Wikipedia:Featured and good topic candidates/Final Fantasy VIII/addition1

Final Fantasy VIII (1st supplementary nomination) edit

This topic is already featured. It is being re-nominated to add additional items. See Wikipedia talk:Featured topics/Final Fantasy VIII for discussions of the topic's previous nominations. The additional items are:

Articles already included:

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Final Fantasy VIII	Characters of Final Fantasy VIII - Squall Leonhart - Rinoa Heartilly - Music of Final Fantasy VIII

Self-nom. Hi everybody. Like I said in the original nomination, the only two holes are not major ones (Chocobo World and a setting article, which at the time did not exist anyway). Both of these articles have attained GA (although the former could probably use a bit more work). — Deckill er 18:36, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support It will complete this topic...Nice to see a video game topic not shot down by stupid requests. Judgesurreal777 21:15, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support igordebraga ≠ 22:26, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support, This fills out the Final Fantasy VIII template nicely! The only thing left is "triple triad" but that seems to be of very minor importance to the game. Congrats on getting this done! Next stop..... FA. Witty Lama 23:07, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support fills up missing elements.Circeus 01:55, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support, good addition. --PresN 02:34, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I thought, and I'm quoting you in the previous nomination, that "Chocobo World, though in the template, is not significant enough to the topic to be in it- it's a separate game, unrelated to FF8, the only connection it had was that you could take items you found in that game and transfer them into FF8, if you happened to have the rare gameplayer that ran it. It would need to be in a Chocobo topic, but not an FF8 one." ? Kariteh 14:59, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That was rationale WRT the main nomination; that it wasn't large enough gap to oppose over. But now that there's additions being made, there's no reason not to include it. — Deckill er 15:14, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

True, I said that. I don't feel like it's a big enough relation to FF8 to be necessary. At the same time, I don't feel like it's so unrelated as to not be included in the topic if others want it to. I'm just not that bothered about it. In regards to Triple Triad, there was once an article by that name, which I merged into Minigames of Final Fantasy months and months ago. I don't think that it should be in the FF8 template in the first place, though removing it while the FT nom is up would be bad form, but I don't think that there's any reason to add a section of an article to the topic. --PresN 05:29, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support, though I'm not exactly sure what the procedure to adding the Triple Triad section of Minigames of Final Fantasy to a featured topic would be. Axem Titanium 02:41, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - This seems to meet all the requirements and adds to the overall topic nicely. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 05:38, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support for World of Final Fantasy VIII, Oppose for Chocobo World. I would not consider the latter article's quality good enough for a Featured Topic. This vote won't influence anything, so there's no reason not to be honest. --Teggles 05:19, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- What do you see as wrong with Chocobo World? It's GA class; do you see something specific that makes it not fit with the topic? --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 16:22, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- We also have to remember that GA-class is not FA minus one minor issue; it's a minimum standard of decent quality. Although I don't really care for the article myself, it's good enough not to exclude it. — Deckill er 16:36, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - I'm with you; it isn't a great article, but it's good enough to be in the topic. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 05:49, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - Since when are articles randomly added to topics just because they're "good enough" to? Regardless of the quality of the article, Chocobo World has very little to do with Final Fantasy VIII and much more to do with the Chocobo series. People have expressed concerns about that. Kariteh 11:55, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      - If the article is GA, it meets the criterion of quality, but if it isn't really related to the FFVIII topic, that's a serious concern. Even though the topic looks like a pass, I'm going to suggest that we put the nomination on hold for a couple days to see if there is a separate consensus on Chocobo World's relation to the rest of the topic. I'm going to do a bit more reading on the topic to see what my vote is. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 14:55, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      - Yes, and I was the one who used it as my argument as to why it wasn't included in the original topic nomination. But with featured topics, articles can be part of more than one topic. It is not a situation of "randomly" adding to a topic, because this article is still in the FF8 category, and still has some sort of importance to the game. Random would be adding an article like Monsters of Final Fantasy. — Deckill er 15:18, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        I don't see how it would be such a tragedy to include Chocobo World to this FT. It is undeniably true that it has a certain level of connectivity with FFVIII. While I'm not sure that its exclusion was properly handled last time, that shouldn't make a difference to this FTC nom. Axem Titanium 23:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Relevant to topic. Pagra shtak 18:40, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Promoted - Unanimous support for topic, one opposed for Chocobo World. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 01:41, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]