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WP:PINBALL

Welcome to WikiProject Pinball, a WikiProject formed to become a source for improved Wikipedia coverage of the great pastime of pinball. Please consider participating if you have any interest in the game and wish to help us help Wikipedia cover this great game.

Goals and scope

Circus by Bally 1973

Goals

Make Wikipedia a quality source for information about pinball.
Create guidelines for articles about pinball, to improve article consistency and make article creation and editing easier.

Scope

Arcade pinball machines, notable home (small-scale) pinball machines, video game pinball simulators, pinball-related devices or equipment.
Individual biographies with a strong association with pinball, including those of pinball developers, designers, artists, champions, etc.
Companies, organizations, publications and other non-individuals with a strong association with pinball
Games ancestral or closely related to pinball, including pachinko and bagatelle (some of which may also be within the scope of WP:WikiProject Cue sports)
Video simulation games of pinball (also within the scope of WP:WikiProject Video Games)
All articles with a strong association with pinball, even if it is not the primary topic of the article, which may be within the scope of other projects as well (e.g., Tommy (rock opera)).

Sources for Pinball information

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Databases

News

Manufacturer

Forums

History

Wonderland Arcade, 1200 Grand Ave. Kansas City, Missouri in 1968

Books

Documentaries

Museums

A row of pinball machines at the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Pacific Pinball Museum, a museum in Oakland, California
Pinball Hall of Fame, a museum located in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Museum of Pinball, formerly the world’s largest pinball museum with over 500 vintage and modern pinball machines in Banning, California.
Silverball Museum, a museum located in New Jersey and Florida.
Seattle Pinball Museum, a museum located in Seattle.
Paris Pinball Museum, a museum located in Paris, France.
Pinball Museum Solothurn, a museum located in Solothurn, Switzerland.
German pinball museum, a museum in Neuwied, Germany.
Pinball museum Schwerin, a museum in Schwerin, Germany.
Vintage Flipper World, a museum in Ann Arbor, MI.

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Project monitor

New articles that contain the word pinball

This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.

Rules | Match log | Results page (for watching) | Last updated: 2024-11-21 22:09 (UTC)

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Tom Hall (poker player) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by PsychoticIncall (talk · contribs · new pages (9)) started on 2024-11-20, score: 10

Lina Canalejas (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Tajotep (talk · contribs · new pages (6)) started on 2024-11-18, score: 20
Template:111th Grey Cup (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by Cmm3 (talk · contribs · new pages (14)) started on 2024-11-19, score: 10

Draft:List of Embracer Group IP (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by 169.224.12.128 (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2024-11-16, score: 10

Helene Udy (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Ii-167xxx (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2024-11-16, score: 10

Pinball Builder (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Timur9008 (talk · contribs · new pages (3)) started on 2024-11-13, score: 20

Recent changes of everything related to WikiProject Pinball

An automated project watchlist of recent pinball related edits. Note: Some edits may not be relevant to this project.

Bot-generated list of articles needing cleanup

an automated pinball cleanup listing

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Selected new articles

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Assessment

Pinball machines at the Pacific Pinball Museum

Pinball articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1		1			2
GA		1	1	6			8
B	3	2	4	2			11
C	2		9	5			16
Start	8	24	41	42		4	119
Stub	4	13	81	35		4	137
List	2	2		1			5
NA			5	9	109		123
Assessed	19	43	141	101	109	8	421
Total	19	43	141	101	109	8	421
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 1,530			Ω = 5.22

Participants

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Feel free to sign up as a participant in this project, and add yourself manually or with the userbox {{User WikiProject Pinball}} to Category:WikiProject Pinball participants. Any help is very welcome. :) Feel also free to make suggestions or ask questions on the project's talk page.

Fractalchez - Longtime pinball player and enthusiast, current league & tournament organizer
DuoDeathscyther 02 - Casual pinball player; created or improved these pinball articles
David Pro - Longtime pinball player and enthusiast, has created these pinball articles
Rich Fife - Longtime collector and enthusiast.
SarahStierch long time pinball enthusiast and will lend a hand when possible to articles (especially the pinball article itself.
VMzB - 8-bit era veteran, especially interested in the electronic guts of pinball machines (and some arcade games) and their repair. Imho IPDB is a great resource and we should try to refer to it, or even establish automatic data transfer.

Open tasks

Key articles

Twilight Zone pinball machine

General

Games

Companies

People

Technologies

Pinball 2000

Video game simulations

Digital preservation & creation

Templates

Relation to other WikiProjects

Parent project

WikiProject Games

Related projects

WikiProject Cue sports (pinball ultimately derives from billiards, by way of games like bagatelle and bar billiards)
WikiProject Video games (electronic arcade games, the original video games, were an outgrowth of pinball)