Talk:Tetris/GA1

GA review

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Nominator: Lazman321 (talk · contribs) 19:06, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: 3df (talk · contribs) 06:21, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would be elated to review Tetris. Some notes:

I made three unsubstantial edits to this page in the past. I did not make any content contribution.
This GAN was quickfailed yesterday, but that was vacated as it was not clear that the reviewer had read the article. I don't believe a quickfail is appropriate.

I am looking forward to reading and reviewing the article. 3df (talk) 06:21, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Non-reviewer comments

I did look at this since I was involved in the previous GA discussion. Archive links look good to me, but there are several malformed sfn reference templates that point to "Ichibian 2009" and "Loguidice 2009" and produce errors. Recon rabbit 13:34, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Preliminary reading

The article looks really good, with most problems I could find being confined to the lead section.

Ambiguous subject

This is an article about the Tetris franchise, but the lead and infobox are signaling that it about a video game Tetris. These early versions are covered in the article, but most of it is about the franchise that they spawned. I recommend altering the lead, short description and infobox to indicate the franchise as the subject, including switching to Template:Infobox video game series. Tetris has had many involved companies, people and platforms; I recommend looking at Final Fantasy's infobox as a sort-of similar example.

In 2022, some editors discussed splitting the original implementation from this article, but it was not followed up on. Personally, I'm not sure that the original game, or Gerasimov's port, need their own articles; they are covered well in this one.

Lead section

In the hatnote, "video game in general" should be changed to "video game franchise"
The sentences about the gameplay premise:
Players move tetrominoes, which move down the playing field, to fill horizontal lines. The completed lines disappear, granting the player points, and all other blocks move down the corresponding number of lines.

I rewrote this sentence to try to explain it better to people unfamiliar with the concept (if they exist). It also alludes to topping out:

In Tetris games, falling tetromino shapes must be neatly sorted into a pile; once a horizontal line of the game board is filled in, it disappears, granting points and preventing the pile from overflowing.

I use a semicolon instead of a period because some home assistants and helper bots will just read the first two sentences of an article, but you could put either there.

Consider replacing the last sentence of paragraph 1 with all of paragraph 3, except for the Game Boy sentence, which could be placed in paragraph 2.
Consider deleting the mention of Guinness from the lead only.
When mentioning in the lead a specific Tetris version that has an article, you should link to that version's page. For Tetris (Spectrum HoloByte), maybe put the link on the phrase "Both companies released the game".
"A competitive culture has formed around Tetris, particularly the NES version, following the inaugural Classic Tetris World Championship in 2010.": This sentence should be altered or deleted to avoid suggesting that the competitive culture formed only after 2010.

Gameplay section

In footnote b, consider mentioning that tetriminoes is a trademark spelling.
Delete the word, "seven", and replace "four squares" with "four connected squares".

1996–2014 section

"Worried that Elorg, which had become a private company under Belikov following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union,[86] would try to claim the rights, Pajitnov recruited Rogers to secure his rights." Replace "his rights" with "them"
"During this time frame The Tetris Company started to standardize features that were not in the original game in order to appeal to beginner players, according to Rogers." Reverse the order: "According to Rogers, in order to appeal to beginner players, The Tetris Company started to standardize features that were not in the original game."

Reception and legacy

Consider mentioning Tetris's popularity with women and adults.
"Tetris has a competitive scene, primarily centering around the NES version." Fewer people play NES Tetris competitively than Tetris 99 or Puyo Puyo Tetris, but it does get the most media attention. I recommend replacing "primarily centering" with "especially"; the source given says "the default choice".

Computer science research

Consider switching the bulleted list for a numbered one, since the last paragraph refers to its entries by number.

(There is a nice animation of the SZ top out proof on Commons, but it doesn't have the right number of columns, so I wouldn't use it until a proper one is created.)

I am still reviewing the sources, but I am already familiar with many of them and do not see any obvious problems. This article rocks and is much better than when I last read it a few years ago. 3df (talk) 02:07, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]