Talk:Hot Potato (video game)/GA1

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

For further detail, see WP:WIAGA

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

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, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Issues found

• The New York Times reference needs to use {{Cite web}}
• File:Hot Potato Screenshot.jpg has no information on who the copyright belongs to. I typically put it in the other_information parameter of the fair use rationale
  • I added the copyright information and changed some of the other information around as well to make it more clear. Nomader ^(Talk) 16:32, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
• The Metacritic reference gives a 404 error. Please see here and here for how to recover the correct link. The publisher parameter also lists it as MetaCritic instead of Metacritic (lower case c)
  • Bad news– the link doesn't seem to come up on either archive.org or through the apps.metacritic.com. If I do a search using the apps website though, it shows the Metacritic score the game received ([1]). Am I able to use that as a citation instead? Nomader ^(Talk) 16:32, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

• That's fine, just be sure to archive it using Webcite. Everything else looks good. --Teancum (talk) 18:27, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

• Alright, I archived it and put the link in the article, should take care of the last issue. Nomader ^(Talk) 19:45, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

• (Lead section) "The game makes the player..." flows strangely. How about "In the game the player must..."
• (Gameplay section) The references at the end of the first paragraph should be reversed so that they're in numeric order
• (Gameplay section) The word 7 should be spelled out seven
• (Gameplay section) In the third sentence of the second paragraph, "from the road" is unnecessary and confusing - it makes the sentence to long to clearly understand
• (Gameplay section) "The game has no multiplayer component." is unnecessary as the reader is informed of that through the infobox
• (Reception section) "He criticized the game for failing to introduce the player to the point of the game" - two uses of "the game" seems redundant and unclear here. It should work just fine with "He criticized it for failing..."

Review complete - Gotta love the short articles. I'm done here, so please reply when these issues have been addressed.

• Thanks for the review! Well I think I've responded to all of your comments save the Metacritic issue. If worst comes to worst I can just remove Metacritic from the article altogether for now and just go with Game Rankings. Nomader ^(Talk) 16:32, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Good work. The article can now PASS. --Teancum (talk) 20:37, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the review, Teancum! Nomader ^(Talk) 03:20, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Reviewer: Teancum (talk) 12:27, 27 October 2010 (UTC)