Talk:Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: GreatOrangePumpkin (talk · contribs) 10:10, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

I played this game very often and was one of my favourites on PS. --Kürbis (✔) 10:10, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

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:

• Comment - Niemti, are you interested in taking this article beyond GA status? If so, I have some print sources that will be useful - GamesTM Issue 54 - Behind the Scenes: Oddworld, Edge Issue 192 - The Making of Oddworld, and Retro Gamer Issue 98 - The Making of Oddworld. Here's GamesTM article might be useful too - http://www.gamestm.co.uk/features/lorne-lanning-sherry-mckenna-discuss-oddworld/ - it isn't the one I have in print. Email me and I can send you scans.

• PS - The PC Zone link is broken. If you can't find an archive.org URL, someone has listed alternative sources at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Video_games/Reference_library/Online_print_archive#O. - hahnchen 17:53, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

I'm not really planning anything futher, but you can do it. --Niemti (talk) 18:21, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

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OK, unfortunately I clicked on something and forgot to save my edits before... But I can ensure that almost all of my points were rather minor. The following are the ones I would like to mention:

• The Japanese title of Abe a GoGo should be neither in boldface nor italicface, per MOS:Ety.
• Amazon is not a good source for plots, and Facebook is generally regarded unreliable
• Several dead links
• But apart from these issues the article is very good.--Kürbis (✔) 19:41, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
• PS: Wasn't there a boy with a gun, or is it a different game?--Kürbis (✔) 19:42, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

No humans in it. Official Facebook is 100% reliable for official info (if it was hacked it would be taken down since then for sure). Amazon link was truly retarded, though (the source was the book they are just selling and which they didn't publish neither). I don't know who did this stupid formatting of many refs, putting website names in italics, but I don't care enough to fix it. --Niemti (talk) 18:31, 30 September 2012 (UTC)