Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Nintendo DSi/archive2

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted by SandyGeorgia 15:25, 30 November 2009 [1].

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Nintendo DSi

Nominator(s): « ₣M₣ » 20:17, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

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I am nominating this for featured article because......any legitimate issues brought up in the first nom were fixed in September. This article has been copyedited, researched, and otherwise nitpicked by some editors and its sources and prose have been run through the gauntlet. « ₣M₣ » 20:17, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

By the way, that one instance of Kotaku cannot be replaced for now. When it comes to retail DSi-exclusive games, nobody else seems to care enough about the subject to do their own research, so they just source Kotaku instead. « ₣M₣ » 00:47, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Comments

• Is the peer review closed? (I noticed it with the assessment gadget.)
• I changed the alt text a bit; see "Verifiability" in the guideline.
• No dab links or dead external links, which is good.
• I think the main author name format in citations is Firstname Surname, but there remain a few Surname, Firstname. Pick one format, or yell for help. :) (added on 02:27, 11 November 2009 (UTC))

--an odd name 02:15, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

The PR is now closed. Most citations have a Firstname Surname format with the exception of interview citations since I see no author parameter available. :/ « ₣M₣ » 02:45, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Used "lastn" for the full names. On a side note I saw Yui Ehara and thought of Yuri Ebihara...LOL. --an odd name 02:55, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Image review - The images were checked at the last FAC - have they changed since then? Awadewit (talk) 03:05, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

No images were changed since then. « ₣M₣ » 15:42, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Source comments Dabs and links fine. What makes this reliable?

• http://www.defectivebydesign.org/about
• MCV and GamePro need italics.
• I appreciate the presence of publishers and locations for some of the refs, but if you can't do it for all of them, I suggest you remove them for uniformity. It's up to you: either all or none. RB88 (T) 21:11, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

That about page pretty much sum up their POV, doesn't it? Its removed and formatting addressed. All or none? Opted for the former. « ₣M₣ » 07:13, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

• Oppose, 1a, 1c/d
  • The prose is not up to stuff. Examples include poor use of semicolon ("The DSi has five brightness settings compared to the DS Lite's four, however battery life is reduced on all brightness levels;[26] such as 9–14 hours on the lowest brightness setting compared to the 15–19 hours of its predecessor."), sentences are often unclear ("The console has two larger TFT-LCD screens at 82.5 millimetres (3.25 in), instead of the former 76.2 millimetres (3.00 in), capable of displaying 260,000 colors" does not make it explicit to what the DSi is being compared to), et al. It needs a copyedit for more logical flow. I'm also concerned about the use of limited sources for generalized information and mixing of tenses in the reception section ("Most reviewers cited similar strengths and weaknesses of the cameras.", "Since this DS iteration adds new features while preserving a similar overall design and portability to its predecessor, many critics recommended the DSi to new consumers of its product family.")
  • The article is lagging behind in terms of reporting updated information. For example, sales figures are from late September and in literally twenty seconds of Google searches I found a plethora reliable sources that could add to the coverage. ex., [2][3][4]
  • Conversion templates are using BrEng, when the rest of the article is written in American English (WP:ENGVAR)
  • Why does Launch of the Nintendo DSi go to Nintendo DS launches? There's two paragraphs on the DSi, it can be covered in its own article; this page is not suffering from length issues.

--Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 23:47, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

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