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The Mother 3 section, as it is now, is copied verbatim from its main article. I personally find that undesirable. A lot of the "core details" such as "1000s of hours were put into the project and they translated the 1000s of pages of text" can be omitted and left to the main article. The phrasing here also just doesn't feel right, it puts a lot of weight on how dedicated the fans are, like they "built their own tools" and they had to do this because "their interests went unanswered by Nintendo." I feel like this text is trying to side with the fan community, which is non-neutral. There's also the "murky legality," which has no context to describe what makes it "murky." I did work to paraphrase the original content instead of repeating it verbatim, but that was reverted. I don't think my revision greatly compromised the original text. I disagree with the text as it is written now. -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 05:18, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
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I'll leave some initial comments tomorrow or tonight. ☠
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Not even going to put this on hold as the concerns are not significant. You can address them if you'd like, despite the lead already meeting the GA criteria those questions could be addressed if one day you would like to nominate this for FA! Anyway the article meets the GA criteria as it is. It is broad, well written, comprehensive and focused. There are very few prose problems (if none at all), I read through the rest of the article and I could find no copyediting issues at all. Another EarthBound GA, well done! ☠ Jag uar ☠ 12:31, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
Wanted to explain the title here because I think it'll come up again. Though sources predominantly refer to the series as the Mother series (and not the EarthBound series), the fans are almost always described by the sources as EarthBound fans. While this may seem contradictory, remember that EarthBound was the only game of the series to receive an English language release and that the fan community is associated with the English language. (E.g., Mother is a bigger franchise in Japan with farther reach, but Japanese are not mentioned in relation to Mother fandom.) This article is mostly about Starmen.net, self-described EarthBound fans who also work on Mother stuff (the advocacy for a sequel, the fan translation), which would be a sequel to EarthBound in the line of their mythologized EarthBound Zero and EarthBound 2—this is mainly to say that their work is focused around EarthBound and only secondarily the series overall. Instead of opening stubs for individual fan efforts, the best solution was to have a higher-level fan article. A perusal of the sources used in the article will show the fandom/fan community most associated with EarthBound and not Mother or the Mother series, hence the choice of title. czar ⨹ 00:41, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
I think the Mother 4 Section Should have its own article. There is articles for Sonic: Before the Sequel and ITS sequel, and Mother 4 has gotten enough fan intrest and it's own SUBREDDIT, so why not a article?
The only problem is that there is already a redirect there. CS116 [ | talk page] 14:05, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
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Oddity should be merged here. The game is effectively dead, having not been heard from since June 2021 and the developers have either vanished or ceased discussing the project altogether. In the off chance the game is miraculously released, then it can warrant its own article but as it stands, it isn't the case right now. Personally I think the article ought to be deleted but I'd like to see what others think. For now, I propose the lesser option of merging. ProjectHorizons ( talk) 16:55, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
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EarthBound's "religiously dedicated"
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translated its sequel when Nintendo would not, and brought
the game's localizer into the media limelight? | ||||||||||||
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The Mother 3 section, as it is now, is copied verbatim from its main article. I personally find that undesirable. A lot of the "core details" such as "1000s of hours were put into the project and they translated the 1000s of pages of text" can be omitted and left to the main article. The phrasing here also just doesn't feel right, it puts a lot of weight on how dedicated the fans are, like they "built their own tools" and they had to do this because "their interests went unanswered by Nintendo." I feel like this text is trying to side with the fan community, which is non-neutral. There's also the "murky legality," which has no context to describe what makes it "murky." I did work to paraphrase the original content instead of repeating it verbatim, but that was reverted. I don't think my revision greatly compromised the original text. I disagree with the text as it is written now. -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 05:18, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Jaguar ( talk · contribs) 14:01, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
I'll leave some initial comments tomorrow or tonight. ☠
Jag
uar ☠
14:01, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria
Not even going to put this on hold as the concerns are not significant. You can address them if you'd like, despite the lead already meeting the GA criteria those questions could be addressed if one day you would like to nominate this for FA! Anyway the article meets the GA criteria as it is. It is broad, well written, comprehensive and focused. There are very few prose problems (if none at all), I read through the rest of the article and I could find no copyediting issues at all. Another EarthBound GA, well done! ☠ Jag uar ☠ 12:31, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
Wanted to explain the title here because I think it'll come up again. Though sources predominantly refer to the series as the Mother series (and not the EarthBound series), the fans are almost always described by the sources as EarthBound fans. While this may seem contradictory, remember that EarthBound was the only game of the series to receive an English language release and that the fan community is associated with the English language. (E.g., Mother is a bigger franchise in Japan with farther reach, but Japanese are not mentioned in relation to Mother fandom.) This article is mostly about Starmen.net, self-described EarthBound fans who also work on Mother stuff (the advocacy for a sequel, the fan translation), which would be a sequel to EarthBound in the line of their mythologized EarthBound Zero and EarthBound 2—this is mainly to say that their work is focused around EarthBound and only secondarily the series overall. Instead of opening stubs for individual fan efforts, the best solution was to have a higher-level fan article. A perusal of the sources used in the article will show the fandom/fan community most associated with EarthBound and not Mother or the Mother series, hence the choice of title. czar ⨹ 00:41, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
I think the Mother 4 Section Should have its own article. There is articles for Sonic: Before the Sequel and ITS sequel, and Mother 4 has gotten enough fan intrest and it's own SUBREDDIT, so why not a article?
The only problem is that there is already a redirect there. CS116 [ | talk page] 14:05, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
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Oddity should be merged here. The game is effectively dead, having not been heard from since June 2021 and the developers have either vanished or ceased discussing the project altogether. In the off chance the game is miraculously released, then it can warrant its own article but as it stands, it isn't the case right now. Personally I think the article ought to be deleted but I'd like to see what others think. For now, I propose the lesser option of merging. ProjectHorizons ( talk) 16:55, 14 June 2023 (UTC)