Talk:Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels/GA1

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Reviewer: GamerPro64 (talk) 02:09, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Now, after looking at this article for over a day, I see multiple problems to this article.

There are two dabs in this article here.

There are sections of the article that need referencing.

That's all I have right now, though I am gonna ask for a second opinion on if the article should be quickfailed or not. GamerPro64 (talk) 02:09, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The dablinks have been fixed. Mario777Zelda (talk) 02:36, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I'll offer a second opinion.

I pruned three sources which did not look reliable; two were personal websites and one was a site that allowed users to play The Lost Levels online. The rest of the sources look fine, but source 6 ("Nintendo Power Vol. 52, 1994-08.") needs a page number, author and article title, and both of the Nintendo Power sources need ISBNs.
I'm not quite as certain on the reliability of softpedia, so I tagged it.
I did a quick copy-edit to tighten up some prose and remove some irrelevant info.
I removed pipelinks to years-in-video-gaming articles (such as [[1999|1999 in video gaming]]) as those are in violation of the MoS.
There are large chunks of unsourced information. I tagged everything I saw with {{fact}}. Would it be possible to find a copy of the instruction book to source some of the gameplay mechanics?

This article does look comprehensive enough, but I still think that it needs some fine-tuning before it can be passed as a GA, so I'm failing it for now. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 17:59, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To respond to a couple of TenPoundHammer's remarks, most features, articles, reviews, etc. in Nintendo Power won't have author names as their policy IIRC didn't allow for specific author naming; depending on the context, in all issues before April 2009, the magazine was a house organ, though I consider the coverage of the games in the magazine significant and independent enough to stand on its own as reliable.

Unfortunately, as with most everything on Softpedia, its articles are generally self-published and wouldn't be considered reliable as there is a lack of editorial oversight, reputation, and fact-checking.

To move forward, I believe either GamePro or Electronic Gaming Monthly may have a couple of mentions of this game with regards to the American Super Mario Bros. 2. (I can look that up and possibly provide a copy if anyone requests it as I have both magazines' earliest issues.) Nintendo Power and most of the other gaming magazines around 1993 (when Super Mario All-Stars was released) and 1999 (when Super Mario Bros. Deluxe was released for the Game Boy Color) will have quite a bit more coverage of this game in that context, and I think IIRC Nintendo Power did provide from insightful comparisons between The Lost Levels and the first Super Mario Bros. when they covered All-Stars. Finally, keep looking for sources regarding its Virtual Console release.

Hope that helps out a little bit. –MuZemike 02:52, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]