Talk:Nintendo Entertainment System models

Did you know nomination

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The result was:promotedbyZ1720(talk)14:32, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

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• ... thatSharp Corporationproduced threeofficial variantsofNintendo'sFamicomin Japan, one of which was a television set that was subsequently released in the United States?Source:GamesRadar+
  • Reviewed:N/A; second article submission
  • Comment:While this article was the result of a merger (of five articles), it was extensively copy edited by me, so very little of the original content from each article remains as-is in the final product currently.
    Also, there's an ongoing, but stale debate in thetalk pagefor theNintendo Entertainment Systemarticle over the idea of spitting part of it to form a new Famicom article. I don't think consensus can be reached (I submitted aclosure requestbecause of this), but if needed, I can have the hook refer to the Famicom as the NES instead.

Moved to mainspace bySmartAn01(talk). Self-nominated at02:04, 30 July 2022 (UTC).

• Article isneutral,meets the required length, and issufficiently referenced.Moved to mainspace on 29 July 2022, the day before this nomination. Hook is interesting, succinct, and reliably sourced; I would definitely prefer some alt options in future, but this one is good. Nominator is exempt fromQPQ.This is good to go! –Rhain☔05:47, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
  • Rhain:Sorry for the lack of options; when I initially submitted this article, I didn't notice any factoids that were interesting enough to bring up other than the Sharp consoles. I did consider the Nintendo VS. System, but I couldn't come up with a feasible hook considering it has its own separate article. I managed to expand this article since the move to mainspace and found some other interesting factoids; if you're interested, I propose

    ALT1:... that of theofficial variantsofNintendo'sFamicom,one was a prototype created as a proposed solution to the lack ofbackward compatibilityon theSuper Famicom?Source:Nintendo Life

  • Other than that, I'm fine proceeding with the original hook.CascadeUrbanite(talk)07:40, 11 August 2022 (UTC)(formerly SmartAn01)
    • @CascadeUrbanite:No need to apologise! The original hook is great, so it's not a big deal, but I appreciate the alt! Always good to give the promoter more choices. –Rhain☔09:40, 11 August 2022 (UTC)