Wikipedia:Featured article review/Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare/archive1
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This featured article from 2008 has strayed far from the criteria and quality that is expected from a featured article on this site. I pointed out some issues back in May regarding this article, but they have gone unnoticed and I believe that it's time for this article to be reassessed. To summarize the main issues with this article:
- Verification issues, such as an orange cleanup banner and numerous citation needed tags in the Gameplay section (which has two unsourced paragraphs), a "not verified in body" tag in the lead. There's also an unreliable source tag in the Development section. So therefore, with the gameplay section alone, the article fails criteria 1c.
- Lack of detail regarding the games legacy on the first-person shooter genre as well as the Call of Duty series. Considering that this is undoubtedly the most important game in the franchise and quite possibly one of the most important first-person shooter games ever made, this makes the article fail criteria 1b.
- Extremely lackluster reception section further backed up by a "needs expansion" banner. The reception towards the game's relatively insignificant Wii port is given just as much weight as literally every other aspect of the game. There's also a lack of reviews actually used. This is also a failure of criteria 1b, and to a lesser extent criteria 1d on the grounds of not being able to accurately represent all opinions related to the game in a cohesive manner.
- Additional minor issues such as the detail of the game's age ratings, which is a violation of the manual of style for writing about video games, the lack of an explanation for what a first-person shooter is (which wouldn't hurt due to this games significance, see what Doom does), and a few other minor writing issues like one-sentence paragraphs.
If a cleanup effort to save this article begins, I might be willing to help out in certain areas where I can, as I love this game and would hate to see it lose its status. But at present, it's a clear failure of the featured article criteria and warrants reassessment regardless. λ NegativeMP1 03:55, 3 September 2024 (UTC)