Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Rare Replay/archive1
- The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.
The article was promoted by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 13:13, 19 August 2016 [1].
- Nominator(s): czar 23:59, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
With a month to go, we are approaching the first anniversary of this compilation of 30 video games by Rare and its predecessor, Ultimate Play the Game. If you're a FAC regular, you might already know that a few of us have been working to improve each of these 31 articles as a Good Topic set, and now that (1) they're all at GAN and (2) we're in the home stretch, I thought it would be nice to try to put a crown on the parent topic in time for its first anniversary on August 4, 2016. Maybe you'll agree?
The compilation of 30 games span a 30-year history across consoles from the ZX Spectrum to the Xbox 360. They include 80s classics that defined an era of British gaming (Knight Lore, FA), 90s classics that characterized the Nintendo 64 (Banjo-Kazooie, Blast Corps, FA), and, well, some weirder variations in the 00s (Viva Piñata). The compilation was fairly well regarded with many reviewers waxing poetic on their youth. But they also agreed that the games weren't all great, which we can affirm after suffering through writing their reception. But this is a homecoming and this parent article is in great shape, with thorough prose as the most complete treatment of the topic in its short life. I look forward to your feedback. czar 23:59, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comments from Caeciliusinhorto
[edit]Resolved, no response since July 20
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A few comments to get you started:
Unfortunately, I don't have time at the moment to finish giving the section on reception a thorough read; hopefully I'll be able to come back to that soon. You should have plenty to get started on, though... Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 17:09, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Comments from Anarchyte
[edit]- Would it be a better idea to reword "but an inevitable absence due to licensing issues" (Reception, third paragraph, first sentence) to "but were absent due to licensing issues"? Anarchyte (work | talk) 12:58, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- I'd want to preserve the sentiment that they both didn't like the circumstances and acknowledged that there was little to do about them. (I don't want to pummel the reader with reminders about the licensing, but it was a major point, so I want to make sure its handling by reviewers is in full context.) czar 13:13, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support: The article exemplifies how a compilation game should be made. Yoshiman6464 (talk) 18:11, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comments from Famous Hobo
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Alright, I'll take a look at this article. As someone who's currently sitting at 252/330 stamps in this game, I feel as though I'm obliged to review this article. Lead
Gameplay
Development
Reception
References
Alright, that's all I have to say. This article is definitely well written, especially the reception section. Seriously, in my opinion, that is the best written reception section I've read in an video game article. Once all of the lingering issues are addressed, I'll easily support. BTW, would you mind continuing with the Virtue's Last Reward FAC?
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- Hmm, sorry for missing the ping. Anyway, I feel this meets the FA criteria now, so I'm good with giving it a Support. Also, just wanted to remind you about possibly reviewing my FAC. Famous Hobo (talk) 02:27, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comments by Mike Christie
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I'll add comments as I go through; should be able to finish tonight or tomorrow morning. If I mess anything up in a copyedit, please feel free to revert.
Overall I think this is in pretty good shape; I think the prose is a little flat in places and will try to do a copyedit pass once the minor points above are addressed. However, I do think the reception section is clunky. I'm hesitant to oppose on that basis, because I don't think other editors would necessarily agree with me, but I'd like to suggest you take a look at an essay I just drafted earlier today. Some of the issues I comment on in that essay are present here. Paragraph two, for example, has a bit of the "A said B" problem. If you disagree, that's fine, and in that case I'll just run through again and make some specific suggestions that I think might help. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 01:53, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
A couple more quick notes.
-- Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:14, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
A couple more items; and I've done a little copyediting -- please revert if needed.
-- OK, that really is the last pass. I'll have a go at one of the reception paragraphs next and will post anything I come up with to the article talk page. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 19:02, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Support. I think this is FA quality. There's a conversation on the article talk page, and that may end up further improving the article, but if it doesn't I still think this is ready to be promoted. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 21:19, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Image review
[edit]I see just one image, but anyway. Non-free image, which is the typical license for boxart of videogames unless they are OTRS-licensed or sometimes free software, and that isn't the case here. File is about the right size to meet WP:NFCC#3 without being unreadable. The detailed (if boilerplate) non-free use rationale satisfies WP:NFCC#10 and seems to explain all other points required (i.e WP:NFCC), and I don't see any violation thereof. The image has alt text, which is coherent with the scope of the image to show the boxart. So I'd say that this file is fine under the featured article criteria. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 22:22, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Ian Rose (talk) 13:13, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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