Talk:Goat

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Given recent rulings on "real-world" species articles (cow, elephant, horse, dog, etc.), this page is ripe for being overhauled. I'd suggest splitting off mountain goat for the MK7 info, keeping the Thing sticker info here, and nixing the rest, as one's a generic background element, and none of these previous proposals have kept mentions of WarioWare stuff anyways. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 18:27, 28 August 2018 (EDT)
 * I was just about to make a proposal suggesting the same exact thing! 18:29, 28 August 2018 (EDT)

Split Mountain goat from this page
Per mine and Doc von Schmeltwick's comments above. If you're wondering why this looks so generic, let me just clear up that this is about splitting the Mario Kart 7 stage obstacle from this page. Taxonomically speaking, mountain goats are not true goats, instead being more closely related to antelopes and gazelles. It's not like the games necessarily treat mountain goats and true goats as the same thing anyways. That said, I think we should split Mountain goat from Goat.

Proposer: Deadline: September 11, 2018, 23:59 GMT

Split as proposed

 * 1) My preferred option.
 * 2) The only consistent thing here is that they're colloquially identifiable as goats, but as mentioned, they are only related close enough to all be s with horns. Also one's a racing obstacle and one's an off-kilter item.

Move the page itself to Mountain goat and remove/relocate the information on actual goats

 * 1) Second choice.
 * 2) Per Waluigi Time.
 * 3) I vote for this too.
 * 4) Per all.

Do nothing

 * 1) I don't think splitting two animals based only on a real-life technicality is really worth the trouble. The obstacle's information on the page is fine.
 * 2) The goats already covered by this page seem fairly generic to me. If anything, all non-Mario Kart 7 information should be removed and then this page could be renamed.
 * 3) Per Waluigi Time; I think that should be an option.

Comments
@Waluigi Time & Mario jc: I made the change as requested.


 * What do you mean by "relocate"? That seems like the same as splitting. 23:42, 29 August 2018 (EDT)
 * Presumably simply the thing area of the sticker article, despite the goat being uniquely a living thing (and as such rather....distinct. I think as such they should just be split. The game says it's a statue, but it moves rather organically.....it's just weird.) Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 23:45, 29 August 2018 (EDT)
 * In my opinion, it wouldn’t make much sense to split the Sticker Star Thing into its own article, unless other Things had their own articles. -- 08:18, 30 August 2018 (EDT)
 * And why shouldn't they? This one at least is necessary to continue, not all of them are. Very few, if fact. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 14:21, 30 August 2018 (EDT)