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Did You Know Article milestones
DateProcessResult
August 31, 2020Good article nomineeListed
January 26, 2022Peer reviewReviewed
March 24, 2022Featured article candidatePromoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 19, 2020.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the game developer Toys for Bob created Star Control after its founders Fred Ford and Paul Reiche met at Starflight creator Greg Johnson's house for a game night?
Current status: Featured article

Tony Hawk Games Wiki

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Help is needed at the Tony Hawk Games Wiki, which can be found here. It is very lonely. There are only about 3 users on there. If anyone of you join, and have questions, please see this user page. --98.148.171.15 (talk) 00:28, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pandemonium 3

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Could the project they're working on be the third installment of the Pandemonium franchise? Or perhaps a remake of the first in current-gen graphics?--ThePhantasos (talk) 16:01, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Current Project as of Spring 2010

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That quote from the IRC chat was taken at a time when TFB was working on Madagascar 2. As of right now, they are very likely not working on a sequel to any of their previous titles. --99.72.240.102 (talk) 21:15, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs) 16:23, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]


Hello, I am planning on reviewing this article for GA Status, over the next couple of days. Thank you for nominating the article for GA status. I hope I will learn some new information, and that my feedback is helpful.

If nominators or editors could refrain from updating the particular section that I am updating until it is complete, I would appreciate it to remove a edit conflict. Please address concerns in the section that has been completed above (If I've raised concerns up to references, feel free to comment on things like the lede.)

I generally provide an overview of things I read through the article on a first glance. Then do a thorough sweep of the article after the feedback is addressed. After this, I will present the pass/failure. I will use strikethrough tags when concerns are met. Even if something is obvious why my concern is met, please leave a message as courtesy.

Best of luck! you can also use the {{done}} tag to state when something is addressed. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs)

Please let me know after the review is done, if you were happy with the review! Obviously this is regarding the article's quality, however, I want to be happy and civil to all, so let me know if I have done a good job, regardless of the article's outcome.

Immediate Failures

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  • It is a long way from meeting any one of the six good article criteria -
  • It contains copyright infringements -
  • It has, or needs, cleanup banners that are unquestionably still valid. These include{{cleanup}}, {{POV}}, {{unreferenced}} or large numbers of {{citation needed}}, {{clarify}}, or similar tags. (See also {{QF-tags}}). -
  • It is not stable due to edit warring on the page. -
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  • Had a lot of clean-up to do here, but I think this should all be addressed. Removed MobyGames and tried to improve consistent dates and publishers, for consistency and clarity. The blog post is from Tim Cain, creator of Fall Out. It's already cited in the book, but I thought it was nice to link a web-based version, for people who like to check the footnotes for further reading. Shooterwalker (talk) 21:33, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Prose

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Lede

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  • I tried to mention the awards in aggregate, but I can expand on that if you think that's useful. I tried to clear up the parts that sounded wrong. The important thing I wanted to stress about their similar schooling is that they didn't meet until years later, after they both graduated. Shooterwalker (talk) 21:33, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

General

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  • The founding and naming seemed like a good thing to pair up, but I could probably expand it with some verified information for how they operate as a company -- if you think that would help. I bundled the citations for clarity and readability. I tried to clarify their involvement in Crash Bandicoot and Spyro, and fixed the ref table for their list of published works. Hopefully that addresses your concerns. Shooterwalker (talk) 21:33, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects): b (focused):
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. It is stable.
    No edit wars, etc.:
  6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
    a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
  7. Overall:
    Pass/Fail:

Review meta comments

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  • I'll begin the review as soon as I can! If you fancy returning the favour, I have outstanding GA and FA nominations that require reviewing at WP:GAN and WP:FAC, respectively. I'd be very grateful if you were to complete one of these, however it's definitely not mandatory. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs)
    • Meta-reply I'll work hard to get this one up to quality. I'd rather have more time or even a hold than to give up. This is my first Wikipedia GA in a long time so I plan on using this experience to learn the standards and process. I am eager to return the favor (and also pay it forward) and help WP:VG when this is done. Thanks for taking this on. Shooterwalker (talk) 00:41, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 18:08, 14 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Comment: Threw a few suggested options and still open minded about what to say. Willing to work on this.

Improved to Good Article status by Shooterwalker (talk). Self-nominated at 03:01, 31 August 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: No - ALT0 and ALT1 have issues because the article doesn't state what awards were earned by Star Control or Skylanders. Skylanders being billion dollars is sourced. ALT2 and ALT3 have an issue because that info is sourced to a two hour long Ars Technica interview on Youtube and I don't think it's reasonable for me or anyone reading the article to have to figure out where in the interview it's mentioned.
  • Interesting: Yes
QPQ: None required.

Overall: Some not so minor issues concerning hook citation. Also, it would be helpful if you linked the source next to the proposed hooks. For example, see Template:Did you know nominations/Riyaz Naikoo.  Bait30  Talk 2 me pls? 21:54, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • Definitely add to the article, that's more important. I was just asking you to also add them here next to the hook to make it easier for me or other reviewers. It's sort of standard around here to do that. I found in the article where Star Control's award is mentioned and it's cited so that's good. I also found where it says Skylanders won awards, but it's unsourced in the lead. So at this point, ALT1 is the closest to being approved because everything about the hook is good, it's just the article that would need to be worked on.  Bait30  Talk 2 me pls? 17:50, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • I added sourcing for "greatest game" and some awards in the lede. I also added a quote from the YouTube video to the refs in the article, which I'm also attaching here.[1] I appreciate your patience as I'm still trying to figure out best practices for citing, both in the article and at DYK. I wish YouTube would let you directly link to their transcripts -- but for future reference, you can click on the "..." at YouTube to open it. You'll find the quote from the 7-8 minute mark of the video. I'll keep working on this until I've ironed out any other errors or omissions. Just let me know. Shooterwalker (talk) 14:24, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Awesome! I prefer having the names of the devs in there (they've done a lot of talks with the fans over the years and they are almost more recognizable than the studio itself), but I don't object to striking it either. Either way, I'm good to proceed with ALT3. Shooterwalker (talk) 19:24, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hi, I came by to promote this, but I really don't understand the point of using Johnson's name and not the other developers. The other hooks are much too PR-y. Why don't you write a hook about the reason for the name "Bob"? You have a few good reasons in the article. Yoninah (talk) 00:00, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Sean Dacanay, Marcus Niehaus (July 7, 2020). "Star Control Creators Paul Reiche & Fred Ford: Extended Interview". Ars Technica. Retrieved August 6, 2020. Ford: I went to the Silicon Valley and I worked for some graphics companies. I did that for a few years, I was in the wilderness and eventually I said, why am I not doing something I like versus something I think I should be doing? And so the company I worked that, there was a couple of mutual friends, two people who grew up with Paul, they knew I wanted to leave and they knew Paul needed a partner and so they introduced us to each other. Reiche: Yeah, we were going to a game night, board game night at Greg Johnson's house, and Greg's one of the designers of "Starflight" and "ToeJam & Earl" and "Orly Draw-Me-A-Story" and a ton of great games. Anyway, he had a regular game night at his house and so we sort of had a blind date there and decided, yeah, let's start working on this game.
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