Talk:Kirby (character)/GA2

GA Review
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Reviewer: OlifanofmrTennant (talk · contribs) 17:49, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Okay I will be reviewing this now.

Quickfail
1. It is a long way from meeting any one of the six good article criteria ✅ 2. It contains copyright violations ✅ Looking over the images four images used in the article 2 of them are in the public domain. The two that are not include a picture of the character which is to be expected with character articles, and the second is an image of the game Kirby's Dream Land while I personally disagree with it's inclusion the rational is fine, so it passes. 3. It has, or needs, cleanup banners that are unquestionably still valid. These include cleanup, POV, unreferenced or large numbers of citation needed, clarify, or similar tags. ✅ The article has no maintenance tags. 4. It is not stable due to edit warring on the page. ✅ Checking the revision history no edit wars in the past month atleast. There is some vandalism, but not in the past week, if any should appear during my review I will revert it and request page protection. Overall it passes. 5. It has issues noted in a previous GA review that still have not been adequately addressed, as determined by a reviewer who has not previously reviewed the article ✅ The page has significantly improved since the last GA review

Spotchecks
So first I will start with a few basic spot checks. I have randomlly selected refs, 5, 12, and 44.

REF 5
Claim: "Satoru Iwata added that Kirby was given a simple, circular design so that anyone would be able to draw him" Source: Proven by source: Satoru Iwata does indeed say that however later in the same interview he states that the simplicity makes him hard to draw. Backed up by other sources:, the claim is made in a BBC article that says it was stated in Negative World, which I am not familiar with, but none the less other sources do agree with this claim.

REF 12
Claim: Kumazaki said that the more battle-ready appearance is intended to appeal to a wider audience in North America, based on feedback and market research from Nintendo of America Source: Proven by source: Kumazaki does say in the article that the angry design is more appealing in the west Backed up by other sources:

REF 44
Claim: In Ultimate he plays a starring role in the "World of Light" story mode in which he is the only survivor of Galeem's massacre out of all of the other fighters. Sakurai stated that, after a process of elimination, Kirby was the obvious choice due to his Warp Star providing a reasonable explanation for his escape Source: Proven by source: Yes the source claims that Kirbys survived due to the warp star as it was the most logical decision. Backed up by other sources: Yes, the source itself cites this source.
 * is this review still in progress? Fieryninja (talk) 08:29, 14 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Yeah I just keep forgetting Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 14:48, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Criteria One:Well-written
1. So knowing very little about Kirby I read the article and understand the basic idea of the character. It does comply with the manual of style.

Verifiable with no original research
1. There is no original research. I addressed this in the spot checks. None of the sources are unreliable when put in a copyvio checker I did find a false alarm, that page took from wikipedia. No violations

Broad in its coverage
Clear consise covers everything neccesary with proper links in places.

Stable
It does face occasional vandalism but thats to be expected and all vandals are typically reverted within minutes.

Illustrated
No copy right violations in the images all proper sourrcing is used. It is difficult to include more images given the topic of the article but other wise I think the page is great and can be promoted.