Talk:Golf Club: Wasteland

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:09, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

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• ... that the developers of the video game Golf Club: Wasteland jokingly announced that they would only sell one copy at a price of $500 million? Source: GameSpot
  • ALT1: ... that the background art of the video game Golf Club: Wasteland takes inspiration from brutalist architecture? Source: BalkanInsight

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Allenby Formation
• Comment: Only 3 DYK credits currently, so QPQ exempt. QPQ done. Feel free to come up with other hooks, there's a lot of interesting stuff but most of it is in-universe. I will also start a GAN soon.

Moved to mainspace by Eviolite (talk). Self-nominated at 18:11, 31 October 2021 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Epicgenius (talk) 14:39, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: I realize that after Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan gets on the main page on the 16th, I will have 5 DYK credits, so I will need to provide a QPQ (since it is the number of credits at the time this hits the Main Page.) I'll try to get this done ASAP. eviolite (talk) 20:53, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: QPQ is done at Template:Did you know nominations/Allenby Formation. eviolite (talk) 23:36, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

Looks all right to me. – Epicgenius (talk) 00:40, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Golf Club: Wasteland/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Alexandra IDV (talk · contribs) 03:49, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

I will be doing this one.--Alexandra^IDV 03:49, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

Images

• Images are relevant and seem to be in order. I appreciate that you wrote alt text for them!

References

• The RPS writer's name is Katharine, not Katherine.
  • Fixed, thanks for the catch - I have a tendency of typing things out phonetically..
• This is not part of the GA criteria, but I believe the Unity source should have "Unity Technologies" in the publisher parameter rather than the website one, as it is not the name of a creative work.
  • Done
• Looks good otherwise - RSs, and some primary sources for uncontroversial detail.

Infobox

• Milojević, Stanković, and Stepković are only mentioned in the infobox, and not backed up by any sources.
  • Yeah, not sure where that came from either, replaced with just director and composer
• The iOS and Android versions are for some reason not included in the platforms field in the infobox.
  • Fixed - holdover from previous version when I was not aware the mobile releases were a major thing
• "Adventure" and "Role-playing" are only mentioned in the infobox, and not backed up by any sources. As we cannot use own analysis to determine genres, you should either cite a source or remove these (and their corresponding categories).
  • Removed

Lead

• The iOS and Android releases are only given as year and month, while the rest are given as year, month, and day - I would suggest being consistent
  • Set all to YMD
• "the super-rich" comes across as slightly casual wording to me
  • Changed to "extremely wealthy", but no idea if that's any better

Gameplay and synopsis

• There are three "modes" of gameplay - the quotation marks seem unnecessary, as if the modes were "sort of, but not quite" modes.
  • Removed
• We can assume that readers know what "nostalgia" means - I would remove the link.
  • Removed

Development and release

• Would suggest rearranging things slightly for chronology, so that the iOS/Android release dates are mentioned along with the PC and console versions rather than as the first thing the reader learns about the development (Golf Club: Wasteland was developed by Igor Simić [...] also works much better as a topic sentence than The game was released for iOS [...] does).
  • Moved the dated release info and soundtrack addition to last paragraph
• In an interview with Game World Observer, - unless what publication he was interview for is important somehow, I would just remove this bit and just focus on what he said.
  • Removed
• Nitpick, but in order to can almost always be simplified to to.
  • Changed

Reception

• though Ollie Reynolds of Nintendo Life noted that their reviewers found some of the neon signs [...] - is Reynolds not the single person at NL reviewing the game? Unless I'm missing something, I believe this should be written as "though Ollie Reynolds of Nintendo Life found [...]".
  • The review used wording like "we", "us", and "our", though that might just be journalistic. Changed.
• Loades also thought that the level design was uninspired, with the "puzzle" elements - like with the "modes" earlier, this makes me wonder if they're "kind of but not really" puzzles - you can probably remove the quotation marks.
  • Removed quote marks
• he wished the game doubled down on - comes across as too casual wording
  • Reworded

Other

• Without any discussion in the article about games as art, the "see also" link feels like an inappropriate use of "Wikipedia's voice".
  • It was previously linked in the development section as the BI source explicitly stated Igor Simic realised the potential of video games as art. I have re-added a bit into the first paragraph of "Development and release" about that, though it might not flow well - what do you think? I might remove it again.
• The article is not categorized as an iOS or Android game
  • Fixed, also changed 2021 -> 2018 (another remnant from the old structure of the article)

Looks good overall! I left a few notes for you, but they are all fairly minor. I will put this review on hold for the usual seven days - {{ping}} me when you have addressed the above or if you have any questions, and I will be with you as soon as possible! (although I will move this upcoming weekend, so there's a risk I won't be able to respond during Friday-Sunday).--Alexandra^IDV 02:33, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

@Alexandra IDV: Items addressed, see comments above. Thanks for the review! eviolite (talk) 03:16, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I will go ahead and promote this now!--Alexandra^IDV 12:30, 30 November 2021 (UTC)