Talk:Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax/GA1

GA Review

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I plan on reviewing this article in the near future, most likely tomorrow.

Reviewer: Canadian Paul 03:57, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, here we go...

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

One of the best articles I've ever reviewed for GA! A couple small things:

There are a couple of links in the article that go to redirects that need to be fixed: MS DOS, Compact audio cassette, Computer keyboard, Boots Group.
Done Jappalang (talk) 01:43, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Under "development" you write "The game was published there under the title Axe of Rage and included a tattoo in its packaging". The first question that came to my mind immediately was "of what?" Is that information available? If so, I think it would benefit the article to include it.
Unfortunately, no... the reviewers were impressed that the publishers included a tattoo, but failed to describe what the tatto was of. Jappalang (talk) 01:43, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Not a big deal really, but just an FYI, when I moved to the United States and started using the word "marks", as in "Barbarian II received high marks...", no one had any clue what I was talking about. I know that this article is written in British English, but you may want to use another word, as it reads a bit colloquial to me. Or not, up to you. By the way, when looking up where you were from to make this comment, I noticed that you wrote Space Hulk (video game), which I also did the review for. Makes even more sense now why this article was so well written for the standards, you've been at this for a few years now!
No problem, changed "high marks" to the simple "praise". Jappalang (talk) 01:43, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
A concern about prose, under reception you write "Because the difference between executing an attack and a movement was the pressing of the joystick button, they were irked to find their characters frequently switching directions instead of attacking with a low slash." You should rarely (if ever) start a sentence with "because", because it can almost always be replaced with "as" or "due to the fact that" etc. Here it makes the sentence awkward and difficult to read.
Used "as". Jappalang (talk) 01:43, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Other than these minor concerns, I think that there's a bit of an issue with comma use, but that's more my personal opinion anyways and not a reason to hold back a GA. I'll put the article on hold for up to seven days, although I doubt that you'll need that long, to allow for these small things to be dealt with. Canadian Paul 01:16, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the compliments! I hope the article now meets the standards for a GA. Jappalang (talk) 01:43, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It most certainly does! Everything looks great now, so I am therefore passing the article as a GA. Congratulations and thank you for all your hard work! Canadian Paul 01:56, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]