Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/June 20, 2007

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In an effort to keep nonfree images off the main page, per consensus on the nonfree media policy and specific requests from Jimbo, I've found a free picture of Nobuo Uematsu on Commons to illustrate this article instead. It's a lousy picture for sure (my pleas to Flickr users with better photographs of the developers went unheeded), but it's better than a copyrighted box cover on the main page for sure. Alternately, we can eliminate a picture on the blurb altogether, which I have no objections to either. Cheers, &#10154; Hi DrNick ! 19:49, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

The proposed new blurb follows:



Final Fantasy VI is a console role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) in 1994. The game initially appeared on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and has since been ported by TOSE with minor differences to the Sony PlayStation and the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. It was first released in North America as Final Fantasy III, although the original title has been restored in later releases. The game's story focuses on a group of rebels as they seek to overthrow an imperial dictatorship. Final Fantasy VI was the first game in the series to be directed by someone other than producer and series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi; the role was filled instead by Yoshinori Kitase and Hiroyuki Itō. The soundtrack is the work of long-time series contributor Nobuo Uematsu (pictured). Originally released to significant critical acclaim, it is still regarded as a landmark of the series and of the role-playing genre. It had a significantly greater number of battle customization options than its predecessors and the largest playable cast in the Final Fantasy series to date, excluding spin-off titles. It remains widely praised for its storyline, characters and non-linear style of play. (more...)

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 * Comment: here is the diff. Grace notes T § 23:39, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * It's better than no image at all. So where is it then? &mdash; Bluerで す. 07:13, 20 June 2007 (UTC)