Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted 17:31, 25 May 2007.

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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

Thanks to a helpful review from what was formerly the Computer and Video Games Wikiproject and useful comments from visitors to the talk page, I am ready to submit The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind for featured article candidacy. I have hoped to be as comprehensive and bring in as many relevant sources as possible, following the recommendations of that first CVG peer review. I have also aimed to keep the style of the article up to code, although this is an area in which I am of unsure footing, and of limited expertise. I had hoped that the standard peer review would have helped me on this point, but no kindly copy-editor thought to drop by. That said, I will be glad to receive your stylistic and compositional criticisms, as well as any other criticisms you would seek to submit in regards to this article. Many thanks for your time! Geuiwogbil 23:03, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

• Support - One of the best computer games articles I have seen for a long time to appear on FAC, and one of the few that I'm going to support. Incredibly comprehensive and uses a wide range of sources. I have a few suggestions to make though:
  • It could do with some more "non free" media. I know some guys don't like it, but frankly those guys just bore me. It could do well by having a screenshot of first person combat in game, as well as the inventory screen showing all the attributes etc.
  • The soundtrack was rubbish in that there were only like 5 tracks and the Cliff Racers always set one of them off. But the theme is pretty iconic and is used again in later games. A 30 second snippet of the theme would be useful to have in the article.
  • A bit too much seems to be made of Lynda Carter's contribution to the voice cast. I don't really think it matters when Bethesda announced they had hired her.
  • You cite a few reviews from publications such as Computer Gaming World and GamePro, fairly major publications which could also do with the score in the reviews box.
    • hahnchen 00:35, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the support Hahnchen! I hope I was able to address your suggestions. I've added two screenshots: one of the first person combat, and another of the windowed interface. (I actually have a fuller description of the game's interface in the Morrowind subsection of the "Gameplay" subpage") I added an audio sample of the title theme. (It's my first, so I wasn't really sure where to cut it. It's quite a heady experience, creating audio samples! ;) ) The Lynda Carter miscellany has been trimmed, and GamePro's score has been added to the review box. I'm afraid I wasn't able to find CGW's score, since the only version of the article I read was the one uploaded to "Find Articles", and that version doesn't have a score. Sorry. :(

Thanks for taking the time to comment, and another thanks for supporting! Geuiwogbil 02:22, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

You found the CGW score on the Game Rankings page! Sorry for missing that. Geuiwogbil 02:39, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

• Support - this article's material is done as well as possible. Few things it could use would be related to slight gradual expansion, however it already has all that's necessary. The article is also written with a serious approach, extensively discussing not just the game from a player's viewpoint, but giving a good overview of the game's reception, influence and position in gamedev field. It has a concise and summarizing plot section, while giving much attention to actual information not found in the game, and sections on gameplay detail put them into perspective of the overall game development and progress. This is the kind of article one would expect to find in a printed general encyclopedia, reviewing the game in full context, making it interesting by itself, as a report on a piece of game history, and not just as guide. Lots of detail go into history and achievements, providing detailed and well referenced analysis and overview. So it might serve as an example of how a serious game article should look like. CP/M ^comm |Wikipedia Neutrality Project| 02:23, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your support and kind comments, CP\M. Geuiwogbil 02:28, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

• Support - A very excellent article, you've really taken it to the top in the last few weeks! I wish I had the time to make the Oblivion article look half as good. --PresN 06:48, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your support PresN. If it hadn't been for your GA nomination of the page, I would never have taken the time to be here! You've done good work on the Oblivion article, and it's much cleaner now than it was before you started. Thanks, again, for your prior comments and current support. Geuiwogbil 02:39, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.