Wikipedia:Featured article review/Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article review. Please do not modify it. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page or at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was delisted by DrKay via FACBot (talk) 5:24, 29 December 2021 (UTC) [1].

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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Notified: Steel, Jonny2x4, Th1rt3en, WP Video games, March 2021

Review section

This 2006 FA has been noticed since March 2021 yet has received no attention, and appears to be abandoned although the FAC nominator is still active. The talk page notice includes issues with prose, sourcing and listiness, and there is some uncited text, and sources flagged by Headbomb's script as unreliable. Because no one has responded in nine months to the (somewhat unnecessarily charged) description of the issues on talk, independent eyes to evaluate the article relative to criteria is needed. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:53, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Comment - a quick skim through sources:

• GoNintendo is listed as unreliable at WP:VGRS
• Grinding Down is a wordpress blog, needs replaced
• I can't tell if "Payton, Ryan. "The KP Report Session 027". Kojima Productions Report. mp.i.revo. Retrieved February 17, 2012." is a useable primary source publication or some sort of unaffiliated site that may not be reliable, as the link is dead, hopefully someone is familiar with this one
• "Metal Gear Solid 3 commentary 2; Arctic Air Space ～ Bolshaya Past Base". Muni Shinobu.webs.com. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-07-23." - are we sure this is RS?
• IMDB is cited many times, needs replaced
• "Hideo Kojima's original idea for Metal Gear Solid 5 featured The Boss, Cobra unit - PlayStation Universe". Psu.com. Retrieved 2012-12-02." - not familiar with this one, not on VGRS, is this really high-quality RS?
• ""Save MGO – The only community devoted to the revival of the original Metal Gear Online". www.savemgo.com. Retrieved 2009-09-04." - does not appear to be reliable
• siliconera is cited, I see that it's VGRS entry says "Should be replaced with a higher-quality source where possible.", so gonna say this doesn't meet the higher quality standard of FA
• "Metal Gear, Zone of Enders, Silent Hill HD Collection Coming to 360/PS3". The DamnLag. 2011-06-02. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2011-12-21." - any indication this is particularly reliable?

I'm not a video gamer, so others more experienced in this area may have additional sourcing comments. Hog Farm _Talk 01:20, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

• Move to FARC no efforts so far to address the concerns outlined above (t · c) buidhe 07:02, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
• Move to FARC, no progress whatsoever. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:05, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
• Move to FARC, issues remain unaddressed. Hog Farm _Talk 15:32, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
• Move to FARC per above – zmbro _(talk) 20:58, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

FARC section

Issues raised in the review section include sourcing and prose. DrKay (talk) 17:05, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

• Delist, issues not addressed. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:44, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
• Delist, basically nothing happening to replace questionable sources. Hog Farm _Talk 19:53, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
• Delist issues have not been resolved, formatting of the article needs to be addressed. Z1720 (talk) 20:34, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
• Closing note: This removal candidate has been delisted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please leave the {{featured article review}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. DrKay (talk) 15:24, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

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