Talk:Starweb/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 20:46, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Comments

• Lead feels a bit bulky for such a modest article, I would suggest trimming a bit to get down to two large paras.

Trimmed to two paragraphs.

• "In early years, this amount usually ranged from 1,000 to 10,000 points" without knowing how often and how many points are awarded, this is relatively meaningless.

I added some material about point values accumulated in gameplay to provide perspective on this.

• "reviewer Timothy B. Brown" perhaps "reviewer and game designer"?

Agreed. Done.

• "by Flying Buffalo in" in the lead vs "Flying Buffalo Inc." in the infobox.

Fair enough. Their own website uses both styles, but a GA should be consistent. Done.

• "game, Nuclear Destruction, in" not notable enough for a link?

Wikilinked in the lead.

• "field in "roughly" 1976" couldn't this just be "field in around 1976"?

That works. Done.

• "Professional game moderation" wouldn't that have been human-moderated? Shouldn't that be mentioned/linked here rather than later on?

I don't think we can make that leap here. Rick Loomis says in this history of Flying Buffalo that he started with human moderation but he had a program made for Nuclear Destruction soon after its start. It's not clear how quickly he transitioned from human-moderated to computer moderated. Either method could have been professional game moderation (done by the company). [Added clarification: since he started Nuclear Destruction in 1970 and started the "Professional game moderation" in 1971, he may have made the switch to computer-moderation at the same time or before.]

• "the play-by-mail field" PBM.

Done.

• "invented Starweb.[6] Flying Buffalo released it as its second PBM" -> " invented Starweb which Flying Buffalo released as its second PBM"

Done.

• "mimeographed" pardon my ignorance, can you explain this?

I confess to being a novice here as well. It's an small, inexpensive, early version of a photocopy machine. I added a Wikilink to it. At first I was going to just remove it—and I still can if you think it better without—but I thought it would provide an interesting, and encyclopedic, historical aspect of these early PBMs and their origin period.

• "as play-by-mail magazines" PBM

Done.

• "Starweb is still available for play in the 21st century" Could you say "As of 2021"?

I changed it to "today" so it doesn't go stale next year.

Changed to "As of 2021" as you suggested based on WP:PRECISELANG.

• "available for play by mail" PBM

I changed this to "available for play by postal mail" since I was trying to highlight that it was still available for play in that format whereas PBM is somewhat of an umbrella term.

• "editors of Flagship Magazine provided" overlinked.

Delinked

• "18 turns" eighteen (as you have twenty in the same sentence)

Fixed. Good catch, thanks.

• "Rick Loomis, the founder of Flying Buffalo Inc., stated" don't think you need to repeat this factoid.

Agreed, removed.

• "issue of The Space Gamer.[21] Reese" overlinked.

Delinked.

• "game for White Dwarf in" overlinked.

Delinked.

• "issue of Challenge magazine" overlinked.

Delinked.

• Ensure ref dates are consistently formatted.

Fixed. They should be consistent now.

That's all I have on a first read. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 08:13, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Greatly appreciate the review The Rambling Man!--Airborne84 (talk) 01:56, 1 September 2021 (UTC)