Shovel Knight Showdown 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. Review: January 1, 2024. (Reviewed version). |
A fact from Shovel Knight Showdown appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 February 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Reviewer: Vrxces (talk · contribs) 00:50, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
I'll take this one on. Looks concise, compliant with the MOS and well organised and written. I'll post any comments shortly. VRXCES (talk) 00:50, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
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This is an issue I think is directly relevant to the GAN.
This is an issue I think is indirectly relevant, but worth addressing.
This is just a personal preference or comment that could help.
Summary
The article is well written and has few real issues. It could do with a copyedit and I've put some suggestions below that you may like to consider.
Many of the suggestions aren't wildly necessary to the GAN process and are fairly superficial improvements. Please don't feel obliged to action these ones and you're welcome to consider them after the nomation process.
Suggestions
You may like to include the year of release in the headline.
The headline's summary for the single-player mode could be better explained, particularly given it alludes to a negative response.
Is there a better source of attribution for the Showdown cover than the Fandom page? It's obvious the art does not originate from Fandom.
The gameplay section suggests the single-player mode contains a narrative element. Really recommend expanding this to a 'Plot' section after the 'Gameplay' section if this is a notable feature of the mode. As per MOS:PLOTSOURCE, this doesn't have to be sourced.
The article's could take a shorter and more direct approach to prose. Examples include directly listing items "X, Y and Z" rather than stating that they "range from X to Y", which is an odd framing.
The grammar pedant in me wonders if many paragraphs could not start on a preposition or passive voice. For instance, 'between' and 'in addition to the multiplayer gameplay' could easily be removed.
I don't mind at all but I've found in my own GANs that some editors prefer the content of review sources being written or expressed instead of said. I get there's only so many verbs to go around!
dissuaded him - if the review is attributed to the publication and not the author, best to take a neutral approach to the pronouns.
The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 17:51, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
Improved to Good Article status by The Night Watch (talk). Self-nominated at 20:30, 8 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Shovel Knight Showdown; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
I'll take this one. TWOrantulaTM (enter the web) 22:12, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems |
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Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation |
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QPQ: Done. |
Overall: I would say ALT1 is more interesting. Also, I don't see the exact text that proves this hook. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough... then again, this is the first time I've reviewed a DYK nomination... TWOrantulaTM (enter the web) 04:32, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
all of which were stretch goals on the original Shovel Knight Kickstarter campaign...The Night Watch (talk) 00:26, 17 January 2024 (UTC)