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The list was promoted by 10:01, 22 April 2013 (UTC).

List of Square Enix companion books

 * Nominator(s):  Pres N  19:01, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Back again, but instead of with another sci-fi/fantasy award list, it's with my other FLC favorite: increasingly obscure video game-related lists! Here we have a list of Square Enix companion books- covering the holy grails of artwork and article-development-section-source books, the Ultimania series (and it's predecessor, the Perfect Works series). Knew that there was a book for Final Fantasy XII, but not what other games had an Ultimania or three? Now you know, in one big, sortable table. -- Pres N  19:01, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment: Congrats, PresN, for cleaning up that mess of a table I left you back in July 2010. I haven't had a chance to look at it in-depth just yet so a few quick questions first. What happened to The Bouncer Perfect Works? Is it not a real thing? Also, are you not interested in including the older guide books? If not, that's fine, just curious about your reasoning. Finally, why do you use third-level headings instead of second-level headings for the sections? Axem Titanium (talk) 21:34, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
 * The Bouncer book wasn't real- some editor added it to the DigiCube article back in 2008 and it never went away, and there's no source of any sort that proves it ever existed. I took out the game guide books because frankly, every game ever has them- they're not notable, they're not special, and I didn't feel that a big table of hundreds of them belonged in a list that was trying to focus on a unique set of books that have hundreds of pages of artwork and background information. It's hard to draw the line between game guides with a bit of development info and reference books with some game guide information, but it's easy and non-subjective to just limit it to Ultimanias and Perfect Works. Finally, level-3 headers are there because I forgot to change them back. Now done! -- Pres N  21:44, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Haha figures. That's how rumors start. It's a shame about the earlier books; some of them look interesting (e.g. FF7 True Script Dissection and FF Complete Works). I guess there's no good way to slice those out with a set of consistent criteria. I'll try to look into just how much dev info/artwork/etc. was in those books, but it's not critical to this FLC. I get the sense that they were at least a bit more notable than any old game guide since they were first-party published. Oh well. Axem Titanium (talk) 22:34, 8 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Support - Nominator has worked hard to not only cite reliable sources and establish comprehensiveness, but to also work on uprooting misinformation. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 20:05, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, list is well referenced and the lead is well written. Congrats! Axem Titanium (talk) 14:04, 2 April 2013 (UTC)


 * over 10 million in sales - 10 million dollars, yen? Copies sold? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:33, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Copies sold, ambiguity now removed. -- Pres N  18:58, 19 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Support on prose. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 21:01, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Comments –
 * "written and published by the Square subsidiary DigiCube. DigiCube...". Try not to have this kind of repetition from the end of one sentence to the start of another.
 * The lead image could use alt text.
 * All caps in ref 10 need removal. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 14:21, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
 * All three done now. -- Pres N  18:58, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
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