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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Support

1. Yoshi18 (talk) 2 years ago (back in 2023) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe got his official last content/DLC update and with that this article is pretty much completed. Since this article is completed I think it should become featured. Mario Kart 8 is already featured and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a lot more detailed. The page has no dead (or red) (external) links, everything possible sourced (and makes no use of the {{ref needed}} template) and is overall pretty detailed (I'm mainly proud of the Pre-release and unused content section) and the details are of reasonable length. A reasonable amount of images (in decent quality) are shown in the article if needed (for the characters for example or sometimes to demonstrate things), and the game's gallery is absolutely huge and has many in-game screenshots with well-written summaries. I can safely say that the page follows the Manual of Style along with the other policies. The page also is not tagged with any improvement tags. The first (couple) paragraph(s) perfectly sum up what the game is about. This article just has everything and definitely shows that it has much to offer. I'm honestly surprised that this article wasn't at least nominated back in 2023 after Wave 6 of the Booster Course Pass released.

Oppose

1. Camwoodstock (talk) Unsourced dates, ratings, and foreign names, as well as dead external links with no provided substitutes, so it fails our sniff test. The prose is fine, but the tables... Yeesh. there is a gnarly case of layout table-ing in the Characters, Character Variants, Rival Order, and to a lesser extent, the "Original order of courses in Waves 3 to 6", the tables aren't series styled (fair enough, as that's been our job for a bit) but they aren't consistently styled amongst one another (a bit less fair), and the New items table... Is that a header call in a cel? This thing needs proper sourcing, and those tables need a proper spit and shine before we consider supporting this.
2. Sargent Deez (talk) Per Camwoodstock, and we need more reviews in the Reception section. Also, the sentence "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has been received with universal acclaim" needs to be rewritten to sound less biased.

Comments

@Camwoodstock I get what you mean but the part of unsourced dates, ratings, and foreign names isn't really an argument here. All Mario Kart games that are featured articles (which is all Mario Kart games except DS, Tour and (kinda obviously) World) have all those things as well, yet they're still featured