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Delete minor species navigation templates
I've noticed a large amount of navigation templates for minor species, like Template:Octoombas and Template:Bandits. Most of them are just categories in template form, and a large amount of them already have categories for that exact purpose. However, navigation templates for major enemies, like Template:Goombas, Template:Koopa Troopas, and Template:Wigglers can stay, because they have a large amount of variants and have appeared in a large amount of games. EDIT: A "minor" nav template would be classified as a nav template with less than ten entries and has a category for its exact purpose.

Proposer: Deadline: June 13, 2019, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) Per proposal.

Oppose

 * 1) In what way is this helpful? Strong, strong, strongstrongstrongsrong oppose to this. This is outright detrimental in every way. As I have said, the Bandit one exists to get them off the Shy Guy template because of how overly-large it is.
 * 2) I see little reason to remove templates designed to make things easier to navigate. You didn't really specify a point where a template is deemed "minor" enough for deletion, and I can't really have that vague wording when it comes to policy.
 * 3) Per all. I see no reason to delete at all. Also, i think the Octogoombas template should be undeleted.
 * 4) Per all, the templates help make navigation easier, and are organized differently than the categories.
 * 5) Per all. I initially thought otherwise, but I realized even minor navigation templates make navigation easier. Templates containing 2 or 3 links are unneeded, but these can stay.
 * 6) Per all. You see, even when there is a category-template actual readers may not know about category pages or how to reach them, so a template that is on the page with better organization can be genuinely helpful. Even with smaller templates, as it is still nice to have all pertaining links in one place without having to search the article for them, as sub-species do not link to all of the other members of their species in their infobox (See Elite Octoomba, which does not link to Octoboo for example). So, I also agree on undeleteing the Octoomba template if this option passes due to the above, especially since it had a distinction between enemies and bosses.
 * 7) Your reasoning makes little sense. The reason Template:Octoombas was deleted was because it literally was a category in template form. Every other template was split into the helpful "characters" and "species" navigation. That's why they work.
 * 8) Per all.
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Comments
Interesting scenario. I'm not too sure how to proceed either. -- 12:42, June 7, 2019 (EDT)

Exactly what templates do you think should be effected by this? 13:08, June 7, 2019 (EDT)

Additional note: The "category in template form" thing was made because a loooooooong time ago, there were nav templates on here for things like fire creatures and birds. I remember those days. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 21:40, June 7, 2019 (EDT)

@TDA I am pretty sure that Template:Octoombas was split into "characters" and "species" navigation, due to the Octoomba bosses. 08:23, June 9, 2019 (EDT)

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