Wikipedia:Featured article review/Super Nintendo Entertainment System/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured article review. Please do not modify it. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page or at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was delisted by Casliber via FACBot (talk) 3:04, 28 April 2016 (UTC).

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

 * Notified: Anomie, WikiProject Video games

Review section
This article's status currently states that this article is a featured article; however, there happen to be a lot of errors, most of which are unverifiable claims, tagged by [citation needed] and [unreliable source?] tags. I have not (yet) noticed any dead links, but this article has a lot of problems, so I am hoping that we could delist this article and leave it like that until we manage to complement it once again. Gamingforfun 3 6 5 ( talk ) 03:47, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - You notified yourself on the FAR and not the original nominator? Also, you didn't notify the Video Game Project. GamerPro64  13:44, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I must have rushed what I was doing, and, because this is my first time, I told for myself do something which is a not-to-do. I am sorry, and how do I notify the WikiProject of something? Also, am I in trouble for the clutter? Gamingforfun 3 6 5 ( talk ) 23:07, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 * See Template:FAR-instructions on how to make an FAR. GamerPro64  23:21, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I already started doing so even after I had left the page. Gamingforfun 3 6 5 ( talk ) 23:28, 20 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment – Following references deadlink: 3, 8, 31, 42, 43, 44, 47, 85. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 23:33, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Pretty bad, it is. Gamingforfun 3 6 5 ( talk ) 23:41, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Links 8, 42 and 43 repaired with archiveurl. Link 3 already has archiveurl. Link 31 is a print reference. Links 44, 47 and 85 load for me, do not appear to be dead. -- ferret (talk) 00:17, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I can also confirm that 44,47 and 85 are working fine.--67.68.163.32 (talk) 03:16, 21 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi Gamingforfun, looks like this nom missed the step of discussing problems on the talk page first. Thus, I'm going to put this on hold to allow for this to happen. Nikkimaria (talk) 14:43, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Relisted: The talk page discussion has concluded that "romhacking.net", which is used in the article as a source, is self-published by the main editor of the article and that it therefore probably does not qualify as a reliable source. DrKay (talk) 11:30, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Seems like a baby-with-the-bathwater situation to delist a FA on the basis that a single source is unreliable. Looking at the information it was referencing, I'm not convinced that I needed to know that level of detail about the technical specifications of the SNES. Could we just comment that stuff out until a more reliable source is found, if ever? Axem Titanium (talk) 23:00, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree that if the only remaining issue is with a soure covering a relatively minor part of the article it wold make more sense to remove the content than the featured article status.--65.94.253.160 (talk) 03:50, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I think we've taken the wrong tack here. It's not that the romhacking.net link needs to be replaced but what the hell is going on in the "Technical specifications" section? It is a romp through jargon that is totally unexplained and unhelpful to the general reader. None of our other console FAs have anywhere near that amount of superfluous technical detail—no wonder we're having trouble sourcing it to a mainstream source. The goal of the section should be understanding the hardware in the context of its time, not listing every spec—that's for another (specialist) website and outside our scope. Indeed, the section has only collected more detail since 2007. Trim it back, I say. This is not "brilliant prose" as is. czar  05:03, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Technical details have been purged entirely along with the unreliable Romhacking reference. This information already exists at Super Nintendo Entertainment System technical specifications anyways, apparently in exact duplicate. There are 3 new citation needed tags that were added when removed N-Sider. I am looking for replacement sources now. After that, all tags will have been addressed. -- ferret (talk) 15:31, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * All unreliable, citation needed and deadlink tags have been repaired/addressed. -- ferret (talk) 13:29, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep as all issues have been addressed. 97.95.68.240 (talk) 22:30, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment What needs to be done for this to close? The major issues brought up, various tagging (Unreliable, citation needed and deadlink) in the article related to sourcing, have all been addressed. -- ferret (talk) 18:56, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the changes. Declarations of "Close" can help the co-ordinators determine that commentators are happy for the review to be archived. There is one remaining link to romhacking (regarding translations); is that being retained? DrKay (talk) 19:20, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Removed it. I thought all of the romhacking refs were all tagged and didn't think to search for romhacking directly *silly* -- ferret (talk) 19:31, 5 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Close Follow up to my comment above, I believe this can be closed now. -- ferret (talk) 19:32, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

What are your thoughts on the article as it stands now? Do you have concerns that are yet to be addressed? Nikkimaria (talk) 16:49, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
 * (Didn't get the ping.) My specific concerns have been addressed but there's still a fair amount of cleanup to be done. I don't have the time for a full review so I'm not opposing on this, but: (1) the lede is a mess—it's not a full summary of the article (and if it is, the article is missing a whole lot of detail), (2) specifically, one half of the lede is about the product's name! It needs to be pared down, footnoted, moved to another section. The lede is for introducing how the console is commonly known, not a catalog of how it is spelled in non-English speaking regions. See the Genesis article for comparison. (3) Many sentences are unsourced—those are simple fixes. (4) The emulation section has too much individual detail and not enough overview about how they were developed and used as a whole, which were most popular and why, etc. (5) The legacy section needs much, much more on how the console and its properties affected later industry prospects, how people continue to be influenced by the console, etc. It's essentially proseline as is ("X said it's the top Y"). That stuff doesn't matter and can be grouped together ("journalists from X, Z said it was among the best consoles")—we care about the broad arc of the console's influence. That many people called it the best is not nearly as important as the specific influence (with nuance) it had on people and the industry. czar  19:13, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

FARC section

 * Issues raised in the review section include organization/coverage and sourcing. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:53, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:04, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delist. I had a look through this as I'm pretty knowledgeable about this console, but it needs way more work than meets the eye. Lots of sections need complete rewrites and additional research. -- Laser brain  (talk)  16:06, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delist - Per Laser Brain. GamerPro64  15:15, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delist. Tagged for citation needed in addition to the above. DrKay (talk) 11:42, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
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