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Reviewer: PresN ( talk · contribs) 01:15, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
This has been sitting here for way too long, so despite my relative lack of experience with law articles, I'm going to give it a go.
"this estimation raising to 20 million in consideration of the post-Christmas season."- oddly passive voice; consider "this estimate rose to 20 million in the post-Christmas season."
"almost as many as the number of Commodore 64s sold in its first five years."- perhaps "almost as many consoles as the 1982 Commodore 64 sold in its first five years.", to avoid the "almost as many as the number" and also give context for how recent the C64 was
"revenue in 1989 was over $600 million cementing the brand"- comma after million, and {{ US$}} for the dollar, since Nintendo is a non-US company so we should be clear this is all US dollars
"the Software Publishers Association promised to exclude video games from the new copyright protections"- I feel that you need to be a little more specific here; "video games", in modern parlance, include software-only games and computer games, so even if that's the term the SPA used you should specify that they were excluding cartridge-based or console games, not "video games" that could include floppy disk-based computer games.
"the bill passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee without protection for Nintendo's cartridges."- should maybe make it clear that it didn't have protection for non-Nintendo cartridges (Sega, etc.), even though this article is about Nintendo specifically
"requesting that Blockbuster cease photocopying and reproducing Nintendo's copyrighted video game manuals"- this is the first time (outside of the lead) that you mention that Blockbuster did this at all, so it should either get mentioned in the "facts" section that BB's rentals included copies of the manual, or this sentence should append that BB was including these manuals with the rentals.
"this followed with a formal lawsuit"- "this was followed by a formal lawsuit"
"The finally chose the latter option"- "They", but also, do you know when "finally" refers to? I'm guessing before whenever that VSDA convention was?
"rental of computer software without limiting the rental of video games."- same as above, "rental of video game cartridges".
"a similar model would be reasonable for games,"- needs to be more clear that this is Sheff's opinion, not Wikipedia's authoritative voice, e.g. "he held that a similar model would be reasonable for games,"
"Blockbuster earned over $200 million in revenue from video game rentals."- annual revenue? Or cumulative?
"with Blockbuster filing for bankruptcy in 2010."- passive voice; "and Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010."
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Improved to Good Article status by Jorahm ( talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke ( talk) at 18:57, 31 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Nintendo of America, Inc. v. Blockbuster Entertainment Corp.; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
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Reviewer: PresN ( talk · contribs) 01:15, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
This has been sitting here for way too long, so despite my relative lack of experience with law articles, I'm going to give it a go.
"this estimation raising to 20 million in consideration of the post-Christmas season."- oddly passive voice; consider "this estimate rose to 20 million in the post-Christmas season."
"almost as many as the number of Commodore 64s sold in its first five years."- perhaps "almost as many consoles as the 1982 Commodore 64 sold in its first five years.", to avoid the "almost as many as the number" and also give context for how recent the C64 was
"revenue in 1989 was over $600 million cementing the brand"- comma after million, and {{ US$}} for the dollar, since Nintendo is a non-US company so we should be clear this is all US dollars
"the Software Publishers Association promised to exclude video games from the new copyright protections"- I feel that you need to be a little more specific here; "video games", in modern parlance, include software-only games and computer games, so even if that's the term the SPA used you should specify that they were excluding cartridge-based or console games, not "video games" that could include floppy disk-based computer games.
"the bill passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee without protection for Nintendo's cartridges."- should maybe make it clear that it didn't have protection for non-Nintendo cartridges (Sega, etc.), even though this article is about Nintendo specifically
"requesting that Blockbuster cease photocopying and reproducing Nintendo's copyrighted video game manuals"- this is the first time (outside of the lead) that you mention that Blockbuster did this at all, so it should either get mentioned in the "facts" section that BB's rentals included copies of the manual, or this sentence should append that BB was including these manuals with the rentals.
"this followed with a formal lawsuit"- "this was followed by a formal lawsuit"
"The finally chose the latter option"- "They", but also, do you know when "finally" refers to? I'm guessing before whenever that VSDA convention was?
"rental of computer software without limiting the rental of video games."- same as above, "rental of video game cartridges".
"a similar model would be reasonable for games,"- needs to be more clear that this is Sheff's opinion, not Wikipedia's authoritative voice, e.g. "he held that a similar model would be reasonable for games,"
"Blockbuster earned over $200 million in revenue from video game rentals."- annual revenue? Or cumulative?
"with Blockbuster filing for bankruptcy in 2010."- passive voice; "and Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010."
The result was: promoted by
Bruxton (
talk) 20:28, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
Improved to Good Article status by Jorahm ( talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke ( talk) at 18:57, 31 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Nintendo of America, Inc. v. Blockbuster Entertainment Corp.; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.