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Games coverage of SSX Tricky
Here's the article you requested. It is split across two columns of text on p.60, so I've merged them for readability. It's quite short, but hopefully it helps. Sorry about the funky angles as this was taken by camera instead of scanner. Let me know if you need anything else. -Thibbs (talk) 20:13, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
 * McDonald, Thomas L. "The Electronic Games 100: Sports - SSX Tricky." Games. Issue 176 (Vol 25, #10). Pg.60. December 2001. ISSN 0199-9788.
 * Thanks a bunch  BlookerG  talk 00:10, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

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Re:SSX 3
Yes, I think that would knock out most of that paragraph. In addition, the whole section is a bit wordy- for example, you have

"Once all "Race" events are completed on a peak, the player's snowboarder is challenged to a "Backcountry race" by their rival snowboarder, which consists of a one on one race against the rival. Winning the "Backcountry race" unlocks a "Peak race", where the player aims to beat their rival's best time from the top of the peak to the bottom of the mountain. Both "Backcountry races" and "Peak races" have only one heat. Completing the "Peak race" unlocks the next peak."

Which could be rewritten as

"After completing the "Race" events, the player's snowboarder is challenged to a one-on-one "Backcountry race" by their rival. Winning unlocks a "Peak race", where the player aims to beat their rival's best time from the peak to the bottom of the mountain. Both races have only one heat. Completing the races unlocks the next peak."

That's about a 25% reduction without losing anything, and I think you could do the same throughout the section. Also, you don't need to "quote" the names of races. -- Pres N  00:32, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

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One life to live (talk) 11:55, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Re: Lego Racers review
Here you go. The OPM review appears to be for Lego Racers 2, but I scanned it anyway. Threw in the EGM review for good measure. Hope these are useful. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 00:29, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * EGM (issue 126, January 2000)
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 * Thanks a lot for these, they're going to be very helpful for improving the article. I've noticed that the EGM review has 4 individual scores for the game, but Template:Video game reviews lists a typical score from 0.0 to 10.0. Do you know if there some sort of way to average the numbers together, or is there a single overall score I can find somewhere? Thanks again. BlookerG  talk 00:42, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * There's no overall score, and I think averaging might be against the rules. When I've put EGM scores into that template before, I've included them all: 4/4.5/7/2, for example. The template reads that formatting just fine. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 07:36, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Actually, according to GameRankings, EGM gave it an overall score of 5.5/10. I'll use this score in the review template, but discuss the reviewers' opinions in the section. Thanks for your help! BlookerG  talk 13:42, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of SSX 3
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Re: Grow Home
It's a relatively new idea, and purely optional; in the same discussion that changed the template's guideline to round to the nearest whole percent, the suggestion was floated to put in the review count (see Children of Mana for example, currently at FAC) since an average of 8 reviews is a bit different from an average of 80 reviews. That wasn't added to the guidelines, though it got some general support, I just push it as a personal preference that I think helps the table a bit. Feel free to ignore it! -- Pres N  02:38, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I fixed the partial links, but Soetermans changed them back. See this revision. Which is correct? Does it matter what the format is? BlookerG  talk 21:40, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi BlookerG, I think WP:NOPIPE makes it clear. For instance Rock, Paper Shotgun's and Rock, Paper, Shotgun's both link to Rock, Paper, Shotgun. You'd be making it easier on yourself, and for other editors too :) Hopes this helps. Thanks, and happy editing. --Soetermans. T / C 00:13, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

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3D Tetris
Here is a link to a Nintendo Power issue that talks a lot about 3D Tetris. I dunno how useful it is, and I'm not super interested in going through it all to see if it can add to the article, so here you go. :D - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 01:04, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Just about to read this; it's a great find and I commend you greatly for showing it to me. Thanks! BlookerG  talk 01:34, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, I've added all of the sources I could find to 3D Tetris, so from this point it's pretty much going to be about getting it as cleaned up as humanly possible! - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 00:30, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks for your help. I will definitely assist in cleaning up. BlookerG  talk 00:49, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Snowboard Super Cross
Hi BlookerG,

Could you elaborate on why this is notable? The source you've added says "In fact, SSX stands for snowboard super cross". That's it. The article itself doesn't mention Snowboard Super Cross at all. Snowboarding might be a given, but 'super cross'? SSX (series) says "SSX is intended to be short for "Snowboard Supercross",[1] but the complete title has almost never actually been referred to in any way in the marketing or promotion of the games or within the games themselves. According to 2012's SSX the acronym in Team SSX means: Snowboarding, Surfing, and Motocross." If the title isn't used officially, why should Wikipedia point out what the letters *orginally* stood for? --Soetermans. T / C 15:11, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I guess it isn't notable enough then, sorry. BlookerG  talk 15:31, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Lego Racers (video game)
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SSX 3
Hi BlookerG, you filed SSX 3 at Featured Article Review, which is actually the process for reviewing existing FAs to determine if they still meet the standards. You nomination has been moved to the correct venue, WP:FAC. Please see Featured article candidates/SSX 3/archive1. -- Laser brain  (talk)  14:08, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, sorry about that. I did it in good faith, but messed up. Thanks for understanding! BlookerG  talk 18:58, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

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Lego Racers?
Hello, BlookerG! Congratulations on the promotion of Lego Racers. I was wondering ... before you began editing the article I had the intention of reaching GA as well, and added most of the info to the Development section and the Gameplay section, plus some info to the Reception section. However, I went on hiatus and stopped working on it. I was only wondering if you would mind me adding Lego Racers to my own list of GAs, because I do feel I laid a lot of the basis for the promotion. Best regards, --Khanassassin ☪ 13:00, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for asking! You're very welcome to if you feel it's right. Lego Racers is such a rad game, I had to pay it tribute somehow. BlookerG  talk 17:10, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I play Lego Racers annually, I don't think there's been a year without me re-installing it, haha! :) --Khanassassin ☪ 09:58, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

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The score was already discussed in the section's first few sentences ("At Metacritic, which assigns... the album received an average score of 96"). Please avoid using the rationale that because other stuff exists in similar fashion, it is acceptable for another article to have it the same way (Doolite (album) became a featured article eight years ago, and as you can see here, the version that was reviewed and promoted did not mention Metacritic at all). The lead should be a summary of an article's "most important aspects". The importance of information and what content gets added to an article is determined by the level of third-party coverage it received; Wikipedia article are "not a dumping ground for any and all information that readers consider important or useful. For the sake of neutrality, Wikipedia cannot rely upon any editor's opinion about what topics are important." (WP:THIRDPARTY) What source independent of Metacritic (a third-party) establishes the importance of their information? Is there a preponderance of sources that highlights the fact the album received a score of 96 from Metacritic or even that it was the highest-rated rap album on their site? It is off-topic anyway and can only be meant to bludgeon readers with the fact that the album was very well received by critics, which is already established by the critics who are discussed in the section and the sentence "it received widespread acclaim from music critics". The idea that the album received widespread acclaim from critics is something that's been covered by a number of other sources, but its ranking at Metacritic isnt, so it shouldn't be accorded anymore weight than any of the other scores or specific critics in that section. There's no need to emphasis this point of view and give undue weight to Metacritic, which isn't the topic of the article. Furthermore, this list is fluid and only reflects how Metacritic has calculated the receptions of all those albums (as opposed to other sources that may have documented their receptions differently, i.e. a particular point of view) I don't meant to throw so much policy and guidelines at you, but I've had the same said to me when I was learning also. Dan56 (talk) 01:36, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

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