This page documents templates related to games. Note that infobox templates shown below are examples, purely for demonstration purposes. Therefore some information has been omitted to reduce the size of the template transclusion on this page.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Games, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.GamesWikipedia:WikiProject GamesTemplate:WikiProject GamesGames
Tag the talk pages all WikiProject Games related articles and project subpages with this template. It will automatically add the page to Category:WikiProject Games articles.
Hi WikiProject Games! You are receiving this message because we've noticed your excellent edits on games-related articles. We need your help at the Games WikiProject! There is much work to do, so please head over to the project page and help us enhance and increase the coverage of game related articles on Wikipedia!
A welcome template 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:WWGame Welcome}} --~~~~.
Infobox game should be used in all game articles where the infobox will ADD to the quality of the article. Do NOT add an infobox to an article simply for the sake of it. The infobox image used should be relevant to the game. Avoid images that include people unless absolutely needed. Make sure that the image used comply with the Wikipedia image use policy.
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 template creates this wikilink easily: {{vgy|2007}} will automatically produce the year and create a link to the appropriate article.
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
Provides 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.
This image is cover art for a video game, and its copyright is most likely held by the game's publisher or developer. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of game cover art
Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
Additionally, please specify at least one platform in the first parameter. See usage below.
To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.
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This image is a copyright-protected computer icon of a computer program. It is believed that the exhibition of icons to
illustrate or identify the computer software in question
where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information,
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,
Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
This tag should only be used for computer icons, do not use for other purposes.
To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.
Use of the logo here does not imply endorsement of the organization by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor vice versa.
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To the uploader:
Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
Please do not use this template to tag non-free icons of computer software. Such items should be tagged with {{Non-free computer icon}} template.
Regarding uses other than in the original article: Check the non-free use criteria and do not assume that existing rationales can be simply copied and pasted, as they may not necessarily apply.
To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.
This image is a screenshot from a video game, and its copyright is most likely held by the game's publisher or developer. It is believed that the use of low-resolution screenshots
Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
Additionally, please specify at least one platform in the first parameter. See usage below.
To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.
{{videogame-hardware-stub}} (computer/video game hardware element, such as an arcade board or a gamepad)
{{videogame-software-stub}} (computer/video game software element, such as a 3d engine or a gameplay editor)
Our daughter projects have also created the {{Pokémon-stub}} (Pokémon), {{FinalFantasy-stub}}, and {{Warcraft-stub}} templates. These will also put articles into the corresponding stub categories.
WikiProject Games
