Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals/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 20:57, 17 July 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals

As an upcoming video game article, a page like this is naturally going to be frequently vandilised and edited, and was locked for some time recently before new information was released, and will be locked again when E3 has finished.
Anyway, this article is well-set out with Wikitables and references, external links and appropraite WikiMarkup. Alot of work has been put into this page, so, again, I feel that this is a good candidate. Please comment on your opinion below. ----- Cuddly Panda (talk · contribs) 08:40, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

• Object due to stability(criteria 1e) and comprehensiveness issues(criteria 1b). With the expansion pack currently scheduled to be released in about three months, this article can be expected to see a significant volume of changes and updates in the near future. Until the inevitable updates are made and information that is not currently available, such as critical reception and sales volume, is added this article will not be ready for FA status. Keep up the good work and consider trying for FA status after the expansion pack is released. --Allen3 ^talk 10:18, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

• Strong Oppose Due to the fact that the game hasn't been released, nothing is known about the gameplay; this article will change rapidly in the near future. In addition, the lead is quite short, and the footnotes should not have raw URL links. HHermans 10:27, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

• Object If the game isn't even out yet, there can not be a legit critique of it.Rlevse 11:49, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
• Strong oppose Same as above, also Lists and general dearth of content. Madcoverboy 15:58, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose - fair-use image problems:
  • Image:Zoo Tycoon rhino.jpg has no fair-use rationale, and is so blurry I can't imagine what purpose it helps us accomplish.
  • Image:Extinct Animals.jpg, Image:ZT2ExtinctBanner.jpg, Image:Dino tranquilizer.jpg, and Image:T-rexes compared.jpg have no fair-use rationale. When crafting your rationales, I think you may also find that some of these images are redundant to one another, and thus may not meet the standard of "minimal use". (ESkog)^(Talk) 16:26, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Oppose per everyone else who has noticed this game hasn't even come out yet. --Lenin and McCarthy | (Complain here) 19:40, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose - No need for strong opposes; just crushes the nom's spirits even further without adding to weight of argument. Anyway, I'm could quite have easily opposed simply on the fact the game hasn't even been released yet. Things about its ratings, reception, gameplay & even glitches could all come into play in the near future & you may as well revamp the entire article and therefore would not be a suitable candidate. That aside, it has too many fair use pictures & the sections are very short - I'd suggest merging them together or expanding them. Other than that, keep up the good work & come back when the article is up to date with the game release. Regards, Spawn Man 12:07, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
• Snowball, even if the game were out this wouldn't be suitable for a featured article. It's good for a preview article, but it's grossly lacking things like gameplay, sales figures, etc. --Golbez 05:46, 17 July 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.