MarioWiki:Featured articles/N2/Donkey Kong 64

Donkey Kong 64

Support

1. Tails777 (talk) I've compared the article now to when it was first nominated and there is a huge, but good difference. The article has tons of information, no improvement tags, sub sections have preview content and the tables have pictures and a decent amount of info in them. I'd say the article looks pretty good and feature worthy. Any issues spring up and I'll see what I can do.
2. Metalex123 (talk) Per Tails777.

Oppose

1. Yoshi876 (talk) I find the bosses and mini-bosses inconsistent with other tables in the article as they could easily include an image of that boss, I also feel that like with many other FAs (Yoshi's Island DS, Donkey Kong Country) the enemies could put into a table with its name, an image of it and a brief description of its attacking patterns. Also the staff section should be converted into a paragraph instead of a list so it's not a simple copy-pasta from the main article. Notify me when these are done and I will happily convert my vote.

Comments

This article needs to be moved to MarioWiki:Featured Articles/N/Donkey Kong 64. Anyway, the article looks good! I don't know what other problems it may have that's just my first glance. Ray Trace^(T|C) 02:45, 20 April 2015 (EDT)

There's a pretty big problem: the staff section is just random content copied from the target page.

Also as a word of advice if someone tries to fix the section due to this FA nom: when users try to fill out staff sections on game articles, they usually end up just being a succession of "[Name] was the X and, Name did the music, and Name was another X" etc, which, while "better" from a content perspective, is not interesting or useful at all. When writing staff sections, make links or give some context - say if the game was developed by most of the key staff as the previous installemnts or not, say if the game was the first/last work of someone who was important to the series, or on the contrary, if the game was the one Mario/DK/Wario game someone more famous for other things was involved in, give additional info on who did what... etc. If you're not familiar with dev teams, mobygame's "People who have worked on this game have also collaborated on the creation of the following games" feature at the end of their game credit ages provide a great base. --Glowsquid (talk) 11:07, 20 April 2015 (EDT)