Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Final Fantasy VII/Archive 1

Final Fantasy VII

I would like to nominate this article for the following reasons;

1) It is already on the Good Articles section

2) Length is at a considerable length

3) It is well known and very popular

4) In my opinion, it is well written meets the neutral POV and is factually correct with the citations

5) Not the target of vandalism (not as much as the popular articles)

6) Edit wars are non-existant.

(Feel free to add any more reasons why this should be on the featured. Thank you!) Please comment and if you oppose, please state why so it could be fixed. -ScotchMB 12:31, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Oppose Lots of uncited claims in the Sales and critical reception section. --Peter Andersen 13:38, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Support It is time for this to be on the featured-68.160.209.234 14:10, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Oppose This article is coming along, but it hardly seems ready - Nominator claims that all citations check out, yet a quick glance turns up at least one (citation needed) {{fact}} box, with many other statements still needing a reference as well. The constant opening and closing of spoiler tags are a serious problem; from what I've seen only one is needed for these types of articles. This nomination was made in haste; a little more work could have resolved the simpler issues, allowing for more sophisticated concerns to be voiced here. Kil ^(talk) 16:14, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Object. Too many lists, should be converted into prose, also, other user's concerns about references are vaild. Given the fact that this game is quite possibly the most well-known non-Mario video game of the last fifteen years, the article does not seem comprehensive. RyanGerbil10 (Drop on in!) 18:22, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Object per others. Prose and quality of writing needs work, amongst other things. — Wackymacs 16:16, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Object - List need to be converted into prose. Lead is insufficient. The first sentence after the lead contains a link to a dab page (RPG - didn't check for others past there...) Too many small spoiler sections. Writing is often clunky, for example: "The game was also noteworthy in that it..." and "Another notable aspect of the game comes at the end of its first disc. There it features a scene in which..." These sentences contain a lot of weasel and filler text.

This game is an important one in CVG history, but that alone is not reason to feature an article. Pagrashtak 16:37, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Update - while doing some reference checking, I discovered that the sentence "Producer Hironobu Sakaguchi allowed Aeris to die as an expression of grief after his mother died during the production of Final Fantasy III." is a direct copy from IMDB. I hope there are not any further copyvios in the article. A tip of the hat to the editor who was bold enough to put a link to the plagiarized source at the end of the setence, though. Pagrashtak 21:25, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

• SupportI see nothing wrong. The prose seems fine to me, and in this type of article lists are fine. Good Job. Tobyk777 19:52, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Support Great article --DragonWR12LB 22:58, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose - Great article but there are several spots lacking sources, particularly the "sales and critical recpetion section." savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 16:30, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
• Object per others. Final Fantasy X is a much better article. --Sean WI 18:53, 25 June 2006 (UTC)