Wikipedia:Featured article review/Space Invaders/archive1

Space Invaders

Featured article candidates/Space Invaders

Featured article review/Space Invaders/archive1

Notified: Guyinblack25, WikiProject Video games, WikiProject Science Fiction, WikiProject Japan Noticed: 2021-04-07 2025-05-17

I am nominating this featured article for review because the later parts of the article have small, one-or-two sentence paragraphs that should be reformatted better, and the "Remakes and sequels" section is quite long and should either be summarised more effectively or broken up with headings. The game's reception and rankings sections suffer from the "X says Y" pattern. There are unreliable sources like "Discogs" used in the article and some uncited statements. An orange "irrelevant references to pop culture" banner is at the top of "In popular culture" Z1720 (talk) 02:19, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The article seriously needs a split to Space Invaders (series), where information on the (quite large) series of Space Invaders games can be shown. The original game is probably still famous enough to be primary topic though. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 02:26, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The article has become quite crufty over the years, but I think it's salvageable. It will take time though, as my free time has been drying up. As always, any help (especially with copy editing) would be appreciated.

Regarding a series article, I don't think there's enough content in reliable sources to warrant one; I think it would be too derivative of the original game article. Maybe there have been new developments during my retirement, but except for a few special reimaginings/crossovers, the basic premise and gameplay of all the sequels are very similar; the later versions mainly just add a new twist or gimmick. So much so that the list of games will tell you the relevant information. Happy to be proven wrong if the reliable sources are there though. (Guyinblack25 ^talk 04:49, 16 June 2025 (UTC))[reply]

There's SIGCOV of the entire series here, the article goes indepth about the entire series and not just the first game. Some more here, albeit the same publication. However, there is also SIGCOV of the series here as well. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 05:43, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]