Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

I think this article meets all the criteria. Well referenced and with appropriate use of images, it provides a comprehensive overview of the game. Covering all the essential aspects, including development and critical responses, the story and its characters, this is ready to be part of Wikipedia's finest. -- Steel 16:18, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

• Support - I had a major review today, found no fault. Excellent article. NCurse _work 16:19, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
• Support. I've been watching this article for a while, and am pleased at how it has turned out. The concise plot and number of references is great. Thunderbrand 17:30, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: can we have spoiler warnings please? Mikker ^(...) 23:35, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
  • There's been a huge discussion about spoiler warnings recently (432 kilobytes) which is located at Wikipedia talk:Spoiler warning/RfC. The upshot of it all was that this is an encyclopedia, not a forum, and that spoiler warnings are a bit unprofessional. Especially as it's pretty obvious that a section marked "Story" or "Plot" is going to contain spoilers. -- Steel 23:45, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
• Comment - It's a good idea to lead critical commentary sections with a link to metacritic or gamerankings. - Hahnchen 23:58, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
  • I'm quite happy to have the metacritic score in the critical response section, but it's also in the lead paragraph of the article so might be a bit redundant. -- Steel 00:02, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
• Support - Good job! - Malomeat 04:48, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
• Support Very nice article, much better than the original MGS one, even if the number of pictures is small. As I suggested in the Halo FAC, a table in "Reception" is a nice addition. igordebraga ≠ 23:04, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

  Why have a table of arbitrary numbers when prose does the job just as well? I've been removing those tables whenever I see them (save for articles that don't yet have a prose "reception" section). - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 05:20, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

  I really don't think this is a good place for discussing the table idea, which I personally like, but since this will pass FAC I think all discussions about the article should be done at the article page †he Bread 06:51, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

• Support, great article! jaco♫plane 03:19, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
• Support. I'm glad to have helped, but this is really Steel's baby. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 05:20, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
• Support. Excellent work. Hyperspacey 13:15, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
• Support This was the driving force behind me voting support in Steel's RfA, and it's turned out better than I could've imagined †he Bread 03:05, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

• Support wonderful article Steel, Highway ^Daytrippers 21:33, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
• Support Can't really get any better than this. Jay32183 03:23, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

• Support, provides sufficient amount of references and adheres to guidelines. --TheEmulatorGuy 23:44, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

• Comment, leaning toward oppose. Prose does not meet standards of "compelling, even brilliant". Examples in the lead alone include:

1. "...scoring an average score..." - Second "score" should be removed, so it flows into "...of 91%".
2. "While it is the third game in the Metal Gear Solid series, it is actually a prequel to the entire Metal Gear series." - Needlessly long. Changing it to something like "The game serves as a prequel to the entire Metal Gear series" makes exactly the same point, without all the extra wording.
3. "Whereas previous games were set in a primarily urban environment..." - "Whereas" used incorrectly. Perhaps "while"?
4. "...the high tech, near-future trappings of previous Metal Gear Solid games being replaced with the simple wilderness." - "simple" is redundant, and bordering on original research in the context.
5. "...the focus of the game is still on stealth and infiltration..." - Redundant. Try "the game's focus remains stealth and infiltration", or somesuch.

• These are the ones I noticed in the lead. As this is not my field of expertise, there are probably more in there. Prose issues inundate the rest of the article, as well. The help of copyeditors unfamiliar with the text should be requested. Since the article is otherwise solid, I'd gladly support once the prose is taken care of. JimmyBlackwing 12:52, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

• I've dealt with the specific points you raised, and TheEmulatorGuy has gone through and cleaned up other bits of prose. Deckiller has agreed to copyedit the article as some point (soon) as well. -- Steel 17:04, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

• Support Steel and the rest of the MGS editors have done a great job. --Twlighter 16:57, 8 October 2006 (UTC)