Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Dragon Quest media/archive1

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The list was promoted by The Rambling Man 18:38, 27 December 2012 [1].

List of Dragon Quest media

Featured list candidates/List of Dragon Quest media/archive1

Nominator(s): Pres N 06:44, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey all, taking a break from all the genre fiction award lists to jump back to video games. This is the list of all Dragon Quest media, patterned after the List of Final Fantasy media FL I helped with and the List of Final Fantasy video games FL I wrote. As the second-most popular Square Enix franchise after Final Fantasy, I've wanted to do this for a while, but for "some reason" I didn't. Well, you all can now see why it took me so long: the list encompasses over 30 games on multiple systems each, five movies/anime series, dozens and dozens of books and manga series (generally spread over multiple volumes as is the norm in Japan) and over 90 albums of music - the vast majority of all of which have never been released outside of Japan. This is the only English-language comprehensive guide to all the nonsense released for this franchise over the last 26 years, and I hope it meets the standard! Thanks for reviewing! --Pres N 06:44, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Crisco 1492 (talk)

*Comments from Crisco 1492

Per WP:ISBN we should use 13-digit numbers. This will help.
Double check for places where you've used hyphens instead of dashes, I've seen at least one.
The overviews of the games are all uncited (video board games, etc.).
Not particularly keen on the non-free logo, as it is tiny and thus rather jarring as used. If there were an infobox or something, okay, but it looks weird when there are only three lines indented.
Dragon Quest III Game Book:
ISBN 4-900527-04-2 Parameter error in {{ISBN
}}: checksum is returning a checksum error.

Its first game premiered in Japan in 1986, and Dragon Quest games have subsequently been localized for markets in North America, Europe and Australia, on over a dozen video game consoles since its debut on the Nintendo Entertainment System. - I'd put NES near the bit about the first game (both are about the debut)
Dragon Quest is Square Enix's second most successful franchise behind the Final Fantasy franchise, having sold over 58 million units worldwide to date. It has been cited as the most popular video game franchise in Japan. - You may want to qualify the first sentence with "internationally" then.
In addition to traditional role-playing games, the series includes
first-person adventure games, portable games, massively multiplayer online role-playing games
, and games for mobile phones. - This is still related to media, perhaps have this near your description on over a dozen video game consoles?

Nothing in the lede about how Dragon Quest media is almost all exclusively Japanese?

That's it from me, fairly solid (as always) — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:32, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, think I've gotten it all. Thanks for the isbn converter link, helped a lot for converting those, though I regret putting them in the first place now. --Pres N 21:44, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support on prose, looks solid. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:04, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from

talk) 20:45, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply

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Comments

"and his studio, Armor Project, and" too many uses of "and", would suggest replacing the final "and" with "being"

Fixed.

Avoid bold links in the table per
WP:ACCESS

There is nothing in ACCESS about avoiding bold links in tables, or in DTT- rowheaders in tables even bold the first row by default, linked or no, and the title of the video game is the first row in the table.

Tables don't meet
WP:DTT
for scope rows and cols or table captions

Urgh, I'll see if I can modify the templates to work. As to table captions, though, each table has at minimum its own section header and sometimes its own paragraph of description- a table caption would be superfluous.

Alright, turns out I'm a wizard. Both {{
Video game table item}} and {{Video game titles/item}} have been updated to have row and column headers while retaining the same look in all their various varieties (VG titles has a whole section that's optional), except that VG titles now has a heading row, which it was lacking before. Does that work? --Pres N 20:11, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Yep, thanks.
and ley 20:45, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply
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That's all I have. Very good work!

and ley 17:45, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply

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Replied inline. --Pres N 19:09, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support on all criteria, looks great. Well done!
andley 20:45, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 11:22, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

"Its first game premiered..." I would say "The first game of the series premiered...."

Done.

"It has been cited as the most" by whom? And what does "most popular" mean in this context? Most sales? Best in a survey?

Cited the (now 3) sources, though none of them define what they mean so I changed to direct quotes.

No need to capitalise mobile phone in the tables.

Done.

Not keen on the bold italic linked text. Just italic would suffice.

Changed the template to unbold.

For PlayStation, shouldn't you link to the specific console, e.g. PlayStation (console)?

Yes, done.

Complete sentences in the tables should end with a full stop.

Added when needed, or changed to not be full sentences.

If the releases are notable enough to be included in this table, why do some not have articles, or at least why aren't they redlinked here?

"notable enough to be included in this table", in this case, means "exists" - I tried very hard to include every single piece of media ever created for the DQ series. As far as video games go, for the ones that aren't linked it's because they are wrapped up into a single series article (Itadaki Street, Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road) or just haven't had an article made yet, for those two I've now redlinked.