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[edit] Regarding Zelda

Well my best guess would be that there are no references because they didn't have any orginal research, but that still is a little weird. You might consider going to featured article review on those grounds or take a look at wind waker's old one and see what they said.--Clyde Miller 20:33, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair enough

They didn't give enough info to prove you wrong so fair enough. User: Marioman11

[edit] Re: Image:PBR case.jpg

Exact page with the image added in. Unless you meant the precise URL or something?

[edit] Charlotte County, Florida political section

Saying Charlotte County tends to vote for the GOP isn't POV. The county has gone Republican for President, Congress, and for most local offices long before you were born. And besides, I said the same thing about the Democrats and Broward County, Florida and am actually politically neutral anyway(both parties suck), baseing in on raw election data. But point taken and source has been cited. Jcam 00:56, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Someone else can view that as an opinion. Congratulations on being the 1st person to bring up my age for no reason whatsoever, it reflects wonderfully on your reasoning. -FullMetal Falcon

[edit] Captain Falcon request

Alright, with the request you asked for rewording is done. I did remove some usless parts as before. I did reword it though.

[edit] Your edit to Anime Evolution

Any reason why you reverted the numbers for Anime Evolution? I work for the parent organization, and that number is indeed correct. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 18:45, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Uh. Nothing of note to be honest. I was pretty busy that weekend so I hadn't really paid attention. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 19:04, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding the F-Zero Crash

Moved to talk:F-Zero (series) ~~ Lt. Falcon 00:28, 5 December 2006 (UTC) ~~

[edit] Character Rewrite

I'll think about... I have quite a few things to do myself since I have a very large F-Zero database I need to reorganize, as well as find a host that's big enough without needing me to pay for it... ~~ Lt. Falcon 23:20, 5 December 2006 (UTC) ~~

[edit] GA nomination for Mute City

Unfortunately, I think this article isn't quite up to GA standards. I've listed the main points of contention on the talk page. By the way, when listing an article as a GA candidate, don't forget to put the appropriate template on the talk page. Cheers, yandman 15:00, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Whoops!

Allo.
While reverting Rabbids' vandalism to the wii page, I think I reverted your (good faith) edit as well. Any chance you could re-do it? Thanks. Bladestorm 21:10, 14 December 2006

[edit] Start class?

I'm curious as to why you chose that rating for the Meta Knight article. Believe me, just about everything that can be written about Meta Knight is on that page! o_o I've wracked my brain for more on him, but he's just not a character anyone knows much about. Do you have any input on what could be added? (Please don't say 'more sources'. There aren't any unless you count the games themselves. ;_; He's one of those intentionally super-vague characters... Ivyna J. Spyder 21:49, 17 December 2006 (UTC) (UTC)

[edit] WP:GA nom for List of cancelled Virtual Boy games

Hi,

WP:GA doesn't review lists.. maybe you can try for Wikipedia:Featured lists. --Ling.Nut 02:39, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Good Article Nominating

I am considering nominating the article Ford BA Falcon for Good Article status, so could you please check or review the article and if you can add anything to it please do. Senators 02:53, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your GA nomination of F-Zero GX

The article F-Zero GX you nominated as a good article has passed , see Talk:F-Zero GX for eventual comments about the article. Good luck in future nominations. Mouse Nightshirt 15:19, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MassWildlife

I noted that you made a minor fix to MassWildlife. After writing an article like that, it always makes me smile to see someone besides a bot has paid a visit. Um.. you're not a bot, right? - House of Scandal 11:57, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] F-Zero GX

Out of curiosity, Are you going to get F-Zero GX up to FA? Or were you leaving?--Clyde (talk) 03:42, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Still needed elsewhere? What happened? Was it your FAC with Captain Falcon that made you briefly retire and still consider it? All you need for F-Zero is another peer review, maybe a call to the league of copyeditors, then FAC (which is like another peer review). I know a guy who has done a lot of work for GACs, and I could ask him if he has some pointers, if you want. What's your call?--Clyde (talk) 20:27, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Well if you don't mind, I'll make a couple calls. I know how it is when other people help with your project, but you said you need some increased effort, so I'll do what I can. I'll stick it on Peer review and ask for some help.--Clyde (talk) 22:51, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

lol. I've had PR problems in the past as well, and I see too many entries go unnoticed. If you want, you could put Caption Falcon up for GA, and I could ask Green451 to review it. He gave me a "miny" peer review when he put Duck Hunt on hold. He's very thourough, and will help you a lot. Or you could try another peer review for Captain Falcon, or talk to some of the major contributors to Link (FA) or Mario (GAC).--Clyde (talk) 23:44, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

P.S. I don't think any of those people were in the FAC for Empires (1 or 2). Also, if you want Captain Falcon copyedited, you might want to go to the League of Copyeditors.--Clyde (talk) 23:52, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Well you still have me!--Clyde (talk) 00:41, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NJROTC

Hey, i saw that you are in NJROTC and was wanted to see if you would be interested in working on an article for NJROTC since at current it redirects to JROTC. Let me know if you are interested.--Joebengo 04:00, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summary comments

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[edit] Thanks for revision of LEETFEET

You beat me to it. Your doing great on the SSBB article. Tinkleheimer 02:08, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] re: F-Zero

Hi,

I'm honoured that you chose to ask my opinion, considering that I have a lesser edit count and less time spent here than yourself. I will try to list some things that I think need work before this can become an FA, starting from the top:

[edit] Infobox

• The F-Zero logo image needs a fair use rationale. For an ideal example of an FU rationale in a game article, see Image:FFVIIbattlexample.jpg. The same goes for all other images in the article, which need more detailed ones.
• Instead of putting all of the release dates in the infobox, I would instead put "See List of F-Zero games" (a comment I was going to write about the games section was to split the list of games off into a seperate article titled, List of F-Zero games. See List of Final Fantasy titles, a featured list, as a good example.)

[edit] Lead

• Why mention that "the game concept gives little focus to "car combat"", when there are many other racing games that don't have combat. If you think this should be mentioned, I would put it further down the article, possibly in the overview section, or as part of a section dealing with what makes F-Zero games unique from other racing games (just an idea).
• "Graphical capabilities"? What does this mean? That the games have detailed graphics, fast graphics, or something else?
• Because it has not yet been explained what "pilots" are, and "inspiring" seems a bit POV (unless you can back that up with a citation of a review who called the pilots and settings inspiring), I would instead say "unique characters and settings".

[edit] Overview

• You can remove the first sentence from the first paragraph ("As mentioned by the manual..."), as it's not necessary because you are using inline citations for that. If anyone wants to know where the info is coming from, they can just check the references. I would, however, replace the sentence with something else so that the prose "flow" is kept.

[edit] Story

• As a general note, this section could do with many more citations for all the "facts" presented, as this is backstory and not actual gameplay, I assume.
• "Taking place in the 24th century, F-Max was the precursor to the F-Zero races. This competition predates the coming of F-Zero by some 200 years." Revise this to something like, "Taking place in the 24th century, F-Max was the precursor to the F-Zero races by some 200 years." (better flow).
• We need a reference that states that F-Max races came 200 years before F-Zero races and took place in the 24th century.
• In "F-Max era", there is a self-reference, "(see chronology)". To avoid this, I would instead wikilink "further inconsistencies" to the chronology section of the article.
• Also in that section, change the dash after reference 2 to a semicolon.
• In "Original F-Zero Era", there is no need to wikilink 2560, as it's unlikely that there will be an article anytime soon.
• The section has past-tense/present-tense conflicts. Choose one or the other.
• A citation is needed that says the F-Zero Grand Prix was founded by space merchants.
• Change "When the first one was held" to "When the first race was held" or "When the first event was held" ("one" is not specific enough, and too casual).
• "It purportedly has billions of fans, many of whom like to gamble on the outcomes of races" needs a citation.
• In "Horrific Grand Finale", Huge Accident should be in quotes and a wikilink should be provided to the appropriate section of the article.
• Horrific Grand Finale should be in quotes so that people don't think it's a capitalization error.
• Wikilink Super Arrow.
• Wikilink Zoda.
• The last sentence of "F-Zero X Era" ("It is unknown, but likely...") should be removed as original research unless you can provide a citation.

[edit] Characters

• There are currently over forty pilots? How many were there in the first game? Perhaps include a sentence dealing with the fact that more characters are added with each installment (if this is true). Something like, "While there were originally X pilots in the original F-Zero game, this has grown to over fourty in the latest installment", etc.

I have spent quite a bit of time typing, so I'll leave you with these comments for the moment. When I have some more time (which should be soon), I'll go through the rest of the article. Hope this helps, Green451 18:08, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Addendum: If this is too detailed, and you just wanted a rough idea of how much work would be needed to get to FA, I would say quite a bit. There are definitely some good parts, but there are some sections that are a bit rough, that's all. Green451 18:11, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Long Reply

Well as to being back, I couldn't stay away more than a couple days. I'm probably going to be at low editing until the week after next because I have stuff going on, but there is too much here to do, and over the last four days I would go on but not edit. Kinda counter-productive. As to constructive stuff, I agree with you that the reception section needs some more quotes. I find the best combo for writing recepetion sections would be to intersperse vague impressions and specific details. However, I think it's okay as is, since most people approve of a paraphrased citied sentence as much as the direct quote. I find that direct quotes do the job better. So, rambling aside, you might want to consider something like this:

F-Zero was generally praised among the critical community, earning a 89% on gamerankings. Gamespot stated that "if you want a light-speed racer that looks and plays sharply while simultaneously offering some dramatic challenges, F-Zero GX is exactly what you're looking for." and "there's a lot going on in F-Zero GX." Gamespot was not totally convinced, noting, "There are a couple miniscule issues to speak of here (a few less than spectacular tracks, a daunting difficulty), but those noted F-Zero GX is still my favorite racer this generation, by far."

The usual setup is PP 1=General comments (opening and closing quotes work well) and then PP 2 and 3= exceptionally good and bad things (the stuff you've included already, except in quote form). Then you have your PP about sales figures and the like. I also ran into people during FAs who wanted me to include a PP which compared the game to other games like it. You may want to compare it to the sucess of other F-Zero games.

As to the missions section, delete it, send to strategy wiki and the like if you really want to. Sorry about the length, but uh yeah, I hope this answers your question.--Clyde (talk) 03:02, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ben Ownby

Why did you delete the photo link I put up. It is not spam but a free site like flickr. John celona 22:40, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

• You are right-that link has gone dead. I will try to get another link when I have the time. Thank you for your attention. John celona 12:49, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re: F-Zero GX

You might want to consider posting it at CVG. I'm not sure if that's frowned upon or not, but it would certainly raise awareness.--Clyde (talk) 23:36, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding Metroid

"Isn't the Metroid Prime games listed as first-person adventures? FMF|contact 00:11, 27 February 2007 (UTC)"

I assume this is about me removing them from the adventure games list? I'm sorry, I forgot to replace it with the action-adventure list. I am what some would call an "Adventure game purist". Adventure games are my favourite games, and I am very not happy that action-adventure games often are called adventure games. A first-person adventure game would be Myst, RAMA, Shivers, etc. Metroid Prime is nothing like them. It's a first-person action-adventure and I'd like it if people would stop confusing the two genres. I've recently started cleaning up the adventure game list (it pains me to see what kind of non-adventure games are listed there), and now, I have removed MP for the earlier mentioned reasons. I will now put them in the action-adventure list though.DreamingLady 06:35, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] F-Zero GX

Sorry it took so long to get back to you, but I've been (and still am) busy. Because of that, I can't give you a huge amount of feedback like I did before, but I will say two things that I noticed:

• The "Techniques" section leans a little too much towards being "game guide-ish".
• I'm not sure if the table showing the different tracks is acceptable under MOS, but I don't know what else you could do. Maybe prosify it?

These are just a few small suggestions, but there are more things I'm sure. Thanks, and good luck getting the article to GA and beyond. Green451 15:26, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FAC

As usual, be prepared for people to rip your finest work apart and all you can say is "thank you sir may I have another." Also be prepared because many articles don't make it their first FAC. However, the input you get will be important toward attaining FA. I'll help as best I can, and good luck.--Clyde (talk) 18:22, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Well you have my support now, and I think it would be worth something as the main contributor to put in your support (might want to let the community know that you are though.)--Clyde (talk) 21:28, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh congrats on F-Zero GX. Rock solid job. You should flaunt it somewhere on your userpage; it's really something to be proud of.--Clyde (talk) 00:01, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

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