Talk:V-Rally (video game)/GA1

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Reviewer: DasallmächtigeJ (talk · contribs) 16:28, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

1. Is it well-written?

In short, yes. The layout seems perfectly fine, so does grammar/spelling.

However, a few small suggestions: maybe this is me being picky but the "ranging from European countries like England, Spain or Sweden, to island countries such as Indonesia and New Zealand" part is a bit weird (it appears twice in the article). England is not an independent country and the UK is an island nation. Maybe the sentence could be rephrased slightly. I would also include sth along the lines of "The first game in the V-Rally series,..." at the start of the second sentence, to indicate it belongs to said series.

2. Is it verifiable with no original research?

Yes, the article is sufficiently sourced and all sources are reliable. As I owned the game back in the day, I can vouch for accuracy of everything taken out of the instruction manual.

3. Is it broad in its coverage?

'Yes.. It covers everything from development, gameplay, to reception.

Are there reviews for the Gameboy and PC version to come by, maybe from the magazines listed as sources?

Since there is quite a bit of information on actual sales, one could also think about splitting the reception section in critical and sales, as usual with video game articles with sufficient information on both.

4. Is it neutral?

Yes.

5. Is it stable?

Yes. Absolutely nothing is going to change here.

6. Is it illustrated?

Yes, sufficiently.

Conclusion

As it stands, the article should be able to pass immediately. Most of the proposed changes I can do myself and will tackle them right now. If there are Gameboy/PC reviews one could add please do so. As the article is already sufficient, I will pass him after I made the aforementioned changes.--DasallmächtigeJ (talk) 16:28, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Comment: DasallmächtigeJ, the article should not pass if it has any errors in it—spelling, grammatical, or more serious—and looking at the first paragraph in the body of the article, I found a couple of them in close succession. Races can take place at night or daytime. is a problem, because "at night or daytime" is not a proper construction, since "at daytime" is not valid: "at night or during the day" is one possible recasting of the sentence, though I'd probably do "in daylight or at night" unless the night races are more common. The following sentence refers to "Kit Cars", but the one after talks about "Kid Cars". The latter is probably a typo, but one a GA shouldn't have. I'd like to suggest that rather than posting reviews with immediate passage after you make some fixes, that you engage the nominator and present the issues you've found, even if they're minor. For example, those Game Boy reviews you ask after: they might have been added if you'd let the nominator respond. And I'm wondering at the use of the word "admitted" in the Reception section, which needs to be used with care, and comes under WP:CLAIM, a part of manual of style's words to watch, one of the GA criteria in the "well-written" section—it's one of the things new reviewers don't always notice. This is certainly a good GA candidate and shouldn't require much work to get there, but based on a very quick skim of some sections it needs a bit more attention before it's actually there, despite its promotion. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:27, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing those points out to me. I assume daytime means the name of the setting for driving during the day in-game but yeah, if that is not grammatically correct changes should be made.--DasallmächtigeJ (talk) 15:46, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

That should now be fixed. --Niwi3 (talk) 20:37, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

@DasallmächtigeJ and BlueMoonset: Thank you for your comments, I have fixed some of the issues you have mentioned. Also, England is actually a European country (a "country" does not necessarily mean a an independent "sovereign state"), so I'm not why it was removed from the article. The reviews for the Gameboy and PC versions are very brief and there isn't really anything else worth adding. Please let me know if there is anything else that needs to be fixed. --Niwi3 (talk) 13:33, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

It essentially is me being picky, but you contrast them with island countries and England essentially also is an island country, and yeah, technically, country also applies to non-souvereign states, but since all other countries you contrasted it with are souvereign, I thought it was a little off. If you feel that the reviews could be included in short fashion, feel free to do so.--DasallmächtigeJ (talk) 15:46, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

I see your point and appreciate your feedback, but I still think it's not an issue. By that logic, Spain is not an European country, but a transcontinental one because of Ceuta and Melilla. It's about prominence, not technicalities (America redirects to the US). --Niwi3 (talk) 17:01, 10 February 2019 (UTC)