Talk:Midnight Animal

Midnight Animal was nominated as a Video games good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (March 5, 2024). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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Reviewer: Vrxces (talk · contribs) 07:27, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Great and well-written article about an interesting and controversial mod - I appreciate the work you put into this and it's clear you have a strong article writing style. Unfortunately I feel like this may attract WP:GAFAIL on the basis that it is a long way from satisfying verifiability and breadth of coverage. The article does have some WP:SIGCOV, but the sourcing is not broad. This seems to bedevil a lot of unreleased games that lack the wide coverage of review sources normally given to released games. As such, the article is barely passing notability if so.

There are seven sources:

one is an in-depth retrospective article covering development ([5])
one is an in-depth retrospective article, but mostly a primary interview source ([4])
three seem to be presser-type announcements about the game's upcoming release ([1],[3],[6])
one relates to Hotline Miami and does not add information about the game ([2])
one is a tweet ([7])

This puts it in a place where there is very narrow room in terms of verifying and corroborating the information about the game's development, which forms most of the article. This section is largely paraphrasing the Eurogamer source, or taking Yan's word for what occurred, which is fair in most cases, but it sounds like this was an awkwardly handled and controversial project in the community. This would ordinarily not be a major issue for an article but the circumstances of the game's development seem to really be the only thing making it potentially notable.

Happy to chat if I can help further. Please remember you can always re-nominate at any time. ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 07:27, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]