Talk:Major League Baseball (video game)

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[edit] Screenshots

I've added the screenshots, but I think that they look a bit ugly maybe... maybe someone can clean them up a bit or remove one or two? I just wanted to make sure I had all my bases covered (nyuk nyuk) so I took six shots. Canadian Paul 20:42, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYN?

Seeing as one of today's Did You Know... is "that Major League Baseball for Nintendo was the first ever video game licensed by the MLB?" it's probably important to know that it's not correct. Mattel's League Baseball for the Intellivision at the very least preceded it by eight years. Note the disclaimer text on the cover. Perhaps what was meant was that this NES MLB game was the first to use actual MLB teams since the Intellivision MLB game just used generic players. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Squirrel Killer (talk • contribs) 13:50, August 20, 2007 (UTC).

[edit] GA review on hold

Hello. I saw this page on the GA review article and released it hasn't been reviewed in almost a month. I'm trying to clear up some of the backlog on the VG Project GARs and thought I'd help out on this one. This article was a good read, and I think it could be considered GA if the following changes are made:

  • Reduce the number of overall images. The images themselves have nice FU templates, but too many can make an article difficult to qualify for fair use. Try and chop it down to 2 or 3 screenshots that are the most relevant. You also need to add a source for each image you keep. If you got these yourself from an emulator, just make a note of it on their image pages.

Y Done Cheers, CP 00:14, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Fix wikilinks to "Sports game" and "Multiplayer game" to avoid spelling re-directs.

Y Done Cheers, CP 22:21, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Fix spelling of "Intellivision".

Y Done Cheers, CP 22:21, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Graphics section, second sentence: capitalize Caucasian.

Y Done Cheers, CP 22:21, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Only the first letter of each sub-section should be capitalized. ("Gameplay Issues" ---> "Gameplay issues")

Y Done Cheers, CP 22:21, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Add a region tag to the release date. If the game only came out in North America, just place the NA tag (NA) in front of the date.

Y Done And will take a brief look to see if it has a Japan release date. Cheers, CP 22:21, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

  • The links to List of NES games/Famicom games aren't needed in this article. Only articles dealing with systems or lists of game require them.

Y Done Should I link to other relevant Baseball games in a See also section, or just leave it out? Cheers, CP 22:21, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

One you've made some changes, go ahead and reply on either this page or my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Good luck! Nall 22:02, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA pass

GA review (see here for criteria)
  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose): b (MoS):
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects): b (focused):
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    a (fair representation): b (all significant views):
  5. It is stable.
  6. It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.
    a (tagged and captioned): b lack of images (does not in itself exclude GA): c (non-free images have fair use rationales):
  7. Overall:
    a Pass/Fail:

Good work! I'd say this article now qualifies. A peer review might be useful for improving it further, but for now it has everything a Good Article should. Appropriately the first baseball game GA, too.

About the "See also" section, if you want to add similar games or series from this era I think that would work, or another sports game from this developer. Nall 00:55, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations! GA status fully deserved. Una LagunaTalk 05:42, 26 September 2007 (UTC)