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• Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article. ^[?]
• Consider adding more links to the article; per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking and Wikipedia:Build the web, create links to relevant articles. ^[?]
• Per MOS:CAPTION, Images should have concise captions. ^[?]
• As per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers, dates shouldn't use ^th; for example, instead of (if such appeared in the article) using January 30^th was a great day, use January 30 was a great day. ^[?]
• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Section headings, headings generally should not repeat the title of the article. For example, if the article was Ferdinand Magellan, instead of using the heading ==Magellan's journey==, use ==Journey==. ^[?] Thinking of Roblox Studio
• Per criterion 2b of Wikipedia:Featured article criteria and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#Headings and sections, this article's table of contents (ToC) may be too long – consider shrinking it down by merging short sections or using a proper system of daughter pages as per Wikipedia:Summary style. ^[?]
• This article may need to undergo summary style, where a series of appropriate subpages are used. For example, if the article is United States, then an appropriate subpage would be History of the United States, such that a summary of the subpage exists on the mother article, while the subpage goes into more detail. ^[?]
• Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a. ^[?]

You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, — Yours, Berrely •  ^Talk∕ _Contribs 08:55, 1 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Also, a few of my suggestions:

• Remove citations from lead per WP:CITELEAD
• Try to make the article have a better flow. Some sentences are quite short and can easily be merged with other sentences.
• Expand the infobox: There are many more parameters that can be filled there; there isn't even a link to the website!
• External links should go above references (at least I believe)
• In § Development, it seems to read as more a timeline than an actual paragraph
• There are some sections that can easily be merged, for example § Players, is this really worth a whole section?
• This is just my opinion, but the article seems to go into a bit too much detail. All of the sets include a code that can be used to redeem virtual items.

Once again, just some of my opinions, I may be completely wrong! — Yours, Berrely •  ^Talk∕ _Contribs 09:05, 1 September 2020 (UTC) reply

User:Berrely, I've implemented a couple of your suggestions, there is a bit of a problem with LEADCITE, since most of the content in the lead is not actually cited elsewhere in the article, we have to keep the citations there for now, or otherwise it would fail WP:V. I'm not entirely sure how to fix that at the moment, but expanding the "Development" section (which is definitely the weakest one IMO) to include a more general overview of the history of Roblox might help, and would also help with the other problems with that section. I am fairly sure, from looking at a few prominent articles, that References are supposed to be above external links though. Devonian Wombat ( talk) 03:46, 3 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Devonian Wombat, sorry for replying so late! Apologies I was viewing on mobile and got confused by the references, you are correct on that front. The reason there shouldn't be citations in the lead is that the lead is meant to relay information already said in the article, but this is not a huge problem. Good job on massively improving this article (really comparing the current article from when you first edited it and now is astounding)! — Yours, Berrely •  ^Talk∕ _Contribs 09:19, 5 September 2020 (UTC) reply

• I suggest splitting the Erik Cassel article from ROBLOX; Why on earth is Erik Cassel not a separate article? Erik is a vital person to ROBLOX's history, and articles like Alex Balfanz, Uplift Games or Adopt Me! have already been developed without any questioning from the community, so the Erik Cassel page should also be a separate one from ROBLOX. This does not deserve to be a redirect page. It's way more important than that. He also doesn't have a minor appearance like the developers mentioned in this, he literally was one of the creators of the game. MatEditzWiki ( talk 15:03, 4 July 2021 (UTC) reply

  Notability is not inherited. Every topic is evaluated separately. For Erik Cassel to have an article, reliable secondary sourcing that meets WP:GNG must be provided. -- ferret ( talk) 15:10, 4 July 2021 (UTC) reply

  Good source for Erik Cassel's huge involvement in Roblox - ^{[1] [2]} I believe these two together at minimum are sufficient reliable secondary sources. Countless articles from large outlets mention and build upon this trove of information. Shredux ( talk) 23:06, 10 March 2022 (UTC) reply

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Please add to the History section, 2018-present information:

In March 2024, Roblox introduced two tools to speed up 3D content creation: automatic avatar customisation and a texture generator. Avatar customisation automatically converts 3D body meshes into live animated avatars. Texture generator allows you to create the appearance of objects using text descriptions. ^{[1] [2]} Buuzbashi ( talk) 04:21, 27 March 2024 (UTC) reply

 Done Thanks for your contributions! — TechnoSquirrel69 ( sigh) 15:07, 29 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Any reliable sources out there that have discussed this event? ThingsCanOnlyGetWetter ( talk) 19:34, 9 June 2024 (UTC) reply

Probably worth mentioning. There's updated figures for things like user numbers, as well. Eldomtom2 ( talk) 19:25, 23 July 2024 (UTC) reply

 Done. Now the article mentions the child predator developer's, who was previously mentioned anonymously in the People Make Games' accusations section, name and game at last. ❤︎PrincessPandaWiki ( talk | contribs) 19:56, 27 July 2024 (UTC) reply

Roblox has added dynamic pricing onto the platform on the price floor (the lowest amount of robux you can purchase something) and it has met controversy since some items can get expensive up to 100 Robux for the cheapest items on the Catalog.

It's probably worth mentioning but there is very little sources except one GameRant article and Roblox slighty mentioning on their Developer Wiki.

Those are both not really good sources to be honest and we should probably wait. Flushedwtf ( talk) 00:57, 26 July 2024 (UTC) reply