Wikipedia:WikiProject Pinball

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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[edit]

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[edit]

Have a useful resource to share with other editors working on articles related to pinball? Add it here:

Databases[edit]

News[edit]

Manufacturer[edit]

Forums[edit]

History[edit]

Books[edit]

Documentaries[edit]

Museums[edit]

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.

Search[edit]

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Project monitor[edit]

New articles that contain the word pinball[edit]

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: 2024-05-08 21:45 (UTC)

Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.

Cassandra Peterson filmography (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Partyclams (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2024-05-08, score: 10

Game Boy Game Pak (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by RickyCourtney (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2024-05-03, score: 10

Four Twenty Bank (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Another Believer (talk · contribs · new pages (84)) started on 2024-04-30, score: 10
List of African American sportspeople (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Omnis Scientia (talk · contribs · new pages (10)) started on 2024-04-30, score: 10

Full Tilt Ice Cream (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Another Believer (talk · contribs · new pages (84)) started on 2024-04-24, score: 20

Recent changes of everything related to WikiProject Pinball[edit]

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[edit]

an automated pinball cleanup listing

Article alerts[edit]

You can find all Pinball article alerts here and subscribe at the bottom of this page to get informed for example about Pinball articles for deletion or miscellaneous discussions and nominations.

No Article alerts at this time.

Selected new articles[edit]

Here you can announce and add links to new created or expanded pinball related articles.

Assessment[edit]

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	39	40		4	115
Stub	4	13	83	36		4	140
List	2	2		1			5
NA			5	9	98		112
Assessed	19	43	141	100	98	8	409
Total	19	43	141	100	98	8	409
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 1,528			Ω = 5.23

Participants[edit]

This user is a participant in WikiProject Pinball

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.