MyWiki:WikiProject Pinball/to do

Top-priority article tasks

Nominate improved or new articles for Good Article status (then work towards Featured Article)

Improve

• Sega Pinball, The Addams Family (pinball) and Twilight Zone (pinball)
• Monster Bash (pinball), Attack from Mars, and Revenge from Mars, three of the most popular machines of the last 20 years.

Create

• Missing articles of pinball manufacturers, see List of pinball manufacturers
• A The Pinball Circus article (instead of redirect) . Sources: [1], [2], [3], [4],[5], or an article about the remake Circus Maximus (pinball) when released sources: [6], [7]

Top-priority admin tasks

• Find and cite industry and reviewer sources. The number 1 way to prevent article (especially stub) deletion at WP:AFD is to cite 2 or more RELIABLE sources. There must be some kind of book, magazine, or major online site. It needs to be editorially controlled, i.e. not a wiki or other community-built tertiary source. Some books and magazines can be found online using https://archive.org/ For video games, try the customized search engine at Video Game sources or check a source with the list on that page to see if it is considered reliable.

General article tasks

• Split up any article containing more than one topic into separate articles. Examples include: O. D. Jennings, Stern (game company), Kiss (pinball).
• Expand existing pinball stubs.
• Improve main pinball article.
• Find images to use for existing articles - almost all current articles about a pinball machine include the flyer, many would benefit from photos personally taken of a machine if not already there - in most cases the artwork is still copyrighted so use fair use upload unless you are sure Wikimedia commons is appropriate.
• Create guidance for how many images can be used in an article. The flyer is in almost all articles, and I'm of the opinion that a photo of the entire machine (with or without showing side artwork), one of the playfield, and one of each unique (or first used) playfield feature on that table is suitable if photos are taken (NOT copied from the internet, unless uploaded by the person who has taken them). Additional photos shouldn't replicate what is on the flyer. A single photo of the display to show its layout should be suitable for most games with a LCD, and a few with a DMD.
• Wikilink new articles of pinball machines from List of pinball machines and other appropriate articles.
• Disambiguate (via DAB pages or hatnotes) articles to account for existing pinball articles. Example: Judge Dredd.
• Create more manufacturer articles, with at least 3 sources
• Create more designer/industry-person articles, with at least 3 sources.
• Create more major tournament/league/organization/event articles, with at least 2 sources
• Write more pinball machine articles, but try to create at least start class articles rather than stubs. Use data at IPDB to begin to create new pages, but include more source references; critical (NOT user) reviews are good for this. If needed save as a draft before publishing as an article.
• Lowest priority: Start creating "YEAR in pinball" lists (e.g. 1995 in pinball), and begin changing links appropriately to point to them. Do not create for years without any articles about machines in that year.

General admin tasks

• Develop criteria for "the ideal pinball article". Start with our best articles as models.
• Create a "beginner's guide to making a new pinball machine article" page
• Continue assessing existing articles for quality, importance. Rater can be used to assist with this, but remember its results are only a guide

Completed

A list of completed tasks can be found in the project's archive.

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