Talk:Hyborian War/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Gog the Mild (talk · contribs) 14:06, 17 March 2020 (UTC)


 * "Gameplay is multifaceted and complex, drawing from various factors" I don't understand what the "various factors" are that are drawn from.
 * I should have caught that earlier, thanks. I explained, and reworded slightly.
 * "with the ability to augment armies with magic as well" Is that just for set piece battles?
 * I clarified as per the source that it's for armies in general. That would be both types of invasions and presumably even raids, although interestingly, I think for open field battles and raids, any magic used wouldn't be chosen by the player—it would be the computer. Only set piece battles would give the player an option in a turn sheet to choose battle magic. But short of a note, that seems too long to explain, and I'm not even sure if it's true or not, although I suspect it is.
 * "RSI added an email option to submit game turns" Is it known when this occurred?
 * Unfortunately no. I checked RSI's website and the hard copy game materials I have. I also searched around on the web, mostly on the Hyborian War sites, but elsewhere too. This doesn't appear to be recorded somewhere verifiable on a WP:RS, or anywhere, for that matter.
 * "games of specific formats" What does this mean?
 * It was rhetorical. I overdo that - sorry.
 * You know us military types: a stray thought is the same as an order.... :)


 * Clarified with an example in the article. E.g., privacy game: no contact between players. Could also be random assignment of countries, and the like.
 * "play-by-mail" or "play by mail"?
 * Play-by-mail here on Wikipedia across numerous articles. I changed all but three instances—the remaining three are awards that go by "Play By Mail" in their title. I'll ask your advice/opinion. Does that need to be resolved and consistent across the board? If so, is it a copyright or plagiarism issue if we change the Origins Award and Paper Mayhem award titles from Play by Mail to the format we've been using in Wikipedia article of Play-By-Mail? I'd hate to go in the other direction and change Wikipedia's format to play by mail as it would involve thousands of changes across many articles. Your thoughts?
 * There is no requirement to be consistent between articles. So long as there isn't a policy or guideline, and I don't think there is, specifically covering this, you can use either in your next article. And you are correct, a formal title is not changed.

Gog the Mild (talk) 14:06, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
 * @Gog the Mild thanks for taking this on! --Airborne84 (talk) 22:01, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
 * No problem. Takes me back to my PBM days and occasionally contributing to Flagship, the UK board game and PBM zine.


 * The three Road of Kings links need to indicate that registration is required. See Template:Cite web

Gog the Mild (talk) 23:27, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
 * @Gog the Mild done! Or I'm pretty sure I did that right anyway. Thanks for pointing out the location. First time doing that! :) --Airborne84 (talk) 01:37, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

A nice piece of work. Promoting. If you have any more like this, feel free to give me a ping: I'm not promising, but I enjoyed reviewing this one. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:35, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
 * @Gog the Mild, many thanks! I'd like to take this to FA sooner or later. I saw that you've pulled many an article up to FA standards. Any advice? E.g., it's occurred to me that the lack of images could be an issue. I could probably add some more from game materials. If you have any other thoughts, I'd appreciate it, here or on the article's or my talk page. Thanks again. --Airborne84 (talk) 15:54, 18 March 2020 (UTC)