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GA review

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Cat's Tuxedo (talk · contribs) 00:17, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: ZKevinTheCat (talk · contribs) 03:19, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

Beginning the GA review. I actually played this game for the first time a few days ago so I figured I could tackle this while its on my mind.

— ZKevinTheCat

Overall this article is pretty decent. I did go in and do a little cleaning; I found that a lot of the language in the development section was kind of flowery, so I cut some of that down to keep it neutral. There was also a few wording choices that I changed, but overall it reads well.

I did find an issue with sourcing however. In the "sales and awards" section the first paragraph has some unsources statements. I could not find a source for the first or third sentences. Other sources I checked did not have the same issues though:

-Spot check-

[17] - good
[13] - good
[39] - good
[10] - good

For now I'm putting the article on hold.

Wasn't able to find a source for the first sentence, so went ahead and zapped that, and I rearranged the rest of the paragraph to properly source the Next Gen statement. Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 20:49, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

Looks good now. I don't really have any other objections so I think we're good here. ZKevinTheCat (talk) 21:42, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 12:40, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that the PlayStation 2 devkit used to develop Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy had to be smuggled into the United States due to export restrictions?

• Source: IGN ("“I think because of the success of Crash, they wanted to get us the earliest prototype PS2 hardware they could,” he continued. “At the time, they couldn’t even import the machines. It couldn’t get through customs. It was this supercomputer. It had to be searched and made sure that you’re not using it for nefarious purposes or something. They actually had to sneak it in. They sent us to the airport and we had to drive over into some weird warehouse and pick it up and take it back to the office.”") and GamesRadar+ ("One day in 1999, Naughty Dog co-founder Andy Gavin walked into the studio's Santa Monica office and approached his team of QA testers with an unusual proposition: "Who wants a 48 hour, all-expenses-paid trip to Japan with plenty of jetlag, and at least one good meal?". His chosen volunteer would be bringing back the first PS2 devkit to enter the United States, allowing Naughty Dog to finally get its hands on the next-generation PlayStation it had been eagerly anticipating for years. The machine wasn't just a peace offering from the studio's soon-to-be parent company, but the key ingredient in an ambitious new project germinating quietly in the background of its self-made Crash mania.")

• • ALT1: ... that the final boss of Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy was integrated just 48 hours before the final version of the game was submitted? Source: IGN ("Thompson specifically discussed the original Jak & Daxter’s development, identifying it as “hectic” and noting that the original schedule was slipping through their fingers. “The Precursor Bot, the last boss fight in the game, I believe went in 48 hours before final,” he said, chuckling. “I think we had a day to tune it before it went into the can.”")
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Hilda Clark (soprano)

Improved to Good Article status by Cat's Tuxedo (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 32 past nominations.

Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 23:18, 7 August 2025 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: I have just recently completed the game, so I'm glad to see it has reached GA status. I prefer the original hook to ALT1. If it is found to be inadequate, I would propose "ALT2: ... that Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy runs without loading screens, thanks to Naughty Dog developing a proprietary programming language?". Nehme₁₄₉₉ 18:26, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

Possible AI generated text

Hi - I tagged this as AI generated, as the edits by Cat's Tuxedo (example) display signs of possible LLM use and thus need review for accuracy, source-to-text integrity, tone/original research/editorializing in wikivoice, etc., beyond what was apparently done in GA review. Gnomingstuff (talk) 21:33, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm willing to confirm that I used an LLM to process and summarize the hefty amount of information available for particular sections, namely Development and Reception. To reduce the chance of error, my prompts included the entirety of the cited articles' text, and I made copious use of the Ctrl+F function to ensure accuracy. I acknowledge that the GA review didn't seem incredibly thorough, so I'm open to another set of eyes that can help straighten out any remaining wonkiness that might've evaded notice. Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 00:23, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Given that AI was used, I am restoring the tag. Gnomingstuff (talk) 16:50, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

Just took a few hours to comb through the article and its citations to strengthen the source-to-text integrity. As this point, there should be no major issues left. Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 23:23, 24 June 2026 (UTC)