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against. There is no section for reception, and although there is a paragraph on reviews of version 2, there is almost no info on the reception of other versions. (Even the paragraph on the reception of version 2 is much shorter than sections on less noteworthy facets of the topic.) Taken all together, I don't think this will be ready for featured status without substantial changes throughout. –
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Small comment: I notice that basically the entire article is couched in past tense. This struck me as a little odd, which I realized was because for video games, we tend to treat things like development and release as historical, while the actual features/elements of the game remain the same (thus,
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at this time, unfortunately. The prose is stilted throughout, made almost entirely of very short paragraphs, many with only a single sentence (including in the lead). It feels like a collection of unintegrated facts. Some statements have long strings of up to eight citations, which the MoS advises
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standard. I've been polishing this article for the past several months, researching the history in detail to get the story citably right (and reading all the press coverage I can find from the past decade in several languages, citing it to the hilt) and I think it's ready. It's just come through a
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Fixed. Thank you very much indeed for spotting these! The application icon SVGs appear not to be original application icons at all, but someone's reconstruction after the fact - all the application icons made available at the time were raster images. I've replaced them with the actual OOo 3 icons
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Well, that's fine, worth asking about. Anyhow, I did a spotcheck on statements sourced to current refs 1, 13, 14, 15, 17, 73, 84, 85, 92, 153, and found no issues with inaccuracies. I did however add a
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in 2011.) It's been years since I've thought about the dichotomy, but I was wondering if you knew of any wider discussions about the topic, especially in the programming/comp-sci projects.
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Related comment - are the refs archived somewhere? There are a lot of potential dead links in 2 years time, so adding them to the Wayback Machine would preserve their usefulness.
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uses this method and reads to me as a confusion, including tense changes mid-sentence. So it's a consistent rule, but IMO is liable to lead to bad prose. It's a tricky one -
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The MOS advises against citations? Seriously? Everything that's multiply cited is so because it needed citation (see talk page and archives) or in direct response to a
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It's not clear to me your concerns on prose are clear enough for me to action. What's a good example of a technical article that you would think passes? -
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tag on a section of info that didn't appear to be clearly sourced (I could not find the info in the single ref for that paragraph.)
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Apologies that this is going to be so piece-meal, but I might as well try and hit up whatever criteria I can when I canΒ :)
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Ah, I see what you mean! I'll bundle at least a few, then, this evening. I'll also see what I can do to be more dashing -
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has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see
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The first viable open-source competitor to Microsoft Office, and instigator and
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Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in
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which was entirely in past tense (though "is" in intro, as here).
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has a confusion of tenses. Not sure there's a MOS on this -
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Total of 10 images, all claimed free (GNU), all check out.
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doesn't address the issue at all. I've asked on its
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Knowledge:Featured article candidates
featured article nomination
Knowledge talk:Featured article candidates
Ian Rose
10:01, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

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OpenOffice.org
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Featured article candidates/OpenOffice.org/archive1
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David Gerard
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09:02, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
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David Gerard
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09:02, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

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