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The Visual novels task force is an organized task force dedicated to organize, expand, clean up, and guide articles related to Japanese visual novels. To indicate that an article falls within the scope of this work group, please add "|tf=Visual novels" to the {{vgproj}} talk page template. For example, {{vgproj|tf=Visual novels}}. You can also add this to the talk page of images, categories, and templates.

If you would like to participate, add yourself to the members section of this page. Help out by editing visual novel-related articles, making positive changes towards the goals outlined, or contributing to the discussion on one of our related talk pages. If you would like to add some suggestions, ask on the talk page.

You may also be interested in joining WikiProject Anime and manga, which is dedicated to all anime and manga articles on Wikipedia.

Contents

[edit] Article guidelines

For more details on this topic, see the CVG Article guidelines

Besides the usual policies and guidelines, please make sure you are aware of the specific guidelines related to video game-related articles. Also ensure that you are familiar with the following topics:

  1. The five pillars of Wikipedia: a quick rundown of the 5 key rules you need to start editing.
  2. Simplified ruleset: 16 rules of thumb to help you avoid problems.
  3. List of policies: A comprehensive list of the 42 official policies with very quick summaries.

[edit] Project overview

[edit] Goals

  1. Create any and all articles related to visual novels that have not yet been created.
  2. To craft well-written and properly organized visual novel articles and subsequent character articles of characters featured in visual novels.

[edit] Scope

The scope of the project is that of articles which consist entirely of, or directly relate to, the Japanese original or English adapted form of:

  • Visual novels, interactive fiction games featuring mostly static graphics, usually with anime-style art. Created in Japanese and originally intended for the Japanese audience. This includes visual novels produced outside of Japan (for instance by a Korean visual novel studio) created for the Japanese market.
  • Characters from visual novels.
  • Additional merchandise from visual novels, not including visual novels that have been made into anime or manga; see WikiProject Anime and manga for details.
  • Companies and staff of those companies that produce visual novels and companies that produce licensed English translations of visual novels.
  • Visual novel terminologies.
  • Websites that provide reference material relating to visual novels.
  • Other visual novel-like games such as sound novels, dating sims, and kinetic novels

The following are not within the scope of this WikiProject when used seperately from any of the above:

  • Visual novels inspired from their Japanese counterparts originally intended for an audience other than Japanese. Example: Sprung.

[edit] Participants

User WP Visual novels
VN This user is a member of the Visual novels task force under WikiProject Video games.


A list of participants can be found at Category:Visual novels task force participants.

Technically speaking, anyone who edits or contributes to visual novel articles is a participant, and there are no requirements other than that. If one wishes, they can further identify themselves with the project by listing their name as a participant. This helps spread the word about the project and can help other editors see what types of articles that user is interested in editing.

To add yourself to the project listing add the following to your user page.

[[Category:Visual novels task force participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

Or, if you wish to use the userbox, add {{User:Juhachi/User WP Visual novels}} to your user page instead as it includes the above wikicode.

[edit] Visual novels played

This is a list of visual novels that our members haved played, or at least have in their possession. It is an attempt to see which games our members have first-hand experience with, and thus which articles we have the best chance of bringing up to good or better status. Please add your own visual novels to the list, followed by your username.

The list can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Visual novels/played.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Parent WikiProject

In addition to the above guidelines and recommendations, follow the guidelines and recommendations of the "parent" WikiProject when they apply:

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

Even if not directly visual novel-related, the following WikiProjects may contain useful information that you can use:

[edit] Recognized articles

[edit] Peer review

[edit] Good articles

The following articles reached Good Article status and should be used as references for work on other articles in order to bring them up to GA level.

[edit] Related content

[edit] Categories

[edit] Templates

[edit] Resources

  • Famitsu.com - Famitsu is helpful in console-ported visual novel reviews. (Japanese)
  • Getchu.com - Helpful in visual novel sales information. (Japanese)
  • PC News game rankings - National sales rankings for PC games in Japan. Note that the dates in the links are for the issue the information was in, not the dates for the sales ranking, so you should look in the issue about a month after the game's release date. The ranking operated between December 2000 until March 2007. (Japanese)
  • Visual-novels.net - This website has news pertaining to visual novels straight from Japan and visual novels that are being fantranslated into English. The website also reviews visual novels.