Talk:Ninja Gaiden (2004 video game)/GA2

GA Review

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I'll be reviewing the article over the next few days. Below you will find the standard GAN criteria, along with a list of issues I have found. As criteria pass, a or will be replaced with a . Below the criteria you'll see a list of issues I've found. Feel free to work on them at any time. I will notify you when I'm done checking over the article. At that time I'll allow the standard one week for fixes to be made.

Criteria

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. Is it reasonably well written?

   A. Prose quality:

   B. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and lists:

2. Is it factually accurate and verifiable?

   A. References to sources:

   B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:

   C. No original research:

3. Is it broad in its coverage?

   A. Major aspects:

   B. Focused:

4. Is it neutral?

   Fair representation without bias:

5. Is it stable?

   No edit wars, etc:

6. Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?

   A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:

   B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:

7. Overall:

   Pass or Fail:

Issues found

• YFor the first three references, ensure that you use the |quote= parameter rather than including the quote in the title.
• YPer WP:LEAD and WP:LEADCITE, anything in the lead should be in the body, and references are not needed in the lead, therefore please move the references out of the lead.
• YPer WP:LAYOUT please combine the two paragraphs in the Ninja Gaiden Sigma and Legacy sections to make one paragraph in each section. Also, please merge the last two paragraphs under the Combat system section
• YGame Informer is a magazine, and thus should be italicized in any prose or references
• YThe reference "Eidos picks up Ninja Gaiden Sigma" is malformed
• YGame Rankings should be GameRankings (no space)
• YConsider adding {{Portal|Video games}} to the top line of the External links section
• YGenuinely asking here, but why is the Ninja Gaiden Black box art necessary? It doesn't seem to offer anything unique to the reader, and likely does not pass WP:NFCC
• YPlease reference the last line in the Ninja Gaiden Sigma section
• YThere are a few dead reference links. If at all possible please replace or archive these.
• YArmchair Empire is an unreliable source per WP:VG/RS
• YOddly IGN's references do not have IGN wikilinked, yet most all other references have their publication linked
• Quotes in the reception section should cite the reviewer. The website/publications (such as IGN) have no mouth to quote from.

Overall this is an exceptional article. Fix the issues found and this is an easy pass. Reviewer: Teancum (talk · contribs) 14:08, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Perfect references are not needed for GAs. The lead can be iether unreferenced or referenced (The presence of citations in the introduction is neither required in every article nor prohibited in any article.). --Niemti (talk) 21:17, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Granted. I've marked the completed issues I saw. Still looking the article over a bit more. Thanks for covering those. --Teancum (talk) 23:51, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

There is some kind of a bug in the table after I removed Sigma content. --Niemti (talk) 04:50, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

[1] is blocked for harmful content. --Niemti (talk) 06:12, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

I've archived the URLs, add the Video games portal and wikilinked all IGN references. All that remains is to cite the reviewer instead of the publication in the Reception section. --Teancum (talk) 13:54, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

It's already done. --Niemti (talk) 14:05, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Oops, sorry about that. You're right. Passing this article! Y✓ Pass --Teancum (talk) 18:07, 12 November 2012 (UTC)