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This page documents templates related to video games.

Contents

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infobox

Main article: Template:Infobox VG
See also: Category:Video game infobox templates

Infobox VG is used by consensus in articles on games that have been or will be released for single or multiple platforms. The image should be game box art and no other non-free (fair use) images should be present.

For console games, the fields engine, media, input, and requirements should generally be omitted. For games with a computer version, it is preferable to populate input, engine, and requirements. Never list a computer game as a "PC" game—list the applicable operating systems instead.

For release dates, use {{vgrelease}}, which creates superscript abbreviations such as:

JP 14 June 2008
NA 14 June 2008
PAL 14 June 2008
EU 14 June 2008
AUS 14 June 2008

Other country codes are listed here.

For ratings, use {{vgratings}}, which creates links such as:

CERO: A
ESRB: Everyone
OFLC: G
PEGI: 3+

See also: Infobox discussion, Project template discussion, Template project, Template project discussion, Release dates.

[edit] Video game year

For dates in video-game related articles where the day-of-year is not known, the year should be linked to "YYYY in video gaming". The {{vgy}} template creates this wikilink easily: {{vgy|2007}} will produce 2007.

[edit] Image tags

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Video Game Images


[edit] Project banner

{{WikiProject Video games}}

Famicom style controller This article is within the scope of WikiProject Video games. For more information, visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
VG To-do:

[edit] Welcome template

A welcome template can be found at {{Vgproj welcome}} that welcomes new users to our project. Add it to the talk pages of new users who have contributed to video-game related articles, using {{subst:Vgproj welcome}} ~~~~.

[edit] VG Requirements

System Requirements
Minimum Recommended
Windows
Operating System Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista
CPU Pentium 4 2.5 GHz (single core) Intel Core 2 Duo Or AMD Athlon 64 X2
Memory 1 GB 2 GB
Hard Drive Space 8 GB of free space
Graphics Hardware DirectX 9.0c compliant card with 128 MB RAM (NVIDIA 6600/ATI X1300 or better, excluding ATI X1550), Must support Pixel Shader 3.0 DirectX 9.0c compliant card with 512 MB RAM (NVIDIA 7900GT or better) or DirectX 10 compliant card (NVIDIA 8600 or better)
Sound Hardware 100% DirectX 9.0c compliant card Sound Blaster X-Fi (Optimized for EAX ADVANCED HD 4.0/5.0 compatible cards)
Network Internet connection required for activation

Use {{VG Requirements}} to provide a table of requirements for a video game for a personal computer system if more space is needed than what is provided by the Infobox template.

[edit] External link templates

Use these templates to link to various CVG databases/websites on the internet:


[edit] Cleanup

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Cleanup
What to type What it makes

{{Gamecleanup}}
Video game article in need of cleanup
 This video game-related article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards or the Video Games project's guidelines.
Video game-related articles should adhere to the Manual of Style and should not contain unverifiable information nor should it have gameplay instructions.
Please replace this tag with {{Gamecleanup|date=June 2008}}.

{{Gameguide}}
Cleanup
 To meet Wikipedia's content policies and video game article guidelines, this article or section may require cleanup.
This article may contain strategy guide material, such as lists of minutiae or a detailed description of how to play the game. Such topics may be copied to a gaming wiki, but afterwards should be removed or rewritten in an encyclopedic style. To copy to a gaming wiki, replace this template with {{copy to gaming wiki}}.

{{Vg-in-universe}}
This video game-related article or section describes an aspect of the game in a primarily in-universe style.
Please rewrite this article or section to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective.

{{Copy to gaming wiki}}
This page or section is a candidate to be copied to a gaming wiki.
Articles on video games should not list minutiae or give a detailed description of how to play the game. Such topics should be copied to a gaming wiki, such as StrategyWiki, Wikia Gaming, or GamerWiki, and then deleted from Wikipedia.
If this article can be edited into an encyclopedic article, please do so and remove this message.

[edit] Stub types

For a generic stub about computer and video games, use {{videogame-stub}}. This will put the article into the Video game stubs category.

For a more specific stub by genre, use:

Or for stubs by company, use:

Other stub types include:

Our daughter projects have also created the {{Poke-stub}} (Pokémon), {{FinalFantasy-stub}}, and {{Warcraft-stub}} templates. These will also put articles into the corresponding stub categories.

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