Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/List of Metal Gear Solid characters/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured list removal nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was removed by Sephiroth BCR 23:12, 10 February 2009 [1].

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List of Metal Gear Solid characters

Notified: WP Video Games and The Bread

This list fails to note any independent reliable sources for real-world impact or reception any of the characters have had.じんない 21:04, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Keep: I see some reliable sources (such as the making-of DVD by the game's developers) and parts with reception (such as IGN and other sites). I don't think this issue merits it being de-FL'd.--_ZXCVBNM 21:47, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Making of the DVD is not good enough to denote real-world impact or coverage. It's still good to have, but cannot replace it.じんない 03:25, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs) May not be bad, but needs improvement to meet current standards. More specifically, it fails FL criteria on prose, sources and comprehensiveness.

• Lead needs a little expansion—note that FLs do not start out like "This is a list of..." anymore.
• IMBD is generally not a reliable source.
• Some unencyclopedic tone (use of second person): "The name "Octopus" is derived from The Octopus from The Spirit who, like Decoy Octopus, is a master of disguise and whose face you never see."
• Generally needs work on the prose, samples:
  • "In Metal Gear Solid he does battle with Snake twice, the first battle with Raven in an M1 Abrams tank,[47] the second in a freezer with Raven being killed." Logical flow absent here.
  • "similar fourth wall breaking acts" "wall breaking" needs a hyphen.
  • "is still popular amongst the staff at Konami." "amongst" is archaic, use "among".
  • "Kenneth Baker (voiced by Allan Lurie and Yuzuru Fujimoto) is the president of ArmsTech, one of the leading manufacturers of the arms industry and taken prisoner by FOXHOUND." Needs a comma after "industry".
  • "He appeared in Metal Gear as FOXHOUND's commanding officer and sends Solid Snake into Outer Heaven, a fortified nation in South Africa, to destroy Metal Gear TX-55." Not sure what appearing in a previous game has to do with sending someone into "Outer Heaven", these ideas should not be contained in the same sentence as currently written.
• "Gray Fox" section has no citations.
• Inline citations need publishers, and the last access dates should be in the same format. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:38, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

A reception/impact section is still needed of some sort. Merchandising (which i know there is information on it) should also be in for a FL article. Character lists need to show "real world impact" and for FLs, which are the ones people look to for examples of what an article should look like, this requirement is paramount.じんない 22:59, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Delist Little effort has been make to address my comments. Dabomb87 (talk) 15:17, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Delist as needing too much work, and without a dedicated editor to spend time on it. Renominate for FL if and independant sources found and other problems fixed. The making of DVD would be enough to save it from AfD, but not for FL imo.Yobmod (talk) 17:03, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

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