Talk:Super Mario Galaxy/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Lord Roem (talk) 19:43, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

• I will review this article over the weekend. Regards, Lord Roem (talk) 19:43, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Section by section review

Images

• Are in well-placed locations and abide by the criteria.

Lead

• Everything's fine here, although the in-line cites may not be needed if sourced later in the article.

Infobox

• Good.

Gameplay-Premise and Setting

• First paragraph completely lacking of cites.
• Again, second paragraph lacking of cites.
• A bit confused here - do all the special stars play the level on a time limit?

Gameplay-Controls

• Explain if any of these controls are new.
• Cites!

Gameplay-Power ups and lives

• "He can also jump higher and run faster" - incorporate this into a previous sentence
• Some of the details seem a bit repetitive and a bit unclear. Try removing extraneous material as the article sometimes goes off on a tangent.

Gameplay-multiplayer

• I suppose its ok.

Plot

• puffery.
• Cites.

....

Concluding Thoughts

• I am not going to go through the remaining paragraphs/sections until the citation issues with the first half are resolved. Because of this problem, inflated by overarching issues I describe below, I am going to have to quick-fail this nomination.
  • Issues of prose -- at many points the article seems written in the perspective of a gamer and not a more...universal view.
  • Lack of clarity -- many instances where small details are inflated
  • Citations

If you have any questions about this, please direct them to my talk page. I am moving to fail the nomination, as explained above.

Result: Not listed. -- Lord Roem (talk) 22:43, 15 January 2011 (UTC)