Talk:Scribes

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Current time: November 8, 2026, 13:41 (UTC)

I remember this was discussed, though I don't remember which user brought it up.

Presently - and this is my fault, as I wrote these articles - this article, Ask Uncle Tusk, Ask Dan, and any others that I'm forgetting about have navboxes for the games that they mention. While I will say I probably went a little overboard with adding these, I do feel like there's reason enough for some of them to be there. However, it was said that these should not be here, as most of them come from users writing in about X and Y games. I can also understand this. Thus, I present two options [aside from do nothing];

• Remove game navboxes from these articles entirely. I can get behind this/understand this, as all of the navbox instances typically come from user-mentioned games.
• Establish a minimum amount of mentions of a game for it to receive a navbox on such an article. My personal opinion is this should be at least ten mentions, though I am open to other numbers if this option is the one that succeeds. Scribes and Ask Uncle Tusk, for instance, were predominantly about DK games, so certain games (like DK64 over on Tusk) came up a LOT. Thus, I feel having a navbox for these games would be appropriate. Additionally, sometimes, the users aren't the ones to mention the game; sometimes the game is simply mentioned in the response.

Proposer: Nelsonic (talk)
Deadline: November 20, 2026, 23:59 (UTC)

Remove navboxes (sans the Internet navbox)

1. Nelsonic (talk) Per proposal.
2. Camwoodstock (talk) Now, admittedly. Long-term, we don't think this is a very viable option. What we'd like to see, especially as our coverage of promotional doodads improves, is a bespoke section on these game's navboxes for these things, so they don't get sorted into the "Other" section ad nauseum. However, that's something for the future, and right now, we think these are probably better off in the Internet navbox on its own, rather than haphazardly put into the "other" sections of the game navboxes.
3. LadySophie17 (talk) I assume (and honestly I expect clarification on this) that by "removing the navboxes from the articles" you also mean removing the links to these articles from all those navboxes. That's what I actually take issue with. I do not think that a website that tangentially advertises a game should qualify as related to that game, lest we begin adding YouTube and Twitter and Instagram to every navbox on the wiki. A random advertisement about Mario Strikers on Wario's Warehouse does not make Wario's Warehouse a Mario Strikers article.
4. Arend (talk) Per LadySophie; in fact, I think we should also do the same with Iwata Asks and Ask the Developer, and replace navbox links to those articles with their respective relevant volume, considering Iwata Asks specifically has this problem even worse than Scribes has. Likewise, I think links to Nintendo Music and Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo themselves should be removed from the game navboxes as well, whilst obviously still keeping links to the NM soundtrack album or Alarmo theme.

Remove navboxes from Ask Dan and any non-Rare things like this

1. Salmancer (talk) Oh wow, the option I wanted somehow appeared out of nowhere! Per my removed Nothing vote.
2. Nelsonic (talk) Per proposal.

Establish a minimum amount of mentions

1. Nelsonic (talk) Per.

Do nothing

#Salmancer (talk) This feels like something that is best handled by the oh so scientific concept of "vibes". DK was Rare's baby at the time, and understandably they can make authoritative statements about the Donkey Kong franchise and add some neat Did You Know trivia. I think Ask Uncle Tusk can keep the navigation templates for media of the Donkey Kong franchise. The other ones like, Ask Dan, are kind of unreasonable to have navigation templates for specific media owing to their generalness and broad scope. If a user pages from a entry to the Donkey Kong franchise to Ask Dan, they're likely to find relevant information, but this is not so for Ask Dan.

Ask Uncle Comments

We feel like it might've been @LadySophie17 who brought this up? That could be a false memory, though. ~Camwoodstock ( talk ☯ contribs ) 20:51, November 6, 2026 (UTC)

I feel like the cause of these being included in several navboxes is because of publications such as Iwata Asks and Ask the Developer also being included in several navboxes (instead of the relevant episode), or even other broad things such as Nintendo Music and Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo alongside the relevant soundtrack or theme. Then again, Wario's Warehouse is NOT being included with multiple game navboxes despite being a publication series with more humorous writing akin to these Q&A/AMA-type website sections. rend (talk) (edits) 21:14, November 6, 2026 (UTC)

@LadySophie17 I had forgotten about that, but yes, that works. Nelsonic (talk edits) 22:44, November 6, 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. — Lady Sophie_17 ^(T|C) 13:24, November 8, 2026 (UTC)

@Arend Oh I didn't even realize we have links to Iwata Asks in all those navboxes....... We don't even have the interview articles for them. All we are doing is saying "hey this series of interviews made one interview about that game, here's their hub page with a link to every interview that we haven't made yet." I think it's still very much unclear if we should even make the individual interview articles in the first place. — Lady Sophie_17 ^(T|C) 13:24, November 8, 2026 (UTC)

Considering we do have an article for Ask the Developer Vol. 19: Donkey Kong Bananza, I think there's still an intent by someone to create these articles in the future. I've not yet the thought whether they should be created, I just think it's a better solution than just plopping the link for the interview series overall in the navboxes the same way as with these AMA series (which in either case should be removed from the navboxes altogether). rend (talk) (edits) 13:40, November 8, 2026 (UTC)