Wikipedia:Featured article review/ESRB re-rating of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion/archive2

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 Nikkimaria via FACBot (talk) 4:00, 20 May 2023 (UTC) [1].

ESRB re-rating of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion[edit]

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Procedural FAR: based on a three-person discussion on talk, this Featured article was merged away without consultation at FAR. The merge needs review by a broader audience, and if it stands, the FA needs to be delisted. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 12:55, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Understandable, I am not incredibly familiar with the process of merging featured articles. I should note that while this says three person discussion like it is a small amount, the article was promoted to Featured by a three-person discussion in 2007. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 13:46, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Zxcvbnm not a problem (happens more often than one might suspect), but just for future reference this needed instead to be done via a procedural FAR that would record the event in article history, remove it from the WP:FA page, yada, yada ... else we get these kinds of messes that become harder to sort as years pass. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:54, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Procedural delist. The FAC process implicitly ignores notability and UNDUE considerations. The VG Wikiproject's (and FAC's) standards for sourcing and prose have risen in the past 15 years and the article, though competently written, does not meet those new standards. As the former article notes, "the events passed by with little concern from either the public or gaming journalists in particular". It was written in an age when spin-out articles were popular and little heed was paid to if ballooning them out to full article size actually served any informational purpose for the reader. Axem Titanium (talk) 14:07, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I think the merge was the right choice (though since it was an FA it probably should have been more advertised, or at least cleaned up after the merge so it didn't have to be done now.) The article itself noted that coverage of the story was rather thin, and in the years since it's not become an important enough historical note to merit more than what it has now, which is two paragraphs that cover the same content in a much more due weight form, so a procedural delist is appropriate. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^talk 14:20, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy procedural delist per David Fuchs. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:24, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I think there was enough discussion to warrant its own article (if it was at AfD, I would have !voted keep) but the low amount of information/prose in the article would have caused me to question its FAC status (and perhaps voted for delist for comprehensiveness). Since the merge has already taken place, I would recommend that this be procedurally delisted. If something changes about the status of the article, I will reevaluate. Z1720 (talk) 14:25, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delist because there is no article here anymore. Ping me if it's unmerged so I can re-evaluate it. QuicoleJR (talk) 15:44, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
obvious delist - how can something that doesn't exist be an FA? Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:28, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:00, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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