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Ploy (board game)

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I've listed this article for peer review because I recently reminded myself of what a good game Ploy is, and I want the whole world to know! Well, on a more realistic note, this is something fun that I decided to write about to test my Wiki skills. I would appreciate brutal honesty, but also some constructive advice. If it's not too much trouble, try and look really far into this article to find any errors. I noticed some formatting slip-ups on my browser (Firefox) with the photos and the subheadings. Some things appear to be subheading when they aren't supposed to, and I see five or so EDIT buttons in a row. Oh, and let me know if I went too crazy with the subheadings. I'm a bit worried about that. Am I cited enough? Would it be clear to someone who has never played the game? All the usual stuff. To the reviewer who has chosen this article, I thank you. I think that with your (hopefully friendly) suggestions, I may submit this for Featured Article! But we can all dream... Anyways, I hope you enjoy, and have a lovely day.

Cheers, bobbo king (talk) 05:35, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

There are some odd coding errors in the article. It might be my browser's problem, but Mozilla Firefox is known to work quite nicely with Wikipedia, so I doubt it. If you could fix that, it'd be great. (Sorry if it is my error)--haha169 (talk) 03:33, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Comments from The Rambling Man (talk · contribs)

Hello, interesting article, some pointers...

• Read WP:CITE for advice on where to place citations. In particular, you should aim to put them directly following punctuation, no spaces between.
• Check out WP:HEAD - it says things like avoid "The Board", just "Board" will do. And don't overcapitalise unless proper nouns, so "Direction Moves" becomes "Direction moves".
• I don't understand why you're employing the "blockquote" mechanism all over the article? Just normal formatting should suffice.
• You have loads of subsections whih is why you end up with all the Edit buttons. So I think you're right, you need to merge some of the information to reduce this.
• When referencing the web, use the {{Cite web}} template. Also consider expanding your links for the External links section rather than just the url in square brackets which looks untidy.
• “chess-like feel.” is this a quote? If so it needs citation, if not it needs the quote marks removing. And any reason you're using those quote marks instead of "these" ones?

That should help for a start. The Rambling Man (talk) 13:11, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Author Response

Thanks to those that have given tips. I should get around to fixing things this weekend. I'll address them in this talk, especially if I had a problem somewhere. Oh, and if anyone still wants to give me info, I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!