Talk:Final Fantasy XIV (2010 video game)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Tezero (talk · contribs) 03:08, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Without reviewing it in-depth, this isn't even close to being at GA status. Judgesurreal777, please only nominate articles that you have actually worked significantly on or have obtained permission somewhere to nominate on someone else's behalf (such as if they're absent for a period of time). My main problems are these:

• Gameplay is massively crufty. I mean, there's a giant table of all of the classes - the average reader is not going to need to know all of those in that much detail, particularly when it obstructs the text.
• The article needs many, many more in-line citations.
• Things like "Final Fantasy XIV makes use of the standard RPG exploration mechanics" are especially problematic to leave unsourced, because that constitutes original research. If you want that in the page, you need to find a source that says that it has those and that they're standard.
• "Relaunch into A Realm Reborn" should not use that kind of list format when prose would be fine.
• Likewise, "Races" is too detailed anyway and should not be in list format.
• There are copious unformatted and incorrectly formatted citations.
• Some of the links are dead.
• "is available in four languages; Japanese, English, French, and German" - Not necessary.
• Reception is incomplete, awkward, and visually unappealing, most of it concentrated in an indigestible, giant paragraph that mostly focuses on scores, which are already in the table. The section needs to be completely rewritten from scratch.

You can renominate this article whenever you want, but please don't do so until you have improved it to be in line with the GA criteria. Tezero (talk) 03:08, 3 July 2014 (UTC)