Talk:Chris Metzen

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Good articleChris Metzen 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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DateProcessResult
October 5, 2008Good article nomineeListed

Old talk[edit]

Even with my little knowledge, it would seem that these two articles contain information on the same person. Just called by two different names. imdb.com and blizzard.com both call him by "Chris", not "Chriz". -Mriswith 05:19, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge. There is no point in having two articles about the same person. --Koveras 11:36, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect. Redirects are what we're supposed to do in cases like this to cover misspellings during searches. Tetigit 03:45, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I went ahead and made a redirect from "Chriz Metzen" because it's just a misspelling of his name. Also by keeping the Chriz article as a redirect we don't break anything :) Tetigit 05:22, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
junta? ~~

Work in progress[edit]

If you are still working on it, you should at least say so. ;-P --Koveras ☭ 08:55, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aye, I'm just trying to find somewhere like IMDb that is deemed reliable for the career section, else I'll piece it together using interviews and direct citations to the game manuals. -- Sabre (talk) 09:02, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
If anyone knows Metzen's date of birth and place of birth, please put it up in the infobox (I left the fields in). I'm having trouble finding it. -- Sabre (talk) 09:11, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Btw, why didn't you use {{Infobox Person}}? --Koveras ☭ 09:30, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No particular reason. The appearance and fields are identical for the uses in this article. I've changed it over all the same. -- Sabre (talk) 11:21, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP:VG Assessment[edit]

For B-class, I'd like to see the following included:

  • Some, but not too many, biographical details, like which city he's from and date of birth.
  • I gather this person is an author. A bibliography of his published works would be appropriate.
  • Picture. Your best shot would probably be e-mailing one of those fansites that have people at E3 and post pictures, then e-mail them for GFDL.
  • As an artist, some commentary on his style and such would be nice, as well as a picture. You could probably Fair Use some concept art for a game.

User:Krator (t c) 18:06, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • I've had trouble finding his date of birth and place of birth. It doesn't seem to be out on the web anywhere.
  • A bibliography is somewhat unnecessary. To my knowledge, Metzen has only one novel published, and is working on a comic book. Most of his writing work is to do with games' storylines. As such, a bibliography of two entries just seems redundant when its already all noted in the career section.
  • I'm working on getting an image from Blizzcon 2007 from one of the StarCraft fansites. Its taking far longer than I might have hoped though.
  • I've expanded it somewhat, but that's about as good as it gets for his artistic style. I can easily provide a fair use image of his art, we've got a few bits of his art uploaded for various purposes already. I'll throw in the image "Easy Rider" from Jim Raynor's article. -- Sabre (talk) 11:33, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP:VG assessment[edit]

  • The FUR for Image:Easy Rider (StarCraft).jpg really needs more detail for this article.
    • Also, it should be used near where the article talks about it.
  • "media franchises: the Warcraft franchise, the Diablo series and the StarCraft series" - you've already said franchise, can you just name them now ("... Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft")?
  • What makes http://cecilvortex.com/swath/2008/04/21/an_interview_with_chris_metzen_part_one.html reliable?
  • "on the recommendation of a friend after the friend saw some of Metzen's artwork" --> "on the recommendation of a friend who had seen his work"?
  • "which gave Metzen the opportunity" - variety... throw in a "him" here, maybe
    • ...and elsewhere

And that's about it. Didn't look at all the sources so just make sure they're OK before going for GA. Otherwise good luck. Giggy (talk) 08:17, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rated B class. Giggy (talk) 08:19, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, thanks. As far as http://cecilvortex.com/swath/2008/04/21/an_interview_with_chris_metzen_part_one.html goes, the interviewer seems to have fairly solid credentials, having conducted interviews with a variety of individuals from various parts of the entertainment industries. In addition, when I was searching for sources for the article, quite a number of reliable sources kept pointing to this interview. -- Sabre (talk) 10:37, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Probably a good idea to make a note of those reliable sources pointing to it somewhere, so you can present them if need be. Giggy (talk) 10:41, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Chris Metzen/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

This is a nice, short article. It seems to cover his full career, and it's good to see a Personal life section. I had three very minor concerns, but I dealt with them myself. I believe this article meets all six criteria for a Good Article, so I am promoting it.

If you have a chance, it would be great if you could review an article in return to help reduce the backlog. Best wishes, GaryColemanFan (talk) 16:41, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank ye very much! -- Sabre (talk) 17:04, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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