Rein Aurre

Help request

{{helpme}} I am currently doing research on gender in Japanese-developed video games vs. US-developed ones, and the first phase of this involved gathering data on all video games developed in Japan that were then released in the US from the Playstation 2 era to the present. Using the Category: "Japanese video game companies" I compiled a list of all games matching those criteria and organized them by developer. I am currently in the process of entering all that information into a database, and I was wondering if/how this could be useful to Wikipedia and what I could do to assist that.

Rein Aurre (talk) 20:55, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestion.

I think that you should ask in appropriate project groups. In the first instance, please post a message on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games. If nothing else, they should be able to point you in the right direction, and you might make useful contacts.

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• Leave a message on my own talk page; OR
• Use a {{helpme}} - please create a new section at the end of your own talk page, put {{helpme}}, and ask your question - remember to 'sign' your name by putting ~~~~ at the end; OR
• Talk to us live, with this or this.

Best wishes,  Chzz  ►  22:39, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Welcome and introduction

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