Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Silent Hill 4: The Room/archive1

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

The article was not promoted 20:06, 28 November 2007.

[edit] Silent Hill 4: The Room

Just passed GA, and I want to see if it meets the criteria yet. My apologies for being unable to find much other information of commercial reaction and development. Lenin and McCarthy | (Complain here) 01:49, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose - The article is not comprehensive. There are no sales figures, the reception section does not take into account the Japanese reaction. - hahnchen 18:15, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

I couldn't find any figures, and I checked the sources that other FA games used, and most of those don't have a lot of Japanese critical reaction information either. --Lenin and McCarthy | (Complain here) 15:57, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Comment: Please, if you're captions aren't full sentences, then a full-stop (period) isn't required. I'll modify this now. Ashnard _Talk ^Contribs 16:10, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Full critique from User: Ashnard :

• "The Room was released onto multiple platforms consisting of the Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox and PC". By "The Room" are you abbreviating the title? If so, why break the trend when the rest of the article states "Silent Hill 4"?
  • Done. Also tried to rewrite sentence better.
• "Unlike the previous installments, this game is set in the fictional town of South Ashfield" this means nothing to the readers who know nothing of the series. How is this town different?
  • Attempted to clarify.
• Lead is insufficient for FA; expand info about gameplay, and include "development" and "music" info. Should be able to summarise the article completely.
  • Slightly expanded.
• "Henry Townshend" can you provide a link to a character list or article? If not, explain who he is. Do this for any other characters.
  • Linked Henry in lead, delinked in Gameplay (already linked in plot)
• You need to specify your rationales; for example, instead of "fair-use rationale", it should be "fair-use rationale for Silent Hill 4".
  • Done
• "Silent Hill 4: The Room was originally envisioned as a spinoff of the Silent Hill series". Envisioned by whom? It may be obvious, but please specify.
  • Done.
• "which the player navigates through a first-person perspective and contains their only save point". This reads awkwardly.
• The last two sentences of this paragraph read awkwardly—try merging into one sentence and removing "also" as it's redundant. Ommit any usage of "also" unless the word's necessary.
• Some missing commas, for example "In the main levels of the game the player uses the usual third person perspective of the Silent Hill series." Comma should go after "game". This is a general tren throughout the article.
• "While gun combat is not emphasized, a feature is added that allows melee attacks to be "charged" before they are launched". What? Confusing.
• "One of the most significant changes is the introduction of the "Victim" monsters, the unkillable ghosts of Walter Sullivan's victims." Change "unkillable" to "impervious" and add something like "which are" after the comma.
• The prose tends to assume that the reader knows the game with subject-specific terminology like "the holy candle". Please explain these things.
• "Ghosts can also be knocked down for a long time with one of the two silver bullets and pinned permanently with a Sword of Obedience item." This is incoherent and bordering on game-guide content.
• Delete the last paragraph in this section; it's completely game-guide info.

I'm saving the page now—will resume critique later. Ashnard _Talk ^Contribs 10:10, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Critique resumed:

• Actually, the gameplay is incohesive; some of it is just minutiae too.
• The plot seems okay enough, but I'm not sure if an absence of sources can be permitted. I'm no expert in this field, though.
  • The whole practice of citing with gameplay comments strikes me as a bit pointless, but I can probably finish that soon.
• I'd delete the "Endings" section and mention something briefly in the "plot" section. It goes beyond the detail required for a plot.
• "The previews of the game provided at E3 2004 lead IGN to name it the best PlayStation 2 adventure game in show." This is more suitable for the "reception" section—not development.
  • Done. --Lenin and McCarthy | (Complain here) 19:56, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
• You've ordered the reception by which reviewer said what. Try a reverse order, in which it can be ordered comments on graphics, and then gameplay, controls etc.
• The "Connection to other game" section is strange as it only refers to one game outside the series; references within the series aren't really notable, and should be reserved for "plot" or "character" sections.
• Please try to expand the "music" section.

Oppose: Nice job, but this need more work before it can reach FA. I hope my comments help. Thanks. Ashnard _Talk ^Contribs 11:19, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.