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Ploy (board game)
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review because I recently reminded myself of what a good game Ploy is, and I want the whole world to know! Well, on a more realistic note, this is something fun that I decided to write about to test my Wiki skills. I would appreciate brutal honesty, but also some constructive advice. If it's not too much trouble, try and look really far into this article to find any errors. I noticed some formatting slip-ups on my browser (Firefox) with the photos and the subheadings. Some things appear to be subheading when they aren't supposed to, and I see five or so EDIT buttons in a row. Oh, and let me know if I went too crazy with the subheadings. I'm a bit worried about that. Am I cited enough? Would it be clear to someone who has never played the game? All the usual stuff. To the reviewer who has chosen this article, I thank you. I think that with your (hopefully friendly) suggestions, I may submit this for Featured Article! But we can all dream... Anyways, I hope you enjoy, and have a lovely day.

Cheers, bobbo king (talk) 05:35, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


 * There are some odd coding errors in the article. It might be my browser's problem, but Mozilla Firefox is known to work quite nicely with Wikipedia, so I doubt it. If you could fix that, it'd be great. (Sorry if it is my error)--haha169 (talk) 03:33, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Comments from
Hello, interesting article, some pointers... That should help for a start. The Rambling Man (talk) 13:11, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Read WP:CITE for advice on where to place citations. In particular, you should aim to put them directly following punctuation, no spaces between.
 * Check out WP:HEAD - it says things like avoid "The Board", just "Board" will do. And don't overcapitalise unless proper nouns, so "Direction Moves" becomes "Direction moves".
 * I don't understand why you're employing the "blockquote" mechanism all over the article? Just normal formatting should suffice.
 * You have loads of subsections whih is why you end up with all the Edit buttons. So I think you're right, you need to merge some of the information to reduce this.
 * When referencing the web, use the Cite web template. Also consider expanding your links for the External links section rather than just the url in square brackets which looks untidy.
 * “chess-like feel.” is this a quote?  If so it needs citation, if not it needs the quote marks removing.  And any reason you're using those quote marks instead of "these" ones?

Author Response
Thanks to those that have given tips. I should get around to fixing things this weekend. I'll address them in this talk, especially if I had a problem somewhere. Oh, and if anyone still wants to give me info, I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!