Wikipedia:Featured and good topic candidates/Guitar Hero

Guitar Hero
Note that this was a Featured Topics nomination - rst20xx (talk) 16:43, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

previous FTC (August 22, 2008)

All articles now have, at minimum, undergone a peer review; as previously noted World Tour (due in Oct), Decades (due by end of 08), and Metallica (due by March 09) are future games and thus cannot gain GA status until after their release, at which point I expect those helping with these to be able to get them to quality within 3 months, easily. --M ASEM 02:44, 27 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Note, for lack of any better image, I believe that Image:Guitar-hero-controller.jpg this would work (reduced in size to the appropriate dimensions). --M ASEM 01:34, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I wonder how legitimate that "free use" tag is. I would have thought that the company would retain the copyright over the distinctive image of their controller.  --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 07:36, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Given that the controller's shape is based on a Gibson SG guitar, and free images of that (and other Gibson guitars) exist at commons, as well as free images of controllers and game systems, I don't believe this as a problem; there is certainly trademark issues, but that does not interfere with free use of such images. --M ASEM  12:37, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I did ask elsewhere on this just to confirm and yes, such images are free - US copyright law doesn't cover utilitarian objects such as game controllers and cars, and thus photos can be freely made; thus this image is sufficient to use here. --M ASEM 00:22, 3 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Support Zginder 2008-08-27T02:55Z (UTC)
 * Support-All related subjects are covered. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:16, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support. As I had noted in the last discussion for this topic, over 18% of the articles in the topic are of less than WP:GA-quality, but I have given this some additional thought and the topic most certainly meets the criteria at WP:WIAFT. In addition, I have confidence that will work on those articles in the future in an effort to bring them up to WP:GA-quality as well. Cirt (talk) 03:38, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support, now the three that aren't GA/FA have been PR'ed. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 03:47, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support, and thanks for the hoop-jumping - rst20xx (talk) 13:53, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support. Personally, I'd like to see more of the featured content come from the game articles than the lists, but that's not part of the criteria.  Pagra shtak  15:16, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't plan on resting on my laurels for getting other game articles to FA (they all likely can), but right now, VGs and FACs have a love-hate relationship and I don't want to put too many VG articles up on there. --M ASEM  15:19, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment There seems to exist a 'cheap' trick to getting % of material as featured by adding FL that could otherwise form their own subtopic. Nergaal (talk) 22:37, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Not every song list has been made a separate article; the split decision is based on size and style considerations (eg, it was originally on On Tour, but the length of On Tour made it unnecessary to do so). Thus, to try to extract one sub-topic FTC (the songlists from each game) from these is rather difficult.  But as noted above, GA is not the endpoint for these articles, I expect to get a few more to FA in the next coming months.  --M ASEM  00:06, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support - Meets the criteria. I do not think that the song lists could be made into a subtopic as there would be no lead article, and not all the song lists have their own article. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 19:03, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support: All my concerns from the previous FTC are no longer present and I feel it meets FT criteria. Also, I'm sure Masem, who is quite capable of producing FAs, can get many more of these articles up to featured quality. (Guyinblack25 talk 17:46, 29 August 2008 (UTC))
 * Support - Great! ĈĠ890100Review me! 19:46, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support' - yet another great video game FT. igordebraga ≠ 01:17, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Promoted on 19:43 September 3, 2008. Mitch 32(UP) 20:44, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Supplementary nominations

 * 1) Featured topic candidates/Guitar Hero/addition1
 * 2) Featured topic candidates/Guitar Hero/addition2
 * 3) Featured topic candidates/Guitar Hero/addition3
 * 4) Featured topic candidates/Guitar Hero/addition4