Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Supreme Commander

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 promoted 22:39, 13 June 2007.

[edit] Supreme Commander

Self Nomination: A highly anticipated and recent video game. Submitted for peer review and GAC, but no responses were received. I believe it to meet the featured article criteria, so I boldly submitted it for FAC here. On the article itself, it is mostly modelled after the featured article FFX. I do a lot of assessments and peer reviews for WP:VG, so I tried to keep the standards I judge others by: no in-universe information, no gaming jargon, and concise gameplay and story sections, with emphasis on the more encyclopaedic Reception and Development sections. --User:Krator (t c) 17:25, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

On the talk page, you stated that the game was mentioned by GameSpy in July 2005, which predates the PC Gamer reference from their August 2005 issue. Was this not changed in the lead due to the publishing and release of the magazine earlier than August, or was the issue forgotten? --- RockMFR 18:40, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

The Wayback machine on archive.org shows the pcgamer.com homepage as mentioning Supreme Commander in July 2005, for example July 7^{broken in Firefox}, a day before the GameSpy articles appeared. I suspect that the magazine released in July was named the August magazine, just like the current PC gamer homepage, which shows the June 2007 magazine. --User:Krator (t c) 20:20, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

• Isn't stability an issue, especially regarding the "reception" section? 99.244.236.210 20:59, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Not anymore, I beleieve a consensus was reached. At least to the point where there aren't any more edit wars.--Clyde (talk) 19:59, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

• Support I have made a couple cleanup edits to this article, and since have seen it become one of the finest articles I have seen in quite a while. I don't have an eye for FA prose, but overall the article looks solid.--Clyde (talk) 19:57, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

• I think you should expand the "Warfare" section; it concentrates on zoom rather than warfare, up until the last sentence. Maybe add something about the population limit, the weapons used by the different factions, explain how upgrades are purchased, say that war can be waged on land, in the water, and in the air, etc. · AndonicO ^Talk 09:12, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

How's the current section? I moved around some information, and wrote some more on a few subjects yet untouched. --User:Krator (t c) 10:14, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

• Support Much better, the focus isn't completely on the zoom anymore. · AndonicO ^Talk 16:33, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

• Comment Note the in-universe perspective of the section entitled "plot". I believe this should be fixed in accordance with Wikipedia guidelines on writing fiction. -- Rmrfstar 02:41, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

I have attempted to remove and change that section a bit. What about the current version? I found it hard to change more, so please be specific with suggestions for further improvement. --User:Krator (t c) 09:18, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. It's better now, at least from my lay perspective. -- Rmrfstar 13:37, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

• Strong Support Though Supreme Commander is also so called most moddable game. I wish a article about modding articles gives a brief description about the tools and so on. Also a User Interface (UI) and in-game screenshots would be cool. Though this can come later. I strongly support a supcom be FA article. --SkyWalker 21:29, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Though Chris Taylor has stated the SupCom is the most moddable game ever(see Development section), the actual mods made for the game have been very disappointing. Nothing but the limited balance, UI and AI mods seen in most games has been developed so far. No reliable third party sources have written about anything related to modifications of Supreme Commander, probably because of the absence of high profile projects. Until a few weeks ago, there wasn't even an option for custom maps to be played, and no map editor existed. It would be incredibly biased to create a section detailing the modification capabilities, as it is a really tiny part of the game (and even of the community) at the moment. Using GPG itself as a source -which is bad already- would be next to impossible as well, as the company communicates exclusively via forum posts, which are not reliable per WP:RS. --User:Krator (t c) 22:13, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

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