Category talk:Yoshi's Island enemy classes

Delete category and merge classes to Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3?

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These articles are very short, and the guide these classes are coming from doesn't really go into detail which enemies belong to which classed beyond five or six examples. This results in a lot of guesswork and sometimes even incorrect assumptions. For example, while it's understandable to assume Crazee Dayzee and Goomba are from Edibilis Boringus (even though the guide doesn't list them as such), the wiki has Lakitu listed under Projectilia Ritebakatchia, when the guide actually lists Wall Lakitu there, and has Lakitu as the highlighter for Harrassimentia Phlyoverus instead. The wiki also states that the game's bosses are part of Ucantia Defeatus, when the guide actually never states as such. Piranha Plant is also never listed to be part of Ucantia Defeatus, despite the images underneath it depicting them as well (it's actually about Spear Guy, which, also, is not described on the wiki to be part of it). Similarly, the Baseball Boys aren't listed on the wiki to be part of Projectilia Ritebakatchia, when the guide states they are. There's also the issue that multiple enemies could be part of multiple classes, and it's kinda weird which class gets priority (e.g. both Blow Hard and Zeus Guy can use projectile to harm Yoshi and require special methods to defeat them; however, one is in Projectilia Ritebakatchia and the other is in Ucantia Defeatus), leaving to even more guesswork; not to mention that aquatic enemies don't get a special category whereas flying enemies do. Plus there's a separate article for a class that has only one enemy in it, being Dudim Phreykunoutonthis with Fuzzy. With how broad and nonspecific (or sometimes too specific and narrow) these enemy classes are, I'm not sure how we can properly expand these much like the enemy classes in the Donkey Kong Country Rare trilogy (which I'm not sure if they also deserve their own article), and makes me think we should keep it self-contained. The New Super Mario Bros. Player's Guide is way clearer on which enemies belong to which class, and yet none of these classes are noted ANYWHERE on the wiki (and even then, I'm not sure of those deserve an article either, as these classes include no more than four enemies, with three classes only having one enemy as well. rend (talk) (edits) 09:53, October 1, 2025 (EDT)

Oh, and yeah, these enemy classes are exclusive to the Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 Player's Guide. Neither the Japanese Shogakukan guide nor the Japanese Enterbrain guide for SMA3 (or even the Shogakukan guide for the original Yoshi's Island) lists the enemies under particular classes, and neither does the American Player's Guide for Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. rend (talk) (edits) 10:05, October 1, 2025 (EDT)

i agree. while it's worth documenting, i don't think our wiki's organization should be built around this. — eviemaybe (talk / contributions) 10:07, October 1, 2025 (EDT)