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Former good article nomineeSaints Row 2 was a Video games good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
November 17, 2009Good article nomineeNot listed

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Saints Row 2/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
  • Several statements have multiple references after them. While that's acceptable, two is more than enough, and is only needed when the statement may be disputed by the reader. I counted 10 statements with 3+ refs, and one that had six. Trim them down. 200+ refs is nice, but if you can verify everything in 150 or less that's even better.
  • Several references simply re-hash what is stated in others. No need for extra references if you can do it in less.
  • The first two refs need formatting in the same manner as all the others
  • The image Saintsrowgunpack.jpg needs better rationale in general. 939458 20080212 screen003-1-.jpg, Saints Row 2 combat.jpg, and Saints Row 2 BASE jumping.jpg should actually link to the Gamespot image rather than just "image is from Gamespot". 939458 20080212 screen003-1-.jpg should be renamed per the warning on its page.
  • The sentence "An array of popular film and television stars voice characters within the game, such as Michael Rapaport, Neil Patrick Harris, Michael Dorn, Eliza Dushku, Jaime Pressly, Daniel Dae Kim, Jay Mohr and Keith David." needs to be trimmed. "Such as" shouldn't be a long list, but a list of 3-4 big names. The sentence "Musical artists such as a-ha, Avenged Sevenfold, Culture Club, Duran Duran, Hot Chip, Jet, Joss Stone, Kasabian, Lamb of God, Mastodon, Men at Work, MSTRKRFT, My Chemical Romance, Nas, Ne-Yo, Opeth, Panic at the Disco, Paramore, Run-D.M.C., Tears for Fears, Trivium and Wolfmother have some of their works featured in the game." falls under the same category.
  • Check for multiple wikilinks of the same words, such as protagonist and Terra Patrick. Additionally, check to make sure the wikilink appears the first time a user reads the word (protagonist is used twice before wikilinking)

Failed - consider relisting once all of these issues are repaired

Reviewer: Teancum (talk) 13:56, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Copy + Paste

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This article has just been copy and pasted from a press release

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Five years

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The article states 3 times that the game takes place five years after Saints Row 2. The article was vandalised in November by an anon user on their first edit to change one instance of "five years" to "two years", while the other two instance were left.

The official game description says five years. The official game website said five years.

Here is the article on the date of release, which references Saints Row website at that time: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saints_Row_2&oldid=245126125 The reference was added on 26 September 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saints_Row_2&diff=prev&oldid=241119190

When the Saints Row website was updated for Saints Row: The Third, the Saints Row 2 website was moved to sr2.saintsrow.com where it remained at least until 2013: http://web.archive.org/web/20130101032015/http://sr2.saintsrow.com:80/age_gate.php I personally witnessed the Saints Row 2 website in 2011, before it was taken down.

There are a variety of websites and store pages which still use the Official Game Description.

Here are a variety of contemporaneous articles about Saints Row 2 which repeat "five years":

I have restored the original reference, as well as adding a link to the google results of the official game description. I'll leave it to a more experienced wikipedia editor to select the best quality reference from the list of contemporaneous articles.

User452 (talk) 18:10, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, here are two different archived versions of the publisher's store page:
User452 (talk) 19:13, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I see that my request for a more experienced wikipedia editor to update the reference has been fulfilled... while breaking Wikipedia's policy regarding snide comments in edit summaries: Help:Edit_summary#What_to_avoid_in_edit_summaries, Wikipedia:Civility#Edit_summary_dos_and_don'ts
I never claimed that "google search results are a reliable source": I explicitly requested that the reference be replaced.
User452 (talk) 17:26, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
There's nothing really incivil or snide about that edit note. It's a direct simple statement about Google's reliability. If you mean FCOL, people are allowed to voice mild frustration. That edit is months after this talk page section, and likely the individual never even read the talk page, simply responded to a recent article edit. Besides, where do you come off trying to claim this is incivil when you made THIS edit? -- ferret (talk) 17:39, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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