Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gambling
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[edit] Project existence and discussion
While discussion about individual articles is appropriate on the talk pages of those articles, sometimes multiple articles are involved or what is done on one article has style and consistency ramifications on others. This talk page can act as similar to the WikiProject Poker talk page where these sort of general style issues can be discussed. Most of the gambling articles deal with poker, so please use the Poker project talk page when that is more appropriate. The Gambling Project is intended to merely expand the great work already done in the poker area to the rest of the gambling articles of the Wikipedia. 2005 01:19, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
- Great idea, setting this up, 2005. I'm excited that we have a place to look at the "bigger picture".Rray 02:11, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Template for discussion pages
Now that it has been freed up, I created a project template, {{Gambling}}, that can be added to all the gambling articles talk pages. I would suggest that it NOT be added to all the Poker articles, since those already have the Poker Project template, and all discussion about them would be more appropriately handled within the Poker Project. (I just used the graphic and text from the Poker project template, so maybe there could be a better graphic that someone more creative could make someday.) 2005 03:24, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Taking Gambling from a game to a business
There are a number of people over the years that have decided to take the games of chance offered by the casinos and attempt to make money from them rather than just play them for fun and the 'chance' to win. What is it that defines the change? What is it that makes it a business? What is going on in the mind of the person that makes this move? This is the question! -- User:Kendaniel
[edit] Possible tasks
I just wanted to throw out some ideas of some tasks that might be added to the tasks section of the project. Looking for feedback before actually adding them to the project page itself.
- A series of articles describing each blackjack card counting system. (See Card counting.)
- A series of articles describing each different video poker game. (See List of video poker games).
- Expanding the list of articles about gambling websites to include the ones that aren't currently included.
- A series of articles about the different slot machine games available from various manufacturers.
Looking forward to others' input. Rray 03:47, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Project Directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:
- User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory,
- User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory 2,
- User:Badbilltucker/Philosophy and religion Directory,
- User:Badbilltucker/Sports Directory,
- User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory,
- User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory/United States, (note: This page will be retitled to more accurately reflect its contents)
- User:Badbilltucker/History and society directory, and
- User:Badbilltucker/Science directory
and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 21:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now put the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 23:57, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
