Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Peer review/The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

I've done some improvement in the article, including almost 20 references, and now I want to know what else in the article needs work before I put it into the GA, or FA. igordebraga ≠ 22:00, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Clyde Miller

Looking pretty good, great content. Here's some stuff (mostly reference related).

• The lead, while pretty good, has only one reference. Many of the facts in there need a source, so see what you can dig up.
• On the same idea, neither gameplay nor story has a single citation. The rule of thumb is one citation per paragraph, but do the best you can.
• "The Light World and the Dark World are almost identical and only the differences were saved, otherwise they would have needed to wait for a 16 Mbit ROM." Needs source.
• The "see also" section has only one entry in it. I suggest integrating it into the article and removing the "See Also" section all together. They're fine for now, but as you get into higher quality articles, they are frowned upon.
• The reference section needs to be finished off in cite web.
• The reception section bothers me a little. It's rather short, and it's just "This game is awesome" "here's why this game is awesome" and "did I mention this game is awesome?" You need to expand, add some composite scores, (MetaCritic, GameRankings, or perhaps Rotten Tomatoes) and add in one paragraph what particular reviewers liked, and in another paragraph add what they didn't like (if there is anything). Some suggestions on what to write about are graphics, gameplay, innovation, controls, story, replay value, etc. See some FA VG articles for ideas on reception.
• The images need Fair Use Rationales. Again, see FA VG articles for ideas, or I have a page for some ideas if you need help.

I'm kind of brutally honest, so there you go.--Clyde (talk) 00:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

This article could definitely use more references from the time period in which this game was released. Most of the current sources are written in the perspective of 2007 instead of 1991. Try to get some offline references from the early 1990's (magazines, etc). --- RockMFR 21:09, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Additionally, I'd like to add that there is one {{cn}} there under development. I don't think anyone would mind too much if you mentioned in a reference the size of the two maps and some simple maths, provided there is a link somewhere. Even GameFAQs would do on that point. :P —davidh.oz.au 11:21, 19 March 2007 (UTC)