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The article has many issues with verifiability, including 67(!) citation needed tags. (t · c) buidhe 03:08, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've always wondered why this was a GA in the first place, and not a featured list (for which it was once nominated). Even the similarly titled Characters of God of War—both of which (and a few others) use a different naming scheme than most lists of video game characters, for some reason—is FL, not GA. – Rhain ☔ 01:56, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think such articles should be FL. While yes, it is listing things, the articles go significantly beyond simply being curated lists. The articles are mostly prose. - Whadup, it's ya girl, Dusa (talk) 11:43, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

To me, if you can discuss the characters as a whole (not indiviudally) in terms of their development and reception -- atop how you are discussing the individual characters themselves, that you are effectively adding more prose beyond the list of characters, then that merits calling such an article "Characters of X", which I am confident an article like Characters of Overwatch qualifies for, and under that same principle, the God of War is appropriate. If you're just basically listing individual characters with some having their own development and reception, but nothing about the group, then that is a "List of..." --Masem (t) 13:19, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I personally disagree—a list having some useful information about the group does not disqualify it from being a list, it just makes it a higher-quality one—but regardless, all five of our FLs (with one possible exception) fall under that criteria, so by those principles, they should have been titled "Characters of..." and nominated for GA/FA instead. – Rhain ☔ 23:32, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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 ::I don't think such articles should be FL. While yes, it ''is'' listing things, the articles go significantly beyond simply being curated lists. The articles are mostly prose. - [[User:MsDusa|Whadup, it&#39;s ya girl, Dusa]] ([[User talk:MsDusa|talk]]) 11:43, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
 ::To me, if you can discuss the characters as a whole (not indiviudally) in terms of their development and reception -- atop how you are discussing the individual characters themselves, that you are effectively adding more prose beyond the list of characters, then that merits calling such an article "Characters of X", which I am confident an article like [[Characters of Overwatch]] qualifies for, and under that same principle, the God of War is appropriate. If you're just basically listing individual characters with some having their own development and reception, but nothing about the group, then that is a "List of..." --[[User:Masem|M<span style="font-variant: small-caps">asem</span>]] ([[User Talk:Masem|t]]) 13:19, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
+:::I personally disagree—a list having some useful information about the group does not disqualify it from being a list, it just makes it a [[WP:FL|higher-quality one]]—but regardless, all five of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Featured content#Featured lists|our FLs]] (with [[List of Pokémon|one possible exception]]) fall under that criteria, so by those principles, they should have been titled "Characters of..." and nominated for GA/FA instead. – [[User:Rhain|<span style="color: #008;">'''''Rhain'''''</span>]] [[User talk:Rhain|☔]] 23:32, 23 September 2021 (UTC)