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Baseball Stars[edit]

  • When I found this article, it had an in depth treatment of this classic NES game, but needed a lot of work. I have spent quite a bit of time cleaning it up, and feel that I may be approaching a quality article, and would appreciate help in pushing this one over the top. Themindset 04:38, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Right... a couple (or more) things to work on;
  1. The lead section is too short. Expand it.
  2. Try to find the specific release date (day, month), and a screenshot of the game box.
  3. Image:Snap008.gif, Image:Snap014.gif, and Image:Snap1.gif claim a {{Gamecover}} tag, when it should be {{game-screenshot}} tag.
  4. Image:Baseballstars.gif is lacking fair use rationale. This image should be fine as it is also a screenshot (that I personally took) just like the other three pictures. Masterhatch 20:01, 13 December 2005 (UTC) Well, it's purely academic now, since I replaced it. Themindset 20:42, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  5. "The Cheats" section is inappropriate for an encyclopedia. An encyclopedia should give an overview of what the game is about, not specific cheats, what buttons to press for them to work, etc. This is more appropriate at Wikibooks.
  6. In the lead, it says the article was a major hit, yet it is not talked about in the rest of the article. A section must be made, possibly "Critical Acclaim", showing sales statistics, magasine reviews, its impact on the genre etc.
  7. The "see also" section is useless. All the links in there can be found in the main article. Remove it, or add better links.
  8. The links section should be called "External links", and should be better formatted than this.
  9. Add references.
  10. In the infobox, it says Nesticle is one of the Platforms on which the game plays, but Nesticle is an Emulator, not a platform.
  11. It also says DOS is a platform, but not once is this mentioned in the article.
  12. The external links, apart from the Mobygames entry, are all useless. They do not provide the reader with additional information, only downloadable ROMs and cheats, whaich are useless to a reader who is trying to find out more about the game.


Also, try looking at Katamari Damacy, for an example of what a game article should be. Take a look at the WikiProject Computer and video games, which has some helpful tips. «LordViD» 13:51, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Another thing, On MobyGames, it says the game was released May 19, 1989, but in the article, it says it was released 1988. I've also added some stuff to the list above.

This is a great article, but needs a lot of work IMO. «LordViD» 17:22, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Great input guys! Will start working on this stuff right away. Question is it inappropriate to cross off points in here, should I copy paste this list and start crossing them off in the appropriate talk page.?Themindset 19:27, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Guys? What guys? It's only me :). Anyway, feel free to cross them out here. «LordViD» 20:12, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
We're going at it on the talk page, I will update these points as we cross them out. Themindset 20:17, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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