Wikipedia:WikiProject Gambling

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WP:GAM

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to gambling and the gaming industry. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Scope

To provide a place for editors interested in editing gambling related articles to discuss issues related to those articles, to encourage editors to improve these articles and to organize collaboration on these articles. This includes working to standardize the use of terms and phrases in the various articles.

The project is interested in the following areas:

The practice of gambling
Companies in the gaming industry
Games of chance
Gaming devices

Article alerts

Did you know

30 Oct 2024 – Near-miss effect (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Anonymous1261 (t · c); see discussion

Proposed deletions

07 Nov 2024 – Learn from the Pros (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Donaldd23 (t · c) was redirected to Full Tilt Poker#Full Tilt on television (talk · edit · hist)

Articles to be split

06 Jun 2024 – Atlantic City, New Jersey (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Hurricanehink (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

12 Nov 2024 – Draft:Linebet (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Emely Cooper (t · c) was declined by SafariScribe (t · c) on 13 Nov 2024

Participants

wilkesalex - focusing on related companies and organisations
2005
Rray
toms2866
Kzollman (Kevin Zollman)
Accurizer
Vegaswikian
Roastytoast
rjljr2
Mandermagic
Ernstblumberg
Zul32 - focusing on articles relating to casinos and casino chip collecting
Hazir
Tetobigbro
Yelim suryc
MelbourneStar1
The Gnome
Christopher Connor
Coolguy22468
Risky Trader
Henry Brown
Shane Prendergast
Rob Pullen
KeysNC
James Knight
Bingo Boys
Poker Edd
Peaky76 - mainly concerned with betting on horses
SavageCoco
Clifffonte
Turbo-Larbo - mainly interested in live casino, table games & bonuses
David1768 - mainly concerned with USA Casino law and statistics & live casino blackjack surveys
Surv1v4l1st — mainly interested in table games and US-base casinos
Balintawak – mainly concerned with Native American gaming
Gprscrippers - mainly concerned with lotteries
tekkerstester - mainly concerned with the UK market, and its legal minefield
GA Melbourne - mainly concerned on Australian Casinos and Table Games
Lucky Benjamin - mainly concerned on Canadian Casinos
Simpa - mainly concerned with Europe Gaming
OnlyNano - mainly concerned with cryptocurrency gambling companies (especially European), table games, and e-sports betting
Casablanca Rock – I seem to be drawn to writing about gambling/casinos

Templates

Banner

{{WikiProject Gambling}}

Userbox

For code that can be added to your userpage to create a userbox, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Gambling/Userbox:

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Gambling.
talk | articles | stubs

Barnstar

{{The Gambling Barnstar|put your message here ~~~~|alt}}—an award placed at another users talk page for improving Gambling-related articles.

		The Gambling Barnstar
		put your message here ~~~~

Infobox

{{Infobox Casino}}

Goals

To provide a central location where discussions involving multiple gambling articles can take place.
To improve Wikipedia's coverage of gambling topics in general.
To organize and standardize the basic structure of project articles.
To keep articles free of spam while maintaining quality sources, references and appropriate external linking in project articles.
To generally raise the quality of notes and references in project articles.
The majority of articles within the gambling category are poker articles, which after discussion at the WikiProject Poker are generally structured one way. A goal then is to bring the rest of the gambling articles to a similar quality and style.

Attacks/Spam

Articles recently or generally prone to repeated vandalization or spam.

Tasks

Current collaborations:

Improve an article to FA

Improve an article to A

Help with the Gambling articles needing attention.
Tag the talk pages of Gambling-related articles with the {{WikiProject Gambling}} banner.
The link to the Missouri gambling site is now out of date and needs to be updated.
Japan section reads as though it was written by the gambling industry - quotes of 160% returns are 'citation needed'.

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Stub articles

If you find a stub article that has not yet been marked as a stub, please add the following to the bottom of the article:

{{Gambling-stub}}

Lists

Articles

Wikipedia articles on Gambling

Category:WikiProject Gambling articles

Style

Normally gambling-focused articles can follow the WikiProject Poker style guideline: WP:MSP

Recognized content

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject Gambling}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.