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Want to Make the BGG Database as Complete as Possible? Here's Your Chance...

Want to Make the BGG Database as Complete as Possible? Here's Your Chance...
From gallery of W Eric Martin
In my role as editor of BGG News, I run across many, many new games that are not in the BGG database. As an obsessive completist, this makes me sad. While I add some of these games to the database – typically when I'm writing a news item that references them – I'm unable to keep up with the flow of new games, especially when information about the games isn't in English. I can handle French and German to some degree, and Google Translate is an awesome pal to have at your side, but still – the games, the games! They keep coming!!

Thus, I've created a Geeklist in which I plan to dump basic info about games that I run across in one manner or another, with the hope (oh, please please please) that someone will want to follow up on the bare bones info to find out enough about a game to submit it. The Geeklist in question: Add These Games to the BGG Database!

In addition to games that need individual pages, I'll post other projects that enterprising BGGers might want to take on.

I've previously tried to outsource such work on a separate BGG blog – Not Necessarily the News – but I think it makes more sense to post such information in a Geeklist format as I can add new titles more easily, follow comments from others, remove titles that have been processed, and otherwise keep it up-to-date – or as up-to-date as I can make it given all those blamed games that keep coming out!

Thanks much for any help you choose to provide!

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