo the edit and add your references to the article. Yappy2bhere (talk) 22:42, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Con of the North]] has been redirected in lieu of deletion 

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