Talk:Nintendo 2DS/GA2

GA Review

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Reviewer: New Age Retro Hippie (talk · contribs) 12:35, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Starting. Please allow a couple of days before I get to my review. - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 12:35, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

From a very quick look over, my first concern is that the fair use image is not necessary or at least does not demonstrate its necessity as strongly as it should. One element of the image is its animated icons (which obviously can't be shown in that image), and the other elements - the arrangement and such - seems fairly commonplace and easily explained through text that we don't exactly need an image to show this in my opinion.

I will go through the article and do a serious look-through soon. Sorry for the wait. - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 04:01, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I suppose you were talking about the system software image. If so, I agree with you. It is not exactly necessary so there shouldn't be much of a problem removing it.--Arkhandar (Talk • Contribs) 15:05, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What makes the following reliable sources?:

Expert Reviews
JDLI
TechCrunch
RocketNews24
NintendoEnthusiast
My Nintendo News
TechSpot
Ifixit

Also, the ref formatting needs improvement; some are erroneously called by their URL, while others don't list the work responsible (ie one of the NintendoWorldReport references). - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 18:06, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please be a little more specific about the refs that need improvement. And what makes those sites that you mentioned unreliable?--Arkhandar (Talk • Contribs) 19:44, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't say that they were unreliable; I asked why they were reliable. I'm not aware of their editorial policies. - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 23:10, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, ok. I misunderstood, sorry about that. They are basically news websites similarly to IGN and Kotaku, except for iFixit, which usually does hardware breakdowns, and NintendoEnthusiast and My Nintendo News, which are Nintendo-exclusive blogs thus questioning reliability. Besides those last two, I don't think they are questionable. iFixit is often used in many consoles' hardware sections so it shouldn't be much of a problem.--Arkhandar (Talk • Contribs) 13:27, 24 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

My main concern is that among the sources, I don't know of their reliability or editorial policy. Is it possible that you can show the editorial policy for these sources? - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 15:59, 25 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging User:Arkhandar to remind him of the GA complications. - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 03:10, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

As the concerns presented have not been addressed, I'm failing this GA. Before you bring the article to GA again, please make sure that you check to see that all sources are specifically cleared as a reliable source. - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 14:13, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]