Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Hyborian War

Hyborian War

This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 19, 2020 by Ealdgyth (talk) 14:04, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hyborian War is a play-by-mail/email game set during Robert E. Howard’s Hyborian Age in the world of Conan the Barbarian. The award-winning game, published by Reality Simulations, Inc., has been continuously available for play since 1985. The game’s genre is heroic fantasy, also known as sword and sorcery. Conan appears as a wandering hero whom players can employ until fortune takes him elsewhere. The game designer wove multiple aspects of Howard's stories into Hyborian War including diverse landscapes and cultures, grand armies, large-scale battles, powerful wizards, and courageous and heroic deeds. Gameplay is multifaceted and complex. Players choose from 36 kingdoms of small, medium, and large sizes, each with different victory conditions. A central focus of the game is conquest and expansion through military action and diplomacy. Intrigue, magic, and other tools of statecraft in a fantasy setting are available to players. The game retains a sizable player base in the 21st century. (Full article...)

Most recent similar article(s): No play-by-mail game article has ever appeared on TFA as none have achieved FA status. This is an opportunity to show the diversity of Wikipedia articles.
Main editors: Airborne84
Promoted: June 7, 2020
Reasons for nomination: First play-by-mail/email game to ever achieve Featured Article status! Also the type of topic that may be of interest to readers during the current COVID environment.
Support as nominator. Airborne84 (talk) 00:34, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I have tweaked the blurb down to 1,021 characters. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:04, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I realized that the email aspect is in the article but missing from the blurb, so added to play-by-mail, removing "worldwide" to make room. Should be 1017 characters now. Airborne84 (talk) 00:24, 18 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support: a high quality article. A bit left field, but, IMO, the sort of thing which TFA could make room for every few years, per the nominator's diversity argument. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:06, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support per all the reasons given above by Gog the Mild. By my recollection, it has been several years since a "hobby" game made it onto TFA, and certainly nothing as different as a play-by-mail/play-by-post/play-by-email game. BOZ (talk) 17:31, 16 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support although I would run without the image which is not legible at TFA size. (t · c) buidhe 11:45, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Buidhe. I certainly won't object to its running without an image for the reason you mention. Out of curiosity, is there any merit in using the image as a "hook" so that people select the image or article to see what it is? Airborne84 (talk) 23:35, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I just don't think the image is going to hook anyone in since it's just text that's too small to read. (t · c) buidhe 03:34, 18 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough Buidhe. Removing the image. Pinging Gog the Mild and BOZ as a courtesy since they supported the previous version. But unless they are concerned about the lack of an image, will go without. Thanks again! Airborne84 (talk) 01:46, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sometimes there just isn't a decent image to use for a TFA. Sometimes people will use a free image of a game's creator, but there may very well not be one available in this case. BOZ (talk) 03:19, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not that I know of. Will leave as is for the TFA coordinators. Thanks BOZ. Airborne84 (talk) 02:25, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]