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Honeywood
Is Richard Honeywood really independently notable from Localization of Square Enix video games? The latter seems to be much more complete and to fully contain every major aspect of the works used in the former. In fact, most of the sources in the former are really about SE's localization than Honeywood as an individual. czar 03:00, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I believe so, at least to the same extent that Alexander O. Smith is independently notable. Honeywood was the entire reason that localization of Square Enix games is even worth talking about for an entire article. He's also influenced an entire generation of localization professionals including 8-4, Alex O Smith, Plus Alpha Translations, and members of Nintendo's Treehouse although that is a lot harder to find RS for. Axem Titanium (talk) 09:56, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

FF14 topic
First off, congrats to for getting Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn up to GA! Second off:

With that article, we now have a minitopic up to Good Topic level! did FF14, Axem did ARR, and ProtoDrake and I did the music article; do either of you have a problem with the topic/want to nominate it? -- Pres N  18:34, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
 * This is definitely a surprise, but I don't have any objections. Just seems a bit small. --ProtoDrake (talk) 18:46, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
 * ProtoDrake and I are probably going to collaborate on a Heavensward article in the near future so it might be wise to hold off until that shakes out? Irrespective of that, I believe 3 articles is sufficient for a Good Topic, according to their rules. Axem Titanium (talk) 19:52, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah, 3 is the minimum. If you guys are going to do a Heavensward article, then I guess we should hold off for now. -- Pres N  21:30, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

A-class
Would anyone care if I got rid of our "A-class" and just made them GA-class articles? WP:VG dropped the class a while ago, and we don't really use it either; the six A-class articles we have just hang around a legacy artifact. -- Pres N  02:29, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
 * For posterity, the 6 A class articles were Aerith Gainsborough, Dragon Quest, Dragon Quest (video game), Final Fantasy VII, Music of Kingdom Hearts, and Music of the Final Fantasy VII series, in case people want to start there for a new FA project. Axem Titanium (talk) 01:39, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't see why not, although I suppose if they're A class, they're not too far off from FA? Relatedly, I just noticed that there are only 109 Start class articles in the project. Anyone want to join me in an improvement drive to get them all to C-class? Axem Titanium (talk) 02:55, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Start-class improvement drive

 * I don't see why not, although I suppose if they're A class, they're not too far off from FA? Relatedly, I just noticed that there are only 109 Start class articles in the project. Anyone want to join me in an improvement drive to get them all to C-class? Axem Titanium (talk) 02:55, 9 January 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm in; I saw the same thing a couple months ago and got 9 Starts up to C in early December, though I lost steam after that. -- Pres N  03:15, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Still thinking/working on this. I haven't gone through the whole category yet to pick off low-hanging fruit; merely got stymied trying to reference out a biography article using largely JP-only sources. I don't feel comfortable doing this since I just wrote it, but if someone else could look at and reassess Richard Honeywood, that would be awesome. I think I'll work on a game article instead to recharge. Axem Titanium (talk) 23:28, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Expanded the lead and bumped it to C-class; I think it needs more biography details to be a B. -- Pres N  01:00, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Just finished up with Masashi Miyamoto and with that, we are officially sub 100 Start-class articles. Axem Titanium (talk) 01:35, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
 * And < 25% Start-class articles! -- Pres N  01:47, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm having trouble finding anything worthwhile about Yasuhiro Kawakami. All of the sources currently cited in the article are just factual references that yes, he is indeed credited on these games. And the games he is credited on, which is only a few, aren't particularly known for their music. Does this guy meet GNG? Axem Titanium (talk) 05:34, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Related: I combed through a bunch of different sources including List of Square games and SquareEnix-stubs and found a few articles untagged with WPSE. My sole criterion for adding was developed by Square (or Square Enix). Most of these are stubs, found at Category:Stub-Class Square Enix articles, and many are also super duper early Square games which may or may not meet GNG. Please take a look and source what you can; AFD the rest. Best, Axem Titanium (talk) 15:26, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Always annoying to find SE articles that we didn't know existed... Looks like the only stub left that's not AfD'd or expanded is Alpha; I'll try to find sources tomorrow, though as you've discovered, it's nigh-on impossible to find sources for a) obscure b) 80s c) Japanese video games; I have no idea where you found those refs for Cruise Chaser Blassty. -- Pres N  03:28, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I merged Alpha into The Death Trap, please take a look and give a 2nd opinion. You don't want to know how I conjured those refs. It was an unholy combination of googling the Japanese title through various websites, sifting through other wikis, a smattering of site-specific search engines, and sacrificing kittens. A lot of them. Axem Titanium (talk) 05:40, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Great job! I took a cruise through all our Start articles, and since many of them (20ish) were well structured and had one to two dozen reliable sources, I made them C's. In general ones with cleanup tags I left as it, or if they were missing whole sections like Reception or Development, but they could be C's too depending how broadly you read into the C criteria about "gaps". A little sprucing up and I'd say another 20 could come easily, and the last 40-50 Starts will need deep cleaning rewrites or more reliable sources obtainable only by Japanese references. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 06:45, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the elbow grease, Judge. Only 69 Start-class articles left, including 15 biographies, which are generally harder to source. Then it's mostly smooth sailing! Axem Titanium (talk) 06:27, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * After a little over a month, we're now halfway to our goal of 100% articles at C-class or higher! Anyone mind taking a glance at Alexander O. Smith to see if it meets B-class requirements? I might try to get it up to GA after this project wraps up. Axem Titanium (talk) 22:33, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'd B that. Needs a little more lead though, and it seems like his credits just cut off after 2013? Though maybe he's full-time management now. -- Pres N  22:44, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Mana from Heaven
So, awesome that we have a new Mana featured article! Also I hear we have a Rise of Mana article coming, and probably a Featured Mana Topic at some point. To top it all off, Adventures of Mana just dropped for iOS in the US, and I redirected it to Final Fantasy Adventure, which could help finally give it the development it needs for FA and maybe it's own article depending of what sources are out there. Ten years on Wikipedia, and still working on the Mana series... But as they say, "time flows like a river, and history repeats" (Secret of Mana intro). Judgesurreal777 (talk) 06:43, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah, plans on doing a Rise of Mana article, and I do plan on getting at least Legend of Mana to FA. There's always more... -- Pres  N  13:50, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Had to share this... In an introduction from a producer on the Adventures of Mana trailer, he refers to Koichi Ishii as the "Father of Mana" in regard to his involvement on the original game. Gotta add that to his bio! I'm envious of the title. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 02:54, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Question for AFD
Dragon Quest character classes has about six cleanup tags and seems to have no notability at all. I mean, unlike final Fantasy, there are no particular unique Dragon Quest character classes that aren't already archetypes found in other fantasy and video games. Should we AFD or redirect it? Judgesurreal777 (talk) 18:57, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Huh. I was expecting something like the FF one that discussed all the character classes and what games they were in and the changes over time... but that really is just a list of what classes are in each game. No out-of-universe information at all, really, besides a couple reviewer quotes about the class system as a whole. Yeah, that's no good. I think Redirect, though AfD is fine as well. -- Pres N  19:35, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

I moved the one sentence of reception not in the gameplay article and then redirected. Let's just make sure no on puts it back :). Onward to no Starts! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 00:22, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Character articles
Following the merge of Rinoa into the FF8 characters article, I started looking through the other non-GA character articles we have. There are a couple that I'm not sure hold up under scrutiny, and wanted to get a second opinion.


 * Vivi (Final Fantasy) (C) - Not a Niemti creation, but worse than Rinoa. Primary issue is that there's no development section at all, and very little actual Vivi-focused reception- it's all listicles and offhand mentions.
 * Zidane Tribal (B) - also kind of pushing it, and not a Niemti article. Has a development section, but it's one paragraph and half of it is just listing the game's staff. Has one good paragraph of reception, with another 1.5 paragraphs of fluff around it.
 * Lulu (Final Fantasy) (B) - Design is okay, if mainly overblowing one source, but reception is nothing but offhand mentions and top-20 lists. Niemti's standard.
 * Rikku (B) - design is all about here FFX-2 wardrobe change, not her original appearance; reception is literally nothing but appearances in "top 10 hottest characters" lists. Also by Niemti.
 * Note that the myriad GA-class FF character articles, especially FF7's, while better than these four and with more development information, could still use a good scrubbing on the reception sections to take out the "top 20" list coverage that's filtering in. -- Pres N  17:02, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I am partial to Lulu, but it and all others are probably too weak to stand on their own. Merge, and bring over the good parts. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 17:36, 16 February 2016 (UTC)


 * I'd merge these four. It's never good when an article topic doesn't have a single in-depth source, but it's even worse when its main coverage is composed of "top" list mentions with no context for out-of-universe significance. Rikku and her voice actor at least won awards, but that's supposed to be a predictor of secondary source coverage, not something to use in its stead. czar  23:40, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I would also merge all four of them per czar's reasonings. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 23:43, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

All 4 done. Note that Characters of Final Fantasy X and X-2 (B-class) is now the only non-GA in the 9-article FFX/X-2 group, as is Characters of Final Fantasy IX (Start-class, so much further away) for the 3-article FF9, and Terra Branford (B-class) is the only non-GA Final Fantasy character article. -- Pres N  20:41, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Didn't realize things were tightening down this much...should I look into fixing Barret Wallace or Tifa Lockhart, or are both pretty much good for this?--Kung Fu Man (talk) 00:39, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * They are Good Articles so they have that going for them, but there are some cleanup tags, which we are doing a drive to get ride of. In terms of article building, there are still several individual character articles and many "characters of" articles that need to reach GA in our Square Enix article list. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 00:46, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Is there a tool to show all articles with cleanup tags within a project? Axem Titanium (talk) 22:01, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * , linked to from the index; it updates weekly on Tuesdays. -- Pres N  22:03, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, didn't know that. Seems a little difficult to stay on top of, now that I look at it. Axem Titanium (talk) 23:00, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it could be better. It's all backed by a bunch of categories, so maybe once it's beaten down lower we can build a counter template that links to the categories themselves- I know somebody made one for WP:VG, I might dig it up. -- Pres N  00:18, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Any objections to merging Neku Sakuraba to The World Ends with You? It only has one source (an interview) for a paragraph of creation, and all of the reception is actually pull quotes from reviews of the game- there isn't anything that's actually about him specifically. I know the article has been brought up before at WT:VG as an example of a character article that creates a lot of words without any notability-granting sources, which is why I thought of it. -- Pres N  01:35, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah I keep looking at it like this :/ It is not great, and anything valuable could be put into the Featured Article. Also, we should take a hard look at Aya Brea and even Chrono for the same concerns. One final character article that has always bugged me is Characters of Final Fantasy IX, which appears to have no sourcing that couldn't easily fit into the main article; it's mostly a story re-telling, almost no RS at all. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 01:55, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Hmm.
 * Yeah, the FF9 character article was noticeably improved by merging in Vivi and Zidane; the rest of it needs a thorough scrub. It may be salvageable, though, with a harsh cut-down. It's one of those lists where you know there are sources out there for about 1, 1.5 paragraphs per character, but right now there's 3-4 and they're all unsourced plot summary. Also, the minor characters section should be cut, and everything but the main party condensed significantly.
 * Crono... is actually surprising how little it really has. He's a pretty iconic character, I would think... though I guess being a silent player stand-in doesn't help him. Even the CT Ultimania doesn't have much of anything on him. I might merge him later this week; I'll take some time to think about it.
 * Aya Brea... yep, another Niemti "top 10 hottest video game girls" creation. Ugh. Looks like all of the actual good info was added by back in September 2014, when he was writing The 3rd Birthday. I'm not sold that her dev information couldn't be merged into the series article/the games' articles- what do you think, ProtoDrake? -- Pres  N  03:44, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
 * , I haven't been that wowed by Aya Brea's article as a whole since I saw it. The dev section there was my attempt at damage control. Although, we would need to create a whole new article for the Parasite Eve game series, as the current link goes to the novel it's based on. That would be a whole other headache. --ProtoDrake (talk) 09:01, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
 * yeah you're right, we do need a Parasite Eve game series article. I would say if someone could put up a stub, we could merge Aya Brea there and build it collaboratively, like the old days! :P Judgesurreal777 (talk) 18:27, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Neku merged. -- Pres N  22:45, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
 * It needs some work but I'm going to say Aya's article should be fixable...the first game made her a very prominent character and it needs more a cleaning of sources than a merge. I'm also not 100% behind this whole "throw out top 10's because Niemti relied on them!" mentality. While I'll openly admit he took flimsy sourcing and stretched it beyond the point of reason, if there is a sentence of actually reception focusing on the character itself then it should be fine for use. As bad as Niemti was, I certainly do *not* want to return to the hyper-strict days of TTN's approach to character articles either.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 03:29, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
 * did a great job on that front by having several citations on the same idea at the end of the sentence in some of his GA's. That way, you get two sentences with ten 5 cites each and not five paragraphs of "she's the hottest" repeated endlessly. That way the refs get used, but in an appropriately minimal fashion (unless she's Helen of Troy. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 04:01, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
 * So, good mergers, got stronger articles with less fluff! I want to throw out there two others that should be looked at: Characters of Chrono Trigger and Characters of Chrono Cross, like the Characters of Final Fantasy IX article, it seems generally devoid of anything that can't be merged to the game article. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 06:03, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I would probably concur with a merger of the character lists. Neither one has much to it that's not in-universe, and the reception/development could comfortably fit in their respective articles. - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 16:39, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, double checked all our character articles, and those three and Terra Branford all seem too weak to have their own articles. I say merge the four of em! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 20:52, 14 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Nice! Hey question, what is the guidance as to when to make a series article? I tried to make one for Final Fantasy Tactics but it got merged to the main game article. Since there are only a few games in Parasite Eve, couldn't the series part just live at the first game article, or should we make a series article? Judgesurreal777 (talk) 14:49, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
 * The rule (which is often violated) is that you can only have a series article if you have sources talking about the series as a whole. You can't just concatenate information on multiple individual games. Another unofficial requirement is that the series needs to be at least 3 strongly connected games. FFT has problems with both of those- the games aren't strongly connected, and there's not a lot of sources for the overall series. It's kind of the inverse of the character articles- a character appearing in multiple games doesn't bestow them with the sources for their own article, and a series having multiple games doesn't mean the series needs a article. I haven't looked into PE yet, or deeper at Aya's article to see if the dev info could just be in the first game or not. -- Pres N  15:19, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Dragon Quest II
I've nominated it again for GA after several years, and it's going well, but it needs more development info, and I can't find any. Any help in this regard would be appreciated. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 04:30, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
 * All set, it's a GA thanks to a mystery helper who got all the Japanese references I could ask for! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 19:51, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Count down to Zero Cleanup Tags
Currently, 52 articles have tags, with a total of 77 issues. That is actually, by far, the lowest the project has ever recorded, so great job to everyone who has helped! Do your part, if you see a tag, fix it and remove it, since it would be a first to have a Wikiproject of any size having no cleanup tags. some are very simple like adding title to references, or archiving references; some of you are also excellent writers, and we have five intro sections and some plot sections that could use your help. If everyone does a few, it will all be done, and will be another milestone for us like no Stubs and all Featured Lists are, and how no Starts and 50.1+% GA/FA/FL will be in a few months! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 18:36, 24 February 2016 (UTC)


 * UPDATE: Still near record lows, lots of references have been archived and course corrected. Wanted to see if we could focus our efforts to two sets of articles: Featured Articles and Featured Lists with cleanup tags. Strange we have those right?


 * Characters of Final Fantasy VIII (Unsourced statement)
 * Final Fantasy IX (Plot summary needs attention)
 * Final Fantasy X (CS1 error)
 * Final Fantasy XI (Citation lacking title, Reliable references lacking )
 * Final Fantasy XII (Plot summary needs attention)
 * Kingdom Hearts (Plot summary needs attention, Dead external links )
 * List of Final Fantasy video games (Citation lacking title, Dead external links)
 * List of Square Enix video games (Unsourced statements, Dead external links)
 * List of Square video games (Dead external links)

So 6 Featured Articles and 3 Featured Lists, lets get that to zero! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 16:04, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
 * That was quick! Now just 1 featured list and 4 featured articles, those of you who are good copy-editors, I doubt the plot sections need total rewrites or anything, just give them a once over, see if they got too long and are still up to spec and then remove the tags. Go team! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 16:59, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

I think the FF4 character lista needs some clean up. Also, all Kingdom Hearts characters except Sofá hace become GA.Tintor2 (talk) 20:18, 15 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Final Fantasy XI has no title in a citation, anyone have access to that copy of Edge Magazine, June 2006, page 28-29 ? Help us get to zero cleanup tags!  Judgesurreal777 (talk) 17:04, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
 * And List of Square video games is almost done; the new gamespot layout dropped the list of all territories the game was released in, which leads to the difficulty in finding a good archive. That said, of the 60+ tags, I think most are done now. -- Pres N  00:04, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Yup, great work and everyone, only 3 left in that article from 68! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 03:21, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Now done! Only that Edge article title left! -- Pres N  19:29, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * And done, I ended up replacing the ref with an online summary of a GDC talk from the same time period. -- Pres N  19:47, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Good work, everyone! Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 22:32, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Great job people! And now all our featured content is untagged and clean. I hope we can maintain a zero-tag policy going forward if possible. :) Now, for the next wave...... Judgesurreal777 (talk) 03:15, 26 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Here are our Good Articles with cleanup tags on them. Just like our featured, to help them keep their status we should have zero tags on these as well. Here they are.


 * Cloud Strife (Unsourced statements (February 2016, March 2016)), (Dead external links (March 2016))
 * Dragon Quest (Reliable references lacking (August 2013)), (Expansion needed (August 2013)), (Clarification needed (August 2013)), (Update needed (August 2013)), (Failed verification (August 2013))
 * Final Fantasy (video game) (CS1 errors: invisible characters)
 * Final Fantasy III (Unsourced statements (March 2016))
 * Final Fantasy VII (Dead external links (March 2016))
 * Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (Unsourced statements (February 2016))
 * Ivalice (Archiveurl citation error)
 * Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (Citation lacking title)
 * Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (Unsourced statements (February 2016)), (Update needed (December 2015)), (Commons category without a link on Wikidata), (Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
 * Super Mario RPG (Unsourced statements (August 2013, April 2015)), (Inconsistant Citation Format)
 * The Final Fantasy Legend (CS1 errors: invisible characters)
 * Tifa Lockhart (Update needed (April 2015)), (Dead external links (March 2016))
 * Voices of the Lifestream (Failed verification (June 2011))
 * Yuna (Final Fantasy) (Reliable references lacking (November 2012)), (Citation lacking title), (Commons category without a link on Wikidata)


 * Amazing work so far, GA's are nearly clean! Does anyone know of a bot or tool that could auto-fix Super Mario RPG's Inconsistant date format? Judgesurreal777 (talk) 00:08, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * It's not a date format, it's "citation format", e.g. using and  tags in the same article, and it's auto-tagged like the other CS1 errors... or at least that's what it's supposed to be. What it actually was was a manual category tag, which was originally placed by a bot in August 2010 (before the article was GA'd) on accident; the tag was supposed to be inside of the postscript comment it left...while fixing the issue the tag is for. Another bot "fixed" it by moving the category tag down with the others, and there it sat erroneously for 5.5 years. So... yeah. If you see the "Inconsistant Citation Format" in the future, just ctrl-f for citation and change it to cite web or whatever, or do the opposite, but also check the categories at the bottom of the page in case someone manually added it.
 * Thanks! Great advice, I was very intrigued. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 14:28, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Cleaning Campaign Continued... Final GA's plus B's and last of Top and High Importance Articles

 * Dissidia: Final Fantasy (Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
 * Dragon Quest (Reliable references lacking (August 2013)), (Expansion needed (August 2013)), (Clarification needed (August 2013)), (Update needed (August 2013)), (Failed verification (August 2013))
 * Final Fantasy VII (Dead external links (March 2016))
 * Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (Citation lacking title)
 * Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies ( Dead external links (March 2016), (Citation lacking title))
 * Elliot Goldenthal (Unsourced statements (May 2010)), (Dead external links (March 2016)), (Failed verification (May 2010))
 * Tetsuya Nomura (Unsourced statements (October 2010)), (Better References March 2016 - (Super Mario RPG credits interview reference replace))
 * Enix (Expansion needed (August 2008)), (Dead external links (March 2016))
 * Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Expansion needed (February 2009))
 * Gameplay of Final Fantasy (References needed (March 2009)), (Expansion needed (February 2011)), (Style editing needed (January 2014)), (Dead external links (March 2016))
 * Parasite Eve (video game) (Expansion needed (February 2015))
 * Star Ocean (video game) (Dead external link (March 2016))
 * Final Fantasy VI	(Unsourced statements (April 2016))

I wonder if this article also needs clean up. It has bold in every single start and some sections lack references.Tintor2 (talk) 00:24, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Maybe give it rewrite and references tags, so that we can get to it in the next wave. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 00:30, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah, this campaign is just for clearing out the tagged issues; pretty much any not GA+ article can be assumed to have issues in general beyond "missing information", and the start-class ones in particular. -- Pres N  00:35, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Indeed, there are 30 articles, or a majority after this group tagged for expansion, which makes sense for our C and Start classes. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 00:41, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Sora (Kingdom Hearts)
Do you guys think Sora (Kingdom Hearts) could become a GA or it still lacks vital information or a copyedit? Regards.Tintor2 (talk) 02:31, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Mmm, I think it could make it to GA. The issues I see are:
 * The lead isn't fully summarizing the article, especially the reception
 * The appearances section feels a bit long for the article; it should be cut down a bit if more information can't be added to the creation section
 * On that note, more development info is always, always better, and I'm not 100% convinced there isn't more out there, even without digging out scans of Ultimania interviews.
 * Copyedit, yes. It needs one pretty drastically.
 * It's not undoable, though. Certainly better than a lot of the character articles we've been merging lately. -- Pres N  02:40, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Final Fantasy X's staff
Apparently, there is a user who is increasing the list of Final Fantasy X's staff by adding Youtube vids. Is this allowed?Tintor2 (talk) 23:06, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Absolutely not. --ProtoDrake (talk) 23:30, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
 * No, there's a whole big discussion about it on the talk page that just finished, too. The confusion is that Kitase got promoted right at the end from Director to Producer, so he's only credited as Producer even though he was the overall director for basically all of development, and won awards for it. Add to that that G-zay and his friends hate Kitase, and suddenly there's a push (again) to wipe him off of the infobox, and if they can't do that then to stick the three sub-directors on there with him. -- Pres N  00:06, 12 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Now there are edit war in Final Fantasy X between Brayden96 and Sjones23.Tintor2 (talk) 12:21, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, that's pushing it a bit, since Sjones reverted once, as did you and I, but it's definitely something. -- Pres N  15:44, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Cleaning Campaign Part III
Still skirting record lows, here's a cleaner look at what's left of the high priority articles that still improbably have cleanup tags. :) Happy cleaning! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 02:34, 15 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Dragon Quest (Expansion needed (August 2013)), (Clarification needed (August 2013)), (Update needed (August 2013)), (Failed verification (August 2013) )
 * Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (Citation lacking title)
 * Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (Citation lacking title), (Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention from April 2016)
 * Enix (Expansion needed (August 2008)), (Dead external links (March 2016))
 * Gameplay of Final Fantasy (References needed (March 2009)), (Expansion needed (February 2011)), (Style editing needed (January 2014))


 * Final Fantasy Type-0 - (Commons category without a link on Wikidata), (Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
 * Final Fantasy XIII-2 - (Commons category without a link on Wikidata), (Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
 * List of Final Fantasy media - (CS1 maint: ASIN uses ISBN)
 * List of Square Enix companion books - (CS1 errors: invisible characters)
 * Star Ocean (video game) (Dead external link (March 2016)), (Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
 * Final Fantasy VII Remake (Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
 * Final Fantasy VII (Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia), (Dead external links (March 2016))
 * Tetsuya Nomura (Better References March 2016 - (Super Mario RPG credits interview reference replace))
 * Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Expansion needed (February 2009))
 * Parasite Eve (video game) (Expansion needed (February 2015)), (MusicBrainz release group different from Wikidata)

Compilation of Final Fantasy VII Good Topic
I just realized, we are good to go with a new Good Topic... Right? All the games in the compilation plus the main one are GA, so we should nominate it! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 04:33, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Another one... Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy could be a Good Topic as well, with FFXV and Type-0 Online getting a pass since they are unreleased. All the other games are GA or FA there too! Let's gets two new topics! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 04:40, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Comp of FF7 maybe; though and I were working up the last of the FF7 articles a year ago, got them almost done with just the main Characters article left to go... when the FF7 remake got announced. Since that's still "TBA", maybe we should get the character article to GA, PR the remake article, and submit the whole FF7 topic.
 * FNC is more ProtoDrake's baby as he did all the articles, so I wouldn't be comfortable nominating a topic he wasn't okay with; we were discussing the topic of a topic in December, and came up with a few options, though I don't know what he decided to go with. Sounded like he wanted to get everything to GA, even the unreleased stuff, before nominating. -- Pres N  12:24, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * ,, I'm alright if someone else decides to nominate FNC as a good topic. As to the topic's contents, I think it's far more practical to include just the main games without worrying about the peripheral material: so the XIII games, Type-0 and Agito, and the now-PRed XV. The only problem is with Type-0 Online, which seemed to have gone completely dark. There's nothing about it even in the Chinese press, and there was no word about the promised Beta test opening. Makes me wonder if it got cancelled (maybe hear something at E3 if they follow up on the proposed Western release). As to the Compilation, I think we should nominate the Compilation articles alone (Com, BC, CC, AC, LO). Given VII's scale, I think it should have its own topic when the time comes: it would include the Music and Character articles, and the articles on the unofficial Famicom and HD remakes. --ProtoDrake (talk) 12:52, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Alright, well, lets get some boxes made, then:


 * Note that both topics need books created, and that the images are placeholders that I found in a couple minutes on Commons. Final Fantasy Type-0 Online additionally would need a closed PR before that topic could go up for GT, and it is a bit riskier of a nomination than usual since it has two non-released articles, not just one.-- Pres N  15:15, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Should be fine; we can just say it's a living a breathing topic, good to have quality articles on recent topics. How do we start the peer review? Haven't done one of those in Donkeys years. I actually love the topic pictures by the way. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 16:44, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Started the FF7 book, the report still needs doing. It has begun! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 19:27, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * What's the current status of character articles for FF7? I thought most of them were GA already. Axem Titanium (talk) 15:53, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Update: I just checked. In addition to strictly Compilation members, the main game, Music, Voices, the Famicom "remake", and all the character articles EXCEPT for Characters of FFVII are all GA. Axem Titanium (talk) 15:57, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
 * So, anyone have the time or energy to get these nominated? It should just sail through, it would be nice to have two new topics...  Judgesurreal777 (talk) 12:54, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

I've nominated the Compilation group as a good topic. As to FNC, I'm on the side of leaving it for now. --ProtoDrake (talk) 13:30, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Just in case anyone missed it, we now have two topics up for Good Topic nomination, so please voice your opinion on the Mana series topic expansion and on the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 14:28, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Great work getting Compilation of Final Fantasy VII passed! I do wonder what happened to that great artwork of the falling meteor, how did we end up with the generic FF and crystal image? By the way, now that Compilation is done, I put Final Fantasy Type-0 Online up for peer review, so we can move forward on a Fabula Nova Crystallis topic when we choose to, so please comment and make improvement suggestions there! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 23:18, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Ok people! We have had one person chime in, who else wants to add to our review??? Just a few comments would be great. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 02:55, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Kingdom Hearts (video game)
A new user has edited the article Kingdom Hearts (video game) to include two voice actors. When I was about warn him, I realized the voice cast section is using Imdb and I'm pretty sure that's not reliable. I thought about replacing the list with Behind the voice actors but I was told once by a user only the green marks count as reliable sources. Any idea? Regards.Tintor2 (talk) 19:38, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Just regarding Mickey Mouse, the IMDB page also lists Wayne Allwine as voicing him. Brett Iwan didn't take over till 2009 (briefly in 2006, for the TV show) as far as I'm aware, when Wayne passed away. Connor Quinn I can't even find any source other then IMDB listing him for voicing Mickey in KH. With the BtVA site, I thought the green check marks meant it was directly within the material itself. Jeff Bennett (Smee's current VA) and Wayne Allwine are listed in the credits, but not the characters that they played, only that they played "Disney Characters". I imagine that's where BtVA got who played who from, just matching up who'd played who in the past. --Lightlowemon (talk) 00:54, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Parasite Eve (video game series)
Now that someone split the movie out of the main Parasite Eve article, I believe we should separate the video game series (Parasite Eve (video game series) and the book Parasite Eve, because the article becomes too unfocused and it's hard to build up an article about two totally different topics, a horror novel and a video game. Yes? No? Thoughts appreciated. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 00:21, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd rather turn Parasite Eve (video game) into a hybrid game/series article than spin out a full game series article. Alternatively, de-emphasize the book in the main Parasite Eve page and keep that page more series-like. Axem Titanium (talk) 17:37, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd seriously not consider de-emphasizing the book, as the book has information surrounding it to be found (I was thinking of having a look round for it) and is the origin of the entire Parasite Eve phenomenon. The article should be expanded, but also i don't think there's enough substance (yet) for a series article. --ProtoDrake (talk) 18:07, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
 * UPDATE - I've added several sources that can be used for citing the book's writing process, and even its total worldwide sales circa 2001. --ProtoDrake (talk) 18:16, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Cleaning Campaign Part IV
Finally fewer cleanup tags than Start articles, and our new lowest record of articles and cleanup tags (52 articles, 77 tags). Let's keep going! Here's the remaining GA's, B's, and Top and High priority articles to clean, as well as those articles with three cleanup tags on them. Rah rah rah! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 18:25, 28 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Dragon Quest (Expansion needed (August 2013)),
 * Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride - (CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list), (Articles with unsourced statements from July 2015)
 * Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (Citation lacking title)
 * Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (Citation lacking title), (Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention from April 2016)
 * Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon - (Articles needing additional references from May 2016)
 * Enix (Expansion needed (August 2008))
 * Gameplay of Final Fantasy - (References needed (May 2016)), (Expansion needed (February 2011))
 * Koichi Sugiyama - (BLP articles lacking sources from May 2016), (Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
 * Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibōken - (Rewrite needed (February 2012)), (References needed (November 2015))
 * Front Mission - (Expansion needed (December 2008),) (Unsourced statements (October 2012))
 * Characters of Chrono Cross - (Unsourced statements (October 2012, March 2016)), (Original research (October 2012))

Source for developer articles
Final Fantasy Masterminds Reminisce About Their Favorite Moments (GameInformer) -- Pres N  00:51, 30 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Cool. I guess I'll add Squall's one since his creation section is too small.Tintor2 (talk) 01:41, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Source archiving issue
Something has been done with the Final Fantasy fansite Nova Crystallis, which has acted as a good source for both translations for Japanese material and original interviews. For the past few days, whenever I've tried to upload one of their pages onto either Wayback Machine or WebCite, it's redirected into an archived version of the main page which is refusing the load properly. It's reminiscent of the incident last year when GameSpot put up a safety measure than ended up blocking archiving sites, but I don't know what's happening here. This needs looking into, but I'm really not feeling like signing up to their forums to ask just one question. --ProtoDrake (talk) 17:30, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Characters of Chrono Cross
As per the above the above WT:SE, I went through today and merged Characters of Chrono Cross into Chrono Cross. I got reverted by, who felt pretty strongly about it, so I thought I'd bring it back up here for a wider discussion. Ping from that discussion:. -- Pres N  21:18, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I had started a discussion on the talk page, but here works too. I recognize the in-universe character description part is pretty lengthy, but there's a relatively long development/creation section, and short reception section, focusing entirely on third party coverage on the subject - the characters. I think if you focus more on that, and less on the large character list, you'd see its really more of an issue of clean up than merging... Sergecross73   msg me  21:21, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I think I agree with Sergecross73 on this one: it's certainly rather overwhelming, but come clean-up and copyediting should deal with it. It's not like my ex-Drakengard character article, as it's got a reasonable number of dedicated sources. The main problems seem to be the swollen playable character section, and some pieces that lack citations. The former problem can be easily fixed without needing to merge anything: give the characters with the most relevance to the story a "main characters" section, then put the other characters in an "other playable characters" subsection while doing the same kind of editing trick I did with the Type-0 characters article (that's got an absolutely HUGE cast). --ProtoDrake (talk) 21:30, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm completely fine with any reworking on the character list part. Years back, I did a massive trim of a ton of crufty/speculative stuff, and kept in the stuff that seemed likely to be factually true to the game. I tried to source and rework some of it, but it was such a massive undertaking, (which gets even more complicated with all of the game's alternate dimension and time travel aspects) that I burned out and never finished off the rest of it... Sergecross73   msg me  21:34, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm glad we are agreed the article needs work, but I am still not totally convinced there will be much of an article once the cruft is cleared away; after all, these kinds of articles benefit when the cast and the characters both stand out in notability, like Final Fantasy VI, VIII, XIII, and attain some independent fame as individuals as well as a group. Perhaps someone could do a page one-type rewrite, see what we have in terms of creation and reception before we say a definite yes or no on keeping it. "Characters of" articles are one of this projects last big cleanup tasks after all. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 22:10, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * The character list part? Sure, start from scratch, if you want to take that on. But I don't see why the development/creation sections would need to be completely redone. It's not "cruft" in the least. There's a lot of insight and background in creating the characters. Even the reception section. Rework it? Sure. Completely redone? Not sure why, when it's sourced to reliable sources. Again, I feel like you guys are looking at the long table of contents and character list, and being scared away. Don't jump to conclusions or just gloss over parts - read the individual sections outside of the character list. Project-wide clean-ups are great, but it's not better to scrap entire articles just to up your WP 1.0 stats.  Sergecross73   msg me  23:31, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Well that would be the idea, start with the RS and build up, don't subtract anything that is verifiable. I'm sure do did a very good job with the article, I'm just saying a cleanup/expansion like does could be beneficial as a starting point to expand the article, not undue your work. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 23:40, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we've had a miscommunication then. I was under the impression the term "page one rewrite" meant starting over entirely. Sergecross73   msg me  23:50, 5 May 2016 (UTC)


 * I feel like I'm missing something from the discussion above? Just wanted to point out that the base article, which is featured, does not give much indication from its current character section that a whole separate article about the characters is warranted. At the very least, I would do some sussing out there about what exactly has been and needs to be said about these characters as a whole. Because if there is anything that needs to be said, it should have come out in the FA discussion, and it should be in the main, featured article. And otherwise, I'm not seeing what sources would warrant the character article split from the main article—appears to be more a remnant of history, to be honest, unless there are some hidden sources somewhere. Eye close font awesome.svg czar  00:48, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Now I'm equally confused - isn't it the opposite? The Main article doesn't have much because there is a character list split off? And I think we're holding the bar too high here again. The game received a lot of commentary from sources in regards to the unconventionally large number of playable characters in its cast. The reception section documents critics reactions to this, while the Development/creation document the process in making that, the background in coming from another game, etc. If you all were just discussing the big list, I'd get it. But the creation and reception sections put it over the standards for having their own article.  Sergecross73   msg me  01:03, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose to merge. It seems WP:VG (or in this case WP:SE, which can be considered a subproject) has finally jumped the shark on the notability of fictional character articles. A historical BLP with this amount of sourcing would easily be on the road to GA, not the subject of a serious merger discussion. The "Creation and influences" and "reception" sections provide clearly enough sourcing for an article. Per WP:LISTN, not every single entry has to be notable, only the set as a whole, and these characters clearly are. Clear-cut case of deletionism gone mad.  Satellizer el Bridget (Talk)  11:37, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'm having a hard time disagreeing with you on that. I mean, 2 years ago, when I did a major revamp to try to avoid these sorts of conversations, I was commended by a project member on how much I improved it. Two years later, without any noticeable degradation in the article's quality since, all of a sudden the sentiment has changed to "Eh lets just scrap the whole thing"? I know we try to up the quality over time, but come on, I don't think standards have changed that much. Sergecross73   msg me  13:40, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 4 years ago, and yeah, our standards on character articles have gone up a lot, mainly in the past year. Anyways, I'm not as interested in merging this one as I was the individual character articles a few months back- while I disagree with Satellizer that the CC characters as a set are "clearly" notable, like the CT characters, this does actually have useful, sourced information, even if a lot of it is recapping the development section from the main article or should really be summarized in the reception section of CC. It doesn't seem like we're going to get a clear agreement on merging this, and I'd rather not start a fight over one article like this, so I'll bow out. I recommend changing the discussion to see if we can come up with a good way to improve the article instead. For one, I don't like that minor characters like Sneff are lumped in with major ones like Harle into a big pile of "playable characters", though it may be hard to make the distinction sometimes. -- Pres N  14:47, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
 * (Ah yes, I forgot, I did two major rewrites, one from late 2012 and one in late 2013. I was thinking your comment was the one 2.5 years ago, but it was actually from the 3.5 year one.)
 * I'm open to organizing another way, I just haven't been able been able to think of a better way. Back before I touched the article, it was organized by their fictional region in the game, but that didn't feel like a good approach. The fictional locations went unexplained in the character article, and largely unaddressed in the main article either, so there wasn't much context there. A lot of characters travel or change locations throughout the game anyways, so it wouldn't be good even with context. Sergecross73   msg me  15:36, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * The problem as I see it with the article is that each character seems to be allowed multiple paragraphs of plot information, which is probably regurgitated from our articles on Cross and Trigger. We should trim that to any observed character traits ("tell me who he is") and the non-fictional stuff ("how reviews/lists see this character"), and leave the plot for the games articles. --Izno (talk) 14:55, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
 * No, its mostly not regurgitated. I'd say roughly half aren't even present in the main article, and another 5-10 are only mentioned in passing. Also, many of the entries, once you scroll past the main 5-10 characters, are more or less that. There's a brief definition of who they are, if they're different across the different dimensions/timelines, and if they have specific speech patterns. The game's handling of timelines and dimensions is one of the main things its known for, as is its "auto-speech-pattern dialogue generator" thing. The problem is just that, even when you keep it brief, it gets pretty long when this takes a few sentences to cover, and you have to do it 45 times over. Once could argue the Chrono Trigger section isn't necessary, but it's really just 1-2 more paragraphs in a really long article - trimming it out wouldn't change much in the overall context. Sergecross73   msg me  16:02, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Regurgitated or not, it is mostly WP:PLOT for a good chunk of the article, and especially the 5-10 main characters (which I took to indicate the quality of the rest of the article). Trimming out the plot descriptions and inserting character descriptions would certainly refresh the article in a positive way. (And no, those are distinctly not the same.) --Izno (talk) 18:02, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Common Themes of Final Fantasy

 * Gameplay of Final Fantasy
 * Final Fantasy character jobs
 * Character design of Final Fantasy

These three articles should be well merged into one new article that discusses the origin of the recurring elements of the series, how developers evolved the gameplay elements over time, and what critics said about them/how it influenced the history of gaming. The reason they should be merged is that article like the "jobs" one contains only a few jobs that are actually unique to Final Fantasy and not just borrowed from Dungeons and Dragons, and thus could fit into an overview article. Also, the character design has basically no "design" information, and the little that is there could be easily merged. That way, we have a nice focused article on the history and development of Final Fantasy instead of three articles that are mostly plot and game regurgitation. Less endless job lists and more "how was the moogle designed originally?" Judgesurreal777 (talk) 02:34, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * That sounds a great idea. I've been thinking of doing something with those articles for ages, but on their own they didn't really speak to me. As a single article, I'd be proud to do some hunting around and possibly turn it into a GA-standard article. --ProtoDrake (talk) 06:57, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah it sounds like a very fertile topic, and at the least it could replace the gameplay article with something worth reading. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 07:44, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * This got me thinking. It's pretty obvious that there'll be sections of the series Art Design and Gameplay, but what about the thematic elements within plots and recurring characters? There are dimensions to that discussed by reliable sources, it seems. Also, maybe the title "Recurring Elements of the Final Fantasy" series might be better. This needs thought before anything more desicive happens. Oh, and I've started a draft in my sandbox. --ProtoDrake (talk) 13:56, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I think it's like you said, perhaps you could see what a sandbox article build reveals we have in terms of RS, and that could show us what an elements of article will be about. We can easily introduce it into the article space and redirect after based on what it ends up replacing. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 14:06, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * and others, Recurring elements in the Final Fantasy series is born! It is a colossal and amazing work, and I think we should redirect the three articles that this article replaces. Just have to build up a new reception section and this will be an amazing GA/FA. Amazing work ! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 21:10, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Articles redirected. -- Pres N  16:57, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Front covers of Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen
The front covers of this video game are under discussion. I invite you to WP:FFD to improve consensus. --George Ho (talk) 17:54, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Deletion review/Log/2016 May 8
I invite you to discuss one deleted file. --George Ho (talk) 18:04, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Cleaning Campaign Part V
We are down to 45 Articles tagged and 50 tags. Here are the final GA's, B's, articles of Top or High Importance, articles with two or more cleanup tags, and any articles that have issues other than expansion and more references. Lets have our project be the first major project without cleanup tags on everything! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 15:14, 10 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Dragon Quest (Expansion needed (August 2013))
 * Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention from April 2016)
 * Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon - (Articles needing additional references from May 2016)
 * Enix (Expansion needed (August 2008))
 * Recurring elements in the Final Fantasy series - (Expansion needed (May 2016)), (Articles with Empty Sections (May 2016) )
 * Koichi Sugiyama - (Articles lacking in-text citations from May 2016), (Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
 * Front Mission - (Expansion needed (December 2008),) (Unsourced statements (October 2012))
 * Dragon Quest X - (Expansion needed (April 2013)), (Update needed (August 2015))
 * Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers - (References needed (October 2009)), (Expansion needed (November 2014)), (Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
 * Characters of Final Fantasy IX - (Expansion needed (June 2008)), (References needed (May 2016)), (Articles with empty sections from June 2008)
 * Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibōken - (Rewrite needed (February 2012)), (References needed (November 2015))
 * Characters of Chrono Trigger - (Unsourced statements (May 2009)), (Expansion needed (May 2009))
 * Valkyrie Profile - (Wikipedia articles needing rewrite from May 2013), (Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
 * Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 - (Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention from April 2016)
 * Characters of Kingdom Hearts - (Wikipedia articles needing style editing from December 2015)
 * Universe of Kingdom Hearts - (Articles that may contain original research from May 2015)
 * Any help on the Cleanup Drive Part V would be appreciated, it is a lot for one or two, it will be so easy if everyone chips in, perhaps take one or two :) Judgesurreal777 (talk) 19:18, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
 * The bot just updated the totals for August and I was all set to sit down and knock out some cleanup tags. However, the first five articles I opened were bereft of tags—User:PresN had already gotten to them the day before! Damn you, making me tackle some of the more challenging tags instead of easing myself into it with the procedural stuff! :) Axem Titanium (talk) 20:24, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Haha, yeah, I've been trying to stay on top of the easy ones and additions, and knock out a difficult one every few weeks, so all there is now is the harder ones- "cite these statements" and "write/rewrite this whole section". In other words, "make this Start-class article not a Start any more". -- Pres N  20:29, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
 * And funnily enough, I just got back from a big trip and I'm ready to dive back into that project. Our interests align... Axem Titanium (talk) 20:39, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Good Article Reassessment of Square Enix
Square Enix, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:55, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
 * It got quick passed a day or so ago, so someone wanted to do a piece by piece review it didn't get the first time, so even though it's a "reassessment" it's really the review I already asked for :) I'll take care of it, but if anyone wants to help they can. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 04:58, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Small scope question
So, I was looking at the newly-tagged List of Square Enix manga franchises and groaning a bit because finding sources is going to be a pain, when it occurred to me that as counter-intuitive as it seems, it may not actually be in our scope. Historically, we've not included any anime/manga that SE publishes, unless they're explicitly a spinoff of a video game franchise- that is to say, we've explicitly narrowly focused on SE's video game franchises. Given that, I'm not sure that it makes sense for us to include List of Square Enix manga franchises and Gangan Comics in our scope, if we're not going to include any of the manga franchises that are connected to that. Does that make sense? Or do y'all think that they're included because that's what SE publishes its Dragon Quest comics through? -- Pres N  17:01, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Unless we start adding things to fill out future Good and Featured Topic nominations, I suppose it does fall outside our scope. If someone made a Star Ocean manga article we could source, for example, that would be in our scope but the list may not. It's hard because those two articles have a toe in and out of our scope, so I'd be cool keeping it out for now. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 18:20, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't the article be titled "List of Gangan Comics manga franchises"? In fact, this whole category tree should be renamed. Axem Titanium (talk) 23:08, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
 * As long as Gangan covers all of their manga properties, which I believe it does, it may be good to have it called that instead. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 02:57, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

17 GAs to Go
Till the project is majority GA/FA/FL. Feel free to review existing project articles or nominate some of your own, we are close to a milestone no major project has achieved! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 21:34, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 16 to go! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 04:28, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Mobius Final Fantasy
Hi, looking for some help with the plot section, since there appears to be no online description. There are, however, some YouTube videos of the cutscenes in the game. If you or a wikipedian you know could at least let us know what the story is in chapters 3,4 and 5 that would help make a Good Article out of a Japan-only game release. Thanks! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 22:50, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Simple and Clean
For some reasons I don't understand File:Utada Hikaru - Simple And Clean (PLANITb Remix).ogg is being considered for deletion. Sadly, the user who uploaded the piece music left wiki some years ago.Tintor2 (talk) 16:08, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Looks like the arguement is that since there's an article about the song (Hikari (Utada Hikaru song)), the file shoudl only be used there, and not on the music of KH page or the sandbox of the guy who put Hikari up for GAN? Not sure why that means the file should be deleted, rather than just delinked from those other pages... -- Pres N  18:22, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Scope question: theme songs
A discussion came up at Hikari (Utada Hikaru song), currently at GAN: While the lead says otherwise, the article states that Hikaru was approached by Square Enix to make the song for Kingdom Hearts, and after she did so she put it on her fourth album and released it as a single, which may imply that WPSE should cover the article. Currently, we do not cover theme songs in our scope- the ones that have articles are generally pop songs that were released as such by the artist, not just attached to a game. So, the questions are:

Note that we can take or leave any of these articles for any reason; our scope is up to us. -- Pres N  17:42, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Should we include "Hikari" in our scope, since it claims the song was made specifically for the game?
 * If we do that, should we also include "Passsion" (KH2, GA), "Kiss Me Good-Bye" (FF12, stub), "Kimi ga Iru Kara" (FF13, Start), and "My Hands" (FF13, GA)? It appears that "Passion" and "Kiss Me Good-Bye" were made specifically for the games (and then released as regular songs), while "My Hands" was the other way around and "Kimi ga Iru Kara" is unclear.
 * Also Eyes on Me (Faye Wong song). Axem Titanium (talk) 18:45, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * If a song was made specifically for a game, I think that would be an acceptable criteria for inclusion. Whether or not the musician asked or the company asked doesn't seem to factor in as far as I can see. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 22:14, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, so y'all think that all 6 of these articles should be added then? -- Pres N  14:18, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I know this is an old-ish conversation, but personally, I think it's more a question of would a topic be considered complete without the theme songs? Personally, at least for Kingdom Hearts, I'd feel it'd be completely necessary to have the articles for Passion and Simple and Clean in them, as well as any other future themes. --Lightlowemon (talk) 09:09, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Localized box arts of Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy VI
The North American SNES box art of FF4 (aka FF2 in 1990s) was removed as an attempt to make the FF4 article meet FA standards. However, I felt that, while Japanese box art deserves to be in the main infobox, omitting the image confuses readers unless they can read the whole article and grasp it. It can be reinserted into the "localization" section. Same for the North American SNES box art of FF6 (aka FF3 in 1990s), which was removed. I don't whether the editors were wrong about removing them. Nevertheless, sometimes, editors and readers get confused, especially when they follow WP:VGBOX. Shall we reinsert them into respective articles? --George Ho (talk) 10:01, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

If NA box arts do not help much, what about the opening titles instead? George Ho (talk) 12:52, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * So, the general rule is one box art image in an article- if you want a second one, you need a compelling reason (e.g. the article text needs to discuss the second box art specifically). Title screens would hit the same problem, which is: the images are copyrighted, so we have a limited amount due to fair use guidelines. This generally means 1 box art for identification, 1 gameplay image for visual explanation, and maybe another fair-use image if there's something specific that needs to be illustrated that's talked about in the text. The title screens do not fall under that guideline.
 * Additionally, "sometimes, editors and readers get confused" - can you provide an example? I did a quick skim and didn't see any instances of editors getting confused about the box art image, and given that the images display in big, English text "FINAL FANTASY IV/VI", I'm not sure how readers are getting confused.
 * I'm sympathetic to the idea of having more images - it looks nicer, if nothing else - but the WP:NFCC guidelines and their general interpretations re: video games limit us pretty sharply. -- Pres N  14:04, 14 June 2016 (UTC)


 * How about this screenshot? It has just white-colored text with black background, but what about the typeface? Free or copyrightable? George Ho (talk) 14:24, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * The font is likely simple enough that you could argue that it's free use, but on the flip side, what does it actually add? It's just text that says Final Fantasy III - it doesn't really inform the reader of anything (and certainly shouldn't replace an actual cover) -- Pres N  15:08, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm with PresN on this. --ProtoDrake (talk) 16:42, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Can I upload it to Commons then? George Ho (talk) 19:19, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * You can, but again, what purpose does it serve? What would you use it for? If you just want to upload it to upload it, go ahead, I guess, but I would be against adding it to an article. -- Pres N  19:59, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Uploaded the image to Commons. Well, it's free content, and... WP:IUP is adequate enough when NFCC doesn't apply to free images. It's just for FF6 in one of its sections. --George Ho (talk) 02:45, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Also, I nominated both images of the cartridge package for deletion due to the box's and the logo's substantial originality. If both are deleted, I can use the screenshot as their replacements. --George Ho (talk) 03:01, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

@PresN and ProtoDrake: I added the screenshot in other languages. I'm planning to add it at Final Fantasy VI rather than at the infobox. --George Ho (talk) 09:22, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Alright, there is a line and you've officially crossed it. Please stop as it's clear you have a poor grasp of the concepts of fair use and image policy, especially on Wikipedia. I recommend that you withdraw your nominations and work in other areas of the project. Axem Titanium (talk) 20:16, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Scope to include Square Enix Europe
As I understand it, Eidos and Taito (and perhaps even Dragon Quest) were outside the SE Project's interests when the companies were acquired, so they weren't included in the project's scope, but that was many moons ago now, so I think it would be worth revisiting whether to exclude what is now the entire branch of Square Enix Europe from the project scope. To keep the potential discussion on track, I would propose the following options:
 * A: Include Square Enix Europe in the main project scope, defined as games and properties primarily developed or published by Square Enix Europe since its 2009 formation/reorganization. (These are games that are branded as "Square Enix" games and that have been included in your FL: List of Square Enix video games, so it's kind of silly to not include them.)
 * I suggest "primarily" developed/published, as in listed as the main or equal dev/pub, because otherwise the scope would include projects like Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Call of Duty: Ghosts for which SE was only a regional publisher. (see note) This would include Crystal Dynamics, IO Interactive, etc. since the reorg as well, as they became SE Europe.
 * B: Include Square Enix Europe in the main project scope as defined in A but add the historic Eidos properties that were acquired in the takeover (List of Eidos games) as their rights are ostensibly now owned by SE.
 * C: Make SE Europe into a task force with a scope as defined in A

Open to friendly amendments, but thought it was time to raise the question, as I don't see a fair explanation for excluding games are marketed head-to-toe as Square Enix titles (Square Enix Montreal) on account of their parent series history and not their particular and present traits. czar 17:29, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Taito's acquisition was handled differently, so I'd leave it for a separate discussion.
 * Ok, I'm going to take some time to think about this rather than give my immediate opinion, but here's the case for option Z: "keep it the way it is":
 * Z: Do not include any game/properties that are a part of a franchise that was published/developed by Eidos or its subsidiaries prior to the acquisition (i.e. Lara Croft, Hitman, etc.). Do include games/properties that are a part of franchises that are developed by SEE or its subsidiaries post-acquisition (currently none, though Sleeping Dogs potentially should be, depending on what SEE-London did.)
 * The reasoning is that the WP:SE scope doesn't, in point of fact, make easy sense. The scope is at present: "Everything related to franchises that Square or Square Enix developed. Unless the franchise was developed by Taito/SEE (before or after being bought). But we do include franchises that SE publishes like Dragon Quest, Valkyrie Profile, etc., for no better reason than we want to." It's narrowly and twistily defined, and it's because we specifically restrict our scope to the articles that we care about—it's a large part about why this project has such a high level of quality, and doesn't get merged into WP:VG: that we don't have a demoralizing pile of articles that we don't want to work on. The real question about adding SEE games is, at the root of it, "do we care enough to add it". And the answer may be yes- certainly we added Dragon Quest solely because Jinnai wanted us to, so if SEE games are something that you want to work on and feel that they should be part of WP:SE, then that can be fine. The reasoning behind it doesn't need to be so clearly defined, is all. -- Pres N  00:49, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll echo PresN here. WPSE is intentionally gerrymandered to only include articles that the core members are passionate about and are willing to do crazy things like try to bring all Start class articles up to C (we didn't succeed but we got over 60 articles up). I wouldn't necessarily feel as motivated to run/participate in these types of improvement drives if the pool was expanded to include another huge swath of articles which I'm even less interested in working on. Don't get me wrong, I think the new Tomb Raider and Hitman games are great, but I don't feel the need to spend editing time on them. In point of fact, the only reason this project was renamed to WPSE from WP Final Fantasy was because people wanted to work on Dragon Quest and Kingdom Hearts with this group of people. It was NOT because we specifically wanted to expand to encompass all of Square Enix and its future acquisitions in perpetuity. "Square Enix" just happens to be a name that describes the region of interest. All this being said, if a WPSE member (current, past, or future) wants to spearhead an Eidos initiative and came to us for help, I'd certainly be willing to give it and would be happy to reconsider project rescoping then. But not before that. Axem Titanium (talk) 22:15, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Axem is right, except the part about not finishing the Start thing, we are down to 50 starts and one stub, we will do it! On the other point though, I think we should start to look at our projects scope going with an eye to good and featured topic building. For example, we might want a Parasite Eve featured topic, so we might want to include the books author in our topic since his article may be required. We nearly have 150+ GA's, so sky may be the limit in terms of building complete subjects on topics we are interested in. Perhaps we should start something where we vote on particular articles and whether or not we want them/need them since I'm not hearing much desire for a major shift in project scope, but perhaps an article here and there. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 01:33, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Indeed, I'm still interested in finishing that project. Just need to find a few weeks where work isn't as insanely busy! Also agreed on focusing efforts toward completing FTs and GTs. Axem Titanium (talk) 16:49, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah, we became "WP:Square Enix" because "WP:Final Fantasy + Chrono Trigger + Kingdom Hearts" just didn't roll off the tongue. I do think we should decide where we want the line to be drawn- is Square Enix Europe in? List of Square Enix Europe games? Square Enix Montreal? -- Pres N  01:41, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I think it's time to add anything with "Square Enix" literally in the article title to the project scope. I also think Sleeping Dogs, as SE's only new IP in years (right? probably?), is worth adding, as well as a future "Go (series)" article to be created eventually. But I definitely want to get our Start class backlog and cleanup tag backlog down to zero first before engaging in any further scope expansion. Axem Titanium (talk) 16:49, 21 June 2016 (UTC)