 | Variable State was nominated as a Video games good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (June 16, 2024, reviewed version). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated. |
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Nominator: Badlandssummary ( talk · contribs) 21:06, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
Reviewer: NegativeMP1 ( talk · contribs) 04:58, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
To be upfront, this article isn't even close to what to expect from a C-Class article, let alone GA. A full review:
- The entire article reads like a list, with nearly every paragraph being only one to two sentences. None of the article naturally flows into the next part, and its generally just not pleasant to read or look at.
- If this makes any sense, the prose that is there feels like promotional material that just talks about a teams projects and its awards. There's not even any information on how or when the team was formed!
- The lead section is a complete violation of MOS:LEAD. It is not an accurate summary of the article, but rather ends up creating what is basically a duplicate article. It is nearly the exact same text as the main prose, down to its reading like a list nature.
- The team being based in Dublin is never verified in the article, and is unsourced in the prose.
- "Following its release, Virginia was nominated for several awards, with the writers of the game receiving the award for Best Writing in a Video Game at the 2017 Writers' Guild Awards and Virginia's composer, Lyndon Holland, receiving the BAFTA for Music at the British Academy Games Awards in 2017." is unsourced.
- Several sources here don't have established reliability at WP:RSP or WP:VG/S. What are Nouse and Anait Games? And 2020 Videogamer.com articles don't have established reliability. This article is nowhere even close to meeting the good article criteria, and I encourage the editor to take a look at existing GAs for game development companies
Based on all of the issues listed above, I am failing this article as present, and also demoting it down to a Start-class article per
WP:VG/A. I encourage the nominator to take a look at the development studios that are already good articles, with a list of these being at
WP:VG/GC. But this article is a long way from meeting that criteria. 
λ
Negative
MP1 04:58, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
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Nominator: Badlandssummary ( talk · contribs) 21:06, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
Reviewer: NegativeMP1 ( talk · contribs) 04:58, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
To be upfront, this article isn't even close to what to expect from a C-Class article, let alone GA. A full review:
- The entire article reads like a list, with nearly every paragraph being only one to two sentences. None of the article naturally flows into the next part, and its generally just not pleasant to read or look at.
- If this makes any sense, the prose that is there feels like promotional material that just talks about a teams projects and its awards. There's not even any information on how or when the team was formed!
- The lead section is a complete violation of MOS:LEAD. It is not an accurate summary of the article, but rather ends up creating what is basically a duplicate article. It is nearly the exact same text as the main prose, down to its reading like a list nature.
- The team being based in Dublin is never verified in the article, and is unsourced in the prose.
- "Following its release, Virginia was nominated for several awards, with the writers of the game receiving the award for Best Writing in a Video Game at the 2017 Writers' Guild Awards and Virginia's composer, Lyndon Holland, receiving the BAFTA for Music at the British Academy Games Awards in 2017." is unsourced.
- Several sources here don't have established reliability at WP:RSP or WP:VG/S. What are Nouse and Anait Games? And 2020 Videogamer.com articles don't have established reliability. This article is nowhere even close to meeting the good article criteria, and I encourage the editor to take a look at existing GAs for game development companies
Based on all of the issues listed above, I am failing this article as present, and also demoting it down to a Start-class article per
WP:VG/A. I encourage the nominator to take a look at the development studios that are already good articles, with a list of these being at
WP:VG/GC. But this article is a long way from meeting that criteria. λ
Negative
MP1 04:58, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
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