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

The list was promoted by User:Matthewedwards 18:59, 15 November 2008 [1].

List of StarCraft media[edit]

My first featured list nomination. I think it checks all the boxes: its comprehensive, complete and accurate, its referenced and its easy to follow thanks to basing its style on some related featured lists. The only stability issues would be for altering a couple of dates on the unreleased games and literature, but that's hardly anything major. Gary King has graciously copy-editted the lead for me, so I'm hoping there's no prose issues. As I learnt in my last FAC, I'm a rubbish copyeditor. -- Sabre (talk) 22:12, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support - One question, shouldn't StarCraft be linked to StarCraft (series) in the lead? --TheLeftorium 18:15, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aye, it probably should be, I don't know why it was delinked. Its linked now. -- Sabre (talk) 18:18, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Two reasons mainly. Its firstly exceptionally difficult to solidly verify the toys and their details to reliable sources (this is about as good as it gets, and there's not much to really say), and the comparable featured lists that this one was based on (List of Final Fantasy media, List of Halo media) don't list toys and that sort of stuff either. I suppose its somewhat debatable to what extent toys fall under "media" as well. I've put in mention of the existance of toys in the intro, but I think that due to a lack of reliable sources to actually fully elaborate on details, individual list entries aren't necessary. -- Sabre (talk) 21:59, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - I actually expected this list to show up here sooner or later. But I still got a few things.
  • "The series has several games which carry the main story arc: StarCraft, StarCraft: Brood War, and StarCraft II." Brood War is not a game. Further down in the lead you get it right, but it's still an inaccuracy that I'd like to see avoided.
  • Both Blizzard Entertainment and Battle.net are mentioned and linked in the lead. Why create a "See also" section only for them? -- Goodraise (talk) 18:09, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Dealt with both issues. -- Sabre (talk) 19:12, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • For the printed media I'd find it appropriate to list the ISBNs. -- Goodraise (talk) 08:41, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Done, except for where ISBN isn't valid/yet made known. -- Sabre (talk) 14:45, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ye, looks good. Though personally, I liked the "Media type" column on the outer right. -- Goodraise (talk) 14:55, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Alrighty then, I switched them around. -- Sabre (talk) 14:59, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments -

Otherwise sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:53, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=921 has been removed. Ref 49 has had the publisher field added. As for Blizzplanet, its basically a small-time Blizzard-exclusive news and fansite, see their about page. I know fansite usage is generally frowned upon, but Blizzard themselves and Blizzard-related people tend to treat as a reputable place, having conducted quite a portfolio of interviews with Blizzard employees and Blizzard authors. I've replaced two usages with an IGN source, but I think it just about meets the criteria for a reliable source when no others are available. I'll try to find some better references for the soundtrack sources, but I'll warn you that trying to find the information for the first soundtrack is rather difficult - it seems to have been sold more for the Korean market. It doesn't seem to be sold anymore, and Blizzard's store isn't held in the web archive to get a primary reference for it. I'll try to find some better references for the two soundtrack sources, but I'll warn you that trying to find the information for that is rather difficult. It doesn't seem to be sold anymore, and Blizzard's store isn't held in the web archive to get a primary reference for it. I'll remove http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/catalog/soundtrackdetail.php?movieid=71169, as that really doesn't seem too reliable, but I think that http://www.en.game-ost.ru/info.php?id=450 may be borderline justifiable as a reliable source based on the willingness of some of the industry's composers to conduct interviews with them. Its very much scrapings at the bottom of the barrel stuff, most searches show up more for illegal torrent downloads than potentially usable source for it.-- Sabre (talk) 19:12, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I haven't been able to find anything that might actually count as a more reliable source, so it looks like game-ost.ru is as good as it gets. I realise its not an ideal situation, but as I stated above, it should just about qualify as a reliable source for the purpose assigned to it in the article - ie, showing that the soundtrack in question existed. Any more developed usage than that, such as in creation and critical reception, etc, should probably be avoided. -- Sabre (talk) 23:32, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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