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Bad Rats has been listed as one of the Video games good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
October 14, 2018	Articles for deletion	Kept
December 23, 2020	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 13, 2021.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the video game Bad Rats was a popular gag gift on Steam?

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Considered low importance This does not make sense as it should be high importance 173.21.19.27 (talk) 08:57, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That doesn't line up with our importance scale. IceWelder [✉] 09:43, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it does 173.21.19.27 (talk) 01:19, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mid-level importsnce requires a game that "Achieved wide commercial success, critically acclaimed or had wide sub-culture effect outside of their country of origin". None of these apply. IceWelder [✉] 02:16, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Jaguar (talk · contribs) 22:54, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I was a victim of receiving this game. ♦ jaguar 22:54, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

"whose founder Augusto Bülow conceptualised, programmed, and designed the game" - seems redundant here
The lead summarises the article per WP:LEAD

Body

"Bad Rats is a physics-based puzzle video game in a similar style as The Incredible Machine and Armadillo Run" - to
"Carlos Alberto Kunkel Bülow designed the 3D models and their animations, while graffiti imagery was provided by Mateus "Mes" Silva Brum, additional art created by Gustavo Bülow, and music and sound design done by Márcio Stein.[5]" - I'd split the sentence by adding a full stop between 'Brum' and 'additional'
"This sequel was announced as Bad Rats Show with a trailer during E3 2016" - should it be in a trailer? I could be wrong, it could have been announced after the trailer for all I know

I can't justify putting this on hold so I'll promote this outright. It meets the GA criteria through its comprehensibility and is generally well-written. The above are very minor, and I know it would be difficult to expand this further. ♦ jaguar 00:07, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Jaguar, thanks for the review. I made a few changes according to your points. You cited WP:LEAD, but I wasn't sure whether I summarised too much or too little. Could you quickly clarify? Regards, IceWelder [✉] 10:31, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

IceWelder, sorry I should have clarified. The lead summarises the article just fine accounting for its overall length. I don't believe it could be expanded any more without expanding the article itself - the lead aptly touches on the game's criticisms and its status as a "gag gift", which is what makes Bad Rats so cherished! ♦ jaguar 11:44, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 03:55, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the video game Bad Rats was a popular gag gift on Steam? Source: See #1, #7, #10 in the article.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Pointer (dog breed)

Improved to Good Article status by IceWelder (talk). Self-nominated at 01:17, 24 December 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: A short, but well written GA article on a video game, making it eligible for a DYK. The hook I found to be good enough, if a little terse. I know shorter is better for DYK entires, but perhaps adding a bit of context to why it was a gag gift would make it easier to understand. Possibly:

ALT1 ... that the critically panned video game Bad Rats was a popular gag gift on Steam?
十八 00:57, 25 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Juhachi: Thanks! I'm fine with the rewording, though this will ultimately be up to the promoter. Regards, IceWelder [✉] 01:09, 25 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal for inclusion at List of video games notable for negative reception[edit]

I have proposed that this game be added as an entry at List of video games notable for negative reception. Please consider contributing to the the discussion there. 9³ (talk) 03:31, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]