Wikipedia:Featured and good topic removal candidates/Devil May Cry/archive1

Devil May Cry
Unfortunately, this topic no longer meets the featured topic criterion 1.d. ("obvious gap") since Devil May Cry 4 was released on January 31, 2008 and hasn't been added to the FT yet, due to its failure to reach GA status. The grace period of three months has passed, so it is time for this topic to be demoted. Kariteh (talk) 13:15, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Has the editors involved, the Wikiproject and featured talk page, been notified of this? Zginder 2008-05-17T13:23Z (UTC)
 * Judgesurreal777 left a note on the featured talk page on April 18, and another one on the Wikiproject talk page on May 5. Kariteh (talk) 13:30, 17 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Lovely, evidently no one noticed that I already began placing footnote templates in the article, and did so with a note saying: "begining FA push", with the rest of the project either inactive or not editing the page it will take a while but the article should be at GAC in around two weeks after Puerto Rican Amazon is nominated, thanks a lot for not leaving a message on the article's or my talk page before opening a FTR. -  Ca ri bb e a  n ~ H. Q.  13:40, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Mmh, no need to give ironic thanks, I could thank you in the same way for not replying on the two talk pages links I mentioned above. The topic no longer meets the criteria, and thus it should have been nominated for removal on April 30 or May 1 (three months after the game's release date). If Devil May Cry will be at GAC in two weeks from now (May 31) and will pass, then the topic will be re-nominated at FTC and will pass again, that's all. The problem is that the topic can't and shouldn't be left in an unproper status for an entire month (from May 1 to May 31), especially since there are a lot of people currently criticizing the quality of the video game articles. It's just a question of credibility: featured topics are supposed to be "Wikipedia's best work". Kariteh (talk) 14:00, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * It takes a minimum of a fortnight to demote. If you can get it to be a GAC by the n I do not think it will be demoted unless if fails. Zginder 2008-05-17T16:26Z (UTC)

...So one more day than we would have held otherwise? Judgesurreal777 (talk) 16:22, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Hold — I'd recommend a hold until June 1. That would give editors a fortnight to build up the needed article to GA quality (and please contact me if you need a reviewer -- I hate to see FTs cast away). JKBrooks85 (talk) 07:53, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Exactly! :P JKBrooks85 (talk) 03:13, 22 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Remove per nominator. Zginder 2008-05-30T17:15Z (UTC)
 * It's June 1 and Devil May Cry 4 is nowhere near GA status. I hate to see this topic tossed out, but once DMC4 is promoted, the topic can be re-nominated. --haha169 (talk) 23:42, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Close as consensus to remove - It has indeed had more than enough time to get the new article to GA. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 05:08, 2 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Terrific, its utterly ridiculous that this was demoted when the game has only been in the market six months, other topics such as Featured topics/Final Fantasy titles have games that were released over a decade ago and aren't good or featured articles and they aren't being demoted, just brilliant. -  Ca ri bb e a  n ~ H. Q.  05:35, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh don't worry about Final Fantasy titles; I'll nominate it for a review on due time (June 10). Kariteh (talk) 09:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Don’t worry. As I said, once DMC4 is promoted, you can re-nominate the topic. Its not incredibly difficult. But for now, I think we have to demote this topic. --haha169 (talk) 02:59, 3 June 2008 (UTC)