Hello,

I've been busy working at Draft:Seymour Guado and thought I'd notify the relevant WikiProject in case anyone is interested in contributing.

Most of the writing has been done, I've mostly been focusing on sourcing and expanding the Reception section to establish notability, but I'll need to source the other sections and subsections before it'll be ready for mainspace. I'm trying to structure it similar to other character articles, in particular based off of the articles for other FF antagonists and other X characters. Any help getting it up to shape would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

 Vanilla  Wizard 💙 16:13, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

After nearly 3 years of on-and-off work (just under 1 in sandbox and just under 2 in draftspace) I think it's finally in a state where it's roughly on par with comparable articles and should be ready for mainspace. Please let me know if anyone has any feedback on this draft.  Vanilla  Wizard 💙 19:25, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

@Vanilla Wizard: Seems a little thin in parts. I'd suggest bringing this to a new WikiProject group dedicated to character articles. They are Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games/Video game characters. --ProtoDrake (talk) 23:05, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for making me aware of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games/Video game characters. I have since reached out to them and am hopeful that they will be able to offer constructive criticism or otherwise help to improve the draft. Your point about the page having some thin parts to it is noted; the thin subsections within "Sequels and spinoffs" could perhaps be consolidated into a single section without dividers. There is also some potential room for growth in that section as the character has appeared in other media not currently mentioned in the draft article. I would also like to expand upon the "Creation and development" section, but English-language sources about this are hard to come by and there is a language-barrier preventing me from discovering any Japanese-language sources that may be out there. I'll definitely be doing some work on the aforementioned "Sequels and spinoffs" section in the near future.  Vanilla  Wizard 💙 23:40, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

I have been expanding Noctis Lucis Caelum based on other user comments from Cloud Strife. I'm not sure what is the desired pic since some FF article use the CGI over the original artist's sketches but I felt the Nomura artwork was important because of the primary weapon. I also asked for a copyedit after expanding the reception in case somebody wants to nominate it again. Feel free to add anything or correct something. Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 22:23, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

@Tintor2: I've done some work. By the way, where did you get the Nomura artwork for the infobox? The image infobox/rationale hasn't been updated, so it still reflects the New Empire CG render. --ProtoDrake (talk) 13:27, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

@ProtoDrake: The organization of reception goes like:

• Brotherhood
• XV game and the novel
• Tekken 7

That's at least what I thought when writing it. I'm not sure if some parts should be trimmed in a similar fashion video game reception sections. I have no idea if the Pop Team Epic parody is suitable there.Tintor2 (talk) 18:14, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Noctis was copyedited. Still, I won't try to bring to GA.Tintor2 (talk) 15:37, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

Today I created Ardyn Izunia based on the response the character had. Originally, I planned for a Lunafreya article but after a discussion with another user, I went for Ardyn. However, since I didn't want to mess up the appearances section, I kept it nearly intact from the character from the list and I don't know if the DLC background stuff should be separated furthermore from the XV vanilla. Feel free to add or modify anything you find.Tintor2 (talk) 02:51, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

I found commentary about each of Nomura's designs the character Sora (Kingdom Hearts) tends to wear through every installment added it to the article. You think now the Smash compilation of Sora's looks now fits the non-free criteria of being added to the article?Tintor2 (talk) 14:10, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

I started the merger discussion, located at Talk:Music of Final Fantasy VIII#Redirect Eyes on Me (Faye Wong song)? (2022). --George Ho (talk) 20:07, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

After finding commentary about his most recent appearances in Kingdom Hearts, I managed to create Xehanort. I found info about his two late English actors but I couldn't anything about Billy Zane, Epcar or Xemnas' actors. Feel free to add or revise anything.Tintor2 (talk) 20:31, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

@PresN: One of the main actors of Xehanort gave a fully detailed in interview in none other than reddit Can this type of source be used?Tintor2 (talk) 19:50, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

@Tintor2: Yeah, that's fine- you're not citing Reddit, you're citing Ben Diskin, who is posting on Reddit. Can't be used to support notability, but it's a self-published source so as long as it's provably him (and it appears to be) then it's fine. --PresN 20:11, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

So, primary comments from content creators published on otherwise unreliable, but not deprecated, sources can be exempted under the self-published exception? Haleth (talk) 02:41, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

I guess it's like twitter accounts where there are times famous people like Yozora's actor post their impressions about their works.Tintor2 (talk) 12:07, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Exactly. Videos self-posted on youtube, tweets, reddit AMAs, posts on their own blog - all functionally equivalent SPSs if you can prove it's them. Remember that anyone can set up a twitter handle or username on reddit, so you can't just take them at their word. It's always going to be a little fuzzy there, but in this case Diskin verified himself using his facebook account, so we'll ignore the outside chance that someone hijacked his entire online life just to post an AMA and he never complained. Also important to remember is that as SPSs you can't build an article on just them, you need 3rd party sources, but that's not an issue here. --PresN 13:40, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi. I've just created an article for the FFXV character Lunafreya Nox Fleuret. There was an article created for her before the game's release which was swiftly deleted, and I wasn't thinking of creating one now, but due to finding a lot of information surrounding her creation and portrayal in addition to at least some commentary on her reception (and seeing other GA-status FF character articles with less content), I decided to create her own article. I'm planning on taking the article to GA in the near future, but want other opinions as to whether it passes notability. If it doesn't I'll happily merge it back into the main character article. --ProtoDrake (talk) 16:54, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

• I don't see any issues with this article, there is enough content to warrant splitting into a separate article without leaving the parent article overly deficient in depth of content. I have no comments on whether the article in its current state is a viable GAN, but GA criteria has no relation on whether it meets the presumption for a standalone article outlined by WP:GNG. Haleth (talk) 02:39, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

• Don't know why we're getting a flurry of character articles in the past year or so, but as always your work is solid. --PresN 13:43, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

• @PresN:, not sure myself. Lunafreya emerged by accident. Out of the other four character articles, I'm not seeing Ignis or Prompto surviving long term. and Ardyn and Noctis's articles both need serious work with grammar and sources (seems like the creators are copy-pasting a chunk of work from the FF Wiki articles in the case of Ardyn, Ignis and Prompto). I also decided to merge Cindy back into the XV character article because it was so...not an article. --ProtoDrake (talk) 13:57, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Talking about XV there are two nearly identical images of Versus Noctis in both Noctis Lucis Caelum and the development of the game. Should one be removed and replace the other one? It's the Versus design by Nomura doing the special move in the 2006 trailer but I don't know if Nomura ever made heavy commentary enough to keep it. On the other hand, the design was reused as DLC for Dissidia NT so I don't know if it is more notable then.Tintor2 (talk) 13:53, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

@Tintor2: Yes. The trailer image for the Dev one was one I used to demonstrate a point about pieces that were kept in the final game. It also shows an early design that was reused in a later piece of media. It was used in the Noctis article originally, then got taken out and replaced with that rough sketch, then the current odd cropped one. I'd used the one in the Dev article, as it's good-enough quality. --ProtoDrake (talk) 13:57, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi. Since this article is niche but falls under the purview of this project, I'm bringing this here. I recently created an article for the 2005 multimedia project Code Age, in addition to expanding the article for Code Age Brawls and doing some TLC work for Code Age Commanders (all info possible for Code Age Archives is already in the series article). This kinda happened by accident, and I got interested. Is there anything more that could be done to bring Code Age and Brawls to possible GAN quality? I think it qualifies for notability as it's got extensive sourcing and news coverage. Tagging PresN and Judgesurreal777 since they seemed to be involved with Code Age before I got interested. --ProtoDrake (talk) 15:33, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

@ProtoDrake: I only edited them as part of the old project to get all of our stubs boosted; history is telling me that I just grabbed a handful of sources and strung together a couple sections so that Brawls wasn't a 2-sentence article, but I don't recall anything besides. Looks like you got that pretty fleshed out, it mostly needs more reception if any exists (given that reviews for Japanese mobile phone games aren't easy to find). Basically the same for the series article too, it mostly needs reception. Interesting, though, didn't realize that was another of SE's "polymorphic content" campaigns. --PresN 15:33, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

I'm trying to get Final Fantasy IV into a good topic. One of the articles I'm having a hard time with is Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. I was wondering if anyone here would be willing to help me, specifically with the release dates. Those are kicking my butt.Blue Pumpkin Pie (talk) 21:10, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

@Blue Pumpkin Pie: I'll go on a source hunt for you tomorrow. --ProtoDrake (talk) 21:57, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

@Blue Pumpkin Pie: By the way, I remember a user archiving references to possible character articles and Cecil had the most. I remember creating the character list some years ago but could find little to nothing about their creation.00:55, 19 April 2022 (UTC)Tintor2 (talk)

@Tintor2, I think you are referring to this. Haleth (talk) 01:09, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

You just got Embraced(tm). Guess that moots the perennial question of whether to dramatically rescope the project to include Eidos games. I'd become increasingly on-board with the idea over the years but lacked the editing time to even contribute if it passed. Oh well. For the time being, I don't think we need to make any changes. First of all, the deal could still fall through for any number of reasons. More importantly, most of the relevant pages that are actually tagged with WPSE's banner should continue to keep it regardless of the deal (e.g. Square Enix Montreal). Axem Titanium (talk) 03:27, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

I would be in favor of keeping articles on subjects formerly owned by/associated with/etc SE part of WPSE's scope given their history with SE (if the FF IP hypothetically were sold, I don't think anyone would agree with removing all of FF from the project... but I do understand that this is a collaborative passion project based on what articles people are interested in and that we do not need to be consistent with inclusion unless someone is passionate enough about a topic to do the work on it).--Alexandra^IDV 09:30, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Well, that's the thing, we never actually added any of the existing Eidos IPs to the project- no Tomb Raider, Hitman, Deus Ex, etc., and the subsidiaries that are being sold off were never really used to make new IPs either, and the few they made (like Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy) we didn't add. So, there's nothing to remove or not- all we have is Square Enix Montreal, basically, and I agree that we shouldn't remove it. --PresN 12:30, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Yes exactly. A small handful of articles were naturally added to the project (Square Enix Europe also comes to mind) but the rest were marked out of scope on a contingent basis and now the question is moot. Of note, however, is that Life Is Strange, Outriders, and Just Cause are staying with SE.[1] I'm not suggesting we have a debate over these right now but just making a note of it. Axem Titanium (talk) 17:52, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

That's because none of the three are developed by SE-owned studios, SE is just the publisher (Dontnod Entertainment, People Can Fly, and Avalanche Studios Group, respectively), and we've always excluded 3rd-party games published by SE. --PresN 18:59, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Wikipedia:DQ and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 July 3#Wikipedia:DQ until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Q28 (talk) 08:37, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

As part of WP:URFA/2020, there's been some improvements made to Chrono Cross, and older featured article promotion. Would someone familiar with the subject be willing to look it over and see if it is satisfactory against the featured article criteria? Hog Farm _Talk 18:50, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

x-posting from WT:VG, since this project is likely to be more interested · cc @Hog Farm · Talk:Chrono Cross#WP:URFA/2020 czar 21:40, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

@PresN:, @ProtoDrake:

Shmuplations is something I am a small financial contributor to, and they are asking for people to vote on which translations should be prioritized. Now I would pick them out myself, but I'm busy and there are 1,100 of them! The list is not private | so here it is, if anyone wants to see what interviews and features should be prioritized please post in this space which ones and I'll put a comment. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 23:11, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

In relation to this WikiProject, the SaGa series would be useful to have stuff on. Outside anything specifically Square/SQEX related, the interviews for Panser Dragoon Zwei and/or Orta would be useful. --ProtoDrake (talk) 08:24, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Tifa Lockhart has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. (Oinkers42) (talk) 12:31, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

I've been trying to clean up the reception section which is the one with most of the issues. If anybody else could join, I'll appreciate it.Tintor2 (talk) 21:18, 8 October 2022 (UTC)